This weekend we visited the Journées de la Rose at the Abbaye de Chaalis. Near the ruines of the ancient Abbey everything involved roses. Rose lovers, garden enthusiasts and rose professionals presented their products and savoir-faire in a fragrant environment. And of course: we were accompanied by a true Rose, which made it extra special. Read article…
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Weekend inspiration #6
My Boarding Pass
Earlier this week, my maptastic friend Anne from Prêt-à-Voyager featured me in her wonderful BOARDING PASS series. I'm so honored to be in company of some amazing fellow travelers like Sivan Askayo, Pia Jane Bijkerk and Elodie Rambaud. Check it out here, I included images, animated gifs and a little video. Merci beaucoup Anne! And Read article…
The first radishes
It's almost ridiculous how proud you can be of something that grows without any effort, like a radish. No green fingers or any particular talents are needed to grow them. But knowing that they come from my own tiny vegetable garden makes me happy. And now there's finally some space for the melon seedlings! Did Read article…
the colors of Berlin
While flipping through the photos I made in Berlin last week, I realized that: ► almost half of them included beautiful type… oops! ► I captured lots of blue skies… after a long dark winter, I guess that's what I needed ► Berlin is even greener than I remembered ► there was color everywhere, hence Read article…
On the Oise
This weeked, I did something that I've been wanting to do for over a decade. Do you see the above picture? That's the view from our home: we live along the riverside of the Oise. Every day we see transport ships, rowing boats and swans go by but we had never made a boat trip Read article…
#hive13 highlights
A few of my favorite quotes from speakers at The Hive, the European blog conference, that I attended last weekend. As twitter was buzzing, I also added some interesting tweets, that spoke to me. My overall highlights of the weekend in Berlin were the more personal conversations that I had with blogfriends, old and new. Read article…
Street Food Thursday in Berlin
I wish I were in Berlin tonight so that I could visit Street Food Thursday at Markthalle9 in Kreuzberg again. On my first night in Berlin last week I walked there from my apartment and really really enjoyed it. The relaxed athmosphere, the friendly vendors, the good looking food booths, but above all: the delicious Read article…
Flying high
I'm still on a high from my trip to Berlin. I met so many wonderful people and saw so many amazing things that I'm a bit overwhelmed. Probably I'll need a few days to get back into the groove! Flying from Paris to Berlin looked so different from above than flying from Paris to Stockholm: Read article…
Vive la Différence
Hope you had a great weekend? Mine included lots of laughter, rain, German cupcakes, 6 different languages, too many LemonAids and meeting so many nice people in Berlin. All very very different, I loved that! Speaking about different: Tina from Colourliving, who sadly couldn't make it to The Hive due to chaos at Heathrow, invited Read article…
