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Point of view on Oslo

Admiring Oslo

Oslo, BG city

munch

Tor is a such nice guy!  He showed to us, Oslo from a place where we had a marvelous point of view!!!

After walking through the streets of the Capital of Norway we could admire its beauty from the hill!

Tomorrow I must wake up very early since the holiday ended.

Bisous to you all and have a giant end of week!

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1) People coming from all around the world for an only destination: Oslo!

Arriving in Norway by air

The Oslo BG 2010 manager

Our dear Diane, Renny's wife

A Blog Gathering is friendly

4) Blog Gathering participants are over all friendly and they love champagne!

The major of the town like the BG participants and the great manager!!!

5) The participants are very curious people, they like to discover the most it is possible visiting museums, buildings, shops…

A place to visit intra muros

What is this place? Who will win?

The prefered instrument of a BG' participant

6) The BG»  participants have always a camera with them and if they forget it they are sick like I was at Vigeland Park naked without my camera. But all the statues were too!

7) The members of a BG love food!!!

So tasted!!!!!

And the last day, when they return back home, they can live in mind again all the marvelous adventures they had. Their heart is full of sadness because they left and full of hapiness because they have new friends with who they had fabulous moments.

Good bye Oslo

Thank you very much for this marvelous gathering

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Now, we are counting the days until …

The bloggers fly to an important Rendez Vous

 The departure!!!

In this plane there were Mrs and Mr Lifecruiser flying direction South of France last summer where they joined some other famous bloggers ( Renny BA and Diane, Tor and Anna) for a little Blog Gathering with Pierre and me.

In a few days, Pierre and me we will be in a plane like this one but flying direction, North Europa, Norway, Oslo,  where the  Blog Gathering 2010 will take place.

RennyBA , sent me the list of the participants. Click here!  I entered Nicola and Svetlana as friend on Facebook. Wrote a comment on Vagabonde blog and will try still to know a little the other participants ( those I don’t know still on the blogsphere) waiting to meet them in the reality.

I imagine the organisation must have been a big job!!!! Bravo my norvegian friends!!!

RennyBA’s Terella

Official Program Site

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Ulla, Anaïs and Kalle

Today is the last day of july. It was a great month with great moments.

I want to report here some of them, just for you.  Remember, Kalle (Anaïs boy friend) and his sister, Ulla were at home at the begining of the summer. We had good time together even if I wasn’t still on holiday.

Kalle's bath!!!

Life is beautiful, isn’t it?!!!

Anaïs at the Karaoke

Anaïs is a fan of karaoke! We were still yesterday evening at this fabulous place!

Muguette! So sweet!

Muguette, my sister! Delicious!

The father with his daughter

Nice for Pierre to have great moments with his daughter. She lives now in Finland. So those moments  are very important !

Walking on the Cour Mirabeau, Aix en provence

We had still great time in Aix en Provence when Annaliina (Anaïs’ friend) was here! This is the town where Mélissa will study this year.

Prosac and Valium!!!

A private theater representation by Claude Dini, my teacher. It is a nice concept!  The play takes place in a private garden and before or after there is a good dinner!!!

Carbone 14 band in Sanary

The guy at the left side with the bass guitar is Roselyne’s son.

Roselyne!

For those who still don’t know  Roselyne, she’s a good friend and a talentus theater player!

Pierre's fishes's soup!

Without forget Pierre’s fishes’s soup, he cooked!

Sean and sun, Anaïs and Mélissa

Good time we had in Bandol on this roc!

Me, scuba!!

Really fantastic!  This is my paradise!

Bandol, Pierre Plane pic nic

This is a place where my father came with all his family when he was a little boy. His father was a farmer and at this time they arrived with the horse pulling the cart and the 10 children!!!. They could stay two days, cooking, sleeping on the beach, fishing, enjoying the nature with all the family.

Times have changed, don’t you think?

You have now a little vision of our nice summer moments. August arrives! And of course the Oslo Blog Gathering!!!

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 We went with  Annaliina and Anaïs to Le Castellet village.

This year I enjoy again walking in the village!!! Remember last summer we went there with Mrs Lifecruiser, Anna, Diane, RennyBa, Tor and Mr Lifecruiser!

A point of view on the village from the parking

Scooter and plumbago

When we stopped at Le Roi d’Ys to eat delicious pancakes I noticed this nice pink scooter just near a marvelous plumbago.

olives' stand

We talk a time with the man who sold the olives and we tasted all the different varieties.

He was facinated by Annaliina and asked about her life in Finland, the landscapes, the winters and the sunlight during the different seasons.

Finaly we took a picture together and I bought some olives and garlic.

Sounds so good!

I dream I could come back home with all!!!

So sweet!

And it was fatal when we entered in this marvelous shop!

fruits' pastas

I couldn’t resist no more and bought some we ate with Annaliina as dessert!

apricot, quince, peach, lemon

I have to avoid when I go to Le Castellet I become crazy. So many beauties, colours, smelt, sweeties…

It was too hard to resist!

Must now stopping sweeties and make a little diet before the Oslo Blog Gathering!!!

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A middle age play, just in front of the church.

Ollioules began the summer period with the medievals during two days. You could rent a medieval costum and enjoy the different activities and shows.

A lovely middle age story

Enjoy the middle age play with nice comedians!!!

