Halloween (part1)

Michiel's Halloween party in Antwerp blew my expectations right out of the water; Belgium you did me proud!

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 ;-)

Happy Birthday Chlo ♥♥♥

Welcome Home

Doesn't give a thing away does it ... but I got to mess around for 10 minutes with my camera before tea was ready. Now I'm peckish!

Hello I'm analog

Barbara was nice enough to invite me to contribute to here analog film project "Hello I'm analog" and this is the first of a few photos I'll hopefully be posting, check out her project here. (Ohh and it only seemed natural to submit a photo of a llama)

Tram to work

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Now I'm in Brussels I can go to work on the tram if I want. I like trams .... public transport geek alert? Oh no!!! Super constructive and informative post here ;-)

Housing

My new house in Brussels is seriously knock out and I can't wait to take loads of photos of my new surroundings and neighbourhood. Seriously not coping well with working full time after getting used to 12 hours weeks last year in France; harsh realities of the real world ;-D

The boat

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So I was a little nervous about getting the boat from Hull to Zeebrugge because the idea of a 31,598 ton metal mass floating on the North Sea perplexes and also petrifies me. The boat trip was actually pretty cool if not totally dead and both the departure and arrival landscape was totally barren leaving me with the opinion that I never ever want to live anywhere near a port. (Ps, one of the first things I did on board was to locate the life jackets, as you can see I was very happy when I'd found them!!!).

Moving to Brussels

I'd totally settled into the idea that I would be back in the UK for the foreseeable future but things never quite turn out how they expect do they! So tonight I'm moving to Belgium for a bit ... on a boat! Promise myself less 1 photo posts in the future but the last few weeks have been kinda manic. Ohh and I've also got a few more (self indulgent?) articles over on Travelettes. Au revoir or tot ziens for now...

OkAy

A continued Vespa series

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I love love love scooters yet the sensible middle aged woman in my head screams "DEATH TRAP DEATH TRAP YOU'RE RIDING A DEATH TRAP" whenever I seem to have got myself roped onto the back of one (well ... not literally roped, that would be kidnap) anyhow if sed middle aged woman isn't going to met me have one I might as well take photos of them, more specifically their wing mirrors!

Lunch in Avignon dinner in Nimes

A table mes enfants

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Nothing better than catching up over dinner on a Saturday afternoon with the extended yet sometimes slightly disfunctional Aixoise family. Can you pass the water please.

Dead bodies in the Med

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This is the second set of photos from the disposable underwater camera. My mom said that it looks like we took photos of corpses we came across in the sea. We didn't! I get scared when I watch CSI!

Underwater camera experiment

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I've been dying to use an underwater camera for years and I finally got the chance to use a cheap disposable one when I was in Gozo with the family last month. I was so excited about going to pick these photos up from the chemist and I'm really pleased how they came out even if we are decapitated or limbless in a few of the photos; I never thought it would be that hard trying to take photos underwater!!!