Inside Laura's Head

When I shared my post talking about how much I spent on travel in 2025, I wasn't shocked at the total but I did start idly wondering what else I could have spent that money on. People have said to me that I should have loads of savings or I should be overpaying my mortgage (I am!) or that I should be replacing my car, which is ten years old but absolutely fine. I couldn't … [Read more...]

Have you got World Cup fever? You'll want to know what it's like visiting Atlanta for the World Cup! Until I met J I was never into football. I did find myself becoming a bit more interested around big tournaments like the World Cup or the Euros. Now, I am a Burnley season ticket holder and go to 95% of their home games. We also watch football at home when it works, and I'm … [Read more...]

As a solo traveller, I never booked an airport lounge. I was always super cost conscious, didn't drink on my trips and as I'm fussy with food, I'd always enjoy my airport KFC/McDonalds/Burger King, knowing I might find food a bit more tricky at my destination. I would've confidently said airport lounges are not for me. Since meeting J, we've taken countless flights together. … [Read more...]

When I made the decision, about ten years ago, to pivot Inside Laura's Head from the beauty content I was writing (a great decision, lets be honest-I am NOT a beauty blog sort of person!) to travel content I knew I had two options. Option one is to be the sort of person who has a minute by minute itinerary for every trip, who gets up at 5am to take beautiful shots with no … [Read more...]

I'm writing this from Manchester airport departure lounge, waiting for a solo flight to Cologne. In the last 10 days I've flown three times including this morning and so I've built up quite a level of annoyance directed at other people also in the airport. It felt like a good post to write-not that serious, but if you're reading this and you do these things-maybe stop, … [Read more...]