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Friday Links
Call me maybe… Body shapes 🙂 Eerie new drone footage captures ‘ghost’ Soviet military base untouched for over 20 years. 13 Things Your Toddler Can Do That You Can’t. 37 Weird Japanese Words You Won’t Believe Exist. Berlin’s Rat Bath – yuck! 25 things you’ll only see in Berlin. Do you read WWII fiction? YES!!!! Best article I have read all year! Only in Japan: Japan Unveils Adorable Mock Pizza Hut Run Entirely By Cats.
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Top Ten things to eat in New York!
Gimme more!! I could literally write a post about each and every delicious thing we ate in New York and I would have enough to cover the entire year. However, we are off on holiday again in a couple of weeks and have lots of other fun things to tell you about, so here is a list of all the amazing food places in just one blog post – you absolutely HAVE to visit these places: 1) Clinton Street Bakery – Pancakes This was recommended to us by our Airbnb host, as it was a five minute walk from our apartment. When we ordered our food the waitress was horrified we hadn’t…
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Friday Links
But I won’t do that… 50 recipes for cheese lovers! New Statue of Hachiko in Japan reunites the dog with his owner 🙂 My new favourite blog! Pros and Cons of moving to Germany… 50 ways to really annoy your partner. This sunday marks the celebration of NINJA DAY in Japan! Check out what this city did with an abandoned Walmart! 100 things a fellow blogger has learnt about Germans How cool is this? 30 ways to tie a tie! OMG I love these photos of snow in the UK. YES!!! The parent of Mockingbird!! I cannot wait to read this book!!!
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American Wedding
Shake it off OMG – have you heard the Taylor Swift song Shake It Off? I can happily say Jason has heard it a LOT now, as once I find a song I love, I put it on repeat all day long. And now he knows the words better than me – poor guy! I first heard it at my lovely friend Injy’s wedding. This was the whole reason we went to America in January. Injy and I met at university way way waaaay back when I was just 20. My flatmates were dirty (literally: minging!). There were maggots in our sink from the unwashed dishes. When I went on…
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Burgers in America
Dayum, dayum, dayum… Jason’s has two favourite foods: burgers and pizza. I’m not the keenist on pizza (must have eaten too much of it as a child) but I am growing an obsession with burgers. We have found the best burger in Berlin and were in search of the real deal in New York. If I’m honest, I was pretty disappointed. In the two weeks we were in America, we had four burgers in total – that’s a lot, but… yeah, we were on holiday! 1) Ellen’s Stardust Diner Jason got the burger – and enjoyed it-ish. It wasn’t amazing he says, just an ordinary burger, no real meaty-taste to…
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Ellen's Stardust Diner
Sing a song… This magical place deserves its own post. If you haven’t been here, then save this link! It’s one of the most fun and random ways to have a meal I have ever known. Ellen’s Stardust Diner is a 50s themed eatery with a difference – the waiters and waitresses will sing to you while they serve food! It was such a giggle – one minute our waiter was taking our order, the next minute he was up on the benches singing Bruno Mars to the diners. The place is loud – we met some friends inside and could barely talk to them – you have been warned!…
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Tipping in America
To tip or not to tip… OMG, this is the biggest stress whenever I visit America. I try my hardest never to eat without a local, so they can just tell me how much to pay on top of the bill. It’s complicated. In the UK, if the service was good, you normally add around 10% if it’s not already included in the bill (I love it when it is – no thinking, just paying!). If you try to tip in Japan, the staff would probably chase you down the road to give it back to you – they hardly ever accept a tip. In Germany, each server has a…
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Magnolia's Cupcakes
Sex and the City… This will divide the readers’ view I’m sure, BUT I’m going to go there… I LOVE Sex and The City. I don’t own a TV, don’t enjoy films and barely watch anything on a screen, but I did watch every single episode of SATC during my year abroad in Japan. It became a ritual – we would grab the most amazing mint-choc-chip-ice-creams from Chateraise and eat and giggle our way through episode after episode, usually with my friend Kelly. A year later in 2007, Kelly and I found ourselves in New York – so of course we went to Magnolia Bakery to get our hands on those…
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Tips for New York!
I wanna wake up in a city that never sleeps… After a week in NY, we thought we should share some great tips about the Big Apple – a Friday Links all NY themed! Enjoy – and go visit 🙂 Tips and tricks for using the NY subway! Free walking tours – you pay what you think it’s worth at the end and there are TONS to choose from every single day 🙂 Free stuff to do – updated every week! A great video with advice on how NOT to annoy people in NY. Get a poem! And a little fun 🙂
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Poems in the station
A Noodle and A Bean… I read about Lynn Gentry just before we left and I was worried I would be wasting precious NY time, but it was too good an opportunity to miss. So on the 29th of January, on Jason and my 3rd year anniversary, we went into Union Square station in search of a poetry busker. It was pretty epic when we saw him sitting just behind the turnstiles. Although I had read he is often there in the evenings, to actually see him at his desk was lucky – NY really did love us – and I quickly went up joined the queue to get a unique…