Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Books
These Tibetan Buddhist prayer books were in the hotel in Darjeeling. We saw them in 2010 when Tamara and I travelled across northern India. We started in New Delhi and made our way vaguely eastwards via Agra, Haridwar and the Kumb Mela, and Varanasi. After two months travelling, we took a train and then a…
From Coffee to Cafe
From coffee to cafe is the story of how the word ‘cafe’ came to be used to mean a place where one could get a light meal. It Starts With Coffee The coffee plant is native to the highlands of Ethiopia, far away from Europe, of course. Over time it began to be grown and…
No Brexit Greeting Cards
No Brexit Greeting Cards from us here at Flying Twigs is a labour of love and pain. We are firmly in the ‘No Brexit’ camp. And this is not primarily because of the economic consequences although they look dire enough. It’s because pulling up the drawbridge will cut us off culturally from Europe – and…