Reading my way back home
Hello friends ! I’m very happy to be back in 2024 for our next chapter of cosy reading together ! My little break from filming, right after the adventures of my yearly Advent Calendar series, has meant time to reflect.…
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Biedermeier Era Austria: Celebrating Winter Solstice with Cozy Domesticity
Austrian Advent Calendar Day 21 Hello, dear friends, and welcome to our winter solstice episode! If you’ve been following these Advent reflections for any time, you already know I hold particular affection for this symbolic evening. The longest night of…
Advent Calendar Day 18 🎄 “Brigitta” by Adalbert Stifter
Servus and welcome to our Austrian literary and culinary adventure of the day ! I have to confess that while researching the books I wanted to include in my Advent Calendar, I was very specific about what I did not…
Thanksgiving 2023 : scented nonfiction reading ritual
Hello friends, and Happy Thanksgiving ! It’s been a while since my last video, but I am glad to be back and for such a joyful occasion, since this is my third annual celebration of nonfiction books I’m thankful for…
Moroccan Escape : books, travels and thé à la menthe
I am a cosy-at-home person. I love my comfy couch and my rocking chair, my flowers and my cat. I’m one of those people that were happy not to leave their house during lock-down. But every once in a while,…
Summer Reading: 4 Best Books to Read When You Have Brain Fog
Why the Heat Makes Reading Feel Like a Chore Last Tuesday afternoon, I read the same paragraph three times before realizing I hadn’t absorbed a single word. The heat had turned my brain to soup, and the ambitious novel I’d…
The joy of being a tennis lover
My earliest memories of tennis are snapshots of hot summer afternoons in front of the TV, while my father watched a game at Wimbledon. Or was it Roland Garros ? I can’t remember, and it was probably all the same to…
The Tulip: From Ottoman Courts to Dutch Fields
Anna Pavord and the Keukenhof Gardens
Great Masters of Dutch painting : read your way through Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh
A cruise on the canals of Amsterdam… You get to marvel at the architecture, to admire the vision of a nation that has built a legacy for centuries to come, and without even knowing it, you experience a small part…
Historical Fiction in the Netherlands: From The Miniaturist to the Rijksmuseum
You know that buzzing feeling you get when you check something very dear to your heart off your bucket list ? That was me back in January when I decided this would be the year I’d finally see the Dutch…