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Ibiza

Oooh I just got sent photos from my last work trip to Ibiza and boy oh boy has it made me miss the summer! I am currently sitting in my flat wearing a hat, jumper and wrist warmers, after a morning of making winter soups for the freezer brrr.

I went to Ibiza at the end of September to cook for the FIND Ibiza workshop for 20 wedding photographers from all over the world. We stayed in a beautiful villa and they spent all day taking photos with all kinds of crazy looking cameras and I cooked away in the kitchen and lay in the sun trying desperately to get the last bronzing of the year.

Thank you to Catherine Abegg for the great photos and Jonathan Canlas for flying me out to cook for you guys!


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