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Sheffield’s very own Cat Café, Tabby Teas offers a sanctuary to both cats and humans alike. Born through a love for animals and a passion for rescues, Tabby Teas teamed up with local charities Mill House Animal Sanctuary and Pet Samaritans to find a special group of 11 permanent residents. Tabby Teas aims to put its cats first, as their welfare is a top priority, after all we are the ones visiting their home. This means that the staff try to ensure that there is a constant c

The British love coffee, almost more than the Americans do. We love it so much that we get through over 2.3billion* cups of the stuff via any one of the 22,845* coffee outlets that are now helping us through our days. Taking up 54%* of the outlet share the leading chain coffee shops are expanding at an increasingly alarming rate. With that rise it now seems like you can’t walk down a street without seeing the ground littered with at least one branded coffee cup and although t

Winner of Timeout London’s “Love London” award for two years running, Bear + Wolf is a slice of Kentish Town excellence bursting with mouth-watering dishes that will leave you wanting more. Not only do B+W offer the most delightful open top sandwiches, but they serve some of the finest coffee available in Kentish Town. If you like the sound of halloumi, salmon or tofu paired with perfectly served eggs with fresh-cut avocado bringing together the flavours then B+W might possib

Part one of this adventure can be found here. Now you might imagine a night in the desert to be filled with all sort of creepy insects but in matter of fact we hardly came across any wildlife. The most we probably saw was a couple of cats, one called “Shakira”, and a dog that mostly kept himself to himself. I did however wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of something moving around on what sounded like the top of our tent, so somehow managing to put my mind at ea

Capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , Luxembourg City lies in the very heart of Western Europe. Ranked in the top 20 of the Mercer Quality of Living index primarily for its personal safety record and quality of life, Luxembourg offers the perfect short city naturalistic escape. The city centre occupies a picturesque site on a salient, perched high on precipitous cliffs that drop into the narrow valleys of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers, whose confluence is in City. Its

Tucked away within the heart of Leigh-On-Seas Broadway area, Barlow and Fields offers the perfect sun trap to escape reality with the comfort of homemade food while sipping on a freshly brewed cup. Its walls are plastered with local artistic prints, with bench like seating surrounding a centred wall that in its own right becomes the art exhibition place for these fantastic local pieces. Barlow and Fields serves good quality coffee, and I believe they are the only artisan coff

I love nothing more than finding a coffee place that excites me. Etno Café is rapidly expanding in Wrocław and further afield across Poland offering everything you would want from a coffee-house. It has the quirky new era minimalistic interior, the selection of coffee brewing methods to suit your needs and of course the perfect lunch or snack all freshly made within store. The first time I came across Etno was a chance encounter with  its smaller kiosk store location at Pl. T

Till next time Wrocław If you’ve been following my posts over the past week you would have now already guessed that I’m obsessed with a good cup of coffee. So you can imagine to my delight that our morning was to be started with me and Filip taking his nan and sister to our favourite coffee spot, Etno Café. With us all bundled up protected from the cold, we snaked our way through the city centre on one of the many blue trams that often line the streets. Then in the presence o

Polanica-Zdrój was todays destination, 55miles south-west of Wroclaw, Kłodzko County – Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Our friend, Martyna is currently on an athletics camp training for the upcoming nationals, her parents who also have friends near by to Polanica kindly offered to take us there for the day so we could spend time with Martyna before we head back to England on Tuesday morning. The drive towards Polanica brought us many green views of the polish countryside, passing

Mid-morning I woke up to be spoiled by yet another delightful breakfast prepared by Filip. Fresh fruit, seeds and jam combined on top of Kasza Manna – a form of milled wheat with a soft and sticky texture. After breakfast we headed towards ‘Nadodrze’ – adistrict of Wroclaw on its northern edge. Escaping the majority of major destruction during the war its architectural character largely remains untouched. Its cobbled streets lined with nineteenth and twentieth-century buildi

Not getting back from Krakow until 01:30AM we took the opportunity to have a lazy morning. After a spot of breakfast we stepped out into the cold air, catching a bus then tram into Wroclaw city centre. The transport system in and around Wroclaw is, from my experiences, widely reliable, with simple connections made easy with electronic signage throughout the city informing you of the next tram/bus times. The transport system alone gives Wroclaw a very tourist friendly environm

An early rise (at least for us) saw us leave the apartment and head for the Jewish Quarter of Krakow, ‘Kazimierz’. Only a short walk from the Main Square, Kazimierz was a place of coexistence and interpenetration of ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures for many centuries, its north-eastern part of the district was historically Jewish, whose inhabitants were forcibly relocated in 1941 by the German occupying forces into the Krakow ghetto. The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major,

Waking up to breakfast, already made for me, fulfilled my sleep and food ambitions within moments of waking up. The smell of fresh coffee with the heat from the open fire gently welcoming me as I sat to the table to eat the eggs prepared by Filip. Accompanying our breakfast this morning were two freshly made Valentines cupcakes that Babcia (Polish for Grandma, in this case Filip’s Grandma) had bought for us on her morning errands. Once we had eaten and showered we headed off