Moving on...

Have become quite frustrated with blogger of late, and so I'm 'shutting up shop' here and moving to pastures new. Come and visit me at shumasays for random my posts ;)

some days...

don't you wish you could just disappear...

4 days, 3 nights

Stuck in the office with mountains of paper work, but happily distracting myself with memories of my visit to Berlin.

Day 1

- Walked from hotel to the alexanderplatz area

- Lunch at an Italian restaurant

- Visited the DDR museum

- H&M shopping and bought myself a mustard top

- Return to hotel and rest (watched a couple of films)

- Picked up tickets for 7 Khoon Maaf

- Dinner at Cafe mohring

- Fabisch Bar and tried Berliner Weisser for the first time

Day 2

- Hackescher Markt

- Visited Berlin’s main Synagogue

- Techeles - graffiti place

- Brandenburg gate

- Reichstag from the outside

- Cappuccino and cheesecake

- 7 Khoon Maaf - Berlin International Film Festival

- St oberholtz for some chill time

- Ronsenburger - hotdog and fries

- Hotel for relaxation and films

- Monsieur Vuong – Vietnamese dinner

- Drinks at Fabisch Bar

- talked and welcomed birthday till 2 am

Day 3 (my birthday)

- East side wall gallery

- Checkpoint Charlie

- Cappuccino and himbertraum - raspberry dream

- Main train station and pretzel

- Holocaust memorial

- Presbleger platz

- Anna Blume for tea and cheesecake

- rest and relax at the hotel

- Monsieur Vuong for dinner

- Presecco at Sankt Oberholz

Day 4

- Breakfast

- walk to Alexander platz

- U-Bahn to magadalenestrasse

- Stasi museum

- Biscuits and chocolate from Leiffege

- U-Bahn back to Alexander platz

- walk to Hackescher Markt

- Window shopping

- Lunch at Fabisch

- Latte macchiato at Sankt Oberholz

- Taxi to airport

it's music monday

this week's #MusicMonday choice is There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths - which i like despite the depressing lyrics ;)

Yesterday's music Monday recommendation

My music monday for you all this week is http://bit.ly/fLRpAy . It makes me want to dance till the early hours of the morning and I'm sure you will be doing the same :)

Another year, another birthday

…and another city visited….spent a very sedate and cultured weekend in Berlin. Is it not funny that you can meet a person very randomly or through mutual friends; and than agree to meet in a random city not knowing whether you will actually get on with them without the other friends being around and find you have so much common. Human behaviour never seems to stop amazing me. I’ll be posting photos from my trip soon, for now enjoy this photo of a slice of my favourite cheesecake in the world ;)

music monday...oops

I've been going to the gym religiously recently, and so came home last night; and warmed up dinner, watched Glee and then went straight to bed and forgot to post my music monday recommendation - oops.

My music choice for this week is by a band called Horse In the Sea (who I came across by chance - i know it happens frequently to me) and really like their song Can't talk to girls. You can hear the song at http://horseinthesea.bandcamp.com/track/cant-talk-to-girls

Have a good week.

music monday

My music monday choice would have to be Moulinette by Anna Calvi, she has such a powerful voice and it’s hard not be drawn in. I could have her album on a loop. I tried to get tickets to see her at Bush Hall, but such is my luck they were all sold out....

Music Mondays

I have recently started to recommend a song/band on twitter every Mondays, and so in a bid to blog more often, I'm going to do the same here too.

Today's recommendation is a band called Faded Paper Figures, who sound a little like Death Cab for Cutie, Vampire Weekend and the Postal Service, which isn't a bad a thing.

Check out their video for The Persuaded

Lunch time discoveries...

The weather seems to be improving day by day, which is a good enough incentive to venture out for walk at lunch time. At the end of last year, I changed jobs which equals exciting new challenges, but also the chance to discover another part of London. Watch out for photos from Fitzrovia, Camden and Regent's park.

Making the most of the sun

Scandinavian Kitchen a great discovery on Great Titchfield Street - super service and food

Happy New Year | 2011

Here's to another adventure filled year....