(Desperate) expat wives spend their time shopping, having lunch with girlfriends, playing tennis, driving kids around and organising the home. Oh, and they drink wine. And the occasional cocktail. As expat wives also can get lonely, it is important to get out of the house to do all these things instead of doing them at home; electronic device […]
Retail’s lure – the expat’s hook
13/10/2015 by 2 Comments
The exterior arrangement of a store should be considered as an alluring exhortation. The resolution of falling into temptation is easily solved by entering the shop – nothing fits better than the assertion “the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it”. And this is exactly the implicit mission of a store: Shine […]
The perfect girly weekend: Paris
17/03/2015 by Leave a Comment
Mini-series: Rute Vendeirinho takes you to her favourite girly destinations for a weekend, including insider tips and where to go for a girly weekend photo session! Next stop Paris. Are you desperate for that perfect weekend away with your girlfriends? If so, prepare yourself, forget about the household, the mummy duties… and embrace some girly pampering […]
Visits with camera: Maastricht
28/10/2014 by Leave a Comment
CLEW photographers bring their cameras to places worth visiting in or easily reachable from Luxembourg. In Maastricht, you somehow feel farther away than the mere two hours drive from Luxembourg that it is. There’s something about the cuteness & the crowd, the buildings & the bikes, the stroopwafers (syrup waffles) & the shopping. Indeed there’s […]
The S-therapy
24/03/2014 by 2 Comments
Desperate expat wife or not, we can all be hit by the gloom of everyday life, and a few tricks to get us out of it might come in handy. Nothing fancy or extraordinary, we’re talking about simple – possibly banal, but at times highly efficient – everyday forms of therapy. CLEW introduces the S-therapy: […]
The furniture challenge
21/03/2014 by Leave a Comment
Shopping for furniture in Luxembourg can be a bit of a challenge. These are the CLEW suggestions on where to go.
The way you wear your hat
01/01/2013 by Leave a Comment
CLEW is at a bit of a loss here. Not that you can’t find nice clothes in Lux, but where are the special boutiques, and the feelgood factor…? Machines like H&M don’t provide that feeling, neither does the staff in certain places (quite the contrary, CLEW dares say). Or, as the local boulangère says it: “Toutes ces enseignes de luxe – il n’y a […]
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