Posts tagged Colin Firth
A BROAD IN LONDON'S ESSENTIAL TRAVEL TIPS FOR WOMEN TRAVELLING SOLO  

He (or in this case she) who is outside their door has the hardiest part of the journey behind them. Dutch Proverb

According to a recent study women travelling alone are currently making the biggest changes to the global tourism industry. With a 131% increase over the last two years of women spreading their travel wings and flying solo. 

And I can tell you why…

Travelling alone gives you a perfect time to reflect and really learn something about yourself.

You do what you want, when you want and what interests you. You gain a much needed appreciation and perspective on life, something no on else can give you. By climbing out of your comfort zone, by travelling alone it is truly where I have experienced the most amazing personal growth. 

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Explore, Getting Around, Life Lessons, Things to DoChristina FordSolo Travel, Flying Solo, Dutch Proverb, Global Tourism, Five Essential Travel Items, Suzy Strutner, Essential Tips, Essential Travel Guide, Women Travelling Solo, Google Maps, Google Translate, Spotify, Calm, Audible, Colin Firth, Runyon Canyon Park, Ronda, Ovejas Negras Restaurant, Plaza de Toros, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Anatole France Comments
Royal Albert Hall. Inside The World's Most Beautiful & Infamous Concert Hall

The Beatles sang about it, Queen Victoria commissioned it and now after almost 150 years Royal Albert Hall is still one of the most spectacular, prestigious concert halls in the world having hosted over 30,000 events from 1871 to …well last night. Originally it was suppose to be called the Centre Hall of Arts and Science but it was changed to Royal Albert Hall by Queen Victoria honouring her late husband who died only six years earlier.

Its past (and present) has hosted a myriad of performers and legends to take its famous stage. From symphonies, rock concerts, opera, boxing, ballet, tennis, political events, award shows, charity events, circuses, film premieres (check out me and my guy Colin Firth at the Mary Poppins Returns Premiere), Albert Einstein and they even had the first ever Sumo Wrestling event outside of Japan, EVER!

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Places I Love, Things to DoChristina FordRoyal Albert Hall, RAH, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Mary Poppins Returns, Colin Firth, Albert Einstein, Sumo Wrestling, Titanic, Guinness Book of World Records, Arthur Sullivan, Eric Clapton, Geroge Harrison, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cliff Richards, Elvis, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Roger Hodgson, Kelly Hansen, Foreigner, Henry Willis Comments
Celebrities & Their London Houses

Brits tend to be far more discrete when it comes to their celebrity worshipping, that is say compared to our Americans friends where there are people literally sitting in folded lawn-chairs outside the stars homes selling maps to their homes. There was no obvious map to the stars in London, and as I am not a tween interested in following some snapchat story about where the latest boyband de-jour might be hanging out I decided to create my own little self guided tour of London celebs and see if I could find the homes of some of London’s elite and infamous. Here is who I found.

Celebrities & Their London Houses

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ExploreChristina FordCelebrity Houses, London, Blue Plaques, Blue Plaques of London, Holland Park, David Beckham, Victoria Beckhan, Elton John, David Furnish, Simon Cowell, Sir Richard Branson, Robbie Williams, Jimmy Page, Spice Girls, Led Zeppelin, Take That, Tower House, David Bowie, St John Wood, Sir Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury, Kensington, Queen, Campden Square, Amy Winehouse, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Mick Jagger, Marinanne Faithful, Keith Richards, Ronnie Woods, L'Wren Scott, Tony Blair, Connaught Square, Colin Firth Comments
The English Country Life~ My First Traditional Pheasant Shoot

Since Downtown Abbey I have become obsessed with British period dramas, a genre I am now addicted to mostly thanks to Mathew Crawley (sigh) and Colin Firth (double sigh) as Mr Darcy. So in my binge watching I discovered you would be hard pressed to find in any aristocratic storyline some outing that didn’t have at least one scene around a shoot or hunt. The British elite, royalty, or even peasants (not pheasants) like myself dress in their scratchy wooly tweed and their rubber wellies as they step out on the English countryside, guns and dogs by their side as they prepare for one of England’s longest standing traditions, the shoot.

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Beyond London, Explore, Things to DoChristina Fordpheasant, pheasant shoot, bird shoot, English sport, English traditions, Gun Dogs, Downton Abbey, Colin Firth, Plus Fours, Games Keeper, Beaters, Picker-uppers, guns, shotguns, claret, Range Rover, sloe gin, Kate Wake-Walker Comments
HOW TO SPEAK BRITISH. BLIMEY... WHAT ARE THEY SAYING???
HOW TO SPEAK BRITISH. BLIMEY... WHAT ARE THEY SAYING???

It was my birthday.  May 15th. The day I came into the world...and it was the same day my mother left it. My mom had been diagnosed 3 1/2 years ago with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She cheated cancer once before, ovarian. I was 10. No reason to believe that she couldn't do that again. Or at least I thought.

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