Copenhagen Christmas 2012

We spent Christmas in Copenhagen this year. Last year we entered 2012 on the isle of Texel in the north of The Netherlands, next year it's possible we will fly to Boston ;)

Copenhagen is so fresh! Not only the temperature but the people, traffic, interiors, public places. 

A very different style of living, must be the scandinavian way. 

We can learn a lot from that style...don't know where to begin!

Here some links to taste the more then delicious Danish design and art!

HELBAK
KAIKU
LIEBESHOP
HAY
HVASS & HANNIBAL
BOB NOON
DESIGNER ZOO
BOLIG Magasinet

Dream away!!!
FARVEL!
Photos: Javier Huerta Pedreros

Delicious dreams

How good life can be realizing you can do what you love to do.

Drawing a dream, enjoying a delicious meal and talking about a nearby future
with brand new friends who share the same passion for this one life...somewhere in Ghent.
Hope you had a wonderful sunday too!

Thankful for every day

 The rural view when I arrive in Antwerp Central station some days a week. Last saturday the morning sun was coming in and made me feel like in some kind of urban heaven. Impressive no?

Another kind of heaven on sundayafternoon. My beloved forest. Have to go back to take some pictures of incredible mushrooms. They're getting old...the end of there lives is close, hope the sun will come back these days.

And of course, my biggest inspiration and helping hand. Cannot leave it to show you how beautiful he is! When I was stamping yesterday he was thinking about the final lay-out of my book... :)

Sunday in history

 A sunday like we didn't had in ages. From one second to another we decided around noon to leave our home and travel to the east of the country. Once, in another life I visited the Gallo-Roman museum in Tongeren, the oldest ciry of Belgium and one called Atuatuca Tungrorum by the Romans who made a real city of it and battled overhere with the Eburones, a tribe in that region. But after so many years the museum got a huge facelift and also my husband never visited this magic place where it all began for Belgium. We enjoyed the history while the Indian Summer made from this day such a gift! In Hasselt we discovered a very new coffee pub, called Mucho Gusto, and really, who is in town, don't forget to pass by and enjoy of the arts of Roel, the owner of this magic place!

Barcelona-doodle

The view out of our room in Barcelona, linda Barcelona!
We came all the way down trough Paris, the central part of France and crossed the border to Spain until this city. The second time we were here but still not enough for me :)
Now it's time to go, to travel more and back to the north. Again through France but now the more western part...mmmm! Here we come!

Valentina visita Huize Colette

Valentina startte haar lange reis. Ze besliste dat het tijd was om haar wereld te gaan ontdekken. Haar tweede bestemming is Gent. Mijn Gent van langgeleden waar Ottelien en Aline acht maanden geleden hun chocolade-en boekenzaak openden onder de naam Huize Colette.

Als je in de buurt bent spring dan binnen. Breng Valentina een bezoekje terwijl je geniet van alle lekkers ten huize van Colette, Belfortstraat 6 in Gent.
Dagelijks open van 9u tot 19u, in het weekend vanaf 10u en gesloten op maandag.
Ze logeert daar tot 11 juni 2011 en dan wil ze naar een nieuwe bestemming!
Wil je haar helpen zoeken of heb je een goeie tip? Laat het ons weten!
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Valentina started her journey. Now she decided to go and discover her surrounding world. Her second stop is GENT. A typical medieval Flemish city where two girls started a chocolate/bookshop since 8 months,
named HUIZE COLETTE.

If you are close, visit Valentina while enjoying the most delicious treasures
home to Huize Colette, Belfortstraat 6, Gent.
Open all day long from 9am to 7pm, weekend from 10am to 7pm and closed on monday.
Valentina stays there untill the 11th of june 2011.
Then she will travel to a new destination!
We are still searching...if you know something, let us know!

Belgcian cities #1

Thinking of spending my vacation-time in my own country that I know so well...while thinking of destinations I still want to discover...and knowing that there is no take-off in the next months to some kind of those places I'm dreaming of, I've got the idea to make some portraits of famous Belgian cities.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first is called 'Brugge' or Bruges in english. Today I was there enjoying some coffees, some art, strolling around with a good friend and her daughter and trying to see still more then I knew before. Trying to get the point why soooo many tourists from all over the globe wants to see this little medieval city. It's impressive. I still love this city, but not that much. It's not my most prefered one for sure! This is the first I made, may'be because it is also the most famous one, even more famous then Brussels, the capital. Time for Gato-geography ;) May'be you can feel like travelling a while trough Belgium...just from in your chair. Enjoy!