KIOSK HELLO

“have noth­ing in your houses that you do not find to be use­ful or believe to be beau­ti­ful“
– (from The Beauty of Life, 1880)

This man knew what he was talking about

We have been vis­it­ing fam­ily in Provence this sum­mer and thought you’d like to see what we brought back. Provence is nice, mostly tem­po­less. Food is great. Life is good etc. Bug us to make a map of places to go to, although I’ll *never* give up our secret swim­ming spot — it’s a bit […]

I have been admir­ing the blog Miekewil­lems for a while now. It chron­i­cles the expe­ri­ence of 2 good friends who have opened a store together in Antwerp. I was excited to see the other day that they had vis­ited the store and enjoyed a Sur­prise ball (and doc­u­mented it all with beau­ti­ful pho­tos!)
Hope we will […]

so long!

hi
my friend asked for cheap eats in stock­holm
here is the list I sent her!
CENTER:
Sosta:
for cof­fee and sand­wich, day­time only
84 sveav­agen between the cen­ter and oden­plan
Tel: 6121349
Vete-katten:
cen­ter near hotor­get
cafe for lunch, swedish tra­di­tional for a shrimp sand­wich and cof­fee / cake
Kungs­gatan 55
Tel: 208405
Kajsas:
fish restau­rant in the cen­ter for lunch only!
located in Hötorgshallen, the […]

Friend in berlin now, needs a place to eat, I don’t eat meat so my resources are lim­ited in Berlin although great stuff, our friend Kirsty who lives in Berlin now directed us to these places so I have to give her credit…
Knödel, the Ger­man dumpling, DELICIOUS, nice inte­rior too, good neigh­bor­hood
Leo Bet­tini
Mulack­strasse 33
030 […]

Finnish straw­ber­ries, Finnish blue­ber­ries, you name it berries, they are all good, bet­ter than any­where else…as is with most things in Fin­land, they are con­cen­trated! Full of fla­vor! Eat them fresh from the mar­ket or dried, YUM! In a pow­dered form or in soup, bet­ter yet, they are CHEAP a whole 2 pints of […]

Helsinki dis­patch 1.…people are won­der­ful, city is beau­ti­ful, so much to see and do, so much con­densed in a small area! we are really enjoy­ing it, walk­ing every­where which makes a big dif­fer­ence, so come here in the spring or sum­mer months, you want to walk around. GREAT food, again and again, […]

I have had so many types of licorice today that I really feel suuper-duuper-sikk. Been in Helsinki for two fab­u­lous days now going to great stores and watch­ing finns hav­ing a great late sum­mer days. Did you know that finnish is com­pletely uncom­pre­hen­si­ble, but really beu­ti­ful as a lan­guage? When­ever they speak to me, […]

My top 3…
Thiel­ska Gal­leriet, on Djurgår­den
http://www.thielska-galleriet.se/
Bio­log­i­cal Museum, on Djurgår­den, amaz­ing dio­ra­mas
http://www.biologiskamuseet.com/
Mod­ern Museum on Skepp­shol­men, good cafe there too
http://www.modernamuseet.se/index.asp?bhcp=1