lifestyle

So I’ve reached the end of the first semester here in Sweden, which means it’s an appropriate time for some kind of stream-of-consciousness post about my experience here. If I…

Lovely, lovely autumn – darker nights, colder mornings, and bright, low sunshine – if you’re lucky. Alternatively, it’s grey skies and wet puddles everywhere! Any sane person would hate the…

Sometimes there’s nothing better than relaxing with friends – or alone! – over your drink of choice, and it’s no secret that as students we quickly scope out the best…

Córdoba is a city that featured on my bucket list post, although at the time I wasn’t really aware of what the city had to offer – I think I…

In August 2022 I had the great honour of joining the 14,000-strong team of volunteers at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The opportunity first came to my attention through, of…

One of the most commonly advertised aspects of Swedish life is that of fika, a term thrown around as frequently as “hello” (or should I say hej). It refers, simply,…

Ages ago (literally ages) Bill Fonda challenged me to write a blog post about what my first weekend after lockdown would look like. The concept has been passed from blogger…

“Do you want to watch the meteor shower with me tomorrow night?” My friend asks me. In other news, romance is not dead folks. A few years ago we had…

A career as a lawyer, a fascination with history and many, many travel experiences all come together to make Julianne from Pints, Pounds and Paté a brilliant writer and a…

The awesome Bill Fonda from A Silly Place recently wrote this post answering 30 questions and nominating a few other bloggers to do the same. I loved the idea immediately…