So in the winter of 2011/2012 my personal life underwent a few big changes in a relatively short amount of time. Anyone that knows me, will know I don't do change well and so I felt quite lost for a long time. But with my friends understanding this, it was suggested by Jill that we follow through on going on a girlie holiday with our friend Jeannette as we'd spoken about doing for a couple of years. So with Jill making calls to sweet talk her way into the best...

In 2010 I was beginning to travel more, and the more I did, the more I wanted to explore. At that time I was still with Mike my ex boyfriend and while we would go away together twice a year, we would always stick to the UK as Mike doesn't have the travel bug. However that was about to change! After much pestering from myself (yep, I know, what a shocker ) we agreed to go abroad for a week and Mike was to pick the 'where' of it. As it turned out, one place he ha...