Taco Tuesdays are a firm favourite in our house, but sometimes we don’t limit ourselves to tacos once a week! One of our favourite fast casual restaurants in London is Benito’s Hat. This taco restaurant has expanded to several branches in London – a far cry from just a decade ago when Mexican food in
Did you know there’s a famous salad recipe from Alabama? Food of Alabama is actually more varied than barbecue despite the fact that many of the more popular recipes from Alabama do feature the barbecue or deep fryer. A West Indies salad is actually a fast and easy make ahead salad perfect for lunch or
For a small city, there are so many things to do in Huntsville Alabama that will not have any issue in keeping yourself amused. In fact, you may find that you run out of time to do all the myriad fun things to do in Huntsville Alabama. Among the Huntsville Alabama things to do include
Decatur Alabama is nicknamed the River City because the Tennessee River figures large in its existence. For a small city there are plenty of things to do in Decatur Alabama. If you are a history lover, Decatur Alabama history is a snapshot of early American life with the beautiful homes of the Old Decatur Historic
The night of the Earthquake in Kobe 1995, the narrator of the video said she fell asleep next to her sister like she had every night for the last 15 years. She woke up to rumbling in the wee hours of the morning and furniture crashing around the room. Her sister was trapped under debris
I grew up in the USA after the Vietnam War ended but the chill from its shadow was long. Many Americans remembered this war with anger and bitterness for a variety of reasons – veterans who served felt their efforts were not appreciated and civilians who felt the USA should never have been in the
The African Burial Ground in New York City is a national monument operated by the National Park Service in Lower Manhattan. One of the most important black historical sites in New York, the African Burial Ground Museum is also one of the coolest little museums in downtown NYC. The exhibits at the African Burial Ground
When you think of the area of Borough in London nowadays, usually Borough Market springs to mind. Borough Market is an upscale food and drink market near London Bridge that has been in existence one way or another for the last 1000 years. In previous centuries, this area was definitely less pleasant and more dangerous…
The city of Hiroshima in Japan has the sad honour of playing testament to the horrors of a modern warfare. Unlike Bayeux in France which was spared devastation during World War II by the tactical thinking of the British Allied forces, a large chunk of Hiroshima was explicitly flattened by the American military to bring
We are big fans of National Trust properties and luckily live near Fenton House which is a 17th century Merchant’s House in Hampstead. For Christmas, Fenton House London had a very cool exhibit about how the English celebrated Christmas through the ages. The periods shown off in the Fenton House rooms were a tribute to