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Cocoro Japanese Restaurant
Living on a prayer… You all know how obsessed I am about Japanese food, so I was surprised when a friend suggested we go to a place I’d not even heard of. Cocoro is next to our favourite kebab place Mustafa and the super-famous Currywurst 36. This street has a LOT of good food peeps! I had the chicken teriyaki don (chicken in teriyaki sauce on rice) and I have to say it was delicious. Everything tasted fresh and juicy – the rice was cooked to perfection too, which I find rare outside of Japan. The Genmai Tea was beautiful. Often it is said that because of the differences in the water…
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Home Sweet Home?
I really really really really really really like you… Just got back from a three-day visit to London for a hen party (more on that soon). Crazy to think it was the first time we’d been home this year – I haven’t seen my family all year. It’s feels like England is so close and we can just pop over any time, but then life and random holidays get in the way and we just don’t find ourselves back in the Queen’s country enough. I LOVED being home. I miss my family, my friends, the tube (I know I’m weird), Oyster cards, two-pound coins, people being polite, service in the…
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Friday Links
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone… MEGA lego! I think all us ladies have experiences similar to these – a well-written but not-easy read. Photographer challenges perception of redheads with stunning portrait series. Are these England’s most beautiful pubs? This is horrendous: Death has become a part of Britain’s benefits system. She Tells Her Grandma That She’s Just Been Cheated On So Grandma Tells Her To Do This. FINALLY!!! Walmart to End Sales of Assault-Style Rifles in U.S. Stores. Dolphin spotted swimming in River Dee in Chester. These amazing Furoshiki Shoes from Vibram are designed to literally wrap around your feet! Librarians on Bikes Are Delivering Books and WiFi to Kids in…
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Erfurt – right in the middle of Germany
Listen to your heart… Erfurt is the capital of Thuringia and just about the most centrally geographically part of Germany you can find yourself in – so it’s often called the ‘heart of Germany’. I’d heard of this city before, but only really the name. We were recommended it by some friends and after a wonderful day in Leipzig we thought it would be rude not to pop in and check out this place, especially as it’s famous for sausages!! This city is typically German, there were few tourists even in the peak summer season and those visitors we saw were German, so there were no English-language tours. The city (town?) is tiny…
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Leipzig – a wonderful day out
Das Essen soll zuerst das Augeerfreuen und dann den Magen [feast the eyes before feeding the stomach] . – Goethe My Japanese grandmother spends around two summer months in England every year, as Tokyo is just too hot and humid to breathe in, let alone live in. Once again she came to visit us in Berlin and this time we wanted to grab a car and see a new part of Germany, so off to Leipzig we went. We actually accidentally timed our arrival at 13:30 perfectly, as it was the beginning of the English-language walking and bus tour. It was around 35 degrees and blinding sunshine, so a quick…