douce france

Just got back from a nice week with my mom driving around the South of France: Provence and Camargue. From Lavender fields to gipsy queens, from wild horses and bulls to lazy, sunbathing cats.
Love taking dips in the Mediterranean sea and driving around in beautiful landscapes, while listening to some nice road music. I'm missing it already..

foxcity

 

pictures from my trip to london. Spend most of my time in East London around Hackney and London fields, was so nice.. Already miss all the beautiful places and friends there...

from Porto with love

Café de Flore

I went for a stroll today, falling in love with this city again.

Wich I could have been here in the 40's.

When Albert Camus, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir where having coffee at Café de Flore,

discussing love, art and politics. I brought the Figaro magazine issue on Noble prize winner Albert Camus along. Passionate about everything he did and believed in, I wonder if people like that still excist.

I looked around in Café Flore, a young fashionista is reading Vogue magazine,

maybe hoping to see Kate Moss, who's a regular at the Café de Flore now.

My café crême is served in the same cups as the ones Simone de Beauvoir took a sip of while writing for "Les temps modernes"

I look again and see an old man, writing, next to him a lady eating a croissant. 

He looks at me, then at my Figaro magazine with Camus on the cover.

"ah oui les temps ont changés" times have changed.

Visiting the RA exhibition in Paris

When I arrived in Paris I rushed to my hotel, dropped of my suitcase, jumped on a bike and went to the RA exhibition. Stressed from the wild ride through the crazy Parisien traffic I entered the beautiful 'Galerie foret verte': light, white and bright :) Sitting in the cozy kitchen I found a few of the designers exposing their collection. All graduates at the Antwerp fashion academy, they are here in Paris during fashion week (F/W 2010) to show their work to the fashion wolves. not being a 'real' fashion journalist, I felt a bit strange. rush, rush, rush. bike. crazy traffic. Ididn't had the chance to breath.. take a minute and realise: I'M IN PARIS !

coffee in paris

i went to visit a friend in Paris, who was starring in the play "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Touring trough France, the last stop was in paris, theatre de la bastille. I really enjoyed spending time with her, staying in the marais area.