Here’s a sneak peek into our recently very eventful and fantastic weekend!

Have a guess at where we went - one full of flowers, one full of clay…

All will be revealed very soon :)
Have a great start of the week everybody!

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Enjoy :)

PS. Special thanks to CC and E for their accommodation contribution, and of course to our dear Dennis for his pointers ♥

Something that the French do really well and quite often is random mass-scale demonstrations regarding some sort of industry or part of their heritage. That’s why there is basically une fête for every possible thing - la fête de la musique, la fête du pain (bread festival)…. So it was no surprise that last weekend, a brilliantly sunny day (and not before time), l’Avenue des Champs-Elysées, the most famous street in the world, would be transferred into a living, breathing forest and farm.

It was all part of the Nature Capitale festival that aimed to sensitize Paris’s population to both the importance of France’s forestry and farming industries as well as the environmental issues that exist today.

It was really quite surreal to see that familiar street transformed virtually overnight into a 2km long botanic garden. Lay down some bark chips, ship in 8000 plants and 4.2 million euros later you’ve got an impressive green space.

Apparently 2 million visitors passed over the avenue in its 3 days. True, it may seem like a bit of a waste of money in these Euro-crisis days. Then again you get the feeling that people are just so happy that spring has finally arrived that they’ll find any excuse to get out in the sun. In any case, definitely a sight to behold!

The sun was shining strongly on Sunday and a couple of friends wanted an excuse to drink by a lake, so instead of traipsing around Paris by myself as I had planned to, I decided to go along and ultimately, enjoyed a very relaxed day on the grass in Cergy.

From the top of the staircase, looking out towards La Defense in the haze

Now for those that don’t know the suburb of Cergy very well, there isn’t really anything ‘beautiful’ to see asides from this certain area called the Axe Majeur, featuring an interestingly designed BRIGHT red bridge, a faraway view of La Defense and something of the type that you would call a ‘mini lake’ surrounded by beautiful greenery.

Two of our German friends have a pair of French Bulldogs, called Carlos and Bala. I’m terrible with names, so it’s not surprising that I can’t remember which one is which (although logic would say that Bala is the white one!)

Being quite warm, both of the dogs were very much feeling the heat whilst we were waiting in the beginning for the rest of the group to arrive. They proceeded in sticking out their (VERY long) tongues and making pig noises. Seriously! Too bad I didn’t take a video of it!

Hello lovelies, just wanted to excuse ourselves of any aesthetic no-no’s that you may see for this (short) moment. I’m currently tweaking a few things concerning the layout dimensions, so that explains for the awkward placements of older photo posts.

Will look squeaky shiny and new in no time :)

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