10 Days in Tokyo
1. Tokyo is massive.
2. You are always on a train trying to get somewhere.
3. Video games are very, very popular.
4. J-Pop.
5. Eating is sociable.
6. The food is different, the food is good.
7. People work harder than ever before.
8. You must catch some sleep when ever and where ever you can.
9. People are kind, helpful and exceptionally polite.
10. There’s a lot of history in Edo.
At the beginning of the month a bunch of us took a trip to the island of Rügen, in far Northern German.
It was a Winter retreat, spent reading books, playing card games, drinking cocktails, endless feasting, birthday celebrations, winter day trips to the beach, so on and so on.
It was great spending an extended weekend with all these amazing people. Thanks friends!
ROOMIES 4 LYF.
After two years of breakfasts being made for me, making dinners for her, pesto pasta, candy, sherlock, all things kansas, faux british accents and constantly trying to out creep each other, Chelsey and I part ways.
Some have said it’s the end of an era. I certainly agree. Here’s to the best roomie. EVR.
Last weekend, I went to an island in the very north of Germany called Rügen along with 8 friends to celebrate the Easter holiday.
It was a wonderful time. We relaxed, we explored, we had a lol or two and we ate a lot. These photos are of all the things we ate.
The things include: chocolate birthday cake for Edward, full English fry up (including the best hash browns ever), the best lamb cassoulet you’ll ever have, sweet potato & caramelized onion tart, rabbit pie and other Sunday roast staples ( + this amazing leek and pea thing!), blood orange galette, bacon, hazelnut almond & blueberry muffins and chocolate croissants.
Any recipes that interest you in particular? Leave a comment and I’ll let you know how we made it. Everything except the croissants was made from scratch.
Katie, Jess and I took over the kitchen of a holiday home in Rügen this weekend and it was incredible.
I was meant to spend today with these two. My Mum and my Sister.
Sadly due to flight prices, lolidays, work, not work, oceans and all the other things that stop me from spending as much time as I’d like with my family, I couldn’t be there.
They are the two most awesome women I know.
This week I’m on a staycation. I set myself a few tasks. One of those was to make Marmalade.
I did that today. It turns out it takes lots of time. But it’s pretty rewarding.
With the help of Delia, I spent the afternoon, juicing, squeezing, slicing, boiling and jarring. Now I have a pot of Lime Marmalade for a few lucky people.
March has been rad. Lots of people have come to visit me.
Whenever people come and visit it’s an excuse to do all those things I’ll say I’ll do on the weekend but never do. When Dan and everyone came to visit, we drank Mimosa’s at breakfast, walked the Soviet Memorial, broke in to Spreepark, ate cheesecake, raged all night at Stattbad and then slept.
After reading the story of Berlin’s Boeing 707 last week, I wanted to go and find it and look at it.
On Saturday afternoon, my friend Drue came to visit and we did just that. We walked through Tegelsee Forest until we came to the perimeter of the airports runway. At that point, slightly taken aback by the commercial airliners coming in to land over our heads, we spotted the abandoned plane and went to take a look.
Jeffrey Lewis | Big A, Little A
from ‘12 Crass Songs’, Jeffrey Lewis’s album of crass covers. the song is pretty sensational. this particular version is pretty eye-opening.
Indian Wells | Wimbledon 1980
A past SoundClouder of the Day I chose last summer.
at the beginning of the month i took a trip to belgium. two friends and i hired a car, and took 5 days exploring the country.
the trip was lead by John, a beer connoisseur, and all round great man. we followed him from bar to bar, drinking beer after beer.
saison, tripple, lambic, porter, ipa, geuze.
from the outside it looked like a socks and sandals trip with the camra society. but i’d like to think we brought our own charm to the stereotyped belgian beer holiday.
we learnt that a week away from work is good for the soul, that dan must be fed at least once an hour and that belgians do indeed do beer the best.
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Bernd Schneider on Flickr.
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