• Go Barefoot on the Beach for NYE

    NYE is fast approaching and the thought at the top of everyone’s head, as usual, is how to celebrate. I suspect my Ole Year’s will involve copious amounts of prosecco and Netflix…but for those of you heading over to the sister isle, there’s a slightly less ‘future cat lady’ option. Mount Irvine Bay Resort is making…

  • Treasure Hunting // Akimbo

    East people…our time has come! Finally there’s a shopping resource in the east for people who want to put their money where their mouth is and buy locally (and regionally) made clothing, accessories and beauty products. Akimbo, located on Pro Queen Street, Arima (obliquely opposite the tennis courts near the Arima market) is a newly…

  • Subscription Addiction // diemBox

    Subscription boxes have become my latest guilty pleasure. Somehow I managed to convince myself that it’s not really shopping if you get it routinely deducted from your credit card, without you actually having to go back in and click ‘Make Payment’ each time. Right. Anyway, right now I’m subscribed to a few foreign-based boxes, but…

  • Travel Diary // Eating the Big Apple I

    Travel Diary // Eating the Big Apple I

    Hi, I’m back and slowly but surely getting over my intense NYC withdrawal. For those of you who follow me on Instagram and Snapchat (@CeolaB), you probably witnessed me successfully eating my way through The Big Apple last weekend with my best friend Sandi and her sister Ashanna. No makeup selfie on the way to…

  • Mini-Haul // The Shop

    Mini-Haul // The Shop

    I popped into The Shop at The Normandie Hotel on Friday evening with every intention of grabbing my mom a Mother’s Day gift. I left with a bag full of stuff…none of which were for my mom. Usual behaviour. The Shop has really expanded its stock of local vendors considerably since it first opened. It’s…

  • Thoughts // On Dating

    When did ‘dating’ become a thing in Trinidad? Well…depending on who you ask…dating has always been a thing in Trinidad, we’ve just always called it by another name (make that no name at all), or neglected to distinguish between the different sub-categories of dating, which apparently exist. Now, I’ve always known it must be possible…

  • Photo Journal // St Vincent & The Grenadines Part Deux

    Photo Journal // St Vincent & The Grenadines Part Deux

    Day 2 – Bequia The highlight of my trip was most definitely my visit to Bequia. For whatever random reason I’ve always wanted to visit Bequia, so even when the sky was behaving quite schizophrenic on Saturday morning, I was super stoked to hop aboard the 8am ferry with Odini, Kern, Louis, Karen of SoKa and…

  • Photo Journal // St Vincent & The Grenadines Part Un

    Photo Journal // St Vincent & The Grenadines Part Un

    So this weekend I hopped across to St Vincent and the Grenadines, mainly to visit my friend Odini (you may know her as the mastermind behind menswear label Peta Odini) but also to scratch an item off my bucket list – to visit Bequia. When my obsession with getting to Bequia began, I’m not quite…

  • Out & About // Meet Me at Fanatic – ‘Fresh”

    It’s Lent y’all. Time to purge the sins of Carnival away with our seasonal stint of devotion and piousness (kind of). In keeping with the holy season, Sean decided to throw a vegetarian edition of Meet Me At Fanatic – out with the meat and in with the veggies (and a touch of fish, I guess…

  • Thoughts // On being ‘alone’

    I’m what you’d call a serial monogamist. I love being in a relationship. I’ve been involved in some degree of a relationship since I was around 14 years old. My longest period of singledom was probably in 2011…when I was single for about 7 months. Then commenced a three-year-long relationship. I’m single now. And trying…