Bordeaux-mon amour

Bordeaux was my home for six incredible months - six months full of red wine, beautiful scenery, inumerable walks through the city, wonderful new people, awesome roommates, really good French food, nice cafés and bars, impromptu picnics all over the city, afternoons in the park, concerts in the streets, lovely weekend trips, adventurous wild camping on the beach, french style parties...and so much more!


Bordeaux, I love you!

Photo credit: last picture by Niusia Winczewski.

 

Ouddorp- the isle of rest

A few days all secluded on the Dutch coast....a few good books, fresh sea food and honey waffles, some sunshine and the wind of the sea...always a good treat!

I cant count the vacations I spent in the Netherlands, it is like a second home to me, I open the door to the holiday house, and there I am, all there and relaxed. I love the Dutch wind, the unforseeable weather conditions, the "stroop waffels", the "kreften vlees",  the Dutch language and all the friendly Dutch people...perfect for a week of rest!

Coups de Coeur

Bye bye Bordeaux, bye bye France, bye bye the months of indulgence and luxury!
Some impressions from my favourite places, I will miss u, Bordeaux,
 and all that was connected to you!

 Mes coups de coeur, Bordeaux, la plus belle des villes, aucun doute que je revienne!

In the countryside - la pétanque et le Ricard

A cragged landscape, a vaste plateau, penurious, only nourishing sheep and goats with a few brightly-yellow rape fields bringing up some coulour,
all this surrounded by the lush green valleys of Tarn, with their majestic slopes and ice-cold mountain torrents  - this is the plateau of Larzac.
The region developped its own specialties, la fouace, a kind of brioche, the roquefort cheese that ripes in the caves of this region and their unique accent...combined with the traditional french holiday occupations...la pétanque et le Ricard, an aniseed liqueur.

Its all about surfing...and the rich and the famous

A forbidding coastline, a good surf, Basque-style houses, tapas bars....and a lot of summer tourists!
That is Biarritz, a prime destination in south-western France forever branded by the passage by Napoleon III.

Today, Biarritz, the pearl of the Basque coast, is a luxury seaside town for summer tourists.
Neoprene-clad surfers with their boards under their arms, families with children and business men all come together in the tapas bars along the coastline for a few bites and a glass of sangria....only a few kilometres from the Spanish border you can easily sense the Spanish influence!

A place of retreat and serenity

Cap Ferret -

some 60 km from Bordeaux, a conglomeration of small fishing villages stretched on a narrow peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the bassin of Arcachon - it is just the place to spend a weekend of calmness and privacy. A deserted stretch of beach, some oysters and a glass of white wine - pure happiness....