How to cause minimal environmental harm when travelling...

...check out www.greentraveller.co.uk - a website that I have been working for recently, which is a really clear, clean, useful and non-preachy source of information and inspiration for amazing holidays and journeys across Europe and beyond. It tells you step by step how to travel without flying, as well as giving some great holiday ideas and linking to accommodation en route. The blog section gives you all the latest green and ethical travel news as well as further trip ideas and entertaining stories from top travel writers. Enjoy!

Summer in the city

It has been far too long. I realise this blog really had no direction... Rambling thoughts may be interesting to me but don't make for dynamic reading really. I'm going to overhaul. Things have changed. I graduated, I moved to London... Summer is passing by... It's time to start over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9bQp717dE

Polly's Scattered Goods

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Basically Little Earthquakes for the electro generation, this is one of the best albums I've heard in a while. Polly Scattergood has been given the dubious - yet prestigious - honour of being named the lovechild of Kate Bush and Bjork, but her album is much more than just a mixture of the two. Her raw, vulnerable, confessional tone and lyrics is amazing - her voice conveys emotion with a rare, touching ability - hence the Tori Amos comparison. A lot of the album is composed of mournful, relatable, insecure balladry, but it has an extra layer of electronic yumminess that lifts it above and beyond, making it both inventive and emotionally gripping. Highlights include the dramatic electro-rock out climax of the first track, 'I Hate the Way' and the upbeat electro-pop celebration of 'Bunny Club' and 'Nitrogen Pink' counterpointed by final, haunting track 'Breathe In Breathe Out.' Brilliance.