Rumour has it that things are grim up north. Grey weather, rough people, housing estates as far as the eye can see. Well, actually that wasn’t quite the case but it was good to go in with low expectations and then be suitably impressed!
Driving from Edinburgh in our hired VW Passat we couldn’t really tell [...]
The Glasgow and Edinburgh bit
The British can sometimes get a bad wrap. The weather is dreary, the food is bland and then there are those accents. Well, I can honestly say that after just a few weeks in Europe landing in Glasgow seemed quite exotic.
First there’s that cute accent often combined with a “hey-yar” [...]
In Berlin the trains run on time, the bikes pass by frequently and the hubs of life and excitement are smattered across the city, usually hidden by a graffittied facade.
Now in cold, wet and windy Edinburgh, balmy Berlin seems like a distant summer holiday.
We stayed at cool and busy Circus Hostel right at Rosenthaler [...]
Getting from Budapest to Krakow wasn’t as easy as we thought it’d be. The old-school flickering board announcing all the train departures and arrivals listed trains which should’ve already left. We were told not to worry (I guess this happens all the time in such cities?) so we stood around with some other Aussies [...]
Cheese and chocolate shouldn’t go together but that’s exactly what this is. Think of it more as cheesecake with a chocolate coating and you’ll get the idea. Called Turo Rudi, it’s a tasty little speciman from Hungary and the tip came courtesy of Eszter Hargittai’s post on Crooked Timber. She put together a whole annotated [...]
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