two days in paris with pippa

Two days in Paris.

A mother-daughter trip we both have been looking forward to for months.

We departed on Monday early in the morning with the Thalys from Rotterdam and at 10:30 we enjoyed a coffee and hot chocolate on the terrace at Le Parisien. Thereafter we walked along Canal de Saint-Martin to Merci for lunch and inspiration and in the afternoon we walked and shopped in Le Marais.

At closing time, when we walked back to our hotel, we came across a very special art gallery, Design & Nature. An impressive collection and also a little sad but it was good to know all animals are coming from captivity and died naturally.

After having walked 13 kilometers through Paris we decided to have dinner in a typical Parisian cafe-bistro on the corner of our street.

Day two started sunny, so we had our French breakfast on the heated terrace at 'our' corner cafe.

We took the metro to the Arc de Triomphe and walked the Champs Elysees direction Jardin des Tuleries. After déjeuner avec des crêpes we walked on and at the end of my favorite park the most fairytale-like Christmas market appeared.

After a 'December mood' half an hour, we continued our route to Île de la cité. We shopped a little more and had another drink on the umpteenth terras...
We prepared for the return journey and had our last dinner in Paris.

The two days in Paris were great and we've had so much fun! This trip with my daughter Pippa was very precious and we both enjoyed it so much just being together. Love my girl. Paris together was priceless!

all about love

A mini photo report of the wedding of our friends Marieke & Stefan, or as we call them Marie & Steef...

Marieke is a wonderful friend and we share a lot of passions, like crochet, gardening (ginkgo's), Cuba, flowers, vintage, oldtimers and golden shoes.

Marieke and I met for the first time in October 2010, when she joined the crochet workshop for beginners I organized with Yvestown's Yvonne in Den Bosch, the Netherlands.

It was great fun and Marieke also joined the second crochet workshop in March 2011, this time for experienced crocheteers, haha.

From then on our friendship blossomed into something special.

Marieke joined me during the Cool Crochet workshop April 2015 with her niece Marleen. We had so much fun together and the three of us became soulmates! We share the same sense of humor and all three of us are equally emotional...

On Saturday we celebrated the wedding of Marie & Steef. Everything was right; the couple, love, fairytale setting, weather, atmosphere, live Cuban music, flowers (by Marleen), home baked cakes, champagne and all dear family and friends! And her husband Steef surprised her with a vintage Porsche on the wedding day, no doubt that almost everyone wanted to be photographed with that beauty!

Like Marie's father mentioned in his loving speech during dinner; 'Marie is a pearl!'

family & friends

To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, we travelled to Marrakech to share this special event with our children and dearest friends.

The two of us married in 1992, without a party or fuss, this time we did it again our very own way...

One year ago we made a plan to celebrate our love with a small group of loved ones. We have been looking forward to this special journey for a long time.

In our imagination the thought of this trip was already so great, but it was even better than we had ever dreamed of.
It was so very special to have all my sweethearts with me in Marrakech. My husband and best friend Henk, son Minne, daughter Pippa and her friend Joe, our friends Fred, Chris, Jeroen and Rosa.

We started each day with a breakfast in the sun on the roof terrace.

We stayed for six days at hotel Chambres d'Amis and visited the most beautiful spots in the Medina and enjoyed the road trips with our minibus to the High Atlas Mountains and the desert. We had lunch and dinner in all my favorite restaurants and ended each day with drinks on the roof.

You already know that Marrakech is my favorite city (obviously) and being among the people i adore so much, made this trip even more unforgettable.

(more about our adventures in the following posts)

l o v e

Have a [L O V E]ly day!