With the ability to earn millions, even as a nano influencer, it’s no wonder that many people are now turning to Instagram for a potential side hustle.
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Mexico is a popular holiday destination that attracts people from all over the world. The country saw 37,95,000 international visitors in a single month of January 2020. Of these, more than 1.8 million travelers were from the U.S. If you are planning your honeymoon and have zeroed in on Mexico as your honeymoon destination but are wondering if you should pick a pre-packaged deal or plan your itinerary, this article will help you make an informed decision.
Honeymoon packages can be quite economical if you know how to use them correctly. Some of the best honeymoon destinations in Mexico offer great packages for couples, right from economy rooms to luxurious suites. Here’s how honeymoon packages help you save.
Food and Beverages Included
Food can be the second biggest expense on your honeymoon, especially when in a foreign country. You would want to try all the local delicacies, but they can burn a hole in your wallet.
When you pick a honeymoon package, it usually includes all meals complementary or at least breakfast. Beverages are also included to a certain extent. By using these complimentary meals, you can save significantly and spend on creating remarkable memories.
Complimentary Activities
Most pre-packaged holidays will include a few activities in and around the resort at no extra cost. When it comes to honeymoon packages, it is the same; only the type of activities will vary. Couples can expect a free spa day, guided tours, access to private swimming pools and Jacuzzis, or adventure activities such as hiking, biking, etc.
You can check with the resort about the activities you get with the package and pick the package that includes activities that interest you. This way, you will end up saving significantly as these items and activities can cost a lot otherwise.
On-The-House Goodies
Honeymoon couples have the benefit of getting goodies from the hotel at no additional cost. These can be a bottle of champagne, chocolates, flowers, or wine. Once the hotel staff knows that you are on your honeymoon, they will give you extra special treatment, and you can take advantage of this to pamper your better half while saving a good amount of money.
Best honeymoon destinations in Mexico offer all-inclusive packages that don’t require you to spend anything extra while in the resort. It means that you can have an experience of a lifetime without having to step out of the resort.
Upgrades
Usually, honeymooners can expect a free upgrade, subject to the availability of rooms. This works mainly during off-seasons when the resort is not overbooked. Therefore, you pay less and get more. A better room means a better view, more pampering, and complimentary goodies and activities. You can talk to the resort about upgrades before booking your honeymoon package and amaze your spouse with the upgrade.
Airport Transfers
Most honeymoon packages will include pick and drop at the airport. Resorts usually use luxury cars for honeymoon package guests, and it means that your royal treatment begins the moment you land in Mexico. It also saves you a significant amount as resorts are mostly away from the heart of the city.
Some alternatives may also provide you with a personal car and driver during your stay, making it the perfect icing on your honeymoon cake.
No Stress, Just Fun
When you book a honeymoon package, you save money and save on a lot of stress of planning activities, booking cabs and hotels, wondering about check-ins and check-outs, printing itineraries, etc. A package will ensure that everything is taken care of and all you have to do is call the front desk if you need something.
Honeymoon packages are a great way to enjoy your honeymoon without having to worry about going over budget. Best honeymoon destinations in Mexico can customize the package to your needs so that you and your loved one only focus on kindling romance and leave the rest to the hotel staff.
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I have discovered a gorgeous new clothing brand: DeFacto is a new fashion brand that has just launched into the UK market, offering an expansive range of stylish and affordable fashion for women, men and children.
DeFacto make gorgeous clothes that are stylish, good-quality and affordable. I love them and know where I will be buying my Christmas clothes, along with some 2022 buys.
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Ok, we’re going to say it: it’s time to start thinking about the festive season.
Bring something bright and out of the blue to bonfires and dark nights. As summer comes to a close, it’s time to start thinking about winter fun. Let Aloha 65 bring a bit of spice to cosy evenings in, whether you’re hosting or having a chilled one.
The unique spirit has a full menu of winter serves to complement its tropical botanicals and warming notes of ginger and chilli, perfect for shaking up winter cocktails and causing a stir at your Christmas parties.
