friendship
cafebabel.com boys speak: what makes Europe’s twentysomething men happy
We girls probably think that macho attitudes, making money and succeeding are what make boys happy. After all, why is it so hard to get them to share on ‘happiness’? Apparently not. Winning a game, doing nothing, a tipple, the latest gadget, friends, girls - a pan-European select number of lads share what makes them smile – and why we girls are different. Vox-pop
friendship, love, society, happiness, health, family, men and women
Thick as thieves in Europe
It's better to proverbially be 'like ass and shirt' ('comme cul et chemise') in France than to be 'getting on like a house on fire', like they say in England and Germany - surely? Touring Europe's round of expressions to denote the most inseparable of friends
friendship, italy, united kingdom, tower of babel, germany, languages, poland
Hitchhiking Gathering 2010: the lowdown
The third celebration of the Hitchhiking Gathering takes place in August, first in Barcelona and next in Lisbon, with hundreds of hitchhikers from the whole continent expected to attend
friendship, barcelona, hitch hiking, ecology, europe, lisbon, youth
UK to Poland via France: hitch-hiking Europe
You could stay in a hotel in Egypt for a week. Or you can spread the same amount of money over a month and a half for a trip of an alternative kind: hitchhiking Europe. Here’s one way to do it, which included 30 drivers, volunteer work and new friends
friendship, money, backpacking, languedoc, jazz, society, hitchhiking
'Erasmus is about discovering Europe'
Like many an old advertising cliché, the erasmus student exchange programme offers a ‘dual action’ experience. After the culture shock, the parties, the multinational encounters and the adventures across Spain, come the trips to visit new found friends, in all corners of Europe. This new European consciousness keeps us coming back for more
friendship, european identity, university, society, europe, spain, seville
Unrequited love: are you a 'pagafantas'?
Boy is in love with girl best friend who wouldn't look at him twice that way. In Spain, a 'pagafantas' ('Fanta-buyer') is that boy who is relegated to always footing the bill of girl's soft drink. The expression of the week bows in from Spain
friendship, love, tower of babel, culture, europe, spain, best of cafebabel.com
The principle behind 'fishing for compliments'
That’s what our outgoing Italian editor was constantly doing to us at cafebabel.com. In tribute (to herself), she looks at how the act itself is about man hunting for humanity, especially when confronted with globalisation and the atomisation of modern society
friendship, tower of babel, translation, languages, globalisation, best of cafebabel.com, relationships
A traveller reads up on the history of nationalism
'A sudden wave of satisfaction envelops J. He recognises his happiness to have been born this millennium in a peaceful Europe'. This short story, set in a Brussels train station, was runner-up of the 2009 German Youthreporter award, ‘Verliebt in Europa’ (‘In Love With Europe’)
Love story: a German teacher deals with an autistic child in Wales
German language assistant Alissa tells the story of a separation in the Welsh valleys in Glamorgan. This article was second runner-up of the 2009 German Youthreporter award, ‘Verliebt in Europa’ (‘In Love With Europe’)
friendship, love, united kingdom, school, culture, health, youth
