culture
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How to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle in London
Below, you will find the refuse disposal schedule for where we live. There are separate containers for: Paper products, general waste, mixed recycling, yard waste, and food waste. That is five different containers for various types of waste that we need to ensure we use correctly but also that we put out at the right…
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How to Rent in the U.K.
Renting in the U.K. has been a wild ride. It’s not nearly as easy as it is in the U.S. and it isn’t due to us being foreigners, it’s just how things are done. In the U.S. you either go apartment hunting or, if you’re in the market for a house, you find a real…
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How to Eat Like A Brit
I have tried, and failed, at eating like a Brit. Over the past month I have done a field study on the way British people eat. I only did this because before we moved here I was told that Brits use their knife and fork differently. I should have started studying and practicing then, but…
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Which Holidays Are Celebrated in Singapore?
You might want to make sure you’ve gone to the toilet and settled yourself in for a nice, long read because this one spiraled out of control. This post has been in the works for a long time and the more I worked on it, and the longer it took to write, the more I…
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Concerts in Singapore
I am going to say this in the politest way I can conceivably think of: Live concerts in Singapore are weird. Now, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt because I’ve only been to one concert since living here. But, the one concert I went to was Red Hot Chili Peppers and they aren’t…
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Just How Safe is Singapore?
This is more of a social commentary on the two worlds I currently know: The United States and Singapore. It also may, or may not, go off on a tangent but bear with me. Having just moved from the U.S., where we are a young, immature society slowly coming to grips with our past, I…
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Traveling to Thailand, Part II
Moving on, taking advantage of this sweet writer’s high, let’s talk about our third day in Bangkok. We were near to the Grand Palace and for whatever reason, I felt very strongly that we must go. We grabbed a tuk-tuk, which was by far the girls’ favorite Bangkok experience (aside from all of the street…
The Traveling Tepaskes 