It’s always easy to take a road trip or book a flight to a destination - but maybe consider now mixing and matching your travels. I’ve done this many times, and it’s brilliant.

Sitting on a plane or in a car can be really boring sometimes. If I got $1 for every time I’ve perched myself on a seat for 12 hours on a long haul flight or flattened my rear cemented into a car seat, I’d be able to buy a lifetime’s supply of chocolate with the proceeds. I kid you not.

This is the only information in an email I received from a friend recently – yep, it said JUST that. Do I ever! I’ve never been further east than Prague so yes, I’d love to go to Moscow. A friend of mine has a consumer exhibition running end of September so pretty much told me all expenses would be paid. Which makes the email now even more exciting.

I know that title sounds really odd but…I’m actually in the midst of moving home and since I’m scouring new properties online, I also decided to go old school and walk up and down streets, house hunting in San Francisco. Maybe there’s a new home just being renovated and not ready to be listed so I can get first dibs? So from the past few days of doing this, I’ve actually walked up and down every street in a 3 mile radius. Yes, every single street.

I have about four friends who ritually still create vacation albums, you know, like the Apple iLife Books? Well, this week,

It’s quite a common trait for us to not relive a trip we once took that was so fantastic. Mainly because people say we’ll jinx ourselves the second time around and everything will fall apart, it’ll be the worst memory lane trip ever and a huge disappointment. I’m a big believer that if you love a place so much, why deny yourself the inspiration of re-visiting it and seeing it through new eyes. I’m not talking about taking a trip to the same place every September for the next 5 years.

When I was a kid, we took family vacations all around Europe. Being British, a trip to Spain, France, and Italy was just a spits throw away so we had a great advantage.