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It’s the city I live in..The city if angels..Antwerp

17 Apr

Hi guys!

Thank you so much for the nice tips to improve this bloggie.. Right now feels like it’s just a baby bloggie and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to continue but a lil birdie (you know who you are ;) ) told me to be patient and continue if I love doing it ( which I do!!)

What I can conclude from some of the comments ( keep them tips coming pulease!)

- More Fashion

- More healthy desserts

- A Vlog ( this one scares me a bit haha)

- More lunches

-  More random food pics

- More traveling experiences ( April is a very slow month for me but that will change in May, in June I’m going to Paris and Germany and in July I will do a road trip around the west coast of the US of A, lots of exciting things to blog about! :) )

- Being more personal ( I realized that I don’t really post a lot of pics with myself or my bf , gonna change that as well :) )

Today I felt really really bad! Totally drained and tired.. I think it had something to do with my Bikram classes last week, I lost a looooooooot ( And I mean really really a lot of sweat) of fluids and I think I have to be more carefull to drink more WATER!! :)

Normally I drink 3 starbucks cups of green tea ( about 1.5l , the daily recommendation)

but I think I have to up that whilst doing Bikram yoga..

I’ve also started to ease in to running again.. I have always had some kind of love/hate relationship with running.. I love running if I’m able to do some distance ( and get the runners high), but after wintertime it’s like starting from scratch.. The first month I kinda  resemble this :

But I hope to be like this in May starting the 1/2 marathon training program:

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A few people asked me to write a bit more about traveling, but I have to say I always love coming home to my own city..Antwerp.. :)

Antwerp lies in the flemish region of Belgium and is currently known for it’s number of great fashion designers like

-Dries Van Noten

- Ann de Meulemeester

-Dirk Bikkembergs

- Walter Van Beirendonck

- Dirk Van Saene

We have some amazing shopping streets:

Awesome Belgian food ( If you’re NOT a vegan ;) )

Belgian chocolate..

Belgian fries with mayonnaise..  ( so not diet friendly, but the national pride)

Belgian Waffles..

Belgian beer..( I’m not really a beer drinker, but we do have the best beer in the world ;) )

I usually roll here: Lombardia, it’s a small organic restaurant where they have Vegan and Vegetarian Dishes! We only have one restaurant like this in Antwerp and it’s super popular!

Antwerp is just a very cosy and cute little town with it’s nice architecture and old buildings.. In summer it’s very nice to just wander around in all those little streets or to go to the river and have a nice pick nick..

In summertime I like to chill out here:

It’s a place close to the river where they put white sand and some palm trees, excellent to escape for a little while :)

- What do you like about the region/city you live in?

- Did you know Antwerp/Belgium already? Would you like to visit it someday?

Lazy sunday and Give away!

17 Apr

Hey hey!!

Today will be a typical example of a lazy sunday.. Blogging/ reading/baking and slacking around ;) I hope I get to see Food inc today, but i don’t think that will be a problem since the boyfriend is watching sports ALL day ( he’s obsessed, really ;) , kinda like me with food related things haha :D )

Yesterday I went to Bikram Yoga in the morning, seems like morning classes are less my thing cause it didn’t go that well.. Ups and downs, that’s life ;) Afterwards I had a date with mom, to check out the market in Antwerp and to go to the health food store.. I’m really gonna do my best to make my eating pattern more and more vegetarian/vegan so I got these goodies:

500 grams of pecans!!


Organic Soy yoghurt :)

Cheezly Imitation Cheese.. So curious about the taste of this baby!

Chili Marinated Tofu strips..

Spelt seitan.. :)

Black olives..hmm!

First time trying Almond milk! I was so excited! It tastes a bit funny at first but not bad at all :)

A (not so ripe) pineapple !

Organic Quinoa!

Organic Bulgur! This reminds me a lot of my days in Turkey, they have it every day and it’s delish!

Organic lentils.. Excited to make lentilloaf out of this package :)

I also planted some fresh herbs on the terras..

Rosemary..

Sage and Thyme..

This is kinda like mint, but it tastes lemonlike.. I think it’s called Lemon balm in english :)

Seems like I’m turning into a health monster.. Yesterday the boyfriend had a craving for some nasty fatty foods.. Normally I would eat a small portion but I just didn’t want any of it.. All I had on my mind was this..

Delicious oats with chocolate protein powder, nanner, peanut butter and cacao bliss.. Heaven in a bowl!!

After thinking about it for a little while I decided to give away a few of the bars I picked up in New York..

MY FIRST  (small) GIVE AWAY yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! * doing a party dance*

The goodies!


The goodies:

- Skinny Bitch in the Kitch

- Larabars: Blueberry muffin/ Cinnamon roll /cashew cookie

- Luna bar : Cookies and Cream delight

- Thin thin bar: White chocolate chip

All u have to do is:

- Tweet about the giveaway: I just entered @Ellalinea awesome giveway! Visit http://ellalinea.com/”

- Comment on this post:  What would you like to see more on this blog?

Give away will end 20/04/2011!

Have a great lazy (or not so lazy) sunday!

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