Hot or cold?

Ok, here is something that I have been wondering about ever since I moved to Britain:    
                                     

Why on earth do so many British sinks have dual taps?! I have bored many of my British friends with this question and the answers I received ranged from “That’s a good point” and “They do the job” to “Aren’t [...]

On towels and fair play…

As a German who has lived in the UK for a number of years now (with a 1-year stopover in California) it never seizes to amaze me how deep certain stereotypes run on both sides of the Channel. While many of them may be justified, I’ll be trying to just observe some of the differences [...]