Monthly Archives: August 2021

Our board holidays basically always have to do with food, wine and doing nothing. We take our nourishment very seriously and tend to plan our days around when/what to eat. Right next door to our airbnb we had a lovely little classic Spanish restaurant which we headed to for dinner twice. The view and food were really nice. One afternoon we visited the main city on Mallorca, Palma and spent half of the visit restaurant hopping and eating (too many) tapas. Two wine tastings were essential to the program where first we visited Maciā Battle (highly recommend), a Bodega that not only makes wine but also spray salt. The second was Bodega Riberas, the oldest winery on the island. My favorite wine here was their rose. With a day of a lot of tasting and a bit of learning, I am successfully continuing my journey to become a sommelier haha.

Mallorca might be known for its partying, however our week there became quite the opposite. Instead of being amongst large groups of people where we might get infected with a virus we don’t want, we explored the island. You have the classic overfilled beaches, but also the quiet hidden ones. Unfortunately we only found those on the last day. The color of the water is by far my favorite part. It is such a perfect blue, something we don’t really get to see here in holland haha.

French girl is finally in France. Two years later, we happily reunited in my favorite country to spend a week together with the Schmitt family in the French countryside. Our Airbnb was two hours north of Toulouse and close to the famous city built into the rocks, Rocamadour. We were a bit active during the day, but of course had to make use of the pool with the super pretty view. Since Léa was doing an internship half of the day, I turned the swan into my best mate and we spent many afternoons together at the pool haha. My visit was short, but sweet and although it was France, it was quite enjoyable 🙂

A weekend at the lake is something I cannot say no to. If it gets too hot you can go for a swim or simply go drink an Aperol. We spent a short weekend in Italy, but pretty much also Switzerland because the borders are so close, and were invited for a boat ride across the lake and to dinner. One evening we took drive to Lake Como to see George Clooney’s house and have a fish cooked in salt dough. Life at the lake really as striking as you would expect it to be.

When you think of a trip to Italy, you usually do not picture mountains and kaiserschmarren. Südtirol is basically Germany and most people here actually speak German as well. I was very lucky to be invited by Philipe’s family on this trip and we enjoyed some wine, the fresh mountain air and delicious food. I for sure did a lot of eating, which of course is one of my favorite hobbies. Every morning we started our day with a classic breakfast of cheese, ham, scrambled egg and homemade granola with yogurt. To walk of the calories we took the gondola up different mountains and in the process made friends with the cows. Overall, it was a refreshing four day stay in Bressanone.