Whenever I’m in a foreign country I tend to spend at least my first week over-indulging in all kinds of less-than-healthy food. I can’t help myself, new food is just too exciting! It’s not even so much the restaurants that tempt me, as they’ll usually have a variety of delicious-sounding healthy choices, but rather the grocery stores filled with strange and amazing-sounding goodies. Rice pudding in a tin for 69p? 100% coming home with me (wasn’t very good to be honest). While Cape Town is a world-class foodie capital, we simply cannot compete when it comes to the sheer volume of food products found in a place like the UK, #thirdworldproblems amirite?!
But if you’re going to treat yo’self to a little cupcake with your caffeine fix, there can’t be a nicer, prettier and pinker place to do it than the postcard-perfect Peggy Porschen Cakes in the posh suburb of Belgravia. Excuse me while I slip into a sugary dreamland of endless flowers and candy-coloured bicycles…
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Hong Kong is a fascinating city to explore. Although bordering China, colonisation by Britain throughout most of the 20th century has lead to an intriguing mix of Eastern and Western culture. The high number of expats and tourists that the city hosts, results in a seemingly infinite amount of attractions; it’s very difficult to be bored in this urban jungle!