happy 14th february!

dear everyone, today is of course valentine's day all over the world; and here are some snippets of what we say around town today

(above is my cappucino at {one of} our favourite coffee places...yes, the foam-crafting was done by J) -- they might not have a Starbucks/Coffee Bean/Spinelli on every corner, but the places wth the out-of-this-world coffee are a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!!

(if you didn't know already) my surname is an approximate translation for 'sheep' in Portugese - and yes, one of the famous brands of oranges here in Belgium is 'Cordero'.....no Sunkist,,

and our local spupermarket (literally 2 door numbers from us) had a Valentine's special of 5 'koffiekoeken' (coffee pastries) at about 50euro cents a piece..

and we got a danish, a croissant, a pecan twist, a raisin this and an apricot that...all yummy freshly baked goodness..

the fruit and daffodil plant are just there to fill out the space lah...

so we hope your weekend was restful, and till the next post!

dooi!

chocolicious!

so we were walking around in the old city centre in Antwerp; and we passed by our favorite chocolate shop - and look what we found!

flavoured chocolates!  ranging from cumin and ginger, to plain old 88% dark and milk coffee....it was good fun trying each of the flavours! kinda like a wine or cheese or dim sum session - with each of us picking our favourites!

we did agree though that by the 4th or 5th caraque (i know this term because I used to be a sales rep for Godiva back in S'pore), your tastebuds are a bit overworked from the multitude of flavours..

my personal preference?  the aniseed dark chocolate, with small pieces of aniseed seeds...