Sunny Days with Juliette

Monthly review – March 2021

Published by Juliette

It was a year ago that I published my very first monthly review on this blog, and I feel like so much has changed – in the world and...

April 1, 2021

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Daily Life, Monthly & Yearly Reviews

The Outstanding blogger Award:

Published by Juliette

I think it was in my Travel Photo post that I mentioned Aiva’s beautiful blog: Our Crossings. Well, I will mention it again today, to thank her for her...

March 23, 2021

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Daily Life

The wonderful Bruges before & during a pandemic

Published by Juliette

Bruges is one of those cities who will almost always be mentioned in travel “bucket lists” for Europe destinations. And it is for sure one of the most visited...

March 12, 2021

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Belgium, Europe, Travel

Monthly review – February 2021

Published by Juliette

I said in last month’s review that February was one of my least favourite months of the year and that I was looking forward for it to end, but...

March 3, 2021

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Daily Life, Monthly & Yearly Reviews

The Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo

by Juliette

When we visited Tokyo, we obviously went to see many traditional shrines and temples, walked along busy streets illuminated by countless billboards and ate a lot of food. But one of the most unique and peculiar things we visited was the Tsukiji Fish Market.

November 14, 2020

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Japan, Travel

The Rikugien Gardens in Tokyo

by Juliette

There are not many places that struck me as much as this park that me and my sister explored on a wonderfully sunny day in Tokyo, and that is why I think it deserves a whole post to itself. Not only this place seemed to come straight out of a Ghibli movie, it was also very quiet and far from the busy streets of...

November 7, 2020

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Japan, Travel

Local Adventures

A morning at the Atomium

I’m not even going to talk about how long it has been since I published a local adventure and I’ll just quickly move on to today’s topic: the Atomium....

Local Adventures

Autumn walk at the Park

I haven’t written a Local Adventure in such a long time! To be fair, I was so lucky to be able to travel a lot and visit a lot...

Local Adventures

Lavender & Sunflower fields

The South of France is pretty well-known for its lavender fields. The best season to see them is summer, usually from mid-June to mid-July, as they are in full...

Local Adventures

Poppy fields

I have been pretty busy lately so I didn’t really have time to write much. However, I did manage to squeeze in a tiny “local adventure”, right before spring...

Local Adventures

Visiting Manosque

To start this series of local adventures I will talk about last week’s visit of a town in Provence called Manosque. This town, located less than an hour away...

Daydreaming at the Tsars’ residences – Peterhof and Catherine Palace

by Juliette

Did you grow up in a royal family? Do you have a 15-bedroom villa in the countryside? Do you have very puffy (and impractical) dresses that you actually wear? If you answered ‘yes’ to at least one of the above questions, then we have very different lives.

Studying Russian in Russia for a month

by Juliette

I stayed in Russia for a month in order to study the language through language courses and immersion. It was an amazing experience that I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn or improve their language skills, as immersion proves to be very useful to truly learn a language.