King Cake – For Real This Time!

A few of you may remember in September last year I posted about the tradition involving King Cake.  It’s a cake that is eaten on Epiphany, which is the 6th of January (so obviously is usually a Christian tradition – although I’m not necessarily religious, I just like cake).  A figurine is hidden inside the [...]

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Last Lecture

I won’t be graduating until June, but because of the way my course works my last lecture is tomorrow morning.  Next semester I’ll be going on an exchange to France (more about that later though), so with the exception of exams in January and a week of presentations in May, this week is essentially my [...]

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Bath Christmas Market

This time last year I was traipsing through the Christmas market in Liège – this year it was the Christmas market in Bath.  After the Belgian take on Christmas markets (I also went to one in Brugges and one in Brussels) I have to say the one in Bath was a little disappointing.  To start [...]

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What Next?

In Bath there’s a great bookshop called Topping and Company in a part of town called the Paragon.  It’s slightly outside of the centre of town and so not a bookshop that I tend to walk past very often.  Monday happened to be one of those days when I do walk past it however and [...]

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Pigging Out

Yesterday and today Bath has been saying farewell to its pigs.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Over the last few months (to be honest I don’t know how long exactly they’ve been around), 105 reinforced fibreglass pigs, decorated by local artists sponsored by businesses in Bath, have been on display in the streets around the [...]

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