This week I managed to tick off yet another must-see destination from my list of close-by hotspots so now I am sharing with you some of the pictures I took in Sarreburg, which is a small rural town in western Germany, located some 40 km from the Luxembourgish border. I highly recommend it for a... Continue Reading →
Why Employ Disabled People? Attend the seminar & celebrate Diversity Day in Luxembourg
“Employing a disabled person is not an act of charity, it is potentially a wise business decision” (Evenbreak 2014). Besides the many moral, ethical and legal reasons why organisations should consider employing disabled people, the business case for it has largely been neglected. A persisting myth among employers is that employing disabled people is an expensive... Continue Reading →
Happy Easter!
Dear fellow bloggers and followers, I wish you all a Happy Easter! Thanks for joining me in this adventure!
Time For Equality @Migrations Festival in Luxembourg
All photos were taken by © Roxana Mironescu on March 14 and March 15, 2015 @ LuxExpo in Luxembourg, during the Migrations Festival. For more information on Time For Equality, please click here. To know more about the Migrations Festival, an annual event held in Luxembourg, click here. All photos were taken by © Roxana... Continue Reading →
Lenacay concert @ Migrations Festival Luxembourg 2015
I discovered this band, Lenacay, from Barcelona, at this year's Migrations Festival @ Luxexpo in Luxembourg, on Saturday night when they played a nice fusion of flamenco, rock and rumba music. I am a big fan of flamenco and latin music, therefore, their music appealed to me instantly, but irrespective of one's music tastes, the lead... Continue Reading →
Migrations Festival in Luxembourg (14/15 March 2015)
The Migrations Festival, or officially called in French, Festival des migrations, des cultures et de la citoyenneté, is an annual event celebrating Luxembourg's multiculturalism, mutilingualism and the diverse identities that exist and coexist in Luxembourg. As you may already know, Luxembourg is a small country with around 45% of its inhabitants coming from abroad, bringing along... Continue Reading →
Luxembourg City Film Festival returns to the big screen with new name, but same standards
The fifth edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival kicks off in the Grand Duchy on February 26 and is set to delight film buffs all across the region until March 8. This year's line-up promises a diverse programme of movies, from short films and features to fiction and documentary, local and international productions, masterclasses,... Continue Reading →
I origins – Film Recommendation
Synopsis: I ORIGINS (2014), the second feature film from writer and director Mike Cahill, tells the story of Dr. Ian Gray, a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues... Continue Reading →
Amour Fou- Avant-Première on February 5 in Luxembourg
A Luxembourg-Germany-Austria film co-production will soon arrive in the Grand Duchy's cinema theaters with a public screening and a cocktail dinner event set to take place at Cine Utopia on February 5 from 7pm. Don't miss out on the chance to see the cast and the director of the wonderful "romantic comedy" Amour Fou followed by... Continue Reading →
Book recommendation – “Dubliners” by James Joyce
In "Dubliners'' published in 1914, Joyce paints a literary portrait of an entire society. The book comprises 15 short stories that glimpse into the lives of different sets of people in Dublin. The author is exploring what it measn to be Irish at a time in history when the Northern Ireland issue was coming to... Continue Reading →