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.

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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

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

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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

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I leave Prague. I am sad to leave, but am looking forward to seeing my wife. I have trouble getting on the plane because I don't have a Russian visa. They eventually decide it is okay

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I leave Prague tomorrow. I turn off the lights, pull down the blind, and say goodbye to my office. As I take the number 20 tram to Andel for the last time, and then the metro home to

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I get a new computer to replace my Toshiba. The Toshiba is the biggest lemon I have ever had. The new one is a cheap Acer, made cheaper by the fact that in Czech, you can buy a

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Getting ready to leave Prague, I am getting rid of a lot of my stuff. I take a pile of new clothes that I never wear to the donation bin at the Zlicin Tesco, and I make hard

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