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Newsletter · By Pauline Bellocq · FR · Official site

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    There’s something I need to tell you (opens the original)

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    Is it just me or September lasted for 3 days? Between handling back to school and all its logistics, leading a wonderful retreat last week in Arrabida, organizing a soothing sound bath for the equinox on Tuesday, and finalizing everything for Back to Herself next week, I’m a little out of breath. And yet. Now is also the time I’m choosing to launch something new. Something I’ve been meaning to tell everyone for a few months now, without officially pushing the Start button. We just stepped into A

  2. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    Lisbon Transition Stories, episode #3 (opens the original)

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    In this third interview of the Lisbon Transition Stories, I am delighted to welcome Chloe Skinner, who was nominated by Marta, my first interviewee. I first met Chloe through American friends at a Thanksgiving party. Then I visited Bryon studios, her lovely space in the heart of Santos, and we realized we left California for Portugal at about the same time.Chloe grew up in a village in Shropshire, England, studied illustration in Brighton, and then built a career in graphic design across New Yor

  3. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    What I need, I usually already have (opens the original)

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    Après mon séjour à Ericeira la semaine dernière, j’ai passé plusieurs heures sur Idealista (le Bon coin portugais) à regarder les annonces immobilières. Souvent quand je visite un endroit qui me plaît et me parle, je m’imagine venir y habiter. Je fantasme, dans les détails, sur ce que serait ma vie ici, dans quel quartier on vivrait, à quelle école les enfants iraient, à quoi ressemblerait mon quotidien, quel supermarché je fréquenterais, quelles seraient mes activités.J’adore le coin d’Ericeira

  4. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    See you later, summer (opens the original)

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    The four of us reunited in Lisbon yesterday. After almost 6 weeks in France, Colette couldn’t remember the color of our car or the layout of her bedroom; Gaston had been asking for a couple of weeks now When is it that we go back to Portugal? and Julien was happy to rest on his own bed and pillows. We were gone for too long. “I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.” Georgia O’KeeffeI came back here before them for a retreat in Ericeira last week, 6 days of surf & y

  5. Issue · Aug 15, 2026

    Lisbon Transition Stories, episode #2 (opens the original)

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    [FR ci-dessous]For this second interview of the Lisbon Transition Stories, I’m so happy to welcome Elise Hameau!I met Elise 3 years ago at Marquise, a cute Lisbon café, and upon meeting her, I remember thinking, she’s different from the other Parisians here, and to have found her energy soothing and benevolent.Her story is one of chapters, but more importantly it’s one of pages turned without looking back, always intuitively. It’s a story of rebounds and mountains never high enough.Elise Hameau

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