Happy New Year adventurers. Sorry I haven’t posted over Christmas and New Year, it has been so hectic with hosting my boyfriend Mario’s family in Germany on Christmas Eve and then flying off to the UK the next day to visit my family on Christmas Day. Phew! After that I needed time out.

AND I have been busy with some magazine projects, one of which is out now!

As you may know Mario and I travelled around Tuscany in a mobile home for three weeks in summer and one of our many adventures was visiting The Adler Thermae in Bagno Vignony spa town and UNESCO World Heritage Site to.. (get this)… bathe in wine.

I had no idea what to expect.

Would the wine smell linger in my hair for days? Will it stain my skin? Can I drink the bath water?…Even if no one’s looking?

The answers to those questions are no, no and no but I did discover the anti-ageing benefits of the red grape seeds that make the region’s famous Brunello wine.

You can read all about it in the latest edition of The Riverside Journals luxury lifestyle magazine in London. Click here to read (and ignore the content warning. It is a technical hitch).