on travel.

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”   -Miriam Beard

Although I make it a point to get away a few times a year, I still don't travel quite as often as I'd like.  That said, I've been lucky enough to have visited some pretty incredible places. My favourite part of travel is experiencing cultures not of your own, and finding a way to allow that newly cultivated knowledge to meld and improve upon your own way of living.  This is what travelling means to me.  And whilst I've spent time in a few incredible places, it only makes me yearn for more.  I hope to be a traveller for the rest of my life, and that is something I most definitely look forward to...

Just a few snippets of my travels:

Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois

Big Ben & Westminster Bridge, London, England

Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

View from the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Interior of Notre Dame Cathedral, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, England

Atop Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, England

Interior of Shakespeare's birth home (literally), Stratford-upon-Avon, England

Rooftop view of the Roman Forums, Rome, Italy

River view, Amsterdam, Netherlands

So here's to more travel in yours & my future!

All the best,

Mae xx

*all images original to Her Story in Heels.

on turning thirty.

Suddenly you blink and three decades have gone by.  You wake up thirty one day and it's just another day.  You're not suddenly wiser.  You're not suddenly richer.  You're not suddenly happier.  You're you from yesterday, except it's today...  You're just more you.  I don't know what I expected leaving my twenties.  To be honest I'm just glad to have survived it.  My teens and twenties were riddled with insecurities, trying to please everyone else, and caring too much what other people think.  With time and age, however, I've grown a little bit more myself.  And maybe that's all there is to it.  To keep growing into our own individual person.

As I write this post, a welcome posts of sorts, I really don't know where to begin.  I am a thirty year old woman, just getting on with it...  and I hope that's enough.