The Caffeine Chronicles: Chief Coffee

2021 was the year when I finally made it to one of the two speciality-coffee-and-pinball bars on my to-visit list: Tilt, in Birmingham, which I've since been to several more times, usually on my way to Wolves matches. But it has taken another year for me to get to the other one, Chief Coffee, even though its Chiswick location is a little closer to home.

Ten Favourite Travel Memories from an Expiring Passport

I was sad to bid farewell to my old passport this week — not just because it was an EU one (*sob*) but also because the stamps inside remind me of the many great travel experiences I've enjoyed over the past decade. To highlight some of these wonderful memories, I decided to pick out one photo from each year, and boy was that hard! (I cheated because the header image features an 11th photo. Sorry!) And at the end of the post, you can find more details about my experience of renewing my UK passport during these incredibly hectic times.

My Five Favourite Books of May and June 2022

It's time for the latest installment of my bimonthly series where I pick my favourite five books from among those I've read over the past two months. My tally for May and June was slightly down (mainly because there were a couple in there that — were I less of a completionist — may well have been DNFs), but I still read 17 books. I'm up to 59 at this mid-year point, which means I'm comfortably on track to meeting my goal of reading 100 books by the end of the year.