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A London day trip by low-cost airline: Crazy, stupid, or great?
27th January 2019

A London day trip by low-cost airline: Crazy, stupid, or great?

You can say what you like about low-cost airlines, but their crazy pricing structure lets you fly around Europe for next to nothing. Does that mean you have to do it? Certainly not. I fly on a low-cost airline regularly. Is a full-service airline is […]

Europe, United Kingdom
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by Anja
31st May 2014

London with La Famiglia – the Basics

So, here’s to my first holiday with children.  Six months ago, I was resolutely single and child-free. then Santa brought me a new boyfriend and three perfect children.  Let’s start this in style, so lets start in London. First, accommodation for a week (the beloved […]

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by Anja

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Hallo! Thank you for stopping by. I'm Anja, a big fan of Truman Capote and fine things, hence the name for this blog. Perhaps I shouldn't have used a demi-monde character (as in the original novel) for a blog name, but it's too late now!

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  • When your flowers match your architecture you know you're onto a good 'un. Visiting madrassah No.3 on the Registan was really hard work after boarding a plane in Moscow at 2am and shivering through a somewhat bouncy flight and arriving somewhere new relying heavily on my repressed school Russian... ⚬ But, the reality is... it's surprisingly easy to travel to Uzbekistan solo and independently. I was blown away by the beauty of Samarkand and Bukhara historical architecture, and wished I'd visited much, much earlier. I have two Uzbekistan posts online, one with practical info on independent solo travel, one with a Samarkand itinerary... with Bukhara coming up. ⚬ #Uzbekistan #Samarkand #Registan #Silkroad #architecture #islamicarchitecture #tillakari #solotravel #soloincentralasia #culturetrip #culturetravel #budgettravel #budgetclassy #travelasia #visituzbekistan #travelgram #instattravel #travelblog #guardiantravelsnaps
  • Last week's homemade Middle Eastern dinner. I bought a bunch of mint and flat leaf parsley from a tiny middle eastern shop in my old town, then processed it accordingly... while I'm pretty familiar with making tabbouleh, making falafel myself was a culinary revelation... no need to drive across Berlin for my favourite falafel. All previous attempts failed (falafel fell apart badly) until I read somewhere to use raw chickpea (soaked for 12 hours) and ta-da! Almost perfect falafel. I use a spoon of flour or oatmeal to bind the dough together. Although I'm not a vegan, I look for more and more dairy and egg free alternatives for my everyday cooking and middle eastern food makes great vegan food. #vegan #veganfood #middleeasternfood #sephardiccooking #falafel #tabbouleh #meatfree #vegetarian #nomeat #cookedfromscratch #instagood #foodstagram #instafood #healthy #healthycooking #cleaneating
  • I have another picture from the Registan to share: this is the view of Tilla-kari, or Gold-covered madrassah seen from the Ulugbek madrassah. Although they're similar in style, the Ulugbek madrassah predates the other two on the square by 200 years, and some say it is the finest building, with finely tuned colours, lots of detail and of high build quality. You see two elements of Islamic architecture, the detailed kufic script in stone and some fine stalactite work, often used to reduce vaults, called muqarna. #Uzbekistan #Samarkand #registan #islamicarchitecture #architecture #instatravel #travelgram #travelgram #travel #travelling #traveltheworld #centralasia #guardiantravelsnaps #natgeotravel #cntraveler #culture #culturetravel
  • Hallo, it's me again, Maitai. Good things come in threes! Nobody knows my real name... my rescuer named me Maite, but my silly staff calls me Maitai, Mighty Maite or blue terror. I'm probably Russian Blue with a few quirks. I am a quiet but feisty girl, and my staff cannot live without me now. I love rolling in the dirt, all kinds of dry food and sitting on the terrace observing both my empire and the food situation #cat #catsofinstagram #adopted #adoptedfromspain #adoptdontshop #cutecat #russianblue #mycat #catstagram #kitty #instacat #adoptdontbuy
  • Cat with no care except where her next meal comes from and whether she gets enough attention... I wish I could be her but the last few days have been a bit taxing... two nights in a row we have heavy thunderstorms so very little sleep and lots of worrying and tomorrow they will defuse two bombs very close by... we're outside the exclusion zone by 100 metres but the supermarket, hospital, access to the house... will all be out of order. She has no clue, and that's good! I can go out to work in the morning but when I get back, I might have to walk a back route along the lake shore. Leia is adopted too, and she's the sweetest, most living cat you can imagine ⚬ #cat #catstagram #adopted #adoptdontshop #cute #cutie #cutecat #siamesemix #mycat #instacat #whiskerwednesday #kitten #neko #gato #home #kitty #KittyEmpire #catsofinstagram #catlover #catsfromspain @adagatsanimales
  • Reading time with cat daddy. Although she's a grumpy girl sometimes, she always looks like she's smiling. It has been a year since we adopted this girl. She was shy at first but we'll socialised. We may never be able to pick her up for more than five seconds, and she still gets really startled at the sound of a plastic bag crinkling or someone coughing, but she loves living with us. I presume she was hastily and irresponsibility bred for sale, then discarded for her imperfections or when she grew up - we don't know because she was found in the street, unchipped, and nobody came for her. Both our Spanish girls are well adjusted, and no big health issues yet. I love pedigree cats and i understand there are many responsible breeders but I couldnt bring myself to get one when there are do many cats in shelters looking for families. I will always adopt and I can only encourage you to adopt if you are looking for a cat. #adoptdontshop #adopted #rescuecat #russianblue #adopedfromesteponakatzen #catsofinstagram #catsofinstagram #catstagram #neko #mycat @esteponakatzen
  • Moskvich sedan car waiting in the Jewish Quarter of Samarkand, on the edge of the sanitised Tashkent Road and Registan. I like seeing them around with their bright course and angular shapes and don't the rear lights look a bit like cat ears? In Eastern Germany, a country known for cars made of plastic, where the wait list for a car was 15years minimum, no one even wanted a Moskvitch because they were thought to be thirsty and unreliable. I still hate to see the "Trabant" (plastic car, slow, dirty smelly two-stroke engine) on our streets today but somehow I have a soft spot for these old Soviet cars even though they were a symbol of socialist planned economy and economic inefficiency and of a political system I was happy to wave off in my late teens.Interstingly enough, after the car company was dissolved in 2006 and it's factory abandoned, the Volkswagen company bought the brand. I wonder if they don't have enough dirty cars on the road already? ⚬ You have love-hate things on travel? ⚬ #travel #Uzbekistan #Samarkand #car #vintagecar #sovietcar #moskvich #blastfromthepast #socialist #oldcar #classiccar #travelasia #visitUzbekistan #centralasia #solotravel #travelgram #instatravel #oldthings #cars
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