Lifestyle
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Best Wellness Holidays for Animal Lovers
Need a bit of inspiration for booking your next trip? We have a few great wellness retreats to have you escaping to sunnier shores, stat. And if you’re an animal lover like us, you’ve just hit the jackpot. From tropical wildlife in Costa Rica to a Safari spa, here are our seven places to visit to get your relax on. Tropical Wildlife in Central America: Costa Rica Discover Recover Fancy seeing these little Kermits while soaking up some rays? Yeah, us too. With one of the world’s most richly bio-diverse environments, Costa Rica is the an avid adventurer’s dream. From ziplining through the forest canopy surrounded by the call of howler…
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Best Cocktail Recipes for Easter
Easter’s this weekend and there’s nothing better than a cocktail or three to wash down all those choccy bunnies we’ll be chomping on. We’ve got a number of awesome concoctions to make with chocolate bitters by The Bitter Truth Range of Bitters and Liqueurs. Cocktail bitters are becoming more and more popular with avid cocktail makers. Like adding salt and pepper to a meal, the equivalent in the drinks world is a dash of cocktail bitters, made from aromatic oils, herbs and spices. We’re pretty sure you’ll be addicted to the stuff by the end of Easter. Cue the Easter-themed recipes: SPRING IS IN THE AIR 50 ml Lanique 20 ml Lemon Juice…
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Adventure Guide: Easter Special
Looking for ideas to do this Easter weekend? Well we’ve pulled together 5 ideas every Easter weekend needs. Chocolate at the ready? Yes? Well sit back relax and take a read through our ‘Egg-venture’ Guide for this coming weekend. 1. Easter Cocktail Crawl – Regent Street, London. Join in the alternative adult Easter ‘cocktail’ hunt this weekend. Six restaurants surrounding London’s Regent street have joined forces to bring you bespoke Easter themed cocktails. Momo and Mash, Gordon Ramsay’s Heddon Street Kitchen, Brasserie Zedel, Frescobaldi and Cafe Royal. Hunting starts from now until Sunday 12th April… what are you waiting for? 2. 500 Years of Hampton Court Palace – Surrey, Greater London. Hampton Court Palace…
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Festival Guide: NoTomorrow Playlist
Ah yes, it’s now officially Spring. The days are getting longer, it’s getting warmer and as each day goes by we’re getting that little bit closer to NoTomorrow Festival, wooo!! If you read our Festival Guide then you already know that NoTomorrow’s line up is shaping up to be unreal. With a new wave of acts just announced, head-liners Jesse Ware and John Newman will be joined by Milky Chance, Gorgon City, Nick Mulvey and many more this coming 6th & 7th June at Wollaton Hall and Park, Nottingham. Yes, the line-up’s looking too good to miss, and of course lets not forget you’ll be partying in Batman’s back garden! So how can we help your days go a…
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INSTACRUSH: YASMINE CHANEL
Yasmine Chanel, a born and raised Irish dreamer, who made her way to the streets of London to discover and evolve her style. This young fashion icon is definitely on our instacrush list for you guys to follow. Her blog and instagram are effortlessly amazing! If you easily get wardrobe envy, then look away now… then look back and go and follow @yasminechanel Who’s your Instacrush? Tweet us @YumiDirect INSTACRUSH: MIMI ELASHIRY FESTIVAL GUIDE EDITOR’S PICKS: SPRING FLORALS
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5 reasons Yumi loves Spring
Spring has officially sprung and Easter is fast upon us…eep! Apart from chomping on copious amounts of chocolate eggs at Easter, we’ve a few other reasons we love the start of spring: The longer days The days get longer from this weekend so don’t forget to turn your clocks forward! That means still being able to enjoy some sunshine on your way home from work and getting your Vitamin D fix. Yesss. Feeling generally better After the doom and gloom of winter, spring just seems to lift everyone’s mood. The grumpiest of people seem to get friendlier, and the world is up for relaxing and enjoying the good times. Baby…
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This Weekend’s Adventure Guide
Now we’ve said good-bye to the 2015 eclipse, we can all celebrate that the world is still here and we haven’t all turned into hairy werewolfs, thank god! So let’s celebrate as it’s only the best day of the week… FRI-YAY-DAY! Got Plans this weekend? … No?… Well now you do… One. ‘Hawker House’. Set every Friday and Saturday evening for 10 weekends. This three story street feast is something each and every foodie needs to discover. Hawker house hosts some of the most delicious mouth watering food venders we have in and around London. Yum Bun, breddos Tacos, Smokestak, Bobs Lobster, Born & Raised, Bad Brownie and more! Feeling…
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Instacrush: Mimi Elashiry
We all have them, and we all want to be them. This weeks instacrush is Mimi Elashiry, full name: Ismeen Marlane Ashraf Elashiry. Raised in Australia, this young 20-something is an all round talent. Not just a instafamous known face, but also a Dancer, Model, Poet, Model, and Photographer! We cant get enough of Mimi’s personal style, her free beach like festival feel is leaving us all wanting more. If you haven’t already heard of Mimi Elashiry, then you’ve definitely been hiding in the dark. So don’t waste any more time, and go go go…@mimielashiry Who’s your Instacrush? Tweet us @official_yumi LONDON FASHION WEEK: STREET STYLE FESTIVAL GUIDE GET LILAH PARSONS’…
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5 energy boosting tips for mums
We all know all you lovely mums have one of the most rewarding jobs in the world, but it’s also pretty damn exhausting, right? You’re on duty 24-7, no weekends off or sick days…(oh the luxury…) It’s easy to focus on your kids and neglect yourself, but that’s not good for you, now is it? No. It is not. Ideally, we mums should get our eight hours of sleep and wake up full of the joys of spring but we know that’s just not realistic so here are some quick tips on how you can recharge your batteries and boost those energy levels. You’re welcome. Down…a bottle of water Even before…
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Festival Guide
Yess! Now that Dry January’s over, and we no longer have to see blue. We can now all stand and watch the countdown for summer to begin… Ok, ok maybe I’m getting a little too excited and I didn’t mean to miss out on Spring, but I can’t be the only one jumping up and down at all the Festival announced? No… I thought not. If you’re like the select few here at Yumi HQ, then you’ll have your festival plans already written up (and probably laminated…) but if your more of the laid back type then stay laid back, because here at Yumi HQ we’ve done the hard bit…