What’s better than celebrating your birthday?Celebrating a friend’s birthday! During the first May bank holiday, J, V and I packed our very small, RyanAir-sized bags and hopped over to Berlin for a three-day fun fest in celebration of V’s birthday. Can you see Johanna making a funny face out the window? J and V love …

Last week I decided I was kind of bored. I’d gotten ahead in my work and felt a little stir crazy around the flat. Wondering what to do, I called up an old friend I hadn’t seen in ages…and decided to meet her in her hometown, Hamburg. I booked my ticket through Last Minute (so …