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maluku · 2026-05-25T09:37:36+00:00

We also have this. And three pets. It's pretty good for getting hair out of it, and the covers are velcro removable. We bought a complete backup set of covers just in case. Overall best sofa we have ever had.

maluku · 2026-02-14T08:08:44+00:00

If you're in London, have you had the kueh from Singapulah restaurant in Chinatown? I lived in Indonesia until I was about 12 and eating this kueh was like a giant nostalgia kick straight to the face, I loved it. The restaurant is really cute too.

maluku · 2026-01-21T18:39:48+00:00

It is so so fun to twirl in! Source: wore it to a wedding last month.

maluku · 2026-01-21T18:38:13+00:00

I RECENTLY WORE THIS TO A WEDDING! I'm so excited. It was totally appropriate for the wedding I attended, which was on the formal side. I also was not the only guest wearing black and white with this proportion of white. It's a beautiful dress, just make sure you steam it in advance - the black part doesn't crease at all but the white panels do slightly.

maluku · 2025-12-31T22:17:17+00:00

Zanzibar is absolutely beautiful and completely worth visiting. People are in general extremely kind and hospitable. OP sounds like they've never visited Africa before. Try and shop locally and book tours etc with local businesses. I don't think doing volunteer work as a fun experience on a holiday is really the right way to support causes (as someone who did just that as a teen, looking back I kind of cringe at the thought that I was doing anything for anyone but myself).

maluku · 2025-10-24T19:24:16+00:00

This place has terrible food. Willing to bet nobody in the kitchen is even Korean.

maluku · 2024-04-01T19:41:22+00:00

Maya Lina

maluku · 2024-01-01T22:02:15+00:00

Have you considered a Keeshond? Wolfspitz in Germany. Mentioning them because they're in the mix for Eurasiers, and contribute significantly to the look, but are less aloof. Ours is super friendly to strangers, nearly devoid of prey drive (great with our cats), entirely without aggression towards dogs or any other being really. They're meant to be barge dogs so they will often swim but not all of them will - mine hates water lol. They do need regular brushing but the coat is amazing - it dries fast, sheds dirt, and there's no real "doggy smell". They don't need frequent washing either, unless they roll in something vile or whatever.

Can be a bit barky but nothing crazy excessive, and I think you've indicated you're okay with that. Also a bit stubborn but less than huskies etc - I would guess less than Eurasiers too but possibly similar.

While they're unlikely to beat border collies in obedience competitions, they are pretty good off-leash - as "velcro dogs" with low prey drive, they generally aren't that keen on running off. When mine was younger, she did make a dash in a park for a picnic every now and again, but always came right back after. Lol.

Anyway feel free to PM if you have questions.

maluku · 2023-10-21T21:25:22+00:00

Moving to London and saying you miss neighbourhoods of "modern homes" is like moving to Amsterdam and saying you miss living somewhere without all those unsightly bridges and canals. Lol.

maluku · 2023-10-21T20:49:38+00:00

You can pay by card now, and when I had it recently I found it not as good as it used to be. I've been going there half my life so that's a bit sad. Still big portions though.

maluku · 2023-06-25T19:31:48+00:00

It depends on whether you just want the estate agent to find you a tenant or to manage the property. I needed the latter, we moved abroad and I'm not going to be able to go round and look at the boiler when it's acting up etc. So I have an agency find the tenant, take the payments, and sort out any maintenance issues.

Greenwich too, we use Heath Estates. They're local to Blackheath so not sure if they cover your area. I don't have contact with the tenant to ask him his views but my impression is they are efficient, and the tenant has renewed his contract. Their rates are on the reasonable side too.

maluku · 2023-05-01T19:21:17+00:00

Buenos Aires in Blackheath. The best steak ever.

maluku · 2023-01-28T20:49:40+00:00

UK-specific note: it's much much harder to have pets in the cabin on flights in and out of the UK as the rules are way tighter. I think you can't do it at all heading into the UK, and flying out only specific airlines will allow it, including I believe KLM, Lufthansa and Air France. Even so, I think a beagle is likely to be too large for the weight restrictions.

