Call me strange (plenty have in the past), but until the age of twenty-five, I never drank tea or coffee. And I still don't drink coffee to this day. But the tea - well, the tea is all about travelling.I lived in Japan for two years. Sure, you can live in Japan and ignore some of the traditions, but …
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Communism in Europe, and how weird that all was
Communism was (and continues to be) weird. I make no apologies for that title. But the thing about weird things is that they get me totally intrigued and I just have to keep knowing more. I grew up in the 1980s when it was accepted that Europe was divided into two, and when my family took our trip …
My favourite Slovak word and other Bratislava musings
As I've travelled the world I've had a lot of fun discovering my favourite words in other languages. But I have to say that of many favourite words, one that's very high on my list is a Slovak word. It means ice cream, which of course is a very good thing to start with, and it is a crazy, fun …