And so the journey has begun.

When escape! was first conceptualised, all of us had mixed feelings about the magazine. Cecilia was bouncing around the office, clearly raring to kick-start the project. Vereen started tapping furiously at her laptop. I roller-coastered between oohing and aahing at the gorgeous travel snaps one minute and fantasising about running away to the North Pole the next. Ok, so my plans to abscond failed to materialise and I ended up at the magazine’s launch party on the night of 6 Aug.