Last November, we took a short self-drive holiday from Brussels to Amsterdam. This being the first time that AB was driving in Belgium and the Netherlands, it took us a quite while – several rounds around “The Ring” at Antwerp + a few detours, to be specific – to get our first destination: Delta Works…
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Canal St. Martin, together with Canal St. Denis and Canal de l’Ourcq, was commissioned by Napoleon in the 19th century to provide the habitants of the City of Light with fresh drinking water. It also served as a transportation route to/from the factories and warehouses along the quay until the 1960s. It was interesting to…
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Earlier this month, AB and I went to the Barbican Arts Centre for “The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns” exhibition. It was the second time that I had stepped foot into the Barbican Estate housing complex, within which the arts centre is located.The first time I was there, AB and…
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It’s true that in my job I get to drink my fair share of champagne, especially since a big part of what I currently do is focused on major hotel openings and brand events. It is, however, untrue that drinking champagne and attending glamorous soirées are all PR professionals do. For me, the champagne element only…
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Am in London and looking out onto the corner of Hyde Park from my room. The sky’s overcast right now… Hope that tomorrow will be sunny as I’ll be at Cowdray Park in West Sussex for an afternoon of polo! This time last year – at The 5th St. Regis International Polo Cup – the sun was…
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I took this photo while I was on my way to Jin Feng Lu Rou Fan 金峰滷肉飯 to try some of its famous pork lard rice 滷肉飯. To be more specific, I was rushing to the eatery as I had a meeting back at the hotel in an hour and I was running tight on time. Even when…
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Surely not. But that’s kind of what I’m feeling right now after the initial sips of some Oolong tea (北埔白毫乌龙) while listening to Everything But The Girl. A little light-headed, a profound sense of bliss… I must be drunk with happiness. The sun has just peeked through the overcast sky. Ah, is this not happiness?
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It’s the end of March and it’s snowing again here in Brussels. This winter is start to get a little ‘old’. On a more positive note, here’s presenting the national food of Belgium: frites / fries. Almost always topped with a mayonnaise-based sauce of your choice and served in a paper cone. Most people have…
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Living in Brussels, one of the things I miss about Paris is the abundance of Asian shops and restaurants. From Vietnamese restaurants serving hot bowls of pho (Vietnamese beef noodles) or bo bun (vermicelli over raw veggies and topped with beef or pork, ground peanut and spring onion) to all-night Indian shops selling everything you might suddenly…
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