Sunny Days with Juliette

Celebrating spring: the Floralia Brussels flower show

Published by Juliette

If you’re not new here, you may have realised that I have a thing for flowers: they brighten up a gloomy day with their touch of colour, liven up...

May 15, 2022

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Local Adventures

Monthly review – April 2022

Published by Juliette

April went by so quickly and was filled with amazing and beautiful things. It felt a bit hectic at times (what a surprise), but I really felt like I...

May 7, 2022

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Daily Life, Monthly & Yearly Reviews

Winter in Iceland – 6 days itinerary

Published by Juliette

A few weeks ago, I was able to fulfil one of my long-time dreams of going to Iceland, and it was truly amazing. I went there at the beginning...

April 18, 2022

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Iceland, Travel

Monthly review – March 2022

Published by Juliette

With a week spent in Iceland and two days in Amsterdam, I feel like March was very short and extremely eventful at the same time. I think that I...

April 6, 2022

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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

Celebrating spring: the Floralia Brussels flower show

If you’re not new here, you may have realised that I have a thing for flowers: they brighten up a gloomy day with their touch of colour, liven up...

Local Adventures

The Ninglinspo hike in the Belgian Ardennes

Behind this odd name is a beautiful 6 km hike that follows the course of the only Belgian mountain stream throughout tall trees, slippery bridges (in winter) and beautiful waterfalls....

Local Adventures

Lanterna Magica: an enchanted evening walk

I am finally back with a short blog post to tell you about a very nice local adventure I went on in December of last year. I haven’t uploaded...

Local Adventures

Chasing flowers

Finding beauty in the ordinary also means marvelling at nature’s wonders, and when you can’t travel to the other side of the world to discover something completely new and...

Local Adventures

Belgium’s Blue Forest

As with some of my previous local adventures, this new one is all about flowers and specifically about bluebells. These pretty purple flowers look like tiny little bells and...

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.