Easter time is here, and school holiday. Most of you are probably already away from Luxembourg and maybe in a sunny spot. But for the rest of us, who actually run out of ideas, why not a last minute thing? Just wake up in the morning, pack some belongings and get away as a family! It will be […]
Easter by the Med II
29/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
The Holy Week – Semana Santa – is reason good enough to go to Spain for Easter and be transported by ancient rituals, religious history, elaborate Easter processions with costumes, floats and statues in every city and village, solemnity and joy. Curiosity: The Ku Klux Klan like costumes with pointed hoods covering the face represent […]
Easter by the Med I
24/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
Easter holiday – for many the second word is the most important, and the first one is about chocolate, eggs, chocolate eggs, various animals and the colour yellow, about traditions. For others, the holy week starts today, on Palm Sunday. In France, Palm Sunday is called Branch Sunday, Dimanche des Rameaux. On this day, Catholics bring branches of […]
Eggcellent!
22/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
Dye your Easter eggs with natural colours. Use what you have in your kitchen – either in your fridge or in your drawer. It’s not very complicated, but it takes a bit of time. For these eggs I used red onion skin, blueberry, spinach, lemon and beetroot. You can also try out: Onion skin, turmeric, saffron, yellow […]
The humble egg
22/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
Very soon, if not already, we will be nibbling away at the chocolate variety but I would like to turn your attention to the humble egg. There has been a lot of media attention on cholesterol, and it is easy to forget that eggs are a nutrient rich, affordable contribution to a healthy diet. Also […]
First day of spring
20/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
Day of Happiness
20/03/2013 by 2 Comments
Today is the first United Nations International Happiness Day. The 193 member countries have adopted a resolution to prioritize happiness, and they want your contribution. Today is a good day to start. The UN sees a global attitude change: “People are now recognising that ‘progress’ should be about increasing human happiness and wellbeing, not just […]
Macho HQ
20/03/2013 by 1 Comment
The desperate expat wife is blond enough to know next to nothing about cars. She likes to name her cars, they’re always female, and always small and cute and quite old, but she’ll forget from one time to the next how to open the hood. She’s very protective of her cute little car and doesn’t much care about big […]
90 and still shining
18/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
I was born in 1923 in Luxembourg. My father was Nicolas Joseph Cito from Bascharage. Everybody called him Claus. Claus met a model in Brussels, where he was studying art. When he came back to Luxembourg, wanting me to get solid roots in Luxembourgish ground, he was alone. He was already quite a famous sculptor […]
Look up!
17/03/2013 by Leave a Comment
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