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Paris

Love @ the Louvre

Breakfast at the bistro

Dérivé

Mexican flavour

Sister Act

Long holidays are not an option for the moment, but weekends are. For just two days I spent a lovely weekend in Liège, a city in the french-speaking part of Belgium. I was surprised by the historic buildings, nice weather and vibrant atmosphere!

La Meuse

Brasil in Belgium

Always nice to have visitors in my home, especially when you have met them while travelling on the other side of our little globe. This holidays I guided Grazielle around in Belgium and the Netherlands. From Brussel, to Gent, Brugge, Roeselare, Oostende, Leffinge, Antwerpen, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Or from the museum of fines arts in Brussels, to Andy Warhol in Amsterdam and Surrealism in Rotterdam. Or from home made dinners, to seafood, junkfood, pancakes, waffles and champagne. And always the same result: I miss being on the road, the travelling and the discovering of other cultures!

Madrid

It's becoming a tradition to celebrate christmas in another european city! This year we went to Madrid. So tapas, cava, and a lot of cultural life! Maybe I should following these spanish courses, but yes when should I find the time...

Working Days

Finally I found some time to post some pictures of the building site where I'm working as a site manager. It is the renovation of an office building in the middle of our capital Brussels!

Back in Belgium

After 3 weeks of travelling, I'm back in Belgium. It was nice, it was great, it was... but most of all I want more of it :))) Thanks a lot to my hosts Fito, Thayse, the Big House crew (Anderson, Ricardo and Daniel), Renan, Rodrigo and Sheila for make me feeling at home and giving me the local insight that I'm searching for when travelling! Thanks a lot to all the other people that I met along the way, it made my trip wonderful!

Muchas Gracias-Muito Obrigada

So now back to reality! Working, househunting, family and friends...

Stay tuned!

Liz

Buenos Aires

Before flying back to Europe it was time to visit Buenos Aires. Well I was just blown away by it, after a while I decided not to take pictures anymore as it was too difficult to choose what to capture first :)) The city has a nice mixture of an european and a south-american feeling, with a nice atmosphere as result. From the nice bars and restaurants in Palermo, the several museums (with MALBA a must see), the renovated Puerto Madero, the medialunas (croissants) as breakfast, the fairs in San Telmo, the argentinian design and fashion, the tango classes in every traditional cafe,... Four days were totally not enough to see it all, so yes I have to go back :)))

Puerto Madero: old docks transforming in lofts, bars and restaurants

Calatrava bridge

Downtown Buenos Aires: empty on a sunday morning

MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano)

The national library

Recoleta

Curitiba

After Florianopolis I went to Curitiba. Two years ago my visit to this city was limited due to rain, so I decided to give it a second try! I spend some lovely days in Curitiba with my incredible hosts Rodrigo and Sheila! I could stay in their traditional wooden house, they drove me around the whole city, gave me a lot of local insight but especially a lot of brazilian hospitality!! Even it was raining like hell again, it was just a pleasure to discover it all! From the Italian quarter Santa Felicidade, the traintrip to Morretes through the atlantic forest, the churrasceria, the hundred of parks around the city, the sambaclub, to the street XV de Novembre,...

Winetasting in Santa Felicidade with Rodrigo and Sheila

Downtown Curitiba

The opera house

Parque Tingüi

Traintrip to Morretes

Morretes

Florianopolis

After Blumenau Tuba (the IAESTE-student that is now working at the office of Junge&Belli) and I headed south to Florianópolis and the island of Santa Catarina. Famous for its 42 beaches spread around the island. First we explored the downtown together with our host Renan, before heading to some beaches in the north of the island.

Hercilio Luz bridge

Historic centre: Palácio Cruz e Souza

The posh neighbourhood of Jurerê

Forte de São José

The dunes of Joaquina

Ready for sandboarding

Renan taking a dive

Blumenau

After 2 years, I finally made it back to Blumenau! Very nice to see my former roommates, colleguaes and friends back. At the same time I could meet the new IAESTE-student in the office, Tuba. My days were filled with having lunch, eating cakes, evening meetings at the big house and the planning of the rest of my trip!