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I’m sorry that I haven’t been around much lately. Rest assured, I’ll be back real soon! In the meantime, if you miss me you can hop over to Leeswammes’ blog: she’s hosting my Book Bloggers Abroad guest post this week!
Ik bracht één souvenir mee van Madeira, en dat is Japanse koyadofu (tofu)..! Gedroogde tahoe. Eens kijken wat ik daarmee zal gaan maken! Iets fusion-achtigs? ;) Maar eerst moeten mijn mini-koyablokjes met Anpanmangezichtjes op want die zijn al láng over hun houdbaarheidsdatum heen…
We zijn weer thuis van onze wandelvakantie in Madeira. En wat nam ik mee als ‘souvenir’? Je gelooft het nooit — Gnoe is onverbeterlijk! ;) Maar nu eerst uitpakken, de was doen en.. geocachen om snel weer een travel bug los te laten ;)
To be continued dus…
This week’s edition of Weekly Geeks is just what I was waiting for…
focus on one of the most useful tools for a bibliophile: Bookmarks
I have been contemplating a post about my adventurous bookmark for a while now. It’s really an amazing story!
We went on holiday to the fabulous Unesco World Heritage Site Cappadocia in Turkey. In Göreme’s bookshop 1001 Books we bought Barbara Nadel’s Dance with Death: a mystery that’s situated in the area.
With it, we got a free bookmark. Mr Gnoe used that a lot! It brought back happy memories of our hiking holiday :) But a few months after we got back home it suddenly disappeared :( We looked everywhere, took apart our whole house, flicked through all the books we had recently read, looked under cupboards, but no: it really was completely lost.
And then… after 2 weeks the weather was great so we decided to have a drink in the park after work. I parked my bicycle at the gate — what the *** was that? I saw some familiar colours in the grass! Yes, it definitely was our own bookmark from Turkey :-o No idea how it got there! Thus ended the trip of our Cappadocian marker. And its life because it was in no state to be used anymore :( So it was recycled to be reincarnated. LOL
After that I made Mr Gnoe a personal bookmark with pictures of our holiday. And what do you know? He lost it.. : Again.
Well, better look at the bright side of things: such a good excuse to go back for another vacation in Cappadocia! To get another bookmarker that’s as fond of travelling as we are :)
The rest of my bookmark collection can be seen (and read about) on flickr.
So here’s the bento I took yesterday on my first day back to work. I tried to extend my holiday spirit by taking tabbouleh salad, fresh mint for tea and a mix of nuts that came all the way from Cappadocia in Turkey: roasted chick peas, apricot seeds and almonds coated in honey and sesame seeds. Yummy! I also added some dried cranberries.
But I took some other stuff as well: a La vache qui rit cheese wedge, cherry tomatoes, Japanese peas and kiwi (peeled and sliced in the morning) with some lemon juice on the side.
Another way of keeping my holiday near is reading Dance with Death by Barbara Nadel. It’s a thriller set in Cappadocia and I bought it on site ;) Thankfully we didn’t find any dead bodies in the caves we visited!
My BX bookshelf
