Another customer who has been watching the whole thing comes to the rescue. "Anything?" she explains to me in English, tracing a circle in the air with her finger.

All of a sudden my wife wants chocolate cake. I walk into a bakery and start looking around. The girl behind the counter asks if she can help. Me: I'm looking for chocolate cake. Girl: Is

But somehow Korea is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. On instant coffee?‌

We are visiting my mother-in-law in Seoul, staying in her apartment in Mok-dong. She throws nothing away, indeed, why should she, and the top of the fridge seems to be an appliance grave-yard. I stand on my tip-toes

"I only have a couple of things." he explains. "I only have a couple of things." I show him.

He says, "Don't worry, Uncle Mark. I'm going to cry my ass off tonight in the hotel room."

I go hiking south of Prague with Dirk, Attila, Mandi, and David. We walk for two hours, have lunch at a small village restaurant run by Michal Karonski, and then walk for another two hours. Attila is whining

This month, the coffee in the office has changed from putting five crowns in a cup every time you have a coffee, to putting a tick by you name on a list stuck on a wall beside the