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Katie Travel

We are sailing to Utrecht

It’s Travel Tuesday or #TTOT if you follow tags on Twitter so I wanted to tell you all about my mini break this week to Utrechtas we are super excited!

On Thursday we will be hopping on the ferry from North Shields to Ijmiuden which is the principal port of Holland. After a quick zip on the train, we will be spending a long weekend in Utrecht which was voted as having the best canals in Europe by a travel company survey.

A mere half an hour south of Amsterdam, we are on a mission to uncover more of Holland than the bright lights and reputation of Amsterdam. With a Dom Tower, canal cruises and a nightly city light show, we can’t wait to get there and explore.

Keep your eyes peeled for live tweeting and instagram pictures of our trip and a post when we get back.

I have found a Sephora in Utrecht……. ’nuff said.

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Katie Lifestyle

You can now find me over at DFDS

DFDS Air show 2

If you remember my post about the Sunderland Air Show from a few weeks, you’ll be pleased to know that it also now appears on the DFDS Seaways blog.

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Katie Travel

Top 4 Kid Friendly Travel Destinations

Travelling with Kids

Travelling as a family can be an extremely stressful ordeal, as you’re always trying to ensure that everyone is enjoying themselves and getting to do all the activities they’d hope for. Fortunately, there are plenty of great destinations that have a wide variety of activities and sites available to do and explore, meaning everyone in your family can have a fun and relaxing vacation. So here are four of the best destinations to bring your kids on your next holiday.

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Katie Fashion

Joules 4 wheel cabin luggage

If you follow me on Twitter then you will remember me trying to hunt high and low for the perfect 4 wheel ‘spinner’ cabin case. Something with a little bit of fun but looks presentable for business.

I have a beauty of a case from Joules to show you. It’s quite possibly my favourite thing ever.

If you are not familiar with the Joules brand, you may have spotted them at a country show or in one of the predominantly southern standalone stores. A family business for over 25 years, Joules has become synonymous with high quality. Almost being ruined by the 2001 Foot & Mouth epidemic due to most of the country shows being cancelled, the brand branched out in to stores.

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Katie Fashion

Luxury Leather Luggage by blokesbags.co.uk

Hello Lovelies,

I’m sure if you follow me on Twitter you’ll know the dilemma I have been having with buying new travel luggage right? I am looking for the most perfect pair of tan leather holdalls / weekend bags. Finding these bags has been next to impossible and believe me I have trawled luggage shops and brands.

I want something quite masculine as I like classic, clean, simple shapes, styles and lines and as Mr Tramp will have to use these and a lot of the bags I have found have been a bit too girly.. Or in a lot of cases, insanely too expensive. I’m just not a fan of frou frou “girly” designs or overbearingly monogrammed designer luggage covered in labels and brands. I don’t begrudge spending money on good quality luggage that will last me a life time but looking at some of the high price range luggage in stores it just simply hasn’t been up to the quality I expect to reflect the price.

Feeling a bit dejected, I started to Google for mens leather bags in the off chance I found something appealing. And boy am I glad I did!

Blokesbags.co.uk, based in Bath, is a unique website offering a HUGE choice of bags for men. I am in leather luggage heaven here. So much so I found myself emailing the owner of the company to tell him how happy I was to have found his website.

David and his wife started Blokesbags 3.5yr ago to deal exlusively in the niche market of man bags. David himself always carried a bag whilst working as a newspaper editor and realised one day people stopped mocking him and starting asking him where he bought it.

Having built their own website from scratch, the company now stocks almost 500 different styles of manbags from beltbags to holdalls and a myriad in between. David sources each product for their design and practicality with their beautiful holdalls ranging from £34.99 to £700.

I think the stigma of carrying a ‘handbag’ has rapidly dropped with the increasing popularity of laptops and ipads. Men need to carry their stuff around just as much as us ladies so why not buy yourself a spiffy manbag rather than a dull black laptop bag or sports rucksack!

I know I had a lot of Twitter support from people looking for the same kind of luggage that I was, so I hope this is of some use. Mr Tramp is already eyeing up a few stunners to replace his naff laptop bag and old briefcase!

Would you ever consider thinking outside the box and looking at ‘mens bags’ or are you all about the girly?