Windsor, England in Winter
Jenny Valentish, Editor of J Mag and co-editor of Your Mother Would Be Proud, puts on her coat and scarf, and walks Windsor – home …
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Destinations, England, Europe, Windsor
Southwold, Suffolk, England – Cream Teas by the Sea
This Suffolk seaside town is terribly, terribly English, from the lighthouse and seafaring history, to the cream teas and the colourful beach huts.
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Destinations, Southwold
The Henne, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Jenny Valentish admires the cuckoo clocks – and the marinated chicken – at a classic German watering hole. Bratwurst be blowed! The Berliners love other …
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Berlin, Destinations, Europe, Germany
Hoboken – New York’s Bargainista Alternative
Hoboken, the ‘mile square city’ offers panoramic views across the Hudson of Manhattan and is just minutes away by train.
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Budget Travel, Destinations, Food and drink, New York
Great Train Stations of the World – Part One
Jenny Valentish misses the train in Melbourne and Berlin, and doesn’t care…
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Australia, Destinations, Europe, Germany, Melbourne, Pacific, Victoria
Afternoon Tea at Melbourne’s Langham Hotel
When seeking out afternoon tea in a city, it’s always promising to find it in a hotel bestowed with bellhops and uniformed doormen
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Australia, Destinations, Melbourne, Pacific, Victoria
Hobart, Tasmania – Explore it Using the Elizabeth Street Method!
If you’re dipping a toe into Hobart bat-out-of-hell style, it’s a good ploy to use Elizabeth Street as your guide
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Pacific, Tasmania
Bush boho
Victorian country town: Castlemaine is tipped for a property boom and Melburnians who have already made move, nostalgically compare the arty bolthole to Fitzroy or Northcote.
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Australia, Melbourne, Victoria
Exploring Acland Street – St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.
Even if you’ve never been to St Kilda, you’ll probably feel like you know its cute cafes and bohemian boutiques from four-year drama The Secret Life Of Us, which was set here. It’s fair to say this little shopping mecca is more a favourite with visiting women than men, but the area’s unique vibe and bar culture should keep both sexes happy.
By Jenny Valentish
Categories Melbourne, Victoria
The Real Hotel California, Los Angeles
Jenny Valentish finds herself haunting the real Hotel California… With The Hotel California it’s not so much a case of “you can never leave” as …
By Jenny Valentish
Categories California, Los Angeles


