Stockholm is a beautiful city of storybook buildings, romantic bridges, great pie and the strangest alcohol purchasing system I’ve ever seen. Basically, if you want to buy alcohol you have to go to something that resembles a state run Argos for booze called the Systembolaget. The state-run monopoly regulates the sale of alcohol to: “help [...]
Guy whisked me off to Oxford for the weekend to celebrate our one year anniversary as well as my graduation. He did an amazing job of keeping it secret, I didn’t find out where we were going until we arrived at Paddington Station and had to find out which platform we were leaving from, so [...]
My New York friend Sophie and I randomly found this little gem of a store whilst wandering around looking for a place to eat dinner (and we found it but that is an entirely different post). Ceri Vintage is located in the Oltrarno district on the Via di Sarragli on the Arno. They had the [...]
It’s astounding to think that Dresden was virtually flattened during the second world war. Its tragic to think of the ordinary human lives that were ruined through the Nazi regime on both the Allied and the German civilian sides. It is a terribly obvious thing to say but war is a awful thing. I can’t [...]