Camera

I just landed in Venice and my camera is broken. Can't think of anything more torturous than being here and not being able to take pictures ...

Hub Madrid

So I might be in Madrid for work (visiting Hub Madrid; the sister Hub to where I work here in Brussels) but it doesn't mean it can't be dam beautiful!

Ole' Madrid

Just walking round the neighborhood where I'm staying in Madrid. Sunshine in winter does wonders for the soul!

The scariest experience of my life!!!!!!!!!

On Monday I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to work as a translator for a Belgian cartoonist called Pierre Kroll; he's a bit of a legend here in the Benelux political world (so don't be too heart broken if you're like ... "who!!"). Anyway, there was a big conference organised by European Commission here in Brussels called European Development Days where he (and I) were invited to illustrate (well I wasn't doing any drawing ... he didn't even let me touch his rubber) debates lead by heads of state and major political figures from all the world. He was illustrating the debates live and then I was translating his "bubbles" from French to English for the audience to understand.

Sometimes I take a step back from my life and wonder how the hell I ended up doing what I'm doing. I don't mean this at all in a bad way; work, travel and opportunity wise every day is an incredible gift but sometimes I can't help but chuckle and think how truly random life can be.

All photos by EDD

Knives kill

”To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…”

Thanks Nat.

Lift booth

Just some of the amazing photos taken in our lift style photo booth with Natalie! See the rest of the incredible photo stream here!

Pop up photo booth

This weekend I organised a pop up photo booth in an lift with a great local photographer called Natalie. I love planning for crazy events at work. I'm so excited to see how the photos turned out ....

HUB

We'll if I can't take photos outside of work I might as well take them of work ;-) I have about 6 films waiting to be developed but I can't afford to get them developed here in Belgium .... 20 euros for a film ... who are they kidding!#@ oh well it means I get to have a very fun trip to the film store when I'm back in England in January!

Cupcake

Yet another excuse for not taking enough photos but I've been busy building a cupcake empire with my friend Leire! We baked, iced and sold over 250 cakes on Sunday and although it was great fun I now don't want to see another cake for a while ;-)

B&W walk to work

Work

I never thought I'd be one of those people whose lives got taken over by work and who just surfaced on weekends and then disappeared back into an abyss of paperwork behind a computer screen. Well to a certain extend that is now true ... i.e. work seriously interferes with a social life and means I can't have excessive lie ins on a daily basis ... however work is crazy and creative and is probably making my life a better place to be so I don't feel too sorry for myself ;-)