La Fábrica - Barcelona
'SOMOS ARGENTINOS' What a delight here! I walked past the shop window and was literally pulled in. Not only because of what I saw but...
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La Colmena - Barcelona
While strolling through the many interesting neighborhoods of Barcelona I come across this beautiful patisserie. Time has stood still...
Prendre un café 'sur le zinc'
'Have a coffee 'on the zinc' A well-known expression often used by the French! It is this one that evokes the heated discussions in this...
Les Halles de Lyon - Lyon
Lyon’s mythic indoor food market with an international reputation for offering the very finest gourmet food. In 1859, Lyon created its...
Dunes de Merzouga - Morocco
Merzouga is one of the regions among the most Saharan of Morocco. With its sand changing color, its fossils, its widespread surfaces...
Chengdu, Beijing, Lijiang - China
A few years ago I went to China for the first time. I was really looking forward to that and had prepared myself well. To what extent you...
Tavira - Portugal
I discovered the south of Portugal a few years ago during one of my work trips. I just fell in love! Me, as a real Frenchie, couldn’t...
La Joie de vivre - France
A French phrase often used to express a cheerful enjoyment of life, an exultation of spirit. The exuberant enjoyment of life they would...
The incredible 'Marchés de Paris' and their quality.
As we know, Parisians are attached to this heritage of old Paris: the markets remain a place of conviviality that we all appreciate, in...
Le Printemps in Paris
There isn't a better time to stroll around at that period of the year. Paris is beautiful to explore any season. But spring is the time...
Garçons...in Paris
et ça papotte... ! The classic French waiter, the “garçon” that Jean Paul Sartre modeled his character on in his book Existentialism is...
Who doesn't know 'Les bouquinistes de Paris'...
1,000 “boxes” and their 30,000 old or contemporary books line the quays of the Seine. In the early 16th century, peddlers known as...
Think of France, and you think of Parisian cafe’s!
The Parisian terrace: one of the city’s most iconic, romantic images. The Belle Epoque era, the paintings of Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas...
Bom dia Lisboa - Portugal
Erik had a conference in Lisbon. A city where I've been twice but haven't had the time to really wander around. This time I am going to...
Au chat bleu Le Touquet - France
We got married in the middle of the corona time and were lucky that we could celebrate this with 30 guests before the entire country went...
The Noordermarkt in Amsterdam - The Netherlands
The Noordermarkt is the first Organic Farmers Market in the Netherlands, founded in 1987. They are a group of 30 entrepreneurs, producers...
Bangkok - Thailand
In 2019 we went on a semi-business trip to Bangkok. It was unforgettable. What an amazing town, imagine the countryside.. which we didn't...
Innervillgraten - Austria
"Come to us, we have nothing" And that's exactly what we needed: nothing! The Villgraten valley, a side valley of the Pustertal Valley in...
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