Jess Austin

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 £…

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…

When I just can’t decided which task to take on first, this handy tool saves the day.

From genetic conditions to my type of earwax, I wanted to uncover it all.

I went to the Westfjords and instantly knew I had so much more to see.

I wouldn’t exactly say I felt as clean, relaxed and rested as I would have having stayed in an actual house...