Back home!

I miss home! Especially the fresh air, my friends and their babies, my family, sitting at the kitchen table, walking into down, cycling to the beach.. so Ill never leave it so long again going home

Home sweet home

Drinks on the balcony

Drinks in town

More lunch

On our way to UK

Hoek van Holland

 Punting in Cambridge

Kings College

King College

Dessert at Jamies

Our stay at Lensfield

Hand in Hand

Walk around town

Movie Night

 Cheese!

 High tea in Amsterdam

Lunch on the Spaarne

Reading Donald on the balcony

Cycling trip to the beach

 Pancakes in the Dunes

Master Class at Gordon Ramsay!

Dear K, Last time I made a meal was....... Can't even remember :-)
Except for last Friday when I made nachos with cheese for Srini..

So you can image my fear when we had to create a three course menu according to Gordon Ramsay standards at Verre, Dubai a few weeks ago. It was great and the meal we had to prepare was delicious! Even though I was the only one who managed to burn my risotto.

It looked and tasted GOOD! We were also treated to a blind wine tasting, guessed three out of four.. All those tastings in Stellenbosch paid off :-)

With love from AUH, xx c.a.

                                          The Menu

           First course: Risotto with Butternut

                                                                     After

                                       Before - Fillet of Beef

                                                              Still Smiling

                                                                      After

                                        Before - Tarte Tartin

                                             And After

                                            Blind Wine Tasting

   Whohoo! First white and red were great

                                                     The Final List

                                                           View of Dubai Creek

A Night Out with the Marketing Girls

Working 11 days in a row really gets to you, 10 - 12 hours a day - Yes people, I know I am a light weight for Middle Eastern standards - Dutch standard this won't be even legal!

So when one of my marketing friends invited me for a German evening, I happily accepted! We went to one of the few places you can get an authentic wiener schnitzel and white German sausage with mustard, very nice!

One more day to go and it's weekend -TGIT! Will you be having a Pimms with cucumber and strawberries?

With love from AUH, xx c.a.

Pink.... As a Lobster!

Lieve K, Another busy weekend in the Middle East...

I tend to forget that my skin doesn't really do sun, even after 2.5 years of sunshine in the ME. This weekend I have been running around in the sun, even though I re-applyied plenty of sunscreen and tried to stay in the shade, my shoulders are now a very lovely shade of bright PINK!

We organized a big charity event on Saturday to raise money for the families in Japan (big success!) and Sunday watched our hotel team participating in the Abu Dhabi Waiter Race (we snatched two prizes!).

After this busy sunny working weekend, a little afternoon of R&R was well deserved and very welcome, so indulged in some Asian tapas and wine at Pearls & Caviar with a beautiful view of the Grand Mosque.

                                                                          Pearls & Caviar

Tomorrow back to the office, have to get my beauty sleep now and charge for a very busy week ahead!
Thursday papa is arriving and have planned some days off! YAY!

Love from AUH, xx c.a.

Sushi time!

Hi lieve K, 

Have to share these pictures with you. We were having dinner few weeks ago with my lovely colleagues in the Japanese restaurant in the hotel. Really good food and had a great time, had my usual miso, edamame and sashimi, wish you were there!

                                           Before

and

                                                       After

With love from Abu Dhabi, c.a.

Lovely l'Ozio

Hi dear Cor,

Just came back from a wine tasting at one of my favorite Italian restaurants in town: l'Ozio, which means something like "free time" in English.

I love this place because of its great food, nice wines and friendly staff. It's also an excellent location if you want to have dinner with a group of people, in the restaurant but also downstairs, where they have a seperate room. Once in every three months they have a new exhibition by different artists and they show Italian art house movies in the room downstairs. In short, l'Ozio is great for the eyes, ears and taste buds!

Oh, I almost forgot... the wine tasting was great too!

Speak to you soon!
Big kisses from Amsterdam,

x Ka

Restaurant l'Ozio
Ferdinand Bolstraat 26
www.ozioamsterdam.com

Wine store Van Krimpen (who organised the wine tasting)
Frans Halsstraat 67
http://vankrimpen.iframe.ch/