Dancing on the middle age music

A point of view on the principal place in the center of the town

Ollioules town hall

let's go through the middle age streets

And at the end of the small street...

Nice to meet you Cathy and Annick!

Who's that girl ? hi hi

In la maison du patrimoine, you can hear a stroryteller

Pierre is the instigator of fishing parties this summer!

The fishing manager

the first fishing

Kalle and Ulla

big fishing

Baliste, a fish living normaly in subtropical seas.

He was very suprise when he fished  this one, he didn’t know! What was this strange fish?

Finally Pierre found informations about: it is the grey triggerfish (or baliste in french) normaly living in sub-tropical seas but since the climate is changing you can find it now in Mediterranean sea too and even along the coasts, north of France.

Sorbus, a finnish wine, an excellent one!

Not the usual Provençal Pastis to fest the fishing party but the Sorbus, an excellent finnish wine!!!

Kalle was sad since the commercialisation of the Sorbus will stop in Finland! And we are too!!! Hoping there will be a solution to save it!

All those fishes are in the congelator now, waiting the Chef Pierre decides to cook them: the big ones on the BBQ and the smalls in a soup with of course the famous sauce The Aïoli!!!

So stay tuned!!!

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When Kalle (Anaïs boyfriend) and his sister were at home we went for the second time at the Mont Faron (remember the first time on my old blog in march 2009 click here).

We had a fabulous weather and enjoyed the view from the top of the montain on the town Toulon and around!

remember:» 

“Mont Faron is a mountain overlooking the city and roadstead of Toulon, France. It is 584m high. At its peak is a memorial dedicated to the 1944 Allied landings in Provence (Operation Dragoon) , and to the liberation of Toulon.» 

Point of view from the cable car

the chapel of the Mont Faron

Inside the chapel

Nothing else than staying  a moment in a spirituel place, at the top of a mountain. The time stops  and you can leave a few minutes the material world and enter somewhere in the Platon’s cavern: the world of ideas. I won’t speak to you about religion as I don’t practise mine as many people in France it doesn’t mind we haven’t any religion but generally,  it’s our strict intimity and it’s very private.

zoo of the Mont Faron

After the chapel we visited the zoo wich is an important center of reproduction for the big felins. 

Sad to see them in captivity but they are born in zoos and it helps to preserve the last ones on the planet waiting homo sapiens decides to becomes really sapiens.

The lovers

Nothing else than an ice cream to help  staying in form when the temperature is so hot! And it wasn’t still the canicule as we begin to have now!

Ulla and me

Ulla prefered a sorbet  but I ned a coffee!!! You know the last month of the school year is a big one and the teachers need all their energy!!!

The visit of the memorial will for the next time when we will come back with Pierre!!!

Back to the town with the cable car

It was time to go back home!

Stay tuned because we still had  some adventures before Kalle and Ulla went back to finland!

Kalle told to me his parents and particulary his maman like to read my blog. I enjoy this and hope his mother will soon become a blogfriend and join us !

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As you know it perhaps, my daughter, Kalle her boyfriend and Kalle’s sister are at home now! Even if Pierre and me ,we are not on holiday still, we have great, great time!

Yesterday afternoon we were at beach. On the picture you can see the Cap Sicié,  wich is situated the most at  the south in Provence, Alpes, Côte d’Azur and the two rocs called Les Deux Frères (the two brothers). If you walk to the top of the Cap Sicié (352 m) you will have a marvelous point of view from the Massif des Maures to the Calanques de Marseille and the Isle of the Riou without forget the isles of Hyères, the presqu’île of Giens and the rade of Toulon, the Mont Faron, the Mont Caumes, le Bare des Quatre Ouro and Le Gros Cerveau.

Beach Les Sablettes with a view on Le Cap Sicié and Les Deux Frères

After a good bath in the Mediterranean sea we went to La Cadière d’Azur, a middle age village ( we visited with Mrs and Mr Lifecruiser last summer) for a painting exhibition.

Ula, Anaïs and Kalle in La Cadière d'Azur

vin de la Cadière

The wine from La Cadière is a famous one.

Tchin tchin my blogfriends and I wish you all a fabulous sunday and week!!!

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The 3 th of juny I went with some other classes to Marineland.

 In France, teachers are used going for a last trip with their pupils in mai or juni.

Marineland is a destination the children love and I can assure you that many of them didn’t sleep the night after the trip because they kept the dolphins, orcas, polar bears  (Flocke , the famous polar bear born in captivity at the Nuremberg zoo and Rasputin, a russian born male) and the sharks  all the night in their mind!!!!

Click here if you want to have an idea about the show!!!  Pics I took when I could because you imagine I kept always my eyes on the pupils!!!

I know some don’t like such places where you can admire the animals and their show when they should  be free but I can say that Marineland is a place where the humans respect the animals and love them. Plus I think it’s a plus to make children know them and realise how it is important to protect them on the planet. I think it» s a first step to sensibilise them.

If you want to know more about Marineland you can read the wikipedia article : click here!

I hope you enjoyed watching the diaporama!!! Now I continue my job preparing home for Anaïs, my daughter who lives in Finland and will arrive tomorrow with her boyfriend Kalle and his sister!

Have a fabulous sunday and week!!!!

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