Getting back into the rhythm of things is hard after a week of indulging. I'm pretty sure at one point I smelled like potatoes and gravy, and maybe a bit of Stollen as well. In any case, I'm back in Berlin for now (more like, for the next few hours until going to Poland tonight!) and I need to get back into my groove. That being said, see this little chap...
Paris Paris Paris! This is the chant that runs through my head every morning since I've gotten here, which is a lot healthier than what my subconscious is telling me (last night I had a dream about a crazed lemur, whose brain was swapped with a human lunatic). I've been couchsurfing these past few days and I love it. I could not recommend it enough for...
Hey guys, I'm in Paris right now and it's amazing! The weather is like Spring compared to what I endured in Berlin the weekend before. I guess everything is just perspective isn't it? I've been pretty bad about taking pictures because I'm just kind of enjoying covering as much ground and taking mental images in my head (don't worry, I still took pictures)! I will update you guys more thoroughly. Right now, I'm in transition because I need to move from one flat to another....
Hey guys, how are you today? I've been doing well (although fighting a tiny little bug in the stomach). Berlin is just as cold as ever (with temperatures going down a whopping -11 C on Saturday). I would say luckily I was in Dresden, except that it was quite the Winter Wonderland down there as well (my feet felt like frozen icecube trays!) However, I can...
I'm the type of girl who starts prepping for Christmas as early as I can without being thought a weirdo. I'm talking sucking on candy canes, buying loads of wrapping paper and ribbon, and figuring out what homemade tasties to make and give to friends. I think the whole world is with me on this one. I mean, let's not forget how early the holiday music starts...
To Do List: 1. Go to the German Japan Society 2. Workout in 2 parts 3. Turkish Market 4. Dinner with Oliver at this Vietnamese Restaurant Yum's the Word. Tottles (toodles) everyon...
Not too often do bookstores make you hungry, unless you are either in the cookbook section or you're waiting for a friend that promised burgers on the way home. Well, combine the two, and you get one hungry person whose friend found them in the cookbook section staring at the Book of Burger (a la Rachel Ray). It's a bit strange when you have to explain...
When I told my father I was moving to Germany, he actually laughed and asked me "Are you sure you want to do that? Don't you remember when you were a kid, you cried everytime it got really cold?" Hey dad, I'm not a kid anymore. I'm an adult. I know how to cry on the inside now. It's true, I am weak to the cold. I also just talked to my flatmate,...
I hate to admit it, but I'm a cheater. I joined this game on dietbet.com a little while ago. For people who don't know Diet Bet, it's a website where you put in some money, and your goal is to lose 4% of your body weight in 28 days/4 weeks. If you succeed, you get the money back and then some, depending on how many people win/lose. Sounds a bit sketchy, but it's based on the logic that if you make losing weight a competition, people are bound to be more successful. Here's...
Before coming to Germany, I was not as big into beer. I mean, it's not that I didn't like it, I was just more of a wine girl. Well, let's face it, I still am. There's just something about fermented fruit that gets me. Introducing Porter's Fruity Beers. This happened when Oliver and I went over to Kadewe in hopes of finding him a Pullover, and resulted...
November 22nd was Thanksgiving. Back home in NY, Thanksgiving is a tradition my family and I never miss. It's always just the 5 of us (my mom, dad, brother, sister, and I), in our house. We watch Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the morning, and in the evening, we have a HUGE feast. It's just one of those holidays that even my super Japanese family likes...
I love cookies. But to be totally honest, I've always been more of a cake kinda gal. And not until I started baking again, did I realize just how much fun cookies are to bake. They're small, easy to store, and you can trick your friends into thinking you're really good at this stuff, when you just put in a little of this and some of that into a bowl. I...
Europe definitely changed me. In the 3 months I've been here, I never thought I would take a road trip to Prague with my German School Buddies on a whim, skipping class intentionally (okay, I'm pretty much a studious nerd and refuse to purposefully miss school unless I'm going on a date with Ryan Gosling, or er, my German teacher of 2 months past). I also...
My first official Breakfast (Frühstück) in Berlin. At the time, I didn't understand what a "Frühstück" was. Just that it was good and I was starving and from the very minimal words I understood on the menu (okay, let's face it, I asked the waitress what everything was), it sounded pleasant. Well, if all my breakfasts looked like this and I could have...
You know you've had one of those nights. A night you remember too well even though you shouldn't, because you downed some Vodka and a drink with 4 different kinds of Rum in it, and you washed that down with juice and pudding and wurst. It doesn't happen often (God forbid), but when it does, you just gotta roll with the punches. Or pommes (fries), shall I...
Berlin is an interesting place. The rent's cheap, the food's cheap (well, unless you're looking for some natural Peanut Butter or Baby Spinach . . . and don't get me started on pureed pumpkin), and apart from finding a job being incredibly hard for a good ole American lass like me, it's quite the knock-out place to be. Take this picture (above) for example....
Hey guys, it's Aya! Some of you may know me from my Fashion and Food blog, Stilettos at the Dinner Table. I apologize to all those who were following me there. I stopped updating it a while back, as I was finding it hard to stick to both topics and it was getting a bit random (one post about Karlie Kloss, the next Kimchi?) My new blog, Healthy Appetite, is about my Foodisms: what I ate, where I ate it, tips and tricks on staying healthy, tips and tricks on...
