Farm Girl Café on Portobello Road

Where: Portobello Road, Notting Hill // When: Mon to Fri 8:30am to 4:30pm, Sat to Sun 9am to 6pm What's there: cafés, boutiques, cute houses // How much: coffee about £4, cakes about £5 How to get there: central, circle or district line: Notting Hill Gate Sister Jane is open Mon to Sat 10am...

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Columbia Road Flower Market

Where: Columbia Road, Shoreditch // When: Sundays 8am to 3pm  What's there: flowers, farm and cafés // How much: bundles from about £4, cash How to get there: overground: Hoxton My favourite flowers Sundays are, believe or not, a bit slow even in London. I...

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the fifth year

I’m sitting at a café in Helsinki airport and I just stopped to think about this whole year. There was really low lows but also, in contrary, really high highs.  As my father said in his speech on my graduation: Kaisa is a person who feels everything, it’s never neutral. I lost that for a...

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