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Monthly archive mai 2013
Samuel Bekett, Oh les beaux jours au Theatre Nono

Samuel Bekett, Oh les beaux jours au Theatre Nono

  An evening at the « Theatre Nono » is always an out of the ordinary experience… here we are all quite happily reclining on sun loungers: it helped us getting through some of the toughest parts of Beckett’s piece…with a few snores heard here and there, it was all in all a relaxed evening! It seems Serge...
Mon île de Montmajour, by Christian Lacroix

Mon île de Montmajour, by Christian Lacroix

Mon île de Montmajour, an awesome location and sublime production by Christian Lacroix, running now until November 3, do not miss it !!
Hotel Nord Pinus, Arles

Hotel Nord Pinus, Arles

A few pics from a delicious stay at the mythic hotel Nord Pinus in the heart of Arles         
Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Although I was born in Chile, I consider Strasbourg to be my home town as I grew up there, and met my husband there as well, so it’s always with great pleasure that we stroll the streets of this gem of a town with our children. On top of having the most beautiful cathedral in...
Flammes et flots sur le vieux port

Flammes et flots sur le vieux port

Magic evening yesterday (and again tonight) on the « Vieux port » by the company Carabosse, to inaugurate « La folle histoire des arts de la rue » , a festival of free street shows in the Marseille until May 20, see program here     
The New Hotel, Athens

The New Hotel, Athens

Just relooked by the Campana brothers, it epitomises cool and functional. Their scrap/recycling design style works marvels here in the lobby, and in the much published breakfast room with « trees » of recycled wood furniture elements dressing up the supporting columns.      In the bedrooms, the Campana brothers reinterpret the traditional shadow theatre, the « Karagiozis »...
The Acropolis and the Acropolis museum

The Acropolis and the Acropolis museum

 No need to present the grand site of the Acropole, it’s now also enjoyed from a pedestrian path around its base on what used to be a busy road before   The  new Acropolis Museum, terminated in 2007, offers a contemporary space to the antique sculptures and archaeologic findings of the Acropolis site, as well as some...
Santorini

Santorini

Our last trip to Greece dated from the late 80’s, a marvellous time backpacking and island hopping through the Cycladic island…also one of our first « grown up » trips with my boyfriend-husband-to-be…so it was with much emotion that we travel back there to show the marvels of Greece to our children…..and with much relief, we realise...