Northeast Adventure | November 2016
This video pulls together the whole Northeastern road trip from November 2016. Somehow I didn’t have a lot of clips, but it worked out and kept the video short. Love this cover of John Lennon’s Oh My...
View ArticleMiami Beach, FL | March 2017
I realize that my mainly home decor blog has turned into mainly travel blog, but we can’t predict our life and thus I’m seizing the opportunity to travel while it is here. How the trip came about? My...
View ArticleMiami Beach – Food & Entertainment
Majority of our trip consisted of eating and burning in the sun on the beach. Isn’t that’s how a proper vacation supposed to go? My favorite thing about Miami Beach food scene was that there were not...
View ArticleMiami Beach Clip
A quick clip from Miami Beach trip. Miami Beach, Royal Palm South Beach Hotel: http://www.redbarberry.com/miami-beach-fl-march-2017/ Miami Beach – Food & Entertainment:...
View ArticleCheesy Baked Fries
A quick recipe for baked fries. I am not sure if this is healthier than regular fries, probably not in terms of calories, but at least you can control the salt and oil intake. These can be served as a...
View ArticleYale (Take 2) + Gilmore Girls?
Earlier this month I got another chance to go back to New Haven for a Yale visit. Dmitry was a bit unimpressed with my first attempt to write about Yale, which turned more into a blog post about...
View ArticlePrinceton Ivy League
At this point we had visited 4 Ivies- Yale, Harvard, Brown, and Columbia, so it was only natural to make a pit stop at Princeton during our last trip to the Northeast to make it 5 Ivies. Princeton is...
View ArticleNew Milford, CT
As promised two months ago in my Princeton Ivy League blog post, I have a bit of a surprise for Gilmore Girls fans; and yes, it does involve a gazebo. More specifically, while on the last trip to New...
View ArticleGermany in May: Munich (München)
In May I got a perfectly good reason to travel abroad – one of my best friends from high school, who now lives in Germany, was getting married! I was over the moon happy when I received an invitation...
View ArticleGermany in May: Berlin
After Munich, my journey took me to Berlin. I would have loved to take the train to Nuremberg and then Dresden, but time was limited. Besides, my amazing cousin, whom I have only seen once in the past...
View ArticleGermany in May: Hamburg
Let me just start out by saying that Hamburg is extremely underrated. When people think Germany, I usually hear about Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt. But the minute we stepped out from the train onto...
View ArticleGermany in May: Flensburg and Glücksburg
Finally, the real reason I came to Germany, was to see my friend say, “I do!” Or whatever the German equivalent is… Ya! The train ride from Hamburg to Flensburg was uneventful, there were plenty of...
View ArticleGermany in May
As tradition has it, a quick clip to summarize the trip. I have no idea what the rap says, hopefully it’s nothing too offensive. 😂 Munich: http://www.redbarberry.com/germany-in-may-munich-munchen/...
View ArticleColombia: Bogota
After Germany, my life took me on another journey, now for work and down to South America. I’ve been to Mexico, but this was my first time visiting South America. It was a group trip and most of our...
View ArticleColombia: Medellin & Santa Fe
From Bogotá our group flew directly to Medellin; or rather to Rionegro, a small town about 45 minutes away. Medellin, once dubbed “the most dangerous city in the world,” was a lot of things, poor,...
View ArticleColombia: Cartagena
After Medellin, our last few days were spent in Cartagena. Cartagena was different from both — Bogota and Medellin. The warmest city of the three with cruise ship unloading passengers after passengers,...
View ArticleColombia: Palenque
Palenque On the second afternoon in Cartagena our group headed to Palenque. Palenque is a village about an hour from Cartagena. Cartagena served as the main slavery port for the Spaniards for many...
View ArticleColombia: Vlog
Colombia Blogs: Colombia: Bogota Colombia: Medellin & Santa Fe Colombia: Cartagena Colombia: Palenque
View ArticleKitchen Update
One day in July I set down at my dining table to study with the direct view into the kitchen. All I could focus on was the red wall color, which has bothered me for almost four years. We have not...
View ArticleGluten Free Crumpets
A friend from England told me about crumpets. Initially amused by the name, I was looking at recipes online and realized that these are just like the oladushki my mom made in Ukraine when I was little....
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