If you’re a professional who’s constantly hopping between airports, meeting rooms and active sight-seeing, you know that your wardrobe needs to work hard. It has to be versatile, user-friendly and,…
Continue readingTwo thousand twenty five. The older I get, the more tired my writing becomes. Part of it stems from living in a country that is still developing and the other…
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My mom was an excellent cook, and unlike any other Soviet woman I knew she was truly bold – with spices, flavours and experimentation. During her travels (she worked in…
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A trigger warning: it’ll be an extremely long rant… Click to skip straight to carry on sizing info. For about a year now, there have been rumours circulated in travel…
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This is, by a country mile, the best chamomile tea I’ve ever tasted, and it’s all thanks to the subtle sweetness bee pollen and liquorice root lend to it. …
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One thing that has become painfully apparent in these past few months has been the normalization of fraud. While I do come from a land far far away, where distrusting…
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For the past year and something, we’ve had a frequent visitor. It started with a moon landing one warm summer afternoon. Jay was taking a nap upstairs (on what all…
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Listen to 80s music? Love palm trees? Join us here in Peru via the immigration process. Granted, you may reach your grave faster than a carnet de extranjería will get…
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Let me prefix this buy saying that this is among my top 3 favourite infusions from F&M, and that took me by surprise. I mean – lavender and honey combined…
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Disclaimer: I am a tea drinker or, to be fully transparent – a hot drink addict. This series is a review for some of the teas and infusions in my…
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Please prepare the following documents.. “Please prepare the following set of documents, both translated and Apostilled for relocation to Peru..” is a sentence that has been quite frankly engrained in…
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We have a nice breakfast on the veranda of the hotel watching Sigulda slowly wake up before packing up and heading off, checking we have no little anty stowaways first….
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The rain has indeed stopped and Saturday dawns bright and sunny. We pack up and head down for breakfast. — Just starting? View Day 1 post of the roadtrip —…
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I like riding my bike. I like it a lot. I like the noise, the speed, the fact that I have to concentrate and be involved in the whole process…
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After yesterday’s beautiful golden sun, it’s light drizzle that greets me. I didn’t book breakfast and it’s a 20 euro addition so I skip it and leave around 9am. My…
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I wake nice and early, have a shower, watch Polish cartoons for a bit then head off for breakfast. The door to my room opens outwards and three women in…
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No breakfast again as it’s another early start. I want to get out into rural East Germany before rush hour kicks off. When I parked my bike the previous evening…
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Monday dawns as beautifully as Sunday had. It’s sunny and already warm so I’m pleased I woke early and didn’t book breakfast at this hotel. I want to get on…
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It’s been weeks in the planning. Routes have been selected, hotels have been booked, bags have been packed. Then unpacked and packed again. Twice. Then checked and packed again but…
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