For some reasons I stop this blog here but it doesn’t mean I stop blogging!
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http://www.commediasland.blogspot.com/
You’ll discover the last adventures!
28 août 2011
15 août 2011
A Caribbean ball
What did you do this WE ?
Helps you to remember what you have done on the weekend of August 13. You never know if you need an alibi ! If you participate please put the little logo on the top of your post and leave your link by Gattina.
Nothing exceptional but yesterday night we went with many friends ( those of the theater class and two teachers who work with me) to a little harbor depending of the town Hyères les Palmiers, called l’Ayguade.
In a first time, serious thing, the restaurant! It was a great place just near the boats! And the menu was delicious and original!
Nems fruits de mer
Emincé de de poulet, noix de cