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Italia 2019 🇮🇹 If you were following my instastories whilst I was in Italy over the last few weeks, you may have thought that I spent the majority of my time eating...and if you thought that then you were absolutely right! 😀 It's no secret that Italian culture is largely centred around good (the best) food. Family bonds are strengthened in the most important room in any house: the kitchen. You're considered a success in life if you can cook for your family and friends. And rule number 1 is that your cupboards should NEVER be empty! But jokes (that are not jokes at all) aside, my trip to Italy really was an incredible opportunity to buy every single bit of food we ate from local suppliers. Why? Because that was the only option! The village that my family are from contains two food stores, a bakery, a butchers and 3 restaurants...and a whole load of surrounding farmland. 🌿 Every Saturday there's a local market which is when the majority of the village population buy their fresh produce, oh and one day we bought a bag of fresh mozzarella from a man driving his cheese van who shouted up to us on our terrace! It was brilliant & exciting & as things should be. I wish that I could do the same every day where I live now...local produce helping local people. One day...🍉🍓🌽
I'm sadly heading home from the most incredible trip to southern Italy visiting my familia and eating an insane amount of food 😍 Whilst there I found my dream front garden in our italian village abundant with beautiful plants 🌿 As I head home I'm praying that my 58 plants have survived in my house... The recent weather is sadly something that we should all be concerned about. Don't be drawn in by the news articles full of jokes about British sunbathers and those celebrating the scorching temperatures of the continuous "hottest day ever" - this is not normal and this is not how our climate is supposed to be. This is climate change. It's time to wake up to the destruction that we are all causing to our precious planet. And just like the climate, we can also change, but preferably for the better. 🌅
Italia ~ providing water refill stations for hundreds of years 🇮🇹 Refill stations in Italy have been the norm for hundreds of years & the beautifully cold water comes straight from the mountains. ⛰ #PlasticFreeJuly
How's your #PlasticFreeJuly going?☄ Sometimes (a lot of the time) it's difficult to live your life without feeling guilty about your impact on the planet when we don't live in a zero waste world. We seem to get to grips with one sustainable swap and then hear about a new problem that's damaging the environment. It can feel draining and demotivating at times. But combating #FastFashion, which is one of the planet's BIGGEST pollutants, has been seemingly simple for me. Did you know that in the UK alone, we'll spend £2.7 billion on more than 50 billion summer outfits this year?! Simply outrageous, right? Particularly in a region where the weather means we're only able to wear summer clothes for a few weeks in a year. ☔ All we have to do to help to combat this serious issue is to simply buy less. Before you go 'summer holiday shopping' look through your wardrobe and realise the outfits you already have. If you do go shopping, ask yourself if you already have something similar, if you're still going to wear the new outfit in a year's time, and whether the quality of it is good enough to really last. By wearing what you already have, you're helping the environment already! 🌵
Forever my spirit animal, calmest moments & favourite sighting 🌿🐘 What's your favourite animal?
It's an awesome feeling to be walking in the bush in the same place that elephants were walking through just moments before 🐘🌿

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