Why not have a go at a winter recipe out of the blue, like the Aloha Velvet? We love Aloha at Frost and this cocktail is delicious.
Ingredients
35ml Aloha 65
25ml brandy
25ml fresh orange juice
20ml fresh lemon juice
A dash of sugar syrup
1 egg yolk
Method
Add all ingredients into a shaker get shaking like you’re shivering!
Add ice and shake again.
Strain into a glass full of ice
Garnish with 3 or 4 drops of Angostura bitters and cherry to serve.
Aloha 65 isn’t just a treat for your drinks cabinet; you can fire up your cheeseboard and canapes too. Scotch-bonnet chilli-infused pineapple ‘detonators’ are an appetiser on their own, or the perfect way to make retro cheese & pineapple a bit more exciting. Not only that, but their ‘Sun on a Beach’ hot sauce goes so well with seafood and will really bring the flavour to your prawn cocktail starters.
Don’t let the tropical vibes fool you. The Aloha 65 bottle is wrapping up warm in its seasonal ski suit bottle wrap so brand mascot Lola really looks the part when she joins you on the slopes. Smooth enough to drink on its own, Aloha 65 is also the perfect cold-weather hip flask tipple.
Get ready for Christmas with Aloha 65, with discounts on 70cl multi-buys, gift sets and, with mini spritz kits for just £10, you can be sure to win your office Secret Santa with these stocking fillers.
You can find Aloha 65 on Amazon and discover the full range at aloha65.com.
Who says après ski can’t be tropical?
The back-story
Conceived and created by British expat barman, Stephen Thorp, at a beach bar in Florida some thirty years ago, the first homemade version of Spirit of Aloha 65 was designed to lure well-known and not so well-known surfers into his beach bar to refresh and revive them after a long day in the surf. Thirty years or so later, and after many attempts (65 in fact), the first few bottles that met Stephen’s exacting standards were produced and Spirit of Aloha 65 came of age. Turns out, Stephen’s creation was not just a brilliant addition to the post-surf après-sea drinks menu, but was equally at home with the post-piste après-ski crowd. Available in ski and surf label editions.
The blend
Beautifully and naturally crafted, Aloha 65 ticks a lot of boxes: vegan, gluten free, and at under 47kcal per 25ml serve has less calories than an equivalent measure of gin or vodka (50kcal per 25ml serve). It’s made from only fresh ingredients with no added colourants.
So what sort of spirit is it? Well it’s not gin and it’s not vodka, but like those old stalwarts, Aloha 65 starts with a neutral grain spirit base. However, unlike gin or vodka that an take just a few hours to make through a fire-based distillation process, Aloha 65 takes weeks to make and is made by separately and naturally infusing neutral grain spirit with just six very special raw ingredients including fresh pineapple, lemon, ginger and scotch bonnet chilli. These ingredients macerate slowly in the neutral grain spirit for up to a month naturally steeping the alcohol with their individual flavours. The separate infusions are then carefully blended together et Aloha! Sunshine in a Bottle.
Its versatility means that it can be enjoyed as a delicious chilled shot, on ice, or a refreshing long-drink, or as the unique heart of a great cocktail. It is proudly all-natural, vegan and has a lower ABV (27%). One sip and you’ll know what all the fuss I about. If you’ve never heard of, or believed in, ‘Sunshine at First Sip’, you have now. Many people seem genuinely surprised that it is still possible to create something quite new and different in the spirits category but Stephen’s years of dreams and hard graft have certainly been worth it. Trust us – you’re in for a treat.
A brand with a difference
Spirit of Aloha 65 offers the consumer something very different both to look at and to taste. With its coastal roots, Spirit of Aloha 65, was born of the surf, sun, sand and sea but is equally at home in the mountains and on the slopes. The vintage and retro branding has universal appeal and the branding screams: ‘Life is for living’ and ‘Have fun!’. ‘Lola’, our iconic surf girl and ‘Al’ her buddy, don’t just surf, they ski! Of course, they do! The ski/surf winter bottles are a must this winter to create that lock-down après ski vibe. Oh, and how many spirit brands do you know that also have a hot sauce?
