Rasmus started his new job today. And so today marked the start of a new season for us. The past year has been one of flexible schedules and fulltime parenting together and asking so many questions and leaning into the unknown. And now a part of that unknown is over. He has a job he’s…
Our Easter Feast – friends of seven nationalities who have become family… I’ve lived outside of my home country for the last seven and a half years. And before that there was also a gap year overseas and a study abroad year. So I’m getting used to being away from everything British. (Also the fact…
“There aren’t any needs here.” That’s what we heard over and over when we moved to Luxembourg. Regularly hitting the top three richest nations in the world (by GDP), Luxembourg is a beautiful and pristine little country, snuggled between Belgium, France and Germany. From first impressions, it certainly looks like there is not much wrong…
A week ago, we met up with our friends for a post-skiing reunion with fondue and white wine. It’s the kind of food you really can only eat in the depths of winter, those freezing days when you come in stamping your feet and rubbing your hands in front of your mouth, peeling off layer…
This room was very familiar to me. It’s round tables, the laminate floor, the residual smells of mass-cooked dinner remaining from last night. Here I would come weekly, gather a small group of people around a table – from Tibet, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya – a few women bouncing babies on their laps, and we’d sound…
It’s a wet and cold autumn day here in Luxembourg. The kind where really you should stay tucked up inside with a good book or magazine, Bon Ivor playing and banana muffins in the oven. Instead, after church this morning we jumped in the car and drove north in the rain to Vianden. It’s Vianden’s…
