Pictures of a Heatwave

Summer in London is an ephemeral creature and it’s made of such stuff as dreams are made of. I am talking about heatwaves. Scattered across the limping British summer, heatwaves are those heavenly days when the temperature finally soars above 25 degrees and everybody loses their s**t! Summer 2016 has seen one big heatwave so far, …

Italian Wedding

Last weekend I went to Italy to attend a friend’s wedding, and I am not talking about any friend’s wedding here but a Best Friend’s Wedding. In fact, I’ve met the bride when we were fourteen, we were starting high school (which is grade I’m-getting-pimples-and-I-hate-the-world in the Kingdom) with our hot pink clothes and our …

Trilingualism: Spanish Lessons with the Police

Sometimes you feel a piercing need for the Mediterranean and you book a low cost flight to Malaga, Spain, to escape the miserable winter. Sometimes you land on Spanish soil looking forward to tapas and sangria. Sometimes you present your flimsy-but-still-valid-to-travel Italian identity card to the custom officer and find out that there’s an anomaly with …