I live in a beautiful part of the world, in the heart of the Swiss Alps. My surroundings are …
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12 calming books to help you take a deep breath and relax
Sometimes we just need to take a deep breath and relax – but it's not always that easy. Strangely …
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I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice: wild swimming, coping, and finding your people
I tend to read more slowly now than when I was younger, usually taking a week or two to read a book. …
Building our relationship with a place day by day, just by looking
I like to think about our relationships to places. How, sometimes, we fall in love with a place as …
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Stargazing as therapy: reminders to look up at the night sky from Tim Ferriss, BJ Miller, Ed Cooke
One of my favourite books of 2016 was Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of …
On retreating into galleries, museums and the beauty of art (with help from Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch)
Museums and galleries remain among the few oases that can deliver what has become increasingly rare …