Integrity
‘Aloha’ isn’t just a friendly greeting, it’s a way of life. It puts a smile on your face. Alohans, as we like to call them, live each moment to the full and always bring their A-Game, but with respect for others and their environment. Aloha 65 is proud to be partnering with Plastic Oceans, donating 5% of its profits to the charity to help preserve the planet and its natural diversity for generations to come. Aloha 65 is also supporting the promotion of “The Last Glaciers”, a new film about climate change, glaciers and the fate of our planet. Aloha 65 is vegan and made with only natural ingredients.
Aloha Sour
Ingredients:
35ml aloha,
10ml velvet falernum,
10ml cherry brandy,
2 dash cherry bitters,
10ml lemon juice,
egg white
Method
Add all ingredients into a shaker and dry shake (no ice).
Add ice and shake again.
Strain into a coupe.
Garnish with 3 or 4 drops of Angostura bitters and cherry
Available on Amazon.
A supernatural myster to shiver the timbers. Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula must join forces to banish a terrifying enemy.
This is a robust novel from the Sherlockian author Christian Klaver – the final instalment of The Classisfied Dossier where we see Sherlock and Watson battle the villains of Gothic literature, and terrifying they are too. They include Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde and Dorian Gray all wrapped up in a classy hardback edition ripe for the Christmas season.
Sherlock is dead. His body lies in a solitary grave on the Sussex Downs but Dr Watson survives and is now given permission to release tales in Sherlock’s classified dossier. These are cases that are of the most outre and grotesque nature.
Count Dracula arrives in Baker Street….
Nope, that’s enough. Buy this for Christmas for someone, but read it first. Good page turning stuff. Sleep with the light on.
Sherlock Holmes & Couynt Dracula by Christian Klaver
BBC’s Matt Tebbutt opens the chef larder
for the real foodie with the launch of SAUCE IT
Just think of it as the food and drink concierge for those in the know, giving you access to the chef’s personal larder – essentially their first choice of ingredients – so you too can finally shop like a chef!
Just open our exclusive ‘little black book’ of suppliers, producers, cooking professionals and sommeliers who can offer you chef designed boxes, filled with incredible ingredients discovered over years of working in the trade. SAUCE IT gives you access so you can discover for yourself how these rigorously sourced ingredients can ultimately change the way you cook and create.
The result of years of research and tasting, every item on SAUCE IT has been trialled and tested extensively by the expert who puts their name to each recommended ingredient or product. If you are looking for the wow factor, look no further, as SAUCE IT source the impossible to find; the ingredients you won’t find in Waitrose or even famous food halls.
The SAUCE IT boxes
To celebrate the launch of this exciting new concept, TV favourite Matt Tebbutt has created a new box The Weekend Collection by Matt Tebbutt. To coincide with the launch of Matt’s new book ‘Weekend’, this box contains a selection of ingredients, handpicked by Matt, and featuring in his new recipes such as the Cabernet Sauvignon Vinegar used in Matt’s Anchoiade dip or the beautifully packaged ‘Las Hermanas’ hot smoked paprika made using age old methods, ideal for Matt’s Smokey chicken with sweet corn and mango salsa.
Matt commented ‘SAUCE IT is an exciting new way to shop like an award winning chef does, giving you access to all the very best produce that was once only available to the restaurant world’.
If you are a shellfish fan, you’ll love Salcombe’s finest shellfish box which includes the finest Salcombe crab and lobster from a small day boat, packed on the quayside and sent direct to you, straight from Chris the fisherman. Is there anything finer than a simply boiled fresh crab with lemon, mayo and crusty bread? For the lobster, the king of crustaceans, the BBQ is perfect! Salcombe is famous for its crab and lobster, in fact it reaches nearly every corner of the globe, and if you’re looking for fresh seafood for that family feast, our shellfish is landed by one small boat and delivered straight to your door.
