Coffee is a must for many people, especially university students. As a barista, and self-professed coffee aficionado, my first stop in a new destination is a café, to sample the local staple and get a feel for the coffee culture of the area. Cafés are the perfect place to sit and sort through thousands of…
Creative Writing
Ice cream cone
Ice cream. Soft serve with strawberry sauce on the side. A limited edition offer to spin down its swirly vanilla slide. Smooth surface, untouched and shiny new, My heart beats faster as I think of the magic bound within you. Sprinkle covered cone, I take a hesitant bite, I go deeper and deeper till…
Travel
Fresher’s Guide to Norfolk
As a local boy I think I am well placed to showcase the delights of my home county. Although it feels that Norfolk is the land of the forgotten, it is well worth an explore during your time at UEA. If you have a car then the possibilities of exploring quaint market towns, such as…
Features
Rosie Burgoyne gives us Norwich’s sweetest treats
Gelato from Café Gelato: Be transported to Italy with the deliciously creamy Italian gelato on offer at Café Gelato. With flavours ranging from Nutella and cheesecake to white chocolate and passionfruit that can be paired with a homemade Italian biscuit, it’s more than worth the extra walk out of the centre of town to the…
Finance
The finance round-up
UK banks to be reviewed by the Serious Fraud Office in wake of South African corruption scandal. The SFO and other financial regulators are to investigate whether HSBC and Standard Chartered were involved in a South African corruption scandal. Labour peer Lord Peter Hain suggested that up to £400m of funds may have been laundered,…
Features, Recipes
Just dessert: the classic Eton Mess
All right, so we all have a rough idea of what it is, but actual definitions of Eton Mess tend to be quite hazy. The classic version, of course, consists of chopped and slightly squashed strawberries, and crisp crushed meringues, gently folded together with whipped double cream. Yet some accounts of the history of this…
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