by Helene Chebroux | Jun 27, 2022 | Développement Durable – Écologie, Développement Durable – Écologie, Entreprenariat, Storytelling, Sustainable Development - Ecology, Sustainable Development - Ecology, Sustainable Development - Ecology
*** Reading this article will take 6 minutes of your time *** It was when we arrived in Andalusia, in November 2021, that I met Manon, founder of the ContraBanda thrift store, in Granada, Spain. Being myself a long-time fan of second-hand...
by Helene Chebroux | May 11, 2022 | Développement Durable – Écologie, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development - Ecology, Voyage, Voyage
After living 1 year and a half in Bergamo, Lombardy, it’s now Andalusia, in Spain, that calls us. Quite a roadtrip ! And what’s better to take well-deserved breaks along the road and stop by nice and typical coffee shops from the different regions that we are crossing...
by Helene Chebroux | Aug 26, 2021 | Urbex
Buildings and their walls, witnesses of the past, always have a story to tell. We took interest in the story of the small abandoned village of Consonno, in northern Italy. It is perched on the mountains, overlooking the lake of Lecco. The view from the top is...
by Helene Chebroux | Aug 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hélène Chebroux, former broker and ecobroker at Via Capitale du Mont-Royal, shares with us her wonderful experience immigrating to Montreal. My arrival Of French origin, I arrived in Quebec in April 2003 with my parents and my sister. My encounter with Montreal, which...
by Helene Chebroux | Jun 29, 2020 | Entreprenariat, Entreprenariat, Entrepreneurship, Real Estate, Storytelling, Travel, Travel, Travel, Travel, Travel, Travel, Voyage
When I traveled to the Mayan Riviera in Mexico last summer, I couldn’t help but notice, as a real estate broker but also as a citizen, that the real estate developments in this area were a little bit out of control, and were endangering local ecosystems. ...
by Helene Chebroux | Jun 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
This first half of 2020 is, for me, marked by the discovery of a country, Italy, and by its most economically flourishing region, Lombardy. Some would say that the timing was not necessarily the best in this period of economic and health crisis of COVID-19, but the...
