Hotspot Haarlem: Wolkers

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Quite new in town (open since December 5th) Bar Wolkers! It’s a lunchroom where you can also get breakfast or an afternoon drink.

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I can be really short about this: the place looks fantastic!! With different types of art and a touch of retro (so in love with that seventies couch!) versus industrial elements.

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A crush on catwalk shows.. (or must I say crash?)

Most parts of my working life are great. But some of them really rule! Yesterday I was allowed to visit a catwalk show from fashion designer Dennis Diem. Dennis Diem? I like fashion, but I’m not thát into designers. And what do I wear?? I’m so excited. This is my first catwalk show!!

Dresscode: tenue de ville. I choose my new huge dotted, slim, over knee skirt with a casual shirt (which needed definitely an iron, I see now), a small fake-fur and high-heeled boots.  It was a fairly safe outfit, especially when I spotted all the real fashionista’s wearing the most beautiful dresses, shoes, gloves, accessoires etc. (Here you see me with my collegue Vera).

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Some of the guys (yes, they’re all male underneath) dressed up as real creations and that’s exactly the fantastic part of the (fashion) game, don’t you think?

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New Saturday morning ritual: killing pesticides on my veggies

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De pesticiden van mijn groente en fruit afkrijgen? Gewoon een beetje wassen onder de kraan, toch?! Niet dus, landbouwgif is hardnekkig en krijg je met een beetje water niet weggespoeld. Maar, er is hoop! Het enige wat je nodig hebt:

– Baking Soda (3 eetlepels)
– Azijn (1 kopje)

Misschien had je al eens van deze methode gehoord? Ik wel, maar ik was altijd een beetje lui. Tot vanmorgen.

Killing those pesticides? How?! Piece of cake! With these two products: baking soda and ordinary vinegar. I’m sure you heard of this method before. So did I but I was always too lazy to bring the good intention into practise. Till this morning.

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Sweet smoothie with pear and spinach

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I know, I know, judging from the looks of this smoothie it doesn’t deserve the Prettiest Victoria Secret Model Of The Year Award…  But then there is that taste, so sweet!!!

This morning I ran out of almond milk. Almond milk is the base of most of my breakfast smoothies. I thought, why not use that new (sugarfree) pearjuice?! While adding the ingredients I came up the idea of adding some fresh spinach aswell.

This is what I put together in my blender:

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