Waterproof phone cover for swimming, or walking in the rain

This phone cover has double closure. It protects the phone,. You can still feel the buttons and use it when it is sealed in. The covers are in so many covers that you can buy one to match your swimsuit. This one was bought in the USA. Look in shops which sell swimsuits.

For example, here is one I found on Amazon. But, if you can, check the styles in a nearby shop.

Why do you need it? To protect your phone from accidents. So you don't leave it by the pool or on a beach where somebody could steal it. So cleaners and passers by don't think you have abandoned it or lost it and take it to lost property. So you can get important incoming calls. So you can call for help. So you can answer and say when you are coming back to home or the office. So you can watch the time.

Useful Websites

https://www.amazon.sg/Waterproof-Floating-Inflatable-Double%E2%80%91layer-Swimming/dp/

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Americanisms and British English equivalents

 

American English - British English

bangs (hairstyle) - fringe

cell phone - mobile phone

dish soap - washing up liquid

hacks - tricks (and tips)

powdered sugar - icing sugar

British English - American English

fringe (hairstyle) - bangs

icing sugar - powdered sugar

mobile phone - cell phone

tricks 9and tips) - hacks

washing up liquid - dish soap

Useful websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English

I have several more posts on American English and British English

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Preventing suicides by signs and building designs

Important points from this document

1 a Preventing climbing

Suicide prevention fence.

1 b  Enabling a person who changes their mind to climb back.

2 Enabling a witness to call for help

3 A safe place to sit and talk

4 That talking helps distract

What I was looking for was shapes of buildings, such as a stepped pyramid or Toblerone shape.

Manchester university. Photo by Pit Yacker.

And other safety features.

The Samaritans have signs at many bridges and known suicide spots in order to prevent suicides.

I was amused by the Samaritans helpline sign which started, 'Are you looking for a sign? This is it.'

Useful Websites

 https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/documents/s168370/Preventing%20suicides%20in%20high%20rise%20buildings%20and%20structures%20PT%2026.04.22.pdf

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Food and Drink to try when travelling S-Z South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK Scotland

 South Africa

Food - savoury

Ostrich meat, ostrich eggs

South America

the two big wine producing countries are Argentina and Chile.

Spain

Food - savoury

Paella

Sweet

Turron

Drink

Cava wine

Rioja wine

Sweden

Food - savoury

Gravad lax is the national dish of Norway and Sweden.

Switzerland

Food - savoury

Emmentaler cheese, cheese fondu 

Food - sweet

chocolate fondu

Toblerone

Alprose chocolate.

UK

England

Food - Savoury

Cheese, cheddar, stilton

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding

Fish and chips (plaice, cod)

Snack - beans on toast

Food - Sweet

crumpets (hot with melted butter and jam)

scones with strawberry jam and clotted cream

Maids of honour egg tarts

Cadbury's chocolate

Fox's biscuits

Rowntrees chocolates

McVities biscuits

Walkers crisps

Smith's crisps

Christmas pudding with Custard

Mince tarts (Xmas)

Drinks

tea - Twinings

beer

cider

mead

wine

Scotland

Savoury food

breakfast porridge with salt

Seet food

Shortbread biscuits

Drink

whiskey

USA

Savoury

t-bone steak

Idaho potatoes

KFC chicken

McDonalds hamburgers

Sweet

Chicago Cheesecake, New York cheesecake

Key lime pie

Pecan pie (especially in the south)

Pepperidge Farm cookies

Hersheys chocolate.

Drinks

Coca Cola, Diet coke, Pepsi Cola

Useful Websites

https://www.thewinewiki.com/

Food & Drink to try on your travels, by country L-R Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal

(This post is being updated. come back for more later or send me suggestions.) 

Luxembourg

Malta

Mexico

Food savoury

tamale, seasoned meat

Caesar Salad

Drink

Tequila

Tequila is the premium drink and must be made only from the blue agave, a kind of cactus. 

Mezcal can be made from anything and could be a mixture. Therefore it is likely to be cheaper.

Moldova

Morocco

Pstilla - pigeon pie

Netherlands

Food - savoury

Cheeses, Edam, Gouda

Drink

Advocaat, made from eggs, sugar and brandy

New Zealand

Pavlova

Norway

Gravad lax is the national dish of Norway and Sweden. The salmon is treated with salt and sugar, added dill, or you can add your own dill sauce. Eat it plain with salad or on bagels with cream cheese.

