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Christmas gift (to myself)
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating this holiday! In Belgium, we don’t have this holiday on our calendar. However, this means the month of November is almost over and it is time for the non-Grinches to start thinking about the next holiday, Christmas or Hanukkah. Some of you want to count down to this holiday with an Advent calendar, and if you want the start down to begin on December 1st you will have to order today or tomorrow at the latest. I got a reminder from The Body Shop (https://www.thebodyshop.com/en-gb/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/c/c00259) in an email this morning. So, I’m publishing this blog just in the nick of time, despite having…
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WW 2 book recommendations – part 6
I thought I had a draft saved of this blog on my laptop somewhere but it seems I didn’t or can’t find it at this time. While I should probably breathe new life into this blog with what I have been up to since January let’s stay slightly with the date this is published, namely Remembrance Day/Veterans Day. However, with everything going on in the world today it seems humankind didn’t really learn from history and we are only repeating it over and over again, while a lot of innocent people lose their lives. On my Kindle, I started some World War I novels, but at the moment I haven’t…
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Last of the books read in 2022
Today is International Holocaust Memorial day, so a World War II fiction review would have been more appropriate. However, for 2023 I didn’t start any historical fiction from this period yet. Also this week in The Netherlands it are National Read Aloud Days (January 25 – February 4th). I don’t have much practice in this one, and mostly I read too fast and I certainly can’t do any voices. But the one that I loved to read was “If the S in Moose Comes Loose” by Peter Hermann. It was a fun way to familiarize my sister’s kids with the English language. And when I didn’t have the book at…
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Last WWII reads of 2022: book recommendations
Don’t let the title picture fool you into thinking that this is a travel blog about Paris. However, 2 out of today’s book recommendations are set (partly) in Paris, and 1 of them is about visitors and habitants of the Ritz hotel in Paris during WWI, WWII and in the 1960s. Let the Ritz hotel be at the Place Vendome, which is depicted here. Don’t let the title picture fool you into thinking that this is a travel blog about Paris. However, 2 out of today’s book recommendations are set (partly) in Paris, and 1 of them is about visitors and habitants of the Ritz hotel in Paris during WWI,…
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2023 Goals
If you saw my Instagram post (@kate_shabitat) you may have seen that my New Year didn’t quite start as I wanted it to. Due to some kind of allergy, my eyes were swollen and I had a rash. Because of the swollen eyes, I had to rest my eyes and keep my screen time limited. As my word of the year is “Health” this was quite inconvenient, but on the other hand, it did emphasize the importance of it again. Not only physical health but also mental, financial, and on another level also see that my household stays in shape. However, I will need to make sure I don’t live…
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Happy Boxing Day 2022
Another day late, but I still got an email for a Boxing Day promotion. So I feel justified to keep the title of this blog: Happy Boxing Day! I hope all of you who celebrate Christmas or any other Holiday had a wonderful time. While I’m not a total Scrooge, I wasn’t in the mood for Christmas this year. I started watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas songs only a couple of days before Christmas Eve and didn’t send out any Christmas cards either. Speaking of Scrooge, I read “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens for the very first time. I wasn’t unfamiliar with the story, and the story…
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Book recommendation: Meet me… Georgia Toffolo
I started this post several times but didn’t seem to have saved it. I read these books during the summer, as they appeared perfect summer/beach reads, even though one of the books takes place close to or around the Christmas period. But some celebrate Christmas in July, so why not. For a tourism graduate, this map is really sad and maybe the map together with the blog title is not ringing a bell. So let me tell you which books I’m recommending to you today, all by the same author Georgia Toffolo: Meet me in London: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1335459979?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_0&storeType=ebooks&qid=1670593011&sr=8-1 Meet me in Hawaii: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meet-Hawaii-bestselling-heartwarming-friendship/dp/0008375887/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1IRCU4937SMLT&keywords=georgia+toffolo+books&qid=1671445966&sprefix=%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-4 Meet me in Tahiti: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meet-Me-Tahiti-tropical-bestselling-ebook/dp/B08Y6MK9CL/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1IRCU4937SMLT&keywords=georgia+toffolo+books&qid=1671445966&sprefix=%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-3 Meet me at…
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Gift an experience: A trip to Disneyland Paris
Note to self: When you draft a post in word, don’t forget to put it on the blog 🙂 It’s been again a while since I posted. I promise I will try to do better next year. But let me revive this blog with this new post. With Christmas around the corner, you may already have purchased and maybe wrapped all your presents as well. However, if you are like me, you may not have a clue what to buy your brother-in-law, or nieces and nephews. Therefore let me share an idea of a gift I gave my nephew last year and how that experience was. My nephew is also…
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Trip to London
I was indecisive about what to do for my birthday, so except for some gifts I purchased for myself (maybe I expand on them later), I just stayed at home and had some cake with the family a couple of days later. However, I still felt not myself and had to get out of the house for a weekend instead of just sleeping all day. Hence I booked a weekend away to London, a month later, and a day shorter than I had originally planned. This time the plane fare was less than going by train. Friday morning I still worked half a day and because of actions from public…
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Bridgerton books & series
I know I promised you all I would do better with posting. But I’m a Gretchen Rubin Rebel, so I post when I feel like it and think I have something to say. If you don’t know what I’m talking about go check out her book: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Tendencies-Indispensable-Personality-Profiles/dp/1524760919/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JZWE6D0GEC8D&keywords=the+4+tendencies+by+gretchen+rubin&qid=1649778513&sprefix=the+4+tenden%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1.The national and international holidays are great to hang content on if you have some connection with the topic. But lately, I felt a bit in a funk and not sure what to do with myself, so I haven’t done much. In the meantime, I got the diagnosis of Anemia, so at least this explains the fatigue. I started to write this blog on…
