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Schone Zaken in Groningen
December 29, 2016

Schone Zaken opened its doors almost 20 years ago already and was still missing on our blog. That’s just not right, is it? So recently I visited this sustainable clothing store in Groningen. What I found? Lots and lots of fair trade and organic clothes! And a really nice lady( the owner) who, amongst other things, told me about one of the challenges of smaller sustainable brands.
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Viva Groningen
April 11, 2016

Viva Groningen feb2016 voorkant
More and more secondhand and vintage clothing stores open their doors in Groningen. We like! Viva was located at the Nieuweweg before and after that in the Oosterstraat for a while. In December Viva! moved to a new store in the Steentilstraat. We have not yet had a changed to visit the new store but that probably won’t take long.   (more…)

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Vintage shopping Birmingham, UK
January 18, 2016

Vintage Birmingham intro
When we planned our annual ‘New Years Eve’ city trip this past fall, we looked up the vintage stores in the cities of our choice right away. Birmingham, UK it was going to be. And while Birmingham does not have as much to offer as say Londen, we found quite a few good addresses. Most of them are in the raw up-and-coming neighbourhood Digbeth. Digbeth also has tons of street art, which you will see in another blog soon. But first, vintage in Brummie. Are you going shopping with us?  (more…)

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Hotspot in Groningen: Handmade Hopes
November 23, 2015

Handmade hopes 1A while ago we visited Handmade Hopes in the Oosterstraat in Groningen. We’d been there before, but never thought of making pictures for our blog even though we really love some of the things they sell. Handmade Hopes is an interior and gift store and even outside you are being seduced by cute bagpacks for kids, toys and lovely postcards. For (real) mail junkies like us, you have us inside in no time!  (more…)

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Hotspot Oddity in Groningen
November 9, 2015

Oddity 2015Bit by bit Groningen becomes a city with more and more attention to sustainablility. It shows clearly in what kind of shops open(ed) their doors in our beautiful hometown. We already told you all about our favourite shop Kokotoko of course. And then there are GROENiNG and Zich Zach for example. GROENiNG and Kokotoko are both located in the Oosterstraat, just like Oddity. With so many great shops the Oosterstraat can compete with the Folkingestraat: the best shopping street of The Netherlands in 2015. But back to Oddity: because of other priorities we didn’t write about this shop yet. Now we do and we hope to inspire you to visit Oddity soon.
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Diezijner, a shop with colourful and sustainable fashion, Groningen
July 27, 2015

Painting at / schilderij bij Diezijner

Painting at Diezijner


Hotspot Diezijner opened its doors already in March 2014. So we decided it’s about time to put this lovely store in the spotlights on our website.
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