Peru

Philippines

Chicken Adobo

Portugal

Food - sweet

Egg tarts

Drink

Port

s://www.wine-searcher.com/find/d+oliveira+bual+vintage+madeira+portugal/

Romania

Russia

Sweets

blini  - pancakes

Drink

Vodka

Useful websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad

Food & Drink by country E-K England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, from cheddar and stilton, to kir and sake

 England

Food - savoury

Cheddar cheese, stilton blue cheese 

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.

Fish and chips.

Sweet

battenburg cake, Crumpets, Scones

Cadbury's chocolate

Fox's biscuits

UK ice cream brands, tubs, bars and sticks, include Cornetto, Mangum, Ben & Jerry's, Haagen Daz.

Wine

Sparkling white wine from Nyetimber and others.

Cider. Beer.

France

Food - Savoury

baguette, coq au vin, duck a l'orange, French onion soup

Food - Sweet

chocolatines (pain au chocolat), croissant, nougat, macarons

Drinks

Bordeau, Burgundy, Champagne, Kir (aligote grape and cassis which is black currant) 

Dubonnet, a sweet, fortified red wine, drunk as an aperitif.

Germany

Food - Savoury

Wurst (sasages)

Food - sweet

Stollen

Drink

Riesling

Greece

Food savoury

rice in vine leaves, moussaka

Sweet

baklava, kataife, 

Drinks

Ouzo (anise plant which gives us aniseeed)

Greek coffee

Hungary

Food, savoury. 

Hungarian ghoulash is the national dish of Hungary. 

Food - sweet

Hungary has a marzipan museum, in Budapest, the capital city. The museum's name is the Szabo Marcipan Museum.

Wine

Bull's blood wine

India & Pakistan

Food - savoury

Tandoori chicken

Food sweet

Gulub Jamun

Jelabi

Drink

Lassi - sweet, sour, mango

Ireland

Food - Irish stew, sourdough bread, 

Drink

Guinness

whisky (no e, the e is Scottish whiskey)

Israel

Food - savoury

Israeli salad.

Kosher food

Food - sweet

Halva, slabs of wrapped confectionery, based on sesame seeds.

Parve - neutral, not containing milk, nor a meat product or by-product such as gelatine, therefore can be eaten at both meat only or milk only meals and restaurants.

Kosher wine

meshuval - heated to a high temperature or pasteurised, and can then be already purified and safe to be handled by non-observant Jews and non-Jewish catering staff.

Rules vary from country to country, rabbi to rabbi and year to year and product to product. Please consult locally.

Sabra chocolate orange liqueur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_liqueur

Italy

Savoury

Pasta spaghetti bolognaise, carbonara 

Sweets

Amaretti di Saronno macaroons

Bitter and crunchy little biscuits in half moon shapes.

Ferrero Rocher chocolates

Nutella hazelnut spread

Zabaglione

Cassata Siciliana

biscotti

Drinks

Asti spumante

Prosecco

Illy coffee

Jamaica

Japan

Food

sushi - rice cylinders with topping of  raw fish or egg

Drink

sake - rice wine

Korea

Food - Kimchi (pickles)

Drink - Soju - rice wine

Food and drink to try by country, A-D Australia Belgium Canada, from maple syrup to Tim Tams

 Andorra

Food savoury

The national dish in wintertime is a Catalan stew called escudella. It contains either rice or pasta, pulses, vegetables  and meats such as chicken, spicy meatballs containing garlic, or sausages.

A Christmas day escudella has four kinds of meat, and large snail-shape pasta.

In summer goat cheese salad is popular.

Desserts include Crema Catalana, literally Catalan cream, Spanish-style baked custard. (It looks to me like what the French call creme brulee.)

The local variation on what I call French toast is bread or buns soaked in honey or syrup, fried and served with a dollop of jam on top or ice cream

Argentina

Austria

Mozart chocolates.

Australia

Tim tams chocolate biscuits

pavlova meringue (the national dish, also claimed by New Zealand)

Belgium

Food savoury

potato fries

Food sweet

waffles

chocolate

Drink

beer

Belize

Marie Sharpe's sauce

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

Food - sweet

Maple syrup.

Ice wine.

Chile

China

Czech Republic

Drink

Pilsner beer from the city of the same name.

Denmark

Danish bacon found in the UK, sliced thicker than in the USA

Danish pastry, found in the UK in pastry shops in London

Useful Websites

https://visitandorra.com/en/eating/andorran-gastronomy/