Categorie: travel
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Switzerland & Italy restaurant Top 5 – edition 2022
My more successful blog posts are the ones on food. This Brussels Restaurants – Edition 2022 was picked up largely. I planned a similar one on my favourite European ones. But then my husband Filip planned the summer holidays in Switzerland and Italy, and I suddenly had the challenge of limiting a European Restaurants post…
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why disconnect?
En réalité on dirait qu’il y a deux hommes en moi qui se disputent sans cesse: un homme du Nord, féru d’ordre et de discipline, et un homme du Sud couché dans son hamac sous un figuier, tandis que la Méditerranée vient lécher la rive à ses pieds. by Georges Simenon, “Des Traces de Pas”…
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culinary Athens
Not many people know I have a past with Greece. After studying Ancient Greek in college, I opted to study interpreting English and Modern Greek. Greece joined the European Union in 1981, so working for the European Parliament seemed like a good career path. It turned out differently, and media became my true passion. Having…
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Brussels restaurant Top 5 (edition 2022)
My last review of my favourite restaurants in Brussels dates back from 2012. Time for an update. I promise to review this list on an annual basis from now on. We love traveling, my husband and I. Good hotels and great food are part of the journey. In Brussels, where we have a home, no…
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nomads love no man’s land
The last 18 months I haven’t been travelling a lot. At the heart of the pandemic I did only a handful of flights compared to the 100+ per year I used to have. Now I’m back on the road and it feels good. Although I feel particularly at home in Geneva and Brussels, I love…
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another history of art
I have an art historian at home. Full time. For more than 20 years already. Whenever I mention something art related – Rothko, rococo, Jean-François Millet, the Sixteen Chapel, …. you name it – I get context. When we travel – and we love travelling – Filip is my private guide. That is very, very…
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Brach, Paris
It must have been at least ten years ago when a trendwatcher introduced me to Mama Shelter, Paris. It was the very first hotel of what is now a chain, designed by Philippe Starck. It not only offered good rooms, it was also a place for hipsters and other fancy people to mingle and mix.…
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Alitalia ” Non e possibile ! “
Friday, late afternoon. I have spent most of the week in Rome for the Prix Italia and plenty of EBU side meetings. The weather was just great (28 degrees and sunny) and the food … too Italian. I was looking forward to head to Brussels to catch up with friends and family. I arrived just…
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the travellers’ tribe
I haven’t boarded a plane in almost three weeks. For someone who flies on average three times a week this sounds like vacation. And it is vacation : Geneva – Marseille – Montpellier – Brussels, catching up with friends. Heading back to my home in Geneva and back to the office on Monday. Back also…
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happiness is a state of mind
I was in Amsterdam for the News Xchange. I just came from the opening reception at the Rijksmuseum and had to rush to restaurant De Kas to discuss a project on investigative journalism. It was softly raining and I jumped in a taxi, my head full of of the great paintings and what I would…
JEAN PHILIP DE TENDER 