Summertime slowness
I slept in today, while Sue was up for getting a pedicure on Sheinkin Street in a little beauty parlor…. When I got up, I went over to the Dizengoff shopping mall to get tickets for the Rolling Stones who will be playing their first ever gig here on Wednesday. However, the queue was enormous […] Read More
Beach days
My friend Susanne from Brussels has arrived on Thursday. I know her for about ten years, and it’s fun to catch up, and enjoy Tel Aviv together. We first walked around the craft market and the Carmel street market, and got some cherries and a 4-kg-Melon, for the beach. The beach was our main destination […] Read More
The first lunch
Back home, I started unpacking, leaving my mom a heap of clothes to wash and starting so sort things for round two. I will change some clothes, as after seven months there is some stuff that I really can’t see anymore, and take new things that I deposited at my parents place. I went through […] Read More
Cooking lessons
More food. I got a private cooking class from Clinty, we did one of my favorites, raw Vietnamese Spring rolls. We went to an Asian market on K-road, and got provisions. I love those supermarkets. We had a couple of smaller ones in Brussels, but in Auckland with its huge Asian population, this is wonderland! […] Read More
Mr. & Mrs. Howell
On my last day in Melbourne I finally made it to the restaurant where Kate works: Mr. & Mrs. Howell. Mr. & Ms Howell is located on bustling Sydney Road in Brunswick, a lively neighborhood in the north of Melbourne, not unlike Fitzroy. It got its name from two characters from the US sitcom Gilligan’s Island. […] Read More
Muriel (…and then some art)
The sun is back – for a day. Still, I followed my usual routine of blogging, sorting pics and booking stuff in the morning in my corner Café, cute Forbes&Burton on the corner of, you guessed it, Forbes and Burton Streets. After that, a stroll through the parks towards the Art Gallery of New South […] Read More
Cruise visitor
Ingrid, who is working with me for the European Union, is a true Weltenbummler. I lost track of all the trips and cruises she has done. Caribbean, up north, Canada… And now, she’s boarding a cruise ship for a 17-day trip from Australia to New Zealand and back. She’ll be on one of the massive […] Read More
Xmas in SFO
On Thursday, I arrived well in time for the little dinner Renato and Dennis had prepared for me and our friends Lisa, her parents Nancy and Jim, and Brandon. We had ham, rice, Brussels sprouts, salads, cheese and lots of wine. I managed to stay awake quite long, despite the 5 hour jet lag from […] Read More
Night out
Last night I met up with Hannah and her friends for some drinks in a cute bar and restaurant Ciudadano in Barrio Italia. We had beers and ate something, the night was really mild… Santiago is hot during the day, but the nights can see temperatures drop quite sharply. It’s always good to have something […] Read More
Santiago by night
These are the first pictures of Santiago, from my window and the roof top. I’m in Providencia, on one of the main axes of the city, with a little river and Parque Balmaceda running along it nearby. I wandered around a bit last night, it looks, nice, calm and safe. My building is a 26-floor high […] Read More