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Madeleine is in Asia for Christmas and there’s an arts festival taking place on a tiny island in this island-based place called Hong Kong. It’s called the Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival, taking place on the tiny island of Yim Tin Tsai, and it has caught the eye of us and our friends. What do Read more
Having been in London earlier in November, we are looking forward to being back in London in 2 weeks which would be mid-December. Here’s our 5 favourites for this winter in this cool city: Theatre. OK, even our London insider who isn’t that into theatre was urging us to go see this production: Translations at Read more
We wanted to share our small obsession about London’s Wellcome Collection including its library with comfy sofas and cushions as well as tall windows with lots of light and space and its “Bookshelf of the Human Genome”. Really, it is one of the coolest places in London. It is a “library” with cushions scattered over Read more
It’s summer and it’s time for a holiday. But with crowds everywhere especially at airports, have you considered taking a “vacation” but staying home? Well, we at Madeleine’s have been seriously thinking about it! Are you surprised for never having seriously considered how much fun it is to not to have to drag bags around, Read more
Are you doing any travels for spring? Or, are you making travels plans for later in the year? Do you have restless feet or an incurable desire for adventures? We love travel because it exposes us to new ideas, new cultures, and new people …. We hope to inspire a sense of belonging to this place Read more
It is the month of May and we at Madeleine’s can’t help noticing that we are here in the city of Hong Kong during a year with several sensitive anniversaries on the calendar. The first of these is coming up in a few days: it’s the 100th anniversary of the May 4th movement. What this movement Read more
Happy Earth Day everyone! Yes, we mean Paris the capital of the world of BlaBla Car, the e-mobility tech company. As we at Madeleine’s want to be cool while doing good, we thought we’d write something in honour of Earth Day. And so we decided to share our piece on a very Parisian technology company, Read more
It’s spring, Easter is coming, and we here at Madeleine’s have a feeling for buns … What exactly do we mean? Well, it might be fun to spend the spring season eating our way through the a number of cakes or buns with meaning! As we are about to set off to spend an April Read more
We at Madeleine’s spent a most enjoyable Saturday afternoon in London discovering the city’s first new theatre in 80 years, the Bridge Theatre. “The Bridge” of course refers to the Tower Bridge, and the theatre was by the river and had opened with fanfare in the autumn of 2017 (with none other than Dame Maggie Smith Read more
(photo credit: Freda Chan) A friend of Madeleine’s who is a wonderful photographer living in Hong Kong shared a most fascinating montage of shots taken of “steel-folding-door” store-fronts of traditional old-style stalls in the city – if you look carefully you can see the names of cake shops, furniture shops, grocery stalls, fishing tool store, Read more