Being self-employed is a tricky matter- sometimes it is even difficult to determine if you even are self-employed. Then there are all the other questions that come with it: what about incorporation? How do you manage billing clients? How do you promote yourself? What kind of hours should youwork? Where do you even find work? …
A few weeks ago I joined other bloggers at Dirty Martini to create Rainbow Club shoes that our alter egos would rock out on the town. If you’ve never heard about Rainbow Club shoes, let me tell you: coolest thing since sliced bread. You can select any style they offer and dye them any color …
I would not consider myself the quintessential foodie, especially when compared to some of my other friends here in London. However, just about every week I do try to find someone to drag along to a new restaurant, and luckily there are plenty of choices. One that’s been on my “to do” list for ages …
If you’ve been following the blog for a while you know that I started this ol’ thang because I lived in Paris for a few months before moving to London in 2011. I wrote every once and a while about my impressions of the City of Light and the many people that inhabit it, including …
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 …
I love touristing in my own city- Rai’s showing me around in Rio quickly turned me on to the many merits of being a tourist at home. One of the many places I have yet to go in London is Greenwich. Although I failed to really understand the concept of the prime meridian (!!!) until …
To cheer me up from various and sundry things going wacky, I decided to take a little weekend minibreak. I didn’t want to spend too much money, so I decided to venture closer to home, stopping in Bath after a day trip to Bristol. Despite being grey and cloudy, it was the perfect antidote to …
After weeks of traveling, unpacking, catching up with friends and getting into the swing of things, I lost something really important to me that really stopped me in my tracks. I tend to focus on all the positive stuff in my life on the blog because…well, what’s the point in dwelling on bad things? The …
Going to Grenada was one of those other-worldly experiences where I felt a lump in my throat the entire time. I guess I’m kind of emotional when it comes to seeing places I’ve dreamed about my entire life. (You can take the girl out of America, but you can’t take the drama queen American out …
I didn’t forget that I promised you the best of food and flamenco when I wrote about my adventures in Sevilla a few days ago. As I mentioned, all I wanted from a Spanish trip was good food, good wine and a little bit o’ sunshine. The latter being fulfilled, I was intent on using …