Scattered Strawberry Summer

Quite Interesting

links

Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps
Free Minimal Planner by Private Girl
French Phrases Hidden in English Words
How to tell if you believe in bullshit
Jenna Marbles: Things I Get Excited About As An Adult
See what life would be like in a different country

Saturday, February 27, 2016
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Music Wednesday

music wednesday

Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe - Cocaine Cat

Trippy

Wednesday, February 03, 2016
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OK, I will admit, this was meant to be "10 things I miss about Lithuania" but it all ended up being food and I will be doing that instead and might eventually come up with a list of non-food things that I miss.

You can find replacement for Lithuanian sour cream- creme fraiche is very good and you can find Polish curd cheese in Sainsbury's but yet there is still so many things that I can't easily buy living in UK that I greatly miss:

Fried rye bread with garlic- a beer snack normally, tastes fantastic on its own- that is if you don't mind garlic and how greasy it is.
Cakes, so many cakes- you can go to any grocery shop and you have a great selection of freshly made cakes. I miss it so much, you can't get anything like that in UK.
Sweets & biscuits- so many varieties!
Curd snacks
Smoked cheese with cumin- I can it the whole thing on its own
Sour Cream Butter- perfect with potatoes
Wild blueberries- shop bought blueberries taste nothing like wild blueberries
White Pizza sauce- in most Pizza places in Lithuania you will be given ketchup and a white/pinkish sauce to go with your pizza. Yes, it's not how Italians eat it but believe me it's delicious. As far as I remember, the white sauce is always made in the restaurant and I am not entirely quite sure what’s in it- mayo, ketchup, garlic yes, but the rest is mystery to me. There are recipes floating around the internet and I ought to try it. I guess it wouldn't go well with an authentic pizza but for your ordinary pizza that you might get from a shop- perfect.
Freshly baked rye bread. There is nothing like it.

And another thing I miss and I will wait till spring to make is saltibarsciai:

Saturday, January 30, 2016
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New flat- sneak peek

flowers

It's been 3 months since we moved into our new flat- cannot believe how quickly the time has passed! There is lots of white and I love it. We bought most of our furniture from Ikea and so far we have been very happy with them. He finally had our blinds installed and it feels very finished but there are few things that still missing- lamps, mirror in a bath and artwork- at the moment the walls are very bare. Nevertheless, it feels very homely and cosy.

Monday, January 25, 2016
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Quite Interesting

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One of my favourite youtube channels right now GradeAUnderA
Play Rock Paper Scissors
Things Bilingual People Do
The Surprising Health Benefits of a Bad Economy
The Ultimate London Bucket List
Beautiful pictures of a photographer's girlfriend that doesn't like to be photographed
Find the Invisible Cow

Saturday, January 09, 2016
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Christmas in Germany

christmas

3rd year in a row I spent Christmas in Germany with my family. on Christmas eve I was hoping to go to Dusseldorf Christmas market but it was already closed, but you can find pictures from last year here. We did some shopping instead, had some gluchwein (mulled wine) and flammkuchen.

The rest of the week spent there I was mostly stuffing myself with food and spending time with family, including my very lovely cousins, the youngest one is only 9 months old.

We spotted this house in a neighbourhood, it looked wonderful.

Back to work tomorrow. It will be a struggle. I have spoiled myself with lots of sleep during my two weeks off and it will be hard to get back to the routine. The only consolation is that so will everyone else.