I had a female friend who was assaulted in Fez - but anecdotes aren’t data. I’d still go, but maybe stick to dress code a little more than is expected of westerners.

You need the budget in Finland and Iceland just to eat. I bought a craft beer in Norway and thought I was paying for all three of us at first.

On an expansive budget, I’d slouch my way through South America for a couple weeks, winding my way around to see the rainforest, the Amazon, Brazilian beaches, the salt plains, the Andes and the telescope array, Patagonia, the Sisters, all the way down to the point (and then hop a boat to Antarctica just to say I’d…

“So you learn to live with the creature; to make peace with it. You learn to respect it and to make room for it so that it will not consume you. You understand that sometimes it changes, and sometimes you do, and that what once worked in the past may need to be tweaked or scrapped. You co-exist with it and you both…

Assassin’s Apprentice is in my top five favorite fantasy books EVER, but I’ve read almost all the books in that world, and each trilogy progressively becomes more of a slog to get through.

I am a retail manager, so I can shift my two days off a week however I need them. There aren’t a whole lot of perks to my job, but that is definitely one of them.

Is that average fare for economy? It is SO easy to find sub-$700 airfare and even under $400 from the US to Europe, and while my research has mostly been from the East Coast, I’ve seen $500ish fares out of the middle and southwest, too. I am a midweek traveler too, but decent fares on weekends aren’t impossible to…

Don’t forget the merchant prince.

But you’re not wrong.

I have wide-set, decently-sized but shallow boobs. Balconettes are my jam, but because I’m a 40C, they’re hard to find in everyday wear styles, because anyone over a 36B apparently requires NASA levels of scaffolding.

Seconding travel insurance - both trip and medical. A $2200 hospital bill and $1600 one-way flight home convinced me to spend the extra $50 or so on insurance when I’m overseas. (It was nothing serious, and honestly, the whole thing probably cost half of what it would have WITH insurance if the same thing had happened…

Did not see the preview, and the episode was ... dark.

She styled herself “Mother of Dragons” - it’s not that she didn’t lose it for Jorah, it’s that she showed no emotion for the dragons.

So much anxiety for the middle hour! And then...

This. It’s very good *as a model*, but it is not lifelike - I did the “something isn’t right” squint at the photo in the sidebar before I noticed the title. There is no spark of life in her face whatsoever.

You win.

Liberté used to make a plum and walnut yogurt that was frickin DIVINE. I would go hours out of my way to the one store that carried it. I was so sad when they discontinued it. The lemon is still pretty tasty, though. And I love Brown Cow. Wallaby used to make a pear yogurt that was also delicious with tart little pear…

In 2007, I was eating frozen potato slides that I’d heated up in the toaster oven, and had already eaten three or four, when an intruder kicked in my door. The general consensus was that he was looking for the pot dealer on my floor and got the wrong apartment, but when all was said and done and the intruder was gone…

Downside of AZO: my doctor said he normally can tell just by glancing at the pee cup if there’s an infection, but the AZO discoloration meant he needed to take a culture to confirm - but he also trusted me to know my symptoms and just wrote me a script.

The first time I had sex, I didn’t know about this, and I got my first ever UTI. I didn’t get another for twenty years until one guy who apparently had some souped up Norwegian bacteria that was unaffected by the post-coital pee, and two days later I woke up in the middle of the night going “Something doesn’t feel…

I’m seein’ Edward VIII, who was his .... great-great uncle, I think?