Rhythm & Routes

23/06/2026

My newsletter is out today. 🌿

It is the most personal piece of writing I have published since launching Rhythm & Routes.

I want to tell you what it is actually about, because the title does not quite capture it.

It is about the executive who needed 3 weeks in Patagonia to remember he was a person and not just a job title.

The widow who needed somewhere quiet enough that grief had room to breathe.

The father who took his 17-year-old son canoeing in Sweden because they had run out of ways to talk to each other at home.

None of them would have called themselves wellness travellers. All of them booked the most restorative trips of their lives.

And it is about why the language the wellness travel industry uses is quietly pushing away the very people who would benefit most from this kind of travel.

If you have ever looked at a wellness retreat and felt it was not quite for you, but suspected there was something else that might be, this one is for you.

And if you know someone who has been quietly depleted for longer than feels normal, please send it to them. 💙

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19/06/2026

The conversation at this morning's webinar kept circling back to one thing. People are quietly falling out of love with the European summer. ☀️

I spent this morning learning about the Nordics with the team at Regent, listening to two specialists who have just come back from the field.

One had been swimming in two-degree water off Svalbard, watching beluga whales pass a few metres from the shore, standing at the foot of glaciers 100 metres high.

The other was talking about the food on the Norwegian coastal voyages, and the fly-drives through the fjords where there are no motorways and no fast roads, just little ferries, mountains, and time. 🚢

But the line that stayed with me was a quieter one. One of them is currently planning a trip for a family who simply do not like the heat, sending them to the Stockholm archipelago for a few cooler, calmer days instead. 🌲

That is the shift I am seeing too. Last summer's 35-degree Mediterranean is becoming a reason to look north, not south.

Cooler air. Longer light. Fewer crowds. The midnight sun instead of a packed beach. Whale watching in Tromsø. Dog sledding in Swedish Lapland done properly, rather than on a conveyor belt. The slow drama of a fjord seen from a small ship. ❄️

None of this is about chasing the Northern Lights. It is about choosing somewhere that actually suits the person travelling. For a family who wilt in the heat, the answer is not a nicer hotel on a hot coast. It is a different climate altogether.

This is how I think about every trip I plan. The destination is never the starting point. The person is. What do they need, what do they struggle with, and where in the world quietly gives them that? 💙

If the heat has spoiled a holiday for you recently, and you are wondering where to look instead, let's have a chat before you book.

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18/06/2026

BREAKING NEWS!

FCDO no longer advises against all but essential travel to UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

This is great news for all travel to or via these countries for connections to the far east.

16/06/2026

14/06/2026

11/06/2026

Lizzie describes her amazing Ayurvedic Retreat at the fabulous Santani Resort in Sri Lanka 🙏

Contact Lizzie for more information about this and many other amazing retreat options that we offer.

09/06/2026

Something a little different this one, and I had to share it. 🧱

A Copenhagen and Legoland family break.

One trip, two completely different kinds of magic. The grown-up charm of one of Europe’s loveliest cities, paired with the pure, unfiltered joy of Legoland. 🇩🇰

And a small confession. My eldest son turns 40 in August, and he has loved Lego his entire life. Honestly, he would adore every minute of this trip, the man is never too old for it.

So if you think Legoland is just for little ones, think again. The magic does not have an age limit. 😄

Picture it. A morning drifting along the colourful canals of Nyhavn, those red and ochre townhouses reflected in the water.

An afternoon riding the historic wooden rollercoaster at Tivoli Gardens. Then a couple of days at LEGOLAND Billund, where the rollercoasters are thrilling, the Lego House is genuinely jaw-dropping, and nobody, young or old, stops smiling. 🎢

What is included:

🛫 Return flights between the UK and Copenhagen, with all taxes and charges
🚖 Private airport transfers in Copenhagen
🏨 Hotel accommodation throughout
⛵ A 1-hour guided canal tour in Copenhagen
🚆 Return train and bus transport between Copenhagen and Billund
🧱 Entrance to both the Lego House and LEGOLAND

The kind of trip that gives the children, and the big kids, the holiday of their dreams, and gives you a proper city break at the same time. Everyone wins. 💙

And if you would like me to tailor it to your family, your dates, and your departure airport, just get in touch. This is exactly the kind of trip I love making seamless for families.

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08/06/2026

A couple came to me this week with their whole trip already planned. ChatGPT had written it. Japan and Southeast Asia, all the right places, all in the right order.

They still came to me. I found that interesting, so let me tell you why.

Before they got in touch, they spoke to friends of mine, people I have travelled clients through some difficult moments with. One of them reminded the couple how I got them home when the Middle East crisis flared up. They liked the trip I had built. So they picked up the phone.

I had a look at what the AI had given them. Honestly, as a list of places, it was good.

It was what sat underneath that worried me.

It put Japan in the depths of winter and said nothing about the season.

It dropped a big festival into the Vietnam part of the trip. Lovely, if a festival is what you want. This couple like things quiet. And during that festival the whole country slows down. The little restaurants close. The small trips stop. The very thing they were travelling for would not have been there.

And it rushed them. Four days here, four days there. I always say slow down. A trip needs room in it to breathe.

AI is a good tool and I use it. It clears the obvious and gives me a head start. What it cannot do is know the people. Or know a place in winter the way you only can once you have stood in it.

I don't sell travel. I focus on the ingredients that make a trip work.

If you are thinking about somewhere for early next year, message me. I would love to hear where you are dreaming of.

07/06/2026

Ever come home from a trip more tired than when you left? 🥱

That is the difference between standard tourism and wellness travel.

One drains your battery; the other completely recharges it.

It is a proactive investment in your physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Drop a DM if you are ready for a digital detox, or many other holiday options that show you are desperately in need of something meaningful.

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07/06/2026

Come and say hello at this fantastic public Guinness world record Pilates event on July 19th at Knockaloe 😁🇮🇲🙏

The Isle of Man is where Pilates began 🧘

Over 100 years ago, Joseph Pilates developed his method at Knockaloe during WW1 - and this July, Pilates returns home.

Join a world record Pilates class and wellness festival led by Ramsey Crookall and in collaboration with 34Moves on the very grounds where it all started, as we attempt to break the current record of 3,486 participants.

✨ move together
✨ make history
✨ discover the Extraordinary Isle

🗓️ 19th July 2026 | 📍 Knockaloe, Isle of Man

🔗 Register here: https://brnw.ch/21x38xA