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Of all the ways to cook eggs, hard-boiled eggs are my least favorite.
Recently a new fear has been unlocked - accidentally buying a pack of already hard-boiled eggs. Yes, they are sold in Mercadona. And yes, they clearly say "cooked" in large print in two languages.
Today I bought a gym membership, after which some guy bought me churros at a cafe. Very mixed signals from the universe.
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Found glitch in Madrid transportation system: 10 metro rides cost 6 euros.
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Friends, I'll be honest with you, I'm afraid of hairdressers because I cry terribly and hate myself after each visit. I haven't had my hair cut for 2 years and for the last year I've been dyeing my hair myself (remember that horrible bleaching?).
But during the surgery my hair was very damaged and I couldn't restore it, so I decided to do this thing called enzyme therapy. It ended up costing a lot because my hair is long. And it ends up looking really bad :(
I also found a wig store near my house and they even had fake moustaches I'm considering to buy.
Why do we women have to suffer all this.
My face when it is photographed on a brick after I photographed a person with an iPhone.
In short: my phone broke just before the surgery and I bought another one, and now everything is even worse than before.
To whom who received iPhones as gifts, recommend me courses.
Usually at the end of the year I sum up my book and travel experiences. But this year was very poor in terms of books, apart from Harry Potter, I can only recommend Irvine Welsh's ‘The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins’.
As for travel - also not much because of job search and surgery. This year I visited the following places (italics – visited not the first time):
Spain: Barcelona, Figueres, Girona, Besalu, Baniolas, Sitges, Tarragona, Malaga, Torremolinos, Ardales (Caminito del Rey), Ronda, Setenil-de-las-Bodegas, Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada.
Gibraltar: Gibraltar
France: Marselle, Arles, Sent-Mari-de-la-Mer, Montpellier, Nimes, Avignon, Gord, Roussilion, Paris
Luxembourg: Luxembourg-city, Larochette, Bofor, Viaden
Belgium: Brussel, Gent, Brugge
Ukraine: Kyiv, Lviv
Poland: Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow, Przemysl, Zakopane, Tatra National Park
Israel: Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Eilat, Arad, Ashkelon, Ein-Bokek, various national parks including Dead Sea.
Autumn is the season when you can't decide what you want more - good coffee or pumpkin latte.
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Sometimes the day is just unbearably bad. That was my day yesterday.
1. My food was stolen at the guesthouse.
2. My train was an hour late.
3. My train neighbor was coughing badly the whole way.
4. I skinned my finger.
5. My phone charger broke.
6. My perfume burst and spilled in my suitcase.
7. Scammers tried to withdraw money from my card at night.
8. I started to feel sick, my lymph nodes are swollen and red.
In general, a very high concentration of unpleasant events. Does it happen to you that your whole day goes wrong? How do you cope?
Last night, two new things happened to me:
1. I visited Cyprus for the first time and
2. I did my first self transfer.
But first things first. My flight to Poland was cancelled and European airlines stopped flying to Tel Aviv. The only option was to fly anywhere with an Israeli airline and then see what happens. Buying tickets on the Israeli airlines website is quite an adventure. One company has a website only in Hebrew. Another has an English version with limited functionality, for example, you can’t buy luggage on the English version. Don’t forget that everything is from right to left. In general, after suffering, I bought a ticket to Cyprus, Paphos, and from there, 7 hours later, Ryanair to Warsaw.
When it seems that you can no longer be shocked by the news, being shocked reaches a new level.
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For a long time I didn’t understand why when in a cafe I say “I want tea” in Spanish, they look at me with such a surprise.
But the fact is that “quiero te” means both “I want tea” and “I want you.” That is, my usual dialogue in cafe looks like this:
- "What do you want?"
- "I want you".
- "What?!"
- "You".
Moved to Madrid for 2 months. If the location where Madrid is about to end and the forest is about to begin can still be called Madrid.
In permanent shock from the news. Some strange scenario where two super-villains united and we are going to hell.
How do you guys feel about electric candles? I think it's not the same #oldbeliever
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Maybe this theme is popular but I see it mostly in Spain - versions of popular mass market stores for men.
I think it's great. Finally a place where men can be fashionable, pose, take pictures, not pretend to be toxic masculine and not be afraid to be themselves.
Sitting in a cafe. A very handsome man comes in.
Me: "Oh, what a handsome man!"
A little later his children run up.
A little later his male partner comes up.
Standing in line at passport control.
First thought: oh, russians will now have to quarantine for 3 months to enter the EU, good.
And then I noticed that its talking about pets.
My host gave me the key to the basement of the house where the bomb shelter was set up and now for the first time I'm seriously thinking about how lazy I am to go down there.
Marry Christmas to those who are so delusional to believe in some good guy on heaven.
1000 days of war.
I am spending this winter in Lviv because of the surgery. I plan to be here until January 11 and I am already anticipating the hardness of life.
I have not seen winter for the last couple of years. After the evacuation from Ukraine in 2022. My winter of 2022-23 was spent in the south of Turkey. 2023-24 was spent in Spain. I do not have winter clothes, but fortunately we have a lot of second-hand stores, and here I am in a sweater for a dollar and jeans for 3 dollars.
In general, the situation in Lviv is, of course, the easiest in the country. We rarely have alarms and missiles rarely reach us. In recent days, the electricity has been cut off for 2-3 hours. This is bearable, but I have electric heating and by the end of the shutdown it gets cold. I don’t want to leave the house, but after the operation I am not very active anyway.
Today I went to a cafe. The electricity was cut off in the cafe. 5 seconds and the power supply system of this business center was switched to electric generators. And there is light again. That's how we live.
My dearest members of this channel always see the best photos before they appear on Instagram. But there will be others on Instagram as well, so it's time to subscribe :)
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But of course there are good news as well - I arrived to Lviv and I am living in my favorite Austrian house again. This time in the part with the fireplace.
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That is, I had to go through passport control twice in Cyprus and re-register my luggage myself. And everything would have been fine, but the departure of the first flight was delayed by 3 hours. And the hours waiting for departure from Israel dragged on forever. But in the end, I managed to do everything.
Passport control in Cyprus took 1 minute, the same amount of time to get my luggage. There was no queue at the check-in counter, at the luggage inspection they rushed everyone and didn't seem to pay much attention. Cyprus, I haven't seen you yet, but I like you already:)
And finally I'm in Warsaw.
Would I recommend you to visit Israel? Absolutely not. My entire trip was spent in the mood of "I know a more beautiful/bigger/cheaper/cleaner place in Turkey". Plus the terrible attitude towards the slavic girls from the local population, starting from interrogation with threats upon arrival, ending with digging in underwear upon departure.