For the Spanish food lover, the El Gordo box has the most amazing Spanish products; ones that you will only find in restaurants such as Barrafina or Pizarro. SAUCE IT have brought together the absolute best of the best small Spanish producers of outstanding quality. Sit back, relax, imagine you are taking in the sights and sounds of San Sebastian, and indulge in some the worlds finest ingredients, enjoyed with a glass of Manzanilla sherry, naturally!
There are also boxes from well-known chefs such as Ben Tish, Sabrina Ghayour and Jane Baxter. A selection of wine boxes are available, handpicked by the team at SAUCE IT and their black book of wine experts.
Those involved in SAUCE IT, and we suspect, our customers, are pioneers in a world of discovery, fans of independent travel and favour self-selection rather than the package choice. When you purchase a box with SAUCE IT, an order is then placed with our suppliers. For example, your Salcombe crab is in the sea right up to the time it’s sent to you, your vegetables are picked to order and the ingredients for your box are collated on the day of dispatch. We supply our chef-collated boxes direct to your door in our eco friendly packaging, avoiding singular product or environmentally damaging deliveries. You will not find expensive and unnecessary packaging with SAUCE IT, we let the ingredients themselves do the talking!
All the boxes are compiled by the country’s finest restaurant suppliers. Buying from SAUCE IT supports fabulous fishermen, awesome organic vegetable growers, higher welfare meat producers and farmers, and some amazing but small artisan food heroes. Matt and the team at SAUCE IT will also give you fantastic hints, top tips and fabulous recipes to go with your outstanding ingredients. This is undoubtedly the concept epicureans have been waiting for!
We love it!
These makeup pencils are pretty special, and sustainable from start to end. Recycling in the beauty industry is notoriously difficult, but here’s a clever, patented invention by eco-pencil company Sprout World, that is designed to not only reduce waste, but give something beautiful and useful back to the planet.
Simply use the makeup pencils as normal, and instead of throwing them away when they become too small to use, flip them around, stick the end (green capsule facing down) into a pot of damp soil, and ta-da – beautiful wildflowers will start to sprout within 1-2 weeks!
Sprout Makeup Pencil
Where did the idea come from?
Sprout World is made up of 70% female employees. It was during a routine discussion about the waste problem within the beauty industry, that the team flagged how the majority of people in that room used make-up pencils daily, and therefore, they could potentially play a huge role in giving a second life (and a beautiful one at that) to products that would otherwise end up as waste.
Kind to the skin and planet
Sprout Makeup Pencil
Every element of the pencil is made from natural, kind-to-skin ingredients and materials:
100% natural and ethically sourced
Made from sustainable certified wood
Recyclable sugar cane cap
Plant-based soluble cellulose cap that dissolves when planted, releasing wildflower seeds
AllergyCertified, plastic-free and paraben-free
Sprout Makeup Pencils
Available as an Eyeliner (Black or Brown) and Browliner (Brown)
Price: £10.95 per pencil / £20.95 per two-pack
Stockists: amazon.co.uk and sproutworld.com
If the Covid pandemic has taught us anything it’s that anything can happen. No matter how hard we work something can blindside us and affect our business. When you are self employed you have to be extra cautious and have plans in place.
For all of the benefits of self employment: flexibility, the ability to work anywhere, and being your own boss; there are the things that make being self employed tough: no holiday pay, sick pay or pension. It is important to protect your income when you never know when the next pay check is coming from. Here are some tips for income protection, which is something everybody needs.
The first thing you can do is get some income protection. Income protection pays out a percentage of your salary if you’re signed off of work through illness or injury. It’s one of the least bought types of protection in the U.K, despite being a perfect choice for literally anyone earning – whether they’re self employed or work for someone else, have a family or live alone. It can really help if something unexpected happens.
Other than getting insurance to protect your income you can also make sure you have a buffer of savings. It is important to have at least three months savings to protect you if your income dries up. When you are self employed it can take people months to pay you, and your income can dry up for a few months. Save a percentage of your income every month. Then you will not have to panic if work slows down.
Being self employed is a fantastic thing but it can have its drawbacks. Make sure you are protected if things go wrong.
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