Destination Europe


Strange Sight #1: Walking by Parc des Princes the other day I saw dozens of riot police in their vans hanging out waiting for the football match that was on to finish. Now that’s not unusual at all, it’s standard procedure for all football matches. What I did find odd was [...]

Step 1: Place a ceramic casserole dish on your vitro-ceramic hotplate.
Step 2: Turn the heat on high.
Step 3: Wait for the casserole dish to explode and a deadly shard of ceramic to slice through a major artery.
Bonus Tip: [...]

I am so addicted to espacemax.com.
A couple of months ago I was walking down Avenue Raymond Poincare (near Trocadero) when I stumbled upon a shop which had security guards at the entrance, preventing certain people (ie. me) from entering. They said it was ‘members only’. Oh really?
As soon as I got home I checked [...]

Tickets for this year’s Roland Garros have been on sale for a while and while all of the centre court tickets sold out quickly, it’s still possible to get tickets for the outside courts. I just ordered tickets for the first Monday (25th May) when 22 men’s and 22 women’s first round matches are being [...]