They look terrible on me too - I have a wide ribcage and my boobs sit further apart than average, and a very long waist that isn’t much smaller than my hips, so wrap dresses just look absurd. On the very rare occasion I can find a dress that’s flattering, it’s usually slightly A-line that doesn’t nip in too much at…

I loathe all things crustacean and I still have to unbutton my pants and get someone to roll me down the sidewalk whenever I visit New Orleans (but not on Bourbon because those sidewalks are NASTY) because I will chow my way through the city like the world’s about to end. I fantasize about having a sugar daddy who’ll…

When Jon and Dany hopped on for their little magic ride, that’s what I thought they were going to do - zoom south for a few hours and convince the dragons to chow down somewhere less frozen.

I have never in my life owned a car. There have been times when it would have been convenient (250mi trip to visit my mother is NOT cheap by plane and needed a ride when evacuating a hurricane), but I have never otherwise needed it.

+1 to taking photos. Saves me the “okay, where does this last screw go” and “which direction does this go in?” annoyances.

Agreed. I use Duolingo to brush up on my German, which I can still read pretty well, but it’s been so long since I’ve used it for anything other than brief chats with tourists that I’ve forgotten most of my grammar. But I found Rosetta Stone a little more effective in learning Dutch from scratch (although speaking…

I bought Diana Gabaldon’s “Outlander” in German whilst in Germany for this exact reason - I’d read it so many times since the late 90s that I knew it like the back of my hand, and I understood enough German already that even if I couldn’t translate a large percentage of the book, I always knew where I was in the story…

A suggestion I want to make from recent experience: if you make a lot of short 24-48 hour flights in and out of the Schengen Zone or anyplace else involving passport control, be prepared to be questioned, because apparently visiting four countries in one week is very suspicious - a red flag for smuggling or something…

Yep - my last flight home from Over Thataways went through Heathrow, and I knew I wanted to load up on Cadbury, and the last time I had a layover there, I had to go through security twice (coming in AND going out), so I gave myself three hours there. And not only did I not have to go through security again, my gate…

Sweden and the Netherlands are both a pain in the ass about credit cards that don’t have PINs, to the point that I had to use my debit card on previous trips when I didn’t really want to because the machines would not accept my credit card without a PIN. This last trip I made sure I had one... and of course nothing…

I use an app called maps.me - same principle. Download the city map you want to your phone, and it relies on GPS rather than wifi or cell phone. It’s not always great at triangulating your *precise* position, which can be a bit of a struggle in certain situations like ... say ... I was on foot going to a club in…

We only ever saw her through Tyrion’s rose-colored glasses, and while I don’t know about show-Shae, book-Shae was really just a whore following the money. She might have had some residual affection for Tyrion, but once the money was gone, so was she. That being said, I think Tywin took her just to twist the knife when…

Wow. I used to ride the DC Metro a lot and if you had food, drink (alcoholic or not!) or a cigarette, SOMEone was gonna call you out for it.

Clear Snapple was our jam at festivals that allowed outdoor food.

Used to be Clif bars, but now it’s Lara bars - the cherry and the apple flavors.

The first time I went to the Netherlands on my own, it was in 2009 - wifi was a thing, but it wasn’t widespread like it is now, and I certainly did not have a smartphone with data (and to this day I still don’t have a phone that works in Europe - CDMA band). So I got a little lost when I got off the tram at the wrong…

I just got back from Finland last week. I love Finland. I love the smartass Finns, I love sauna, I love salmiakki (both the candy and the alcohol), I love the cheese.

TEAM RED. Hookers for lyfe!

Thank you for mentioning Meredith, she was severely underrated as a “one hit wonder,” but that whole album is actually really good. I was a bit older, in college, and it hit a lot of the right spots with where I was in life.

> but mid-Wales is all hills and sheep.