Hélène Rybol is the woman behind the Culture Shock Toolbox, a website for expats and international students – or future ones – and travelers, filled with musings, checklists and mantras. CLEW is happy to feature her musings on living in another language. So I’ve been thinking about what happened when I started living in another language. […]
Beneath the Blue
24/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
Luxembourg based Dutch jazz vocalist Edith Van Den Heuvel is pregnant with a new jazz baby due on December 13th and conceived with London based pianist Frank Harrison. The name is Beneath the Blue and some of the character traits will surely be velvety, delicate, fragile and strong – a combination of two excellent jazz […]
Seven. Lucky seven. Seventh heaven
20/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
Everyone is aware of its magical allure. Seven is the most common dice roll in gambling. In ancient times, seven celestial bodies could be seen by the naked eye. There are seven continents. Seven seas. Seven days in a week and seven wonders of the ancient world. Don’t forget the seven colors in a rainbow. […]
Distillery Day
16/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
“D’Miselerland brennt!” It is not as dramatic as it may sound, we’re talking about the annual Moselle Distillery Day, when the distilleries along the Moselle will open their doors to the public, offering spirits tastings, local culinary specialties and more. The Moselle Distillery Day is always on the last Sunday in October, presenting the art […]
Creative artist on two continents
13/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
Christina Roos is a Swedish ceramist, illustrator and assistant professor, with studios in Houston and on an island in Gothenburg’s archipelago. She gets inspiration from her everyday life. The tasks are many, and so are the challenges. The electrical gate opens silently an early morning hour. The low building, covered with corrugated iron, sits lonely […]
The Great Danes
07/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
Ecco, Lego, B&O, Eva Trio, Royal Copenhagen – I guess you have heard the names before. Danish design has a great reputation in large parts of the world. It started in the 1950ies with pioneer designers such as Hans Wegner, Børge Mogensen, Georg Jensen and Arne Jacobsen, taking Danish design outside of Denmark’s borders. Their […]
Morning Comes and Also the Night
24/09/2014 by Leave a Comment
CLEW reviews books – mostly with an expat touch: Morning Comes and Also the Night, written by Marijcke Jongbloed. For CLEW by Summertime Publishing. Morning Comes and Also the Night is the biography of a Dutch family confined in a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia during the Second World War. Due to the dominion of the […]
Visit Semaphore Art Studios
22/09/2014 by Leave a Comment
SEMAPHORE ART STUDIOS was founded in 2008 in the charming old train station Oetrange Gare by Swedish artist painter Jeanette Bremin. Luxembourgish printmaker and painter Diane Jodes joined Jeanette in 2011, and American painter and sculptor Robert Hall in 2013. This October, you can discover the recent works of these artists in a unique and friendly […]
Don’t stop reading to your child
12/09/2014 by 4 Comments
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss The importance of reading to children at an early age is unquestionable. Considering that it is at the heart of all formal education, reading to children at a very early age increases their chances […]
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