Jess Austin

We swapped hostels for hotels and night buses for 5* sleeper trains.

I spent 5 days learning to drive - and passed my test on day 6

Sarah Whiteley passed away on 10 March, aged 39.

Just some of the delights I indulged in (Picture: Jess Austin)‘What are you even going to do there besides visit NASA?’, my British friends asked when I told them I was going to Houston. ‘She’s going to eat so well’, my American friends replied. And they were right. I was excited for one thing only: the food. Houston has 10,000 restaurants. London, with around six million more people, has about 20,000.It’s the most diverse city in the United States, and with that brings phenomenal cuisine. Most…

Is it still a holiday if you're working out twice a day and not eating five ice creams?

I couldn’t wait to delve into the 150+ reports (Picture: Jess Austin/Getty/FitnessGenes) I love a DNA test. I love finding out as much information about my body as I can. I want to understand how I work. So when I got the opportunity to try out FitnessGenes – a product that can tell you what exactly you should be doing for exercise based on your DNA – I rushed to sign up. For £149, you spit in a tube (or if you’ve done an AncestryDNA or 23andMe kit, you give them access to that data £…

I wish someone had come to my defence. Yes, so I felt safer, but also to make me feel seen. 

One word: dry.

Galveston has a lot to offer… and not just ghosts (Picture: Jess Austin)Waiting for her mariner fiancé to return from his latest trip to sea, 25-year-old Audra stationed herself in room 501 of the Grand Galvez in Texas’s Galveston. Whenever her love was whisked away for work, the young woman would take up residence at the hotel and climb onto one of the hotel’s turrets, where she would look out to sea, hoping beyond hope that he would return to her.However, this time, he didn’t. After a storm hi…

No TV reboot can do justice to Robert Pattinson’s constipated stare, Kristen Stewart’s stilted delivery, and Michael Sheen’s high camp performance as the leader of the Volturi.