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    Hisashiburi!

    Hisashiburi!! There is this wonderful Japanese word hisashiburi which means ‘hello – it’s been a while’. It portrays a lot of ‘yey, I’m so happy to see you again’ as well and I love it. People use it all the time, often in happy surprise at seeing someone. I even use it to a lot of my English friends, as it just conveys what I want to say to someone I’m happy to see again. So to all of you out there, I’d like to say: hisashiburi!! I know it’s been ages. Don’t make me feel bad… I already do. I love blogging and writing down my adventures, but recently it’s…

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    Update

    Why hello there stranger… So I’ve been told the blog is currently very frustrating. Sorry – I can finally reveal why we are so ridiculously busy and why we’ve not been blogging. Partly it’s because we are organising a wedding! We’ve also become part of the CCC (Clandestine Cake Club) and we actually managed to get into the local paper! There’s a theme – it was the Queen’s 90th birthday – and everyone had to make a cake to go with it. No cupcakes, brownies, scones… it has to be a full-blown cake. Now there were over 20 of us and that means a LOT of cake – everyone gets…

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    Is anyone still out there?

    It’s been a long long time… Hi. I know. I know. It’s been over two months without even a quick ‘hi’ from me. I’m sorry. I think I’m so overwhelmed with all the things I want to tell you all that I don’t know where to start. Do I tell you about us getting engaged? How about our new business which is actually moving forwards so quickly I’m a little terrified? Did you want to know why we were in Japan? Or Dublin? Or why we are off to Belfast soon? How about those constant visits to London recently? Or our attempts at growing veggies? Or did you want to see…

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    Hexagony – Board Game

      I’ve always thought that Vanessa has a magical good luck bubble around her (because she managed to meet me, of course! haha) and I was proven right once again when she won a competition over on Instagram for the abstract strategy game, Hexagony! Hexagony is a game for 2 to 3 players in which you place a tri-coloured hexagons on an ever-growing mass of tiles in order to make complete hexagons of your designated colour. The rules are super simple, just take one of your tiles, place it so that it touches another tile of the same colour and make sure that all other sides touch the matching colour…

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    Trip to the Cotswolds

    It’s the most wonderful place… England is so beautiful, it’s actually stunning. When people from abroad think of our country, they picture stone cottages, fields and fields of green, flowers everywhere and chatty people. Having being brought up in London, I didn’t really see any of that and still now whenever I come across sheep in the wild, I quickly text my brother ‘SHEEP‘, just because I still think they’re so funny. And when you do go into the countryside there are sheep EVERYWHERE. I always joke that there are so many sheep in Wales, but OMG the minute you drive into the country, they are bleating all over the…

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    Life Update

    Sorry… Firstly I’d like to say sorry for not even posting last week. In fact it’s been so long without a peek from us, that we are left wondering if any of you are still there? Haha… We moved to Liverpool at the beginning of December. We’ve actually been working on an exciting project that hopefully soon I can tell you about. We are going to be creating our own work, as one thing we realised in Berlin was that working 9-5 five days a week for someone else just doesn’t do it for us. I like to work. I like to be pushed and learn new things. I’ve had…

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    Bakchich – Liverpool's best schwarma!

    You don’t make friends with salad… YES!!! We have found that delicious place that reminds us of Berlin right in the heart of Liverpool! This is such exciting news people – we loved all the delicious schwarma and kebabs Berlin had to offer, but now we don’t have to miss them any longer… Bakchich is one of those secret places that no one knew was amazing, until a few lucky individuals told their friends. Who told their friends. And then the word was out… Now it’s always busy and rightly so. Half of me doesn’t want to tell you about this place and keep this all a big secret, but…

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    Rococo Liverpool

    Hit the road Jack… We were told that Rococo has an amazing high tea and each time we walked by the grandiose building we wanted to pop in, so we finally did. The best bit is definitely the fabulous rooms. It’s located on the second floor and once you’ve climbed up the stairs you end up in what feels like a massive house with many many rooms. You grab what you want to eat in the front room and then wander around to choose your favourite room and comfy chairs. It feels very posh and old-fashioned and you can almost imagine it being used for Pride and Prejudice. Very beautiful.…

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    Scouse at Maggie Mays

    Oh I do like to be beside the seaside… So, I’m not sure how much you all know about Liverpool, but it was a very important historical seaport. The people from Liverpool are called Scousers (and people from nearby are amusingly called Plastic Scousers). I thought you might like to know why… The word Scouse comes from ‘lobscouse’ and it is traditionally a type of beef or lamb stew from the Denmark region. Many sailors would eat this food and brought it to the seaport Liverpool. It became very popular here and every family seems to have their own recipe. If you look in all the guide books however, the place to…

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    Sapporo Teppanyaki Liverpool

    We like to party… So if you have a birthday to celebrate or just want a fun evening out, I would recommend you try out Sapporo Teppanyaki. It’s all a bit bizarre, as Sapporo is the main city on the Northern Island of Japan and although the meal is meant to be Japanese-style, not one person in the restaurant was Japanese and in the 5 years I lived there, I never had a show-and-play with the food. What I loved though, was sitting in front of a massive hot steel plate and having a personal waiter come to the table to cook for you right in front of your nose. There are…