Travel – Germany

Visiting the Vaucluse: Edouard Loubet @ Bastide de Capelongue

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In the late afternoom, pretty exhausted by our exploits, we headed for the village of Bonnieux. Our destination for the night was the Bastide de Capelongue, a Relais & Chateaux luxury hotel owned and run by 2 Michelin-star chef Edouard Loubet. I knew I was going to love Bastide de Capelongue, situated in a restored provencal stone farm house, as soom as we drove through the gate and saw the mass of lavender and the secluded courtyard complete with tinkly fountain.

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Saturday Snapshots #194

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Composition with dandelion and Reichstag, Berlin – May 2012

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Saturday Snapshots #163

October 8, 2011

Red hot chilli peppers, Viktualienmarkt, Munich – September 2010 The Viktualienmarkt in the heart of Munich grew from an original farmers' market into what is today a gourmet destination.  In an area covering 22,000 m2, 140 stalls and shops offer flowers, fruit & vegetables, game, poultry, spices, cheese, fish, fresh juices – and some of the best [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #120

December 11, 2010

  Bird's eye view – Munich, September 2010 You've heard the expression "you silly goose"?  Well let me assure you there was nothing silly about this goose.  While the other geese were flapping about being bird-brained out on the lake at the beautiful Seehaus beer garden in Munich, he marched straight up to our table, fully [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #109

September 25, 2010

Window boxes – Munich, Germany 2007 Arguably South African's greatest floral export, pelargoniums flourish in windowboxes the all over the world, adding colour to even the most severe building.  My first memory of Innsbruck when my mom and I visited in 2005 was falling in love with the proliferation of pink and red geraniums in every [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #108

September 18, 2010

Oktoberfest ferris wheel – Munich, September 2008 When you go to the Munich Oktoberfest, you generally expect lots of beer, lots of bratwurst, lots of drunk Australians, and lots of lederhosen.  And oh yes, you will get all these in spades.   What you might not expect is for the (unfeasibly enormous) beer tents to be surrounded by [...]

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Living a girls’ adventure tale of cocktails and tarts – and a giveaway

August 12, 2010

Defining your family used to be really simple when people were born and raised in the same place where they themselves would eventually settle and raise a family. Your family was your mom and dad; your siblings; and possibly a grandparent that came to live with you. Your extended family was the cousins and aunts and [...]

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