Catherine, Author at My Midlands Life

2019 Travel Plans and GPSmyCity giveaway!

This is a strange one for me to write this year as it’s been a good few years since I haven’t had a constant stream of travel lined up as the New Year comes around! Many of you will know that I left my job with travel last year and am now spending much more […]

The Falkland Arms, Great Tew

5th January 2019 No Comment

We had a lovely end to 2018 when we went for the first of what will hopefully be many weekend walks in the Cotswolds. The Cotswolds is a beautiful region of England and it’s not too far for us to drive there from our home in Northamptonshire. We took a circular walk around the Great […]

What I’ve been up to this month – December 2018

31st December 2018 No Comment

December… always a manic month for most people I imagine! I love Christmas and it’s my birthday just before, but will anyone really blame me if I say I’m (not so) secretly glad it’s nearly over? I think it’s a beautiful time of year with lots of festive events, catching up with old friends and […]

Feeling Festive – My Christmas Timeline

2nd December 2018 1 Comment

I’ve found that as I’ve become more settled in my life in general over the last couple of years (and heading rapidly into my late 20s), I’ve also settled into familiar routines and traditions that get me in the festive mood in the run up to Christmas. I’ve only ever spent one Christmas in my […]

Time for a change – why I’m moving to a job with no travel

7th September 2018 No Comment

So this is it, my big news of the season – I’ve got a new job. And I’ll say this quickly to get it out of the way – it doesn’t involve any overseas travel. At all. If you follow my travels at all, you’ll know that a lot of the trips I’ve done have […]

11 instantly instagrammable spots in Gdansk

22nd August 2018 No Comment

Have you been to Gdansk yet? If not, it’s definitely somewhere you should add to your ‘top places to visit in Europe’ list or whatever you have that’s similar! It’s a fairly small city, with a population of around 450,000 and is located on the Baltic coast, right in the north of Poland. Gdansk is […]

Why we’re having a destination wedding

20th August 2018 No Comment

Hello again everyone! I finally feel like I’m able to pick up some blogging again after what has been a pretty busy couple of months for me offline. There are some big changes coming up for me (and inevitably my blog), so stay tuned for more on that later. In the meantime, I wanted to […]

Saudi Arabia solo female travel advice 2018

6th July 2018 1 Comment

Some of you may have seen my previous article, My Experience Travelling to Saudi Arabia as a Woman that I wrote after my first visit to the country in 2016. I’ve had several ladies contact me off the back of this article asking for some more advice about travelling there alone as I still think […]

Life update: we’re engaged!

24th June 2018 No Comment

OK, so it’s actually been 2 months now since we got engaged and I’ve been super busy since then! Now that I finally have some time to sit down and reflect on this huge, incredible life event, I’m getting so excited! The proposal itself was perfect; I’d only just returned from my trip to Saudi […]

Birthday celebrations at Fawsley Hall Spa Hotel, Northamptonshire

4th May 2018 No Comment

My then-boyfriend (now-fiance – more on this in another post soon!) John’s birthday is at the start of April, so last month my gift to him was a spa break at Fawsley Hall near Daventry, Northamptonshire. I think this is our closest stately-home spa and my cousin had also bought us a gift voucher for […]

Four new cities, three new countries and my second trip to the Gulf

25th March 2018 No Comment

Hello everyone and apologies that it’s been a little while since I’ve posted! I’d love to be able to commit to writing posts more regularly but when I’m away with work there don’t ever seem to be enough hours in the day. I arrived back in the UK just over a week ago early on […]