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Little Observationist is a photography-filled lifestyle blog focused on travel, art, food, style and other inspirations.

Hello, my name is Steph. I’m a freelance social media strategist and content creator. I focus on supporting small businesses, artists and other independent creatives and am always interested in working with new clients. I also have about eight years of experience in social media strategy and content creation with a study abroad organisation and very much enjoy travel and international communicatio

n and marketing. I have worked in the charity sector and with businesses in other industries as well, in the UK, US and beyond. When I’m not working, I can be found taking photos, travelling as much as life allows, baking, reading, walking and of course spending time with friends and family. I live in southwest London with my husband Jorge, our two kids Emilia and Sebastian, and cat Oakley. Find my photography prints for sale in my Etsy shop at littleobservationist.etsy.com, connect on Instagram at and do reach out if you’re interested in potentially working together. Learn more on my website, www.littleobservationist.com.

12/16/2025

Sometimes, there’s no place like home. ✈️

09/22/2025

A little look around the historic old town of La Orotava that sits high above the coast in the north of Tenerife. Steep climbs, lush gardens, traditional wooden balconies, sunny squares, and famous cafes.

07/28/2025

Squeals of kids jumping across the dunes, kicking up clouds of dust with their heels.
Wind whipping against cheeks, carrying the scent of the sea in shades of choppy turquoise below.
Whitewashed villages with emerald green painted window panes chipping dry in the searing sun.
Summer-bleached terracotta roofs.
Endless slopes rolling across the land.
Volcanic.
Surreal.
Bare.
A natural sculpture that stretches to the horizon where the ocean pounds against the shore.
Wide-open spaces.
Baked under the heat.
Stark beauty.
Silence.
Long stretches of road with no traffic.
Windmills.
Cacti.
Rocks.
Tufts of dry plants where goats graze.
Single palm trees stretching high into a brilliant blue sky.
Each village marked with big white letters that the kids climb on: Betancuria. La Oliva. Antigua.
This is Fuerteventura.
The oldest of the Canary Islands.
Once a place of exile for Spanish write Miguel de Unamuno who described it as “a skeleton of land.”

06/10/2025

These photos were taken in the sleepy village of Arico el Nuevo (and a vineyard and olive grove that belongs to Jorge’s parents) tucked away between two ravines in the south of Tenerife. Walking around, we barely saw another person stroll past the whitewashed homes with their green accents. The entire village, which was set up as an agricultural settlement in the 18-century, is protected as a cultural heritage site.

Have you explored anywhere new recently?

05/08/2025

📍Los Gigantes, Tenerife.

It has been a long while since I’ve felt the inspiration to take my camera out for a walk, but while my parents were visiting over Easter break, we drove to the opposite end of the island, to Los Gigantes, and I a took a few shots. I’d only seen the dramatic cliffs up close from Teno on the opposite side where the angry Atlantic lashes at the rocks. Here, the sea was calmer. We followed the road up along the volcano on the drive home, so there’s a glimpse of El Teide in the last pic.

02/06/2025

Missing my tree-lined Putney walks, the misty moody Thames, and a good cup of tea to talk along with me ❤️

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[Pics from my London trip in November]

10/07/2024

Back in May, I met up with my mom in Athens for a week. We ate delicious food, had some memorable cocktails, popped into all the independent shops, and wandered, explored, and relaxed.

I love the way the city becomes more familiar with each trip, how different layers come to life. This was probably my 6th visit to Athens.

I’ve realized more than ever since moving to Tenerife that I am, hands down, a city person. I appreciate the countryside and of course some fresh air, but I love a city most of all: the grittiness, the diversity, the freedom, the anonymity, the street art and creativity, the fast pace, the markets, the cacophony of sound and smells, the galleries and museums, the bookshops, the cafes, the street food, the assault on the senses, and the beautiful parks for balance.

There are a handful of cities I feel drawn back to time and again. Athens is one of them, along with London which will always have my heart, Amsterdam, Edinburgh…and there are many others I’d love to re-visit one day.

What about you? And if you’re a city person, is there one in particular that you’d return to time and again?

04/23/2024

Today marks my 7th anniversary as a freelancer! ❤️🎉

01/17/2024

On the tail end of our olive-picking adventures on Kythira Island back in November, my dad and I spent two days in Athens. We’d both been quite a few times before, so this wasn’t so much a site seeing trip as a visit for me to get my big city fix. (If there’s anything I’ve learned since moving across the street from a herd of goats in Tenerife, it’s that I am much more of a city person than I ever realised.)

Athens is one of those beautifully gritty cities, oozing character with its ancient architectural wonders, buildings coloured with scribbled graffiti and impressive murals, jumbled flea markets, and bright yellow taxis. We sat outside at tavernas eating octopus and olives, went hunting for bookshops where I could find some English language books for the kids (difficult, though not as difficult as in Tenerife and I did find a gem where I stocked up!), and just enjoyed chatting and exploring as we wandered through the criss-crossed streets of the Plaka.

Mainly, I basked in the cacophony of city sounds and city smells and city sights. The talented (and not so talented) buskers, and the impatient horns; the stench of the meat market, roasting corn in carts, and the sweetly scented lotions in Korres; the diversity of the commuters rushing for the train, the prowling street cats, and the unexpected glimpses of the Acropolis. Then it was a quick farewell Athens…Until we meet again.

12/18/2023

Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to have a second early 40th-birthday adventure (still 10 more days in my 30s!). Jorge took me on a kid-free long weekend trip to a surprise destination: Madrid!

Since swapping London for a quiet island, I desperately miss city life, so I appreciated the opportunity to be swept up in the beautiful chaos of the capital for a few days.

Deciding to save the museums and galleries for another trip when we have more time to dive deeply into their treasures, we focused on exploring and eating. We walked more than 50,000 steps, covering a good stretch of central city streets and a bit of El Retiro Park. We enjoyed lots of decadent delicious meals and some crazy cocktails, took in rooftop views, and of course I got my shopping fix in and indulged in our huge bath tub with the heated floor bathroom 👍

Definitely a place to return to as we’ve only just grazed the surface! (If you’ve been, leave me some comments with your best recommendations for next time.)

11/28/2023

As a slightly early 40th birthday adventure, my dad and I spent a memorable week on the small Greek island of Kythira (just across from the Peloponnese peninsula) and a few days in Athens.

Even in November, the fields baked under a strong sun. We spent three days laying down long green nets, raking small olives from the tangled branches of gnarled trees, picking out debris and sorting them into crates.

We stopped for tea and sweet biscuits in the grass each day and later simple lunches of tzatziki on bread, tomatoes and feta, homemade cakes, and tangerines.

We worked to the laughter and chatter of our new friends (all of them Dutch!), and the bells of sheep and goats clanging in the distance. One of the goats even wandered over to eat some olive leaves. The air carried the scent of nature and of olives accidentally crushed under shoes.

Every morning that week, we enjoyed a delicious cooked breakfast with the whole group and our amazing hosts Albert and Anita from - eggs cooked a myriad of ways, fresh fruit with thick Greek yogurt and honey, different cheeses from the island, a traditional portokalopita (orange syrup cake), and spinach filo pastries.

They also cooked us dinners of moussaka and pasticcio with fresh salads and beetroot. We finished the evenings with plenty of white wine and some local cinnamon liquor. Other evenings, the whole group went out for dinners (and live music one night).

There was a small crop this year, but enough to visit the olive mill where we watched as the olives we picked were poured from our crates and processed into olive oil—which we tasted straight from the spigot on sliced bread with a sprinkling of salt. Delicious!

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