A Guide for Beginner Bookclubers – find unusual book clubs to suit modern readers
Say book club and you get a mental picture of a bunch of suburban house wives sitting round, sipping pinot noir and gossiping over the latest top 10 novel but with Mark Zuckerberg a year of books club launching this year with over 466 205 followers on Facebook, book clubs have definitely been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Nowadays book clubs can be found on any subject and any conceivable form so there is no excuse not to get your read on. With book clu
Why Do I Suddenly Want To Go Home? – 13 Ways To Beat Homesickness While Travelling
So you’ve have been looking forward to this trip forever, you’ve done all the research, quit your job and headed off for a life of carefree adventure. The first week was awesome, you explored all over but from the moment you woke up on week two you ‘kinda sorta’ just wished you were back home. Don’t fret this is totally normal especially if this is your first big trip away, you have just entered phase two of travel adaption. Don’t give up, this phase will pass and you will be
Cairo Through The Windows Of The Women’s Carriage
My life in Cairo is remembered in sights, sounds and smells but mostly in the deep Arab emotion that soaks daily life like a syrup, the emotion that is ruled by an ornate network of social customs. Of all the experiences I had during my time in Egypt, the Cairo Metro was one of the few peeks into the life behind the headscarf, into the intricate and intimate world of Egyptian womanhood. Cairo is a city of contradictions, balanced perilously between the new and old. It stands
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