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All around the world, more people are incorporating elements of health, prevention and elements of mindfulness into their day-to-day lives and also when it comes to their holiday choices.

Enjoying a wellness holiday as a family has always been a priority for me, be it a far-flung beach destination or a retreat in the countryside somewhere close to home. We enjoy doing things together and love to get involved in various activities such as bike riding, kayaking, trekking, diving, yoga and trying out new cuisines that are nutritionally rich and can really inspire our usual home cooking.

For me, wellness travel is mainly about travel associated with the pursuit of maintaining and enhancing our wellbeing as a family and helping us build an even stronger bond. It is also about enriching our emotional experiences and awareness of the rest of the world and challenging us mentally and physically. However, wellness tourism is sometimes conflated with medical tourism.

Sometimes the term “health tourism” is also used as a catch-all to describe many types of medical and wellness services and activities. We have been on some vacations where the focus has been predominantly on health – from  DNA testing and executive checkups to special dietary regimes and treatments involving mineral waters – it’s not to say that the two can’t go hand in hand.

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Did you know that the custom of the Easter egg can be traced as far back as to the early Christians of Mesopotamia, around 400 AD.

From there it spread into Eastern Europe and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. Later, the Easter egg tradition also merged into the celebration of the end of the privations of Lent in the West, symbolising the beginning of new life and rebirth.

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Valentine’s Day is almost upon us. Usually I do a gifting guide but I think experiences are so much better as memories are much more precious than materialistic gifts and will give a sense of happiness like no other!

Here is my top picks!

The Londoner

I’m wearing Divine Cashmere sweater and skirt

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The magical month of December is a delightful time to explore London as it transforms itself into a winter wonderland and this year even more so after a big lockdown this time last year!

Here is my pick of top 5 things to do in London during this time.

I’m wearing The Maria Dress by Laura Green 

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As facialists combine cutting edge technology with a hands-on approach, the demand for treatments such as radiofrequency facials is on the rise. I’ve recently jumped aboard the bandwagon and decided to try my first at Bellezza Clinic, with the one and only Sebastian.

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They say oily skin is a blessing as it keeps your skin elastic and youthful for longer. However, as someone with this skin type, I’ve been awaiting the day when I can consider myself “blessed” for some time now.

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As another Monday rolls around I can’t help but get a little anxious about having to put on the “Teacher’s Hat” again. The idea of becoming your kids’ full-time teacher (not to mention the various other domestic tasks you have to be on top of during the lockdown), I have to say, is not so appealing to me! I was never really good at mentoring the interns back when I was working in banking, nor did I have the patience to describe how a financial product worked to a junior. It was a cut-throat environment where the smart kids got it straight away, and the ones that didn’t quickly got left in the dust.

Anastasia is wearing a dress by Charabia and George’s outfit is by Pepa&Co

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What’s in a generation? Will we be named the generation that lived through a terrible pandemic – probably. Will we live through more? Who knows. I catch myself wondering how we will all look back on it and how the historians will analyse this phase in our lives. I can’t help but question whether our generation has been focusing on the wrong stuff for far too long, placing importance on things that in a crisis situation actually have little power of helping, let alone saving us.

Wearing Safari suede dress by D.O.T Studio Belarus

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