Anchors + Proteas

Anchors + Proteas is my blog baby based on a life filled with inspiring people, magnetic places, delicious food and life hacks worth sharing. It’s part travel blog, part ode to food, part avenue for me to write write write about things that give me joy: Travelling and eating, meeting new people.

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Energy boost: a few simple lessons from the past year
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Energy boost: a few simple lessons from the past year
Each year I reflect on accomplishments, challenges and lessons. While I was doing my 2019 navel gaze, I noticed a theme: energy levels. There were a lot of mountains and valleys when it came to how much energy I was expending vs gaining at specific times of the year. So I started a fourth listRea...
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Boho disco dreams are made of these: the best Airbnb in Yucca Valley
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Boho disco dreams are made of these: the best Airbnb in Yucca Valley
Picture it: in the dark, wet days of winter I plan a sunny SoCal family getaway 3,800 kilometres from our chilly, rainforest home. The goal: a few days spent staying in a stylish, bright boho disco Airbnb while we explore the increasingly not-so-hidden gems north of Joshua Tree National Park. In ...
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Love Your Mother: An Etsy Mother’s Day Gift Guide
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Love Your Mother: An Etsy Mother’s Day Gift Guide
If you’re looking for a fabulous gift for your mama, baby mama, baby mama-to-be or step-mama then Etsy is a fabulous place to start. The post Love Your Mother: An Etsy Mother’s Day Gift Guide appeared first on Anchors + Proteas.
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Love Your Mother: An Etsy Mother’s Day Gift Guide
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Love Your Mother: An Etsy Mother’s Day Gift Guide
If you’re looking for a fabulous gift for your mama, baby mama, baby mama-to-be or step-mama then Etsy is a fabulous place to start. The post Love Your Mother: An Etsy Mother’s Day Gift Guide appeared first on Anchors + Proteas.
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March 2019 Anthology: Lady Power Month Edition
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March 2019 Anthology: Lady Power Month Edition
This anthology rounds up some of the best bits of the internet currently tipping her hat to women while also educating us on leadership, great eats and confidence-building dance moves. Make room Oprah and Gayle, here's my posse of online goal diggers and motivators. The post March 2019 Anthology:...
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March 2019 Anthology: Lady Power Month Edition
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March 2019 Anthology: Lady Power Month Edition
This anthology rounds up some of the best bits of the internet currently tipping her hat to women while also educating us on leadership, great eats and confidence-building dance moves. Make room Oprah and Gayle, here's my posse of online goal diggers and motivators. The post March 2019 Anthology:...
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Time travels: 2018 in photos
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Time travels: 2018 in photos
Neil deGrasse Tyson says, “Photography is a form of time travel.” If that’s true then in the last few years, the human race has become expert time travellers. With the proliferation cameras in our pockets at all times combined with social media, photography as time travel now ha...
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Time travels: 2018 in photos
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Time travels: 2018 in photos
Neil deGrasse Tyson says, “Photography is a form of time travel.” If that’s true then in the last few years, the human race has become expert time travellers. With the proliferation cameras in our pockets at all times combined with social media, photography as time travel now ha...
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Ear Candy: The Best Podcasts for Long Trips
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Ear Candy: The Best Podcasts for Long Trips
Podcasts are to 2018 what those yellow Sony Sports Walkmans were to 1992. They’re hip. They’re ubiquitous. They are super practical for those long walks, flights and road trips. Above all podcast help me balance my heart and brain. For instance, on a two day drive to my home town̷...
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Ear Candy: The Best Podcasts for Long Trips
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Ear Candy: The Best Podcasts for Long Trips
Podcasts are to 2018 what those yellow Sony Sports Walkmans were to 1992. They’re hip. They’re ubiquitous. They are super practical for those long walks, flights and road trips. Above all podcast help me balance my heart and brain. For instance, on a two day drive to my home town̷...
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