Glass sculpture Grön Eld (Fire in Green) meets you when you arrive by train I recently went on a long weekend trip to Umeå, a town in the north east coast of Sweden. In 2014 it was named Culture Capital of Europe and I know several people (including mamma noodle) who have attended Umeå University. When Greg […]
Travel
Queen Burger.
I had to dedicate an entire post to this glorious tiny little burger joint in Warsaw. Queen Burger was a place near our hotel that we had passed and made a mental note of on New Year’s Eve. We ended up eating there the following day after our long park walk and this charming little […]
Warsaw
Castle Square with Sigismund’s Column in centre and Royal Castle to the right For New Year’s this year a group of us decided to go to Warsaw, Poland. I hadn’t planned on going at first, seeing as I wasn’t working many hours and post-Christmas is that miserable time where you are forced to stretch your budget […]
Changes
I’ve just discovered the new updater. FINALLY BLOGGER! Big pictures and easier posting (hopefully) here I come! This picture is one of hopefully many to come of my recent trip to Barcelona! It was fantastic and I want to go back as soon as possible.
Museum Madames
While in Sweden I visited Nordiska Museet, which had a show on about 300 years of fashion. The actual fashion exhibition was alright, but I felt they didn’t go into enough depth, and show enough variety for each of the decades/centuries covered. We ended up wandering around, looking at most of the other shows too. […]
I know what I did last summer..
Around this time last year my housemates and I took a little trip to London, hung out in parks and fed some perplexed geese and ducks. I love summer, and I wish we had a large garden like in our last house. We used to bbq and have parties outside quite often. Our tiny “garden” […]
Back in Town
I’m back from the best week ever! Paris was amazing, all the cherry trees were blossoming and I got lots of cool vintage pieces to add to my overfull closet. The best part was spending an entire week with just Gavin, getting the quality time we need after a year of him teaching abroad. Tomorrow […]
Londontown
Yesterday the wonderful Gavin swept me away to London for a small We are Scientists gig followed by a 5 star hotel in Chelsea. Needless to say it was all epic. The pillows in that bed were huge and the best I have ever slept on. There were also two tv’s, wall to wall, incase […]
Sushi Sushi Sushi
One evening we finally ordered sushi that we had been lusting for that entire week. Gavin nervously dialed and perfectly delivered the French order. Somehow he was still suprised that it arrived when it did! It was delicious though, my favorites were the salmon rolls. I love the seaweed! Growing up in China you could […]
Red and Blue
Some more Nantes coming right up. Here is me on the nicest day (a preview of the spring weather we’ve been having here lately) in one of my favorite vintage finds. It was originally about 4 sizes too big and long, but that was easily trimmed and hemmed off. I am also wearing my new […]
Shrimps, Shramps, Shrumps
When in France eat Vietnamese! We made our own vietnamese shrimp wraps one glorious evening. It was super delicious, but quite filling. Maybe it was the 20 minutes of getting the shrimps de-shelled that made it a bit much really haha. One can only have shrimps in their presence for a short time interval, preferably […]
Biscuit Factory
When I was in Nantes we went to the old biscuit factory. It had been transformed into a biscuit tower museum/funky concrete bar/gift shop thing. It was one of the most disney looking places I have seen since China! You get to go up the tower for 2 Euro and check out the not so […]