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Fashion Essentials for Glamorous Globetrotting and Get Up and Go Everyday Style

A Midlife Blog for a More Stylish, More Confident, More Adventurous YOU!

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Best Sun Protection Hats. Keep your hat on this summer!

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Winter Looks To Keep You Sizzling into Spring

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How to Dress to Look Slim and Tall

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PERFECT HOLIDAYS & PACKING TIPS

Looking for stylish Adventure or Holiday Ideas to beautiful places? See below for our best Holiday Inspiration and Packing Lists to help you travel in style.

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Travel Goals

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Amazing Luxury Barge Cruise in France – Champagne Itinerary

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13 Things You’ll Love about a Barge Cruise in France

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News, Interviews and Barge Cruises in France

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Best Luggage Sets Review 2019

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Today we welcome Jo McIntosh, a very inspiring woman over 50 whose business has taken her from Australia to France to New Zealand. We asked Jo some questions for our…

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10 Stress Management Activities : How to help relieve stress and curb anxiety

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How to Retire Early by Queen of Cents, Michelle Schroeder Gardner

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is the owner and writer at Making Sense of Cents, a personal finance blog. Today she shares tips with us about how to retire early. On her blog…

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Happy Retirement Overseas

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