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Friday Links
I am in misery… A Rich Man Took His Son To See What It Was Like To Be Poor, And This Is What Happened. Life in Korea in 1945-1953. Frigid offices, freezing women, oblivious men: An air-conditioning investigation. These images made me giggle – esp with my Facebook feed having nothing but babies in it at the moment… Woman Loses Over 1000 Pounds And Looks Incredible Now. This Is What A World Map Looks Like When Scaled According To Population Size. Photos That Will Annoy The Perfectionist In You. Hairy armpit art…
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The best Indian curry in Berlin?
What I would give for a good curry… My father’s proudest moment was feeding me curry when I was just two weeks old. Yup, you read that correctly. Once you have met the Abel Family, you probably won’t even be surprised at this. Another fun story was my dad cooking curry for his father a long time ago. Apparently the curry he made was too delicious to share, so instead, my dad went around the corner to get a takeaway curry for his father and saved his masterpiece for the next day. Curry is and always has been my absolutely most favourite food in the world and I miss it like…
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Can you Exit the Room in the allocated time?
Get me outta here… My brother and his fiancée visited a few weeks ago and we found a super cheap deal (€40) on Groupon for Exit the Room. The moment I heard about being locked into a room with an hour to figure out a load of complex hints I wanted to try it out. It’s like a treasure hunt with a theme and you have to work as a team in order to figure out the clues to get to the next stage. We were basically inside a Russian spy’s living room and we had to diffuse a hidden atomic bomb that was going to explode in 60 minutes.…
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Ice Cream for breakfast?!
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day… So, I’m just going to say here that this wasn’t my idea. A lovely friend of ours is on a diet where you can eat absolutely anything and any amount of it in the mornings only. Then she has to be careful and eat keto-friendly food 6 hours later and again 6 hours after that. No snacking and no alcohol etc. For a while now I have wanted to invite her over for dinner, but we like treating our guests to all kinds of food, so breakfast it was… We had two massive tubs of ice cream alongside vienetta and sprinkles,…
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Friday Links
A load of very weird museums in Germany – lots more on my to-do list now!! What should we think about death? Funny food hats!! 15 Least Visited Countries Tourists Should Visit More Often. Underneath the ‘Orientalist’ kimono. We just got back from Barcelona and this is some great advice! How to sleep in the Spanish heat! Why You Should Never Ask a Pregnant Woman if She’s Going Back to Work. Most fascinating thing I’ve read all year! Let’s make Britain wild again. The true story behind the scandalous 5.5 billion Euro Schoenefeld Airport in Berlin! And just because I love you all… Amazing Images of Classic Japanese Fart Battles.
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Croatia – Plitvice Lakes
Maybe it’s the chemistry, the sparks that fly… I won’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. They’ve not been used as a set for Game of Thrones (yet?) and they are a bit out of the way to get to. But this UNESCO site needs to be seen to be believed (my favourite photo is at the bottom of the post). It all started with Tufa. And a bit of chemistry. I shall try and make this simple – basically Tufa is a fragile kind of stone that needs special conditions for creation: clean water and warm summer temperatures. I will leave out the…
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Croatia – Split
Banana Split for my baby… Split was my favourite place in Croatia. It didn’t have the same ‘WOW’ factor of Dubrovnik, but there’s something special about this city. The south of Croatia feels a bit like Italy – the people look fabulous, the sun shines and it’s all coastal with people enjoying the beaches and swimming. Everyone is so friendly and helpful and they all seem to know each other. Everyone is healthy as well – they eat so much fresh fish from the Adriatic Coast, swim daily, go for jobs up into the hills… it’s great to see and really made me want to move here immediately. We drove…
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Croatia – Dubrovnik
You know nothing, Jon Snow… For those of you who watch Game of Thrones, I’m sure you are itching to visit the stunning city of Dubrovnik already, so I don’t need to try and convert you. For those of you who haven’t yet watched the most thrilling and recently quite horrifying GoT series… well… you just have to go here. I feel quite lucky to have seen so much of the world. My parents took us on trips constantly and it just rubbed off on me and I have continued the tradition. It means my eyes have glimpsed beautiful scenery many times, however the UNESCO city of Dubrovnik was only…
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Croatia – Zagreb
Pit Stop… So, for those of you who don’t know, I’m a journalist. I worked at a major Japanese TV company in London for three years and through these connections I now work as a freelance for mainly Japanese TV crews who come to Europe in need of a coordinator/ researcher/ translator/ interpretor/ tour guide/ general helper. I travel all over Europe with these crews and we film all kinds of stories. Recently I have done lots of sports-related events, but this time was extra special – I was asked to coordinate a trip to Croatia under the headline: ‘devastating environmental changes’. Last year, Croatia and the surrounding countries were hit…
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Friday Links
We’re off to see the wizard… Denmark – you are epic! Flying somewhere? Don’t forget these! So now we shouldn’t be wearing cycling helmets? A ‘Twin Peaks’-themed immersive pop-up theatre restaurant (!) is opening in London. Punny Pixels – A Series Of Clever Visual Puns That’ll Make You Smile. Parody of LDP security bills video goes viral ahead of Diet vote. 10 Tips On Daily Life in Europe That Will Help You Enjoy Your Trip Like a Local. I remember years ago a group of three black teenage girls smoking on the Central Line. I told them to stop and immediately they came over to me shouting at me that I was a…