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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
Are you going to Paris this spring? Has Paris turned from its customary red, white, blue to yellow and green? Yellow of course is the yellow of the “gilets jaunes” (yellow vests or “GJs”) or what has been called “yellow chaos”. Thankfully, Paris survived the gilets jaunes final demonstration (“Act 18”) this past Saturday (16th 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
We at Madeleine’s were in London last October …. And how we do love London in the autumn especially when the weather is great! But which large city in this world has had a book prize every October for the last 50 years? It’s fun to be in London walking around the book shops in Read more
If you are in Hong Kong during one of its “cold spells” like it is right now (“it’s colder than London!”), you can always take umbrage in the malls like The Landmark wherein lies one of our favourite places for a hot chocolate, Le Salon de Thé de Joël Robuchon. It’s not cheap (and we Read more
Have you walked the 37 bridges of Paris? At the moment, Paris is having another one of those big floods (“inondations” in French). Well, if you have walked the 37 bridges of Paris, your knowledge about the “zouave” or more accurately, the zouave du Pont de l’Alma, may come in handy … Weather reports in Read more
So, we at Madeleine’s love this Oscar Wilde quote that “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”. And we’ve included this into “Madeleine goes to London”. But Oscar, Oscar, where can we find you in London? Flamboyant and witty, the playwright, poet and critic was born in Read more
