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Midsummer escape to the Cotswolds
Following last week’s soothing afternoon at Mayfield Lavender Farm, my English country idyll continued this week with a day trip to the Cotswolds. Located only a ninety minute drive from the capital,...
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Lunch break tour of Sculpture in the City
How often do you notice the area you work in? Caught up in the frantic rush of getting to and from work on time, we barely register our surroundings. But while we’re dashing in and out of revolving...
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5 things to do on an autumn short break to Seville
With autumn beckoning, we have just a few weeks left to savour lunch breaks alfresco and parade our sandals on the tube. If you’ve been toiling away while colleagues sizzle on foreign beaches,...
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A reluctant office worker’s guide to training for a trek
With less than four weeks until my first ever trek, its now or never. Since signing up for the challenge in April this year, I’ve already climbed quite a few mountains. Dragged kicking and screaming...
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5 reasons to love being back at work in September
Sipping ice-cold mojitos on a sun-lounger wearing little more than a slick of Ambre Solaire. If this was how you spent the last two weeks of August, the return to work this September can be a cruel...
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Art of Burning Man in your lunch break
As we get stuck back into the working routine this week, in the desert wilderness of Nevada, tens of thousands of citizens are getting to work on building their own creative metropolis. Dedicated to...
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Day hike escape to Hampshire
With only two weeks left to go until my Atlas Mountain trek, I left the stress of the working week behind on a day hike escape to Hampshire. Tramping through the stunning 2000 acre Queen Elizabeth...
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Balloon invasion in your lunch break
One of the things I love most about working in London is the amazing art installations that suddenly pop up out of nowhere to startle us out of our daily routines. Who would have guessed that the 19th...
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5 ways to save your salary for travel
With the summer holidays already a distant memory, dark winter days are casting a menacing shadow over our lives. But what if you had the means to nip off for a luxury weekend in Dubai or a short...
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Climbing Mount Toubkal: Atlas Mountain Challenge
After six months of training, I finally set off on my Atlas Mountain trek last week in a state of excitement and trepidation. Would all the hard work pay off? How would I cope with altitude sickness,...
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Lunch break tour of Tree by Ai Weiwei
Following my last forays to Sculpture in the City and Covent Garden’s mass balloon invasion, I was intrigued to hear that trees had taken root overnight in the Royal Academy’s majestic Annenburg...
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5 ways to exercise at work
No time to exercise? Weight piling on? As the British long hours culture sees us spending increasing hours at our desk, all too often, our gym membership becomes a fleeting phantom of our former...
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Exploring alternative states of mind after work
“Do not enter if you feel unwell.” “Search for the walls when you want to get out.” screamed the warnings plastered outside the Wellcome Trust’s latest exhibition States of Mind by Ann Veronica...
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The future of office life revealed
Over the last twenty years, working life has changed out of all recognition and with it our expectations of how, where and when we work. As technology continues to advance at a frightening pace, how...
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6 job moves and 30,000 cups of tea: the British office worker’s life laid bare
One office romance, 30,000 cups of tea and 705 minor disagreements, (some of which undoubtedly are about the tea round); mark the passage of the average British office worker’s 47 years of active...
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Trek and tour: 5 city breaks offering mountain escapes
5 city breaks offering mountain escapes With annual leave disappearing like snow off a dyke, it’s important to cram as much as we can into the our precious annual leave allocation. If like me, you...
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5 body language secrets to career success
It takes one tenth of a second to form an opinion of someone yet 90% of us have no idea of how we come across to others. This startling fact was revealed during an evening workshop run by RADA...
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Win tickets to the Adventure Travel Show 2016
Win tickets to the Adventure Travel Show. With a whole new year of annual leave adventures on the horizon, it’s time to start planning those dream trips of 2016. Whether it’s roaming the jungles of...
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Time-travelling after work to Christmas Past
With baubles, fir trees and tinstle popping up in offices across the capital, the festive frolics have arrived. But if you’ve ever wondered about the origins of Christmas trees, puddings and stockings,...
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The ultimate Secret Santa gift guide
With the office Christmas party rearing its head, Secret Santa shopping’s driving fear and loathing into the hearts of office workers across the capital. Like a game of office Russian Roulette: who...
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