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New Home and Traveling Again

September 16, 2022 By Lisa VandenBerghe 1 Comment

woman in a kyak on a lake

I still don’t have my residency card, but I’ve moved into my new home! No more living out of suitcases. Phew!! I’m going to try posting weekly, so that my posts will be able to include more details of my daily efforts to renovate the “chateau” and get my business rolling. When too much time passes, I end up writing summaries about what’s been happening. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 18th c, Chateau Living, France, news, Seattle, travel

Vacation in the French Alps

August 5, 2022 By Lisa VandenBerghe 2 Comments

Only a week until I get the keys to my new home in Bourgogne! Then the real work starts, so it was nice to take a few days to visit friends at their chalet for a vacation in the French Alps. The landscape was stunningly beautiful. In many ways, it reminded me of the PNW, with the thick underbrush, evergreen trees, and alpine lakes. But it was steeper, studded with alpine meadows, and sprinkled with clusters of cute chalets on the mountainsides. [Read more…]

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See you in the Hall of Mirrors?

February 25, 2016 By Lisa VandenBerghe Leave a Comment

Plans finally firmed up and I am excited to be going to the costumed ball at Chateau Versailles in France! [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: costume, France, travel

Winterthur Textile Study Day

May 28, 2015 By Lisa VandenBerghe Leave a Comment

I wrote a short blog post about my trip to Winterthur in Wilmington, Delaware for a study day with fellow members of the Textile Society of America. You can read it here and see some of my photos from the day.

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