Catherine, Author at My Midlands Life

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 […]

A flying trip to Tromso, Norway

11th February 2018 2 Comments

I recently changed jobs in November last year, and although I usually travel quite frequently with my work, it meant that I had nearly four months between my last trip in my previous job and my first trip in my new job. So last week, the moment finally arrived for me to get back on […]