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Chateau d'Adomenil Relais et Chateaux

Chateau d’Adomenil****, Relais et Chateaux and 1* restaurant

Posted by Thien Lan on April 16, 2015December 10, 2015 in Food, France, French food, Hotel, Luxury, Michelin star restaurants, Restaurant Review

How much can you celebrate your husband’s birthday? Never enough! After an indulgent lunch at the Grand Dolder Hotel Restaurant in Zurich, we decided to take advantage from our trip to my mother in law in Nancy, east of France,…

Rolli's steakhouse Zurich

Rolli’s Steakhouse review, Oerlikon Zurich

Posted by Thien Lan on April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 in Food, Oerlikon, Restaurant Review, Steakhouse, Zurich

My husband got a good deal for a hygienist treatment on Groupon. It was in Oerlikon so we decided to have lunch there beforehand and picked Rolli’s steakhouse based on the good ratings on Google. The decor is typical of…

Lindt Ostermarkt

Lindt Ostermarkt Zurich

Posted by Manu on April 1, 2015 in Food, Kids friendly, Parenting, Swiss food, Switzerland, Zurich

Manu’s taking the keyboard for that one as he is the one who went exploring it. Switzerland, number 1 chocolate country (sorry Belgian friends!), Lindt factory and Easter coming up. When you mix these 3 elements, it’s time to head…

lunch at the Dolder Grand Garden Restaurant

Birthday lunch at the Dolder Grand Garden Restaurant

Posted by Thien Lan on March 30, 2015March 30, 2015 in Food, Luxury, Swiss food, Switzerland, Zurich

My husband is turning 38 and for his lunch celebration I wanted something grand that will remind him of Zurich forever. The choice was easy: Dolder Grand Hotel, the iconic hotel with a view on the Lake and its very…

oven grilled chicken legs

Oven grilled chicken leg

Posted by Thien Lan on March 26, 2015November 4, 2017 in Food, French food, Kids friendly, Recipes

Second recipe in the “What’s for dinner series”, with the same theme using the oven to make crispy, tender and juicy chicken legs. How to grill chicken legs in the oven? Prep time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 60 minutes Oven…

Duck breast recipe

Oven grilled honey duck breast recipe

Posted by Thien Lan on March 21, 2015March 25, 2015 in Food, French food, Recipes

What’s for dinner? This is a series that I’m happy to do, almost real time with a few pics and a couple of instructions as my recipes are very simple. They appeal to my kids so I hope it will help…

Zolilkerberg Hospital in Zurich

Zollikerberg Hospital in Zurich Switzerland

Posted by Thien Lan on March 18, 2015May 12, 2020 in Food, Health, Luxury, Switzerland, Zurich

Today I decided to do something* a bit different: HOSPITAL REVIEW! I happened to experience a stay at the hospital not long after I arrived in Zurich, in October 2014, so how about sharing how it was? Why did I go…

Ski holidays in a Kinderhotel

Ski holidays with kids in a Kinderhotel in Switzerland

Posted by Thien Lan on March 11, 2015December 10, 2015 in Fashion and Beauty, Food, Holidays, Hotel, Kids friendly, Outdoors, Parenting, Swiss food, Switzerland

This is our first ever family ski holiday trip. We considered going to Thredbo or Perisher back when we were living in Australia but it was 6,000 AUD (4,300 euros) a week with little guarantee of snow, smaller slopes than…

Why I hate Parsenn ski fields in Davos, Switzerland

Posted by Thien Lan on March 5, 2015February 28, 2015 in Outdoors, Swiss food, Switzerland

Hi everyone! A bit of ranting today. I’m on holidays at a ski resort and we decided to explore the biggest ski field in Davos Klosters: Parsenn. You go up from the city center with a vertical train. It all…

what to do with kids in Paris

Paris with a 6 year old?

Posted by Thien Lan on February 26, 2015November 13, 2017 in Food, France, Kids friendly, Restaurant Review, Staff pick

Last week I spent 2 days with my 6 year old son in Paris. Just the two of us. I’ve never been inspired with what to do in Paris with kids. I’ve always found the city so kids unfriendly! I wasn’t…

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New HD video of my band's first original song. The sound was enhanced and you can better catch notes (and off tune one too 🙉).

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