Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, February 16th 2015. It’s time for a special spring ball in Villefranche harbour, with wooden beauties dressed in yellow, red and orange parading one after the other in front of the crowds . At the end of the parade, they cheerfully take their dresses off and throw them to the audience. The belles are […]
Interact with art
17/02/2015 by Leave a Comment
Put a museum of modern art on your agenda for the Carnival holiday. Museums of modern art are inspiring, interesting, challenging and fun, in large part because they leave all the room you want or need to interpret freely and interact with art. It feels quite instinctive.They might leave you with a sense of peace […]
Lëtz Create – Frédérique Theisen
17/02/2015 by Leave a Comment
Each month, Miranda van den Heuvel talks to creative people in Luxembourg and says “look, Luxembourg is creative! Here’s how and where!” The February talk is with handicraftswoman and blogger Frédérique Theisen 1. What is CREATIVITY? I do like the definition found on Wikipedia for creativity: a phenomenon whereby something new and in some way valuable is created […]
A simpler life: How many pairs of jeans do you need?
17/02/2015 by Leave a Comment
Regardless if you took the reverse packing challenge I wrote about three weeks ago or not, I think most of us could do with a bit of regular wardrobe organizing and decluttering. We live in a time of washing machines, but have more clothes than ever before. In most cases you only wear a few favorites […]
Add Some Music To Your Day: Snowapple
10/02/2015 by Leave a Comment
In the online music world, one click leads to another, to one discovery after the other and one coup de coeur after the other. Clew shares musical clicks: Dutch girl band Snowapple. Snowapple. The name alone makes you want to listen to the music of this refreshingly quirky girl group, and chances are you’ll keep listening. […]
新 年 快 樂 Happy New Year
10/02/2015 by Leave a Comment
February 19 marks the start of the Chinese New Year. As the Chinese use the Lunar calendar for the date of their festivals,the date of the Chinese New Year changes from year to year. The date corresponds to the new moon (black moon) in either late January or early February. One in every six people […]
Get it sorted – make a mood board
10/02/2015 by 1 Comment
A mood board is basically a collection of images and text samples organized in some way that helps you explore the desired overall look and feel, or tone, of a project. Mood boards could help you in smaller projects like organizing your spring wardrobe or making a gift list for an anniversary, or in bigger projects like […]
Luxembourg 12 points
03/02/2015 by Leave a Comment
CLEW takes a look at Luxembourg in numbers and digs up a few more or less useful numeric facts: 1 – number of reigning Grand Dukes in the world. Reason good enough to keep the monarchy? We are of course talking about His Royal Highness Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume de Luxembourg. 2- hours […]
Just Arrived
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The new edition of the Just Arrived guide to Luxembourg is now out – and it has an online version too with lots and lots of easy-to-find information to help newcomers settle down or not-quite-newcomers settle in or simply find information they’re looking for: The hassle of administrative procedures made easier… Finding a home, a job… […]
Let The Music Play
03/02/2015 by 2 Comments
The Desperate Expat Wife has one recurring New Year’s resolution – to listen more to music. Years ago, when she was younger, she somewhat surprisingly decided she’d try a reiki session. The first thing the therapist said to her – she hadn’t even had time to stretch out on that bench – was «You must listen more to […]
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