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Suggest Texas: It’s proper America and offers something different to Orlando or New York.
Get them to Grapevine: It’s really pretty, very laid-back and there’s a vintage railway.
I’d been looking by myself and couldn’t find anything that I liked except for a leather jacket from Max Azria. So it was great to have the personal shoppers to help me complete the outfit. We went to get the jacket and they found me a skater dress too. They were really honest too, so when I came out of the fitting room and they said ‘yes’ rather than ‘erm’, I knew they were being genuine.
never seen that before. We also went to downtown Fort Worth and visited the site where John F Kennedy had given his last speech the day before he got shot. And we went to Sundance Square where there are lots of bars and restaurants.
Q. And then you were treated to a Simon Shopping Destinations centre... A. We were shopping all day! I like shopping but I was so nervous because
Q. Talk us through your photoshoot. A. I live in my gym clothes so it took me out of my comfort zone. We did the shoot at my hotel, Omni Barton Creek, on the golf course. I was in heels on grass and it was early in the morning. My grandad, who was golf mad, had passed away a few weeks before, so I was thinking of him. He would’ve laughed at me, so that was a really nice moment.
Q. And the rest of the trip… A. We also drove into Austin, which was lovely. We went to a proper old-style barbecue at a really cool and quirky restaurant. There were so many different types of meats that I didn’t know where to start. It was full-on American. At least I’d had the vegan option on the plane.
Jessica on real-life cowboys When you think of Texas the first thing you think of are cowboys. But I didn’t expect it to be such a big part of their culture still. We are not talking people dressing up in fancy dress; it was everyday clothing for them – boots, hats and all. I texted my mum when we were at the rodeo saying ‘cowboys are real’. Even the bars are like traditional saloons, which is a great spectacle. We went into one bar where the whole place was decorated with cowboy hats – every style you could think of was on the wall. They even buy and sell cattle too. Cowboys are not just characters from a Wild West film; it’s a lifestyle and it’s how they live.
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