Category: Alina's Treats

New Challenge: A Book A Week »

Last week, while browsing the blogosphere, I found an interesting post on a very catchy challenge, at least for me. Reading one book every week. That would be 50 to 100 pages per day. Unfortunately I can’t share the post, as copy-pasting the link into an unsaved notepad and then having Vista crash and restart [...]

A Little Magic for Your Travel »

I’ve mentioned on quite a few occasions that I had a new blogging project in mind, a travel blog to be precise. I didn’t want to give too many details on it until it was up and running and had something published on it.
Right now, Travel Spells is about two weeks old, has an About [...]

How I Fell in Love with New York City »

As any other story told by yours truly, mine is a bit different. A trip to NYC that makes me instantly fall in love with the city needs certain unusual ingredients. One of them would be heavy rain in the first day, looking around for about an hour to find a certain theater in Time [...]

Chicago, ISPCON and My First American Experience »

Being at the airport at 5 am is not an easy thing to accomplish! Especially if you didn’t finish packing or got enough sleep the night before. But we got there in time, went through the check in, the security check and had another hour to kill before boarding.
The flight to Munich was easy, the [...]

What Trying to Convince Boys to Let Me Play Football Taught Me »

We all know there’s a certain age when boys run away from girls and never ever want to play with them. Well, imagine what it’s like to be a girl who likes boys’ games at that age! It all changes into: “I can’t play with you, the other boys will laugh at me”, “Go get [...]