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After my rant earlier in the week I decided to take some action, no matter how small. And so, I found myself elbow deep in flour as I baked bread from scratch. Home-made bread To go along with the bread, we bought some fresh Italian meats and cheeses from a local deli and I tried my [...]  I got to Liverpool Street this morning to find the circle/hammersmith/metropolitan line platform full. So much so, that people were queuing up the stairs. Giddy as I was at the idea of pushing my way onto the platform and eventually onto a train, I decided to bail and walk from Liverpool street station to work. [...] Venus of the Rags – The Tate Modern This is a piece of art we recently saw at the Tate Modern in London. I think it’s supposed to represent the broad gulf between classical and contemporary culture. For me, it resonates of a more personal gulf that between my current life and where I would like [...] Browsing the stalls along the river Paris had never been top of my ‘ I want to travel to…’ list. Despite numerous friends raving about their experiences, it just didn’t hold a great appeal for me. However, my aim this year to enjoy proximity travel, combined with a visit from my cousin and her boyfriend [...] I’ve always found it far scarier to contemplate coming ‘home’ than going away in the first place. The following was part of an email I received after my first RTW trip. I can’t take credit for it, but it really made me laugh and helped to cheer me up through the readjustment process. So I thought [...] The Statue of Liberty I hadn’t particularly been looking forward to going to New York last weekend. Not that I didn’t want to go, simply as it’s somewhere I have been twice before, I might have chosen somewhere different for a weekend away. However, seeing as the excuse (rather flimsy as it was) was to [...] One of the possible trips we’ve been looking into is a 6 month paid English teaching placement in China with RealGap. This last weekend saw the Chinese New Year celebrations taking place in London so we went along to try and get a little feel for the culture. What we found was a bright, colourful, busy, [...] |
 
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