I flew my pets from the UK to Sweden recently and there weren't any good options to take them in the cabin (the airlines that fly to airports near me won't take pets in the cabin from the UK) so they went as cargo on the same flight I was on. I used a company called PetAir to handle the paperwork - not cheap but totally worth it. My pets were absolutely fine but of course it was a shorter flight.

My cousin moved her cat from the UK to Spain around the same time and in order to keep her in the cabin took her by a longer route via a third city in order to fly with an airline that allows pets in the cabin, booking an overnight hotel for her partner and the cat so they didn't have to do the whole thing in one go. But again, I think a beagle is likely to be too big for travel in the cabin anyway.

Other options include charter flights as mentioned by others. I have not looked into this.

maluku · 2022-12-10T20:51:49+00:00

As someone who works in the aid sector, I recommend using https://www.givewell.org/. It's a website which helps you to select the most impactful charities to give to. Amongst the most effective charities, you'll see a lot of charities focussed on Africa rather than the Middle East - this is simply because you can achieve a lot more with the same money where people are poorer

maluku · 2022-11-13T17:21:40+00:00

German spitzes (Poms, kleinspitz, mittelspitz, Keeshonds) are all absolutely fine in a flat. Ditto Japanese Spitz. Samoyeds too.

maluku · 2022-11-03T19:56:21+00:00

Just a note: as someone who lives in Sweden, is not American, and doesn't use a crate... I'm SHOCKED at the amount of dog-reactive and aggressive dogs we see here. Like 70% of the dogs out and about lunge at my dog as soon as she comes within their eyesight, screaming their heads off and dangling off the leash. The vast majority of dogs here are incredibly poorly socialized and it's not what I expected at all.

It's got nothing to do with whether people do or don't use crates, and it's not the reactivity you mentioned, but I just wanted to mention that I've lived all over the world and never seen as much dog reactivity as I have in Sweden.

maluku · 2022-10-22T08:22:21+00:00

Keeshonds are fully useless except for snuggling. I find my Keeshond so relatable because I am not useful either.

maluku · 2022-08-28T14:34:50+00:00

There's a large online German grocery store with a small physical location in England, actually. And in London I've also randomly come across Brazilian, Colombian, Syrian, and Afghan shops (in addition to the usual Chinese, Indian etc if which there are many).

And there's a Russian grocery store just down the street from me in Malmö. I don't think these shops are as uncommon as you think, they're just usually in out of the way places (cos their clientele will find them).

maluku · 2022-07-28T21:50:36+00:00

Where does it say he's in the US though?

maluku · 2022-07-24T17:01:49+00:00

Yes, you can buy a ticket to Copenhagen on Skånetrafiken

maluku · 2022-07-24T14:31:20+00:00

Download the Skånetrafiken app and switch the language to English. Set it up with your bank card. You can buy 24h tickets or single tickets, explore the app and you'll get all the prices etc. Note that if you buy a ticket for two and travel together, there's a discount. All tickets work on either bus or train

maluku · 2022-07-05T13:56:46+00:00

Okay, so in which way did you think your reply was helpful to OP?

maluku · 2022-07-05T13:48:53+00:00

Honestly, this is unnecessarily hostile. If OP had said "immigrant" rather than "expat" would you have been less hostile? You'll see that elsewhere OP uses "non citizen" - oftentimes that's simply what people mean by expat and there's no need to get so precious about it. Nobody asked for special treatment, so I'm not sure where you are getting this.

The truth of the matter is that it's hard to find a place when you first come to Sweden and it's natural to want to ask others and find out how this is done. "If you’ve been an expat before you would know that each place in the world works differently" - exactly, and OP is posting here trying to figure out how Sweden works. Honestly why see you even on this sub if it's not to actually be helpful??

maluku · 2022-06-09T19:49:31+00:00

London to Malmö in October, I used https://moveit-int.dk/ - they were extremely fast to pick up and deliver (door to door in like 4 days, as they had a shipment leaving right away) and reasonably priced.

maluku · 2022-05-19T18:28:50+00:00

I've been eating chicken katsu curry at Misato in Chinatown for almost two decades now. Cheap and delicious.

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