Can you grow enough food on your balcony?
Urban farming is hot topic. You see it everywhere. Small repurposed patches of land in neighbourhoods are teeming with lettuce, radishes and sunflowers. You can follow workshops to make vertical gardens from used soda bottles or buy a square meter…
Origami
Our fascination with origami started on a rainy day in January in Bouron, France. Bored to death, with no other materials than old magazines, and practically flooded due to the rain, folding a paper boat is the first thing that…
If the gods don’t like you, they give you a boat
‘If the gods don’t like you, they give you a boat.’ – Mr. Gray On a nice summer day most people like to be out on the water, having fun in a boat. But boats tend to be expensive…
Breton stripes for safety
Where do the Breton stripes find their origin? Well, as the name states, in Breton (formerly known as Brittany) in France. The fishermen in the beginning of the 19th century wore striped woollen shirts called marinière or matelot. These sturdy…
Why wear blue when boating?
Wearing blue on a boat isn’t something that has been ‘en vogue’ the last few decades or so. When we tried to trace the origin of nautical clothing, the earliest descriptions we found were about Roman ships. They used light…