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Apr 15, 2024

I Took My Son on My Teenage Dream Road Trip

The guide book was at least fifteen years out of date, its technicolour cover faded, the pages yellowed and stained with coffee and dirty…

I Took My Son on My Teenage Dream Road Trip

Amanda H

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Sep 1

If Music be the Food of Love, Play On

Why do so many women in my life have such fucked up relationships with food and their bodies?

If Music be the Food of Love, Play On

Amanda H

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Jun 9

For Certain — A Thai Tale

Oceans, pounded chillies and being out too deep — lessons learned about grief and pulling ourselves out of despair.

For Certain — A Thai Tale

Amanda H

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Jan 6

I Neglect My Cookbooks…

My new Substack on food, cookbooks, and slices of life that fall between the cracks.

Amanda H

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Sep 10, 2025

The Cusp of Autumn

On the changing of the seasons and avoiding French pastries.

The Cusp of Autumn

Amanda H

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Sep 9, 2025

A Tale of Two Orlandos

When the magic of a dream childhood holiday doesn’t quite hit in the way it should.

A Tale of Two Orlandos

Amanda H

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Apr 21, 2025

Life Right Now

My first spring in eight years, and updates on life in the Parisian suburbs.

Life Right Now

Amanda H

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Mar 10, 2025

Don’t You Worry About Me…I’m In Paris

What’s changed in the six months since my last update?

Don’t You Worry About Me…I’m In Paris

Amanda H

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Sep 23, 2024

I Hear the Drizzle of the Rain

Yes, the Brit has written about rain. We do like to talk about the weather after all…

I Hear the Drizzle of the Rain

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Sep 3, 2024

Mexico City Just Doesn’t Get Me

When you live in a place that is the opposite of your personality, how easy is it really to live there?

Mexico City Just Doesn’t Get Me

Amanda H

Amanda H

| Writer | Stationery fan | Cooks | Reads | Hates to fly | Lover of spicy food | Anxious wreck | Procrastinator | Beyonce stan |

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