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Legoland Discovery Centre, Birmingham – Exquisite Experience for All Ages
Picture the scene: it is one day before my Wills and Estates exam. This is the exam where we will be asked multiple choice questions about deceased people with weird names (eg: Gijs - yes he was in the paper) and where their property goes post mortem. I decided that I...
Recipe – Meatball Marinara Pasta
Winter has come. Now is the time to stay indoors with your friends or family and eat heartily until you fall asleep. Of course, if you have neither friends nor family with whom to eat, I'm sure there are plenty of woodland creatures just dying for a warm meal. Invite...
Coffee Tales – Sterling Café Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
I'm always on the lookout for the next delightful cafe. There's only so far the one in the university basement can take you. I adore our in house team but sometimes change is good for the system, or so my liver and lungs tell me. Our final lesson of 2018 had...
War of the Worlds, Alive on Stage 2018 – CS Review
Firstly, I should like to preface this post by stating clearly that there are no words with which I can describe this event. What follows is difficult to express. Never in my years on this Earth have I seen a show so profoundly well executed. WOTW Alive on...
Gosta Green – Lovely Publey Pub, Aston
Now let us get the unpleasant aspects of this, and indeed many pubs around the country, out of the way: the music is unbearable. I live an existence surrounded by the most moving musical triumphs known to man. I'm often so shaken by the beauty of music that I'm...
Mr Brown – Iconic Bar, Trastevere Rome
Ah, Mr Brown! So many excellent and foggy memories stemmed from this bar. The drinks are dangerously cheap, the location is shockingly central. What more could one possibly ask for from a Roman bar? The cocktails are all three euros fifty. The atmosphere is...