Despite some preconceived notions, Europe is not a monolithic culture (much like the continent where you live isn’t one either), so tipping customs may vary from one country to another. Nonetheless, there are a few things you can do to try and sort it out.
Mary Pearson is a photographer and a doctoral researcher in photography researching the interconnections between lines, borders, memory and place; she has a distinctive approach that combines evocations of grief, identity, and liminal spaces. She has accepted to share her work on Fagradalsfjall (Iceland) with us and to answer a couple of questions.
The Question Book: What Makes You Tick? (2012) by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler is exactly what you'd expect from its title; it is a series of provocative questions that explore who you really are, how you see the world, and how others see you. And then there are sillier chapters, like Pick Your Three. I thought it would be fun to share the questions and my answers with you like it's 2003 MySpace all over again.
We live in what is usually—and somewhat inelegantly—referred to as a “cul-de-sac”. It is a dead-end street, a blind alley; an impasse of sorts. Those are funny words when you consider them. The place is either the bag’s ass, the street where even the end is bereft of life, where nothing can be seen, or a predicament without any solution. Everything is locked at a standstill.
When I last wrote, I told you about the reception room for the wedding, and it is with great pleasure that I can now confirm that we have booked it.…
Sometimes I feel that I might be a bit unlucky when it comes to technology. I'm typically the girl whose computer displays the blue screen of death without warning the day before handing in a big assignment, the one whose USB stick mysteriously doesn't show any document when plugging it into the conference hall computer before a big presentation, and definitely the one whose phone will stop uploading pictures to the cloud for no reason at all. If there is a one-in-a-million chance for a critical error to happen to anyone, then you can be sure that it has happened to me. Twice.
Former capital of the Counts of Hainaut, chief town of the province and European Capital of Culture 2015, Mons is a charming little town that is well worth a weekend…
Former capital of the Counts of Hainaut, chief town of the province and European Capital of Culture 2015, Mons is a charming little town that is well worth a weekend…
Former capital of the Counts of Hainaut, chief town of the province and European Capital of Culture 2015, Mons is a charming little town that is well worth a weekend trip. As a resident of Mons, I had to share my tips for a nice weekend in our region with you. Am I being objective? Probably not. But have seventeen years in Mons taught me a thing or two? Absolutely.
The day started with an email from the owner of the venue we'd picked for our wedding party laconically informing me that he had to postpone tonight's meeting to an…