brunches and babies

We had a long weekend in Copenhagen last week, because Rasmus was going to be there for work anyway, so we just booked me a ticket to come with him. I love this city so much. We have many friends and family here, and Rasmus’ parents and brothers even made the trip to the city…

land of my heart

We had a wonderful, relaxed, mostly sunny weekend at my Grandpa’s home in the Scottish highlands. The last time we were there we were snowed in, with a short six hours of daylight to dig out the drive and get some sledging in. This time the drive was clear, the thousands of snowdrops were in…

girls weekend away in Tuscany

Last weekend I fled the darkness and dreariness of Brussels in January and headed for Italy with two of my favourite people, Sarah and Marissa. We spent three nights in a wonderful house in the steep northern Tuscan hills, snuggled within a small hamlet at the top of a scary hairpin road up the side…

Marrakech

We got home late Saturday from a six day trip to Marrakech in Morrocco. And I’ve spent the last four days nursing a sore throat that feels like it’s swollen four times its normal size. I even had a bad dream that I was desperately running through the narrow Marrakech streets looking for a pharmacy……

Hungary

This week I visited a new country, crossing off one of my list of 26 things. It was three days of work so not much free time to explore, but we did get a boat trip on the lake and an evening of great food and Hungarian wine tasting in a beautiful wine cellar. Here…

week in Vienna

I’ve been in Vienna for the last week, attending the XVIII International AIDS Conference. It was a busy week: a networking zone to run, human rights march, sessions that started at 8.30am and finished at 8.30pm… I did also manage to fit in a few hours of sightseeing though and absolutely LOVED Vienna. It is…