The one with an after work walk

A couple of weeks ago I decided to take a different route home from work. These are some of the things I found on my walk. It still amazes me how many wonderful spots my hometown has!

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 Lovely and colourful hydrangeas on an after work walk

 This pretty door

 

 

 Receiving a box full of these pretty boxes for the brick and mortar shop

 Loads of oranges

 This guy

 Not quite sure if I do actually like this, cause dolls always creep me out. But I do know that I like the cool minty bicycle this doll rides!

The one with coffee at a factory

 

Back in may, I posted about a walk me + mum had to a former factory, back in april. After walking around and enjoying the building that once was a soup factory (and taking lots of pictures), we wanted to have a drink and a bite, so we visited First Things First. Just look at how wonderfully awesome this place is! This post is not sponsored, I just like to share and show some of the things going on, and places worth visiting in my hometown.

I opted for a cafe latte and (my first ever!) piece of red velvet cake. Mum choose a chocolate milk and apple crumble (made on the spot and served warm, yum!). A coffee roastery, named Blommers, is located in the same building. You can actually see the whole process of coffee roasting from your table!

We ran into critters of different sorts outside

Spotted some streetart on our way back home,

And a pretty door ;-)

First Things First is located at the Honigcomplex, Waalbandijk 14B in Nijmegen

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Receiving mail from Diane, which came with this super-duper pineapple stamp!

Windowshopping and seeing these vases

Running into this guy on my way to work

definitely made having to get up early on a saturday morning more fun!

 Being a member of team dessert at this months cooking club

(strawberries marinated in lemon juice and sugar, yoghurt with

whipped cream and a basil dressing)

My favourite course was the one with seabass, asparagus and beurre blanc

Going on a city walk with the business club I'm a member of, and discovering this door

The one with (more) doors

As you might know, I have a thing for doors. When taking little walks across town, I am always on the look out for pretty ones. I haven't done any door-post so far this year (I did a couple of them last year, here and here), so I think a post dedicated to the beautiful ones found is in order. Hope you'll love them as much as I do! 

Do you see the hands?

 

The above door is a winner, except for the hands, it has one more little surprise. I have seen quite the amount of door knockers, but I have never seen one that is shaped like a cow!

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Bits of spring, seen at the market

A door, and a surpise owl that I didn't spot when I made this photo

Translation: how can you cook something with love, that wasn't produced with love

If only this truck had a different delivery address...

I should ask where my neighbours got their green thumbs :-)

Happy weekend!

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I already made this post yesterday, but forgot to hit the publish button. Today I woke up with a bad case of the sniffles, so maybe that was already simmering yesterday.... I'll leave home for a bit to celebrate friend L's birthday and then I'll go straight back to bed with a cup of tea and a book. I've really had enough of all the cold we've been having lately and the snow we had last week. I am ready for spring. Hope the sniffles haven't found you, and that you're having a great weekend so far.

Looking up

 Working on some new notebooks

Seen on the street

Giggle

 I was team starter this month at the cooking club, we made pea-soup accompanied by toast with fish

And working another door into a 'things I liked post' :-)

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Some random shots from last week

Love this pretty door

wrapping up some orders in paper my mom printed for me

Munching on some tasty olives before moms birthday dinner

Although I'm still not a fan, winter sometimes does look pretty!

Hope you're having a great weekend so far :-)