Philadelphia is the town I could write about for hours. I really enjoyed this place. We spent there four nice sunny days and I don’t regret it. Well, there were two my ideas we could avoid, otherwise everything was great. First, I didn’t listen to my brother and I chose the hotel where we stayed. It was fine, the room wasn’t too big and continental breakfast turned to bagels and cereals, but the interesting thing about it was a room window, which was oriented to the interior of the hotel.

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I went for three days business trip to London. It was really nice, sunny and quite warm weather, but I relished that only during the evenings because I spent whole days inside talking on exhibition. I have never gone by London underground before, so I was little bit curious about it. I started at Euston with the aim to go to the Excel exhibition centre, thus I spent under ground almost one hour.

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Well, it sounds like from fairytale, but I talked to real prince :)Prince Andrew, the Duke of York visited our Digital Lab to see what researchers are developing. He was very nice and smiling all the time. He watched all the prepared demos and listened to individual researchers. I helped to my supervisor to set up everything for demonstration and I stayed with him as crowd and support with no aim to speak about anything.

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Finally, after a long time of promising, we visited Miško and Ivka in faraway America. We set off at four in the morning, so we could catch a flight from Vienna ( I’m really thankful that I have so great parents, that they got up so early and gave us a lift there). We flew with a very small planeto Dusseldorf, where we had a famous pretzel, coffee and I bought a big package of Haribogummibears.

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As an Ikea family member, I’ve received an email about the kitchen seminar with free breakfast provided. I was wondering if I could learn something new, what would be useful for designing of our future kitchen, so I decided to apply for it. The seminar was on Sunday morning. The Ikea was closed, there were no customers at that time. There were just couple of people standing outside, waiting for one guy who opened the door for us.

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I have already lived in for one and half year and I haven’t written anything about it yet. Well, I decided to write more about how it is to live in this country. First I need to say that it’s quite nice evergreen country with temperature around 15 degrees almost all the year. What is really fascinating, the weather can be changed several times over the one day. I have one warning for summer lovers; you shouldn’t come here :) But it will be a paradise for those who desperately love raining and clouds.

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My husband is not really very enthusiast for cakes eating and it’s sometimes very difficult to bake a good cake for him. Once we were skiing at Snow Paradise Velka Raca in Slovakia. It was lovely day, not too many people around and we were pretty tired and hungry, so we decided to sit down in one of the local buffet. We bought sausages with bread, tea and coffe and then we noticed cute baked “parcels” sprinkled with ice sugar.

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I love white winter especially white Christmas :) , but I couldn’t see any snow even at home last year. The winter in UK is usually quite mild with around 5 degrees above zero and it’s raining all the time. So I basically said bye to snow, when I traveled back to England after the Christmas time. At that time I didn’t know that I would have one week like in paradise.

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Well, I promised to give some recipes to several people, so I’ve decided that it’ll be much easier to have a special category in blogs just for that :)The first one is more about baking than cooking, but I’m sure you’ll love it specially with coffee or hot chocolate for breakfast. The original name is bábovka and it is kind of sponge cake. It is usually baked in a round form with a hole in the centre, so the cake has a nice shape and it’s easy to slice it.

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After one week of living in this hotel we can recommend it :). It’s built in the rock so every room is turned towards the ocean. The funny thing was that they counted floors from zero to minus ten. Good advice is to not live lower than minus eight floor because these rooms are without the balcony and you can see trees right in front of your windows instead of the ocean.

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