Tag: washington

DC Blooms in a truly spectacular way

We were having dinner in New York with our friend Melissa on Thursday night when she happened to mention how beautiful the cherry blossoms were in Washington at present. Now regular readers of this blog may remember I went a little Sakura-crazy in Tokyo last year when we were there at the tail end of […]

Girls changing the world

I’ve posted  about my introduction to Girl Up before, and this week I’ve  been fortunate enough to spend three days in Washington at the Girl Up Leadership Summit  which was attended by about 170 girls aged between 10 and 19. They are predominantly from the US, but attendees also came from South America, the UK, Malawi and, of course, my […]