‘So, where do you live?’ Ben’s face sank. He looked incredulously at the jolly, rotund face that was staring back at him, waiting for an answer. Usually, you would expect such a simple, basic question to receive an equally straightforward response. However, not in Ben’s case. His living arrangements were complicated to explain and as […]
Read More →For some, the name Socrates Club will conjure up images of a fan club devoted to a certain Brazilian footballer. For most though, it will give rise to thoughts about one of the world’s most famous philosophers. Indeed, this is the origin of the name (sorry, football fans!) The Socrates club however is not so […]
Read More →Ben surmised the fare before him. The table was well spread with what you might expect for a continental breakfast; bread, butter, sour cream, a sort of runny, fruity, homemade looking jam, a kettle containing boiled water, surrounded by the necessities for making a cup of tea (except of course for the milk!), and the […]
Read More →When hiking on a mountain, it is necessary to have a guide to help you find the right way. One option is to simply following the markings on trees and other objects to help you. Alternatively, a few times during English camps at the mountains in Romania, we had professional mountain guides who came with […]
Read More →Cheese is both a popular and ancient food. Its consumption is worldwide with millions of tonnes being produced annually. Archaeological evidence suggests that it has been made by human beings for thousands of years with resins of milk fat being detected in ancient pottery, suggesting that it was used in cheese production. Over the centuries, […]
Read More →Finding the Right Way When hiking on a mountain, it is necessary to have a guide to help you find the right way. One option is to simply following the markings on trees and other objects to help you. Alternatively, a few times during English camps at the mountains in Romania, we had professional mountain […]
Read More →Italy is well-known for its cheese. Its not the only country though to have an interesting cheese selection. Indeed, their are a number of places with an unheralded cheese tradition. Moldova for example:
Read More →Lecture house was actually a bit much said. It was more like a little room in some Greek immigrants’ home, which they had converted specially for the purposes of being able to offer discourses on a wide range of topics. Romans weren’t really into all this philosophizing; that was more of a Greek thing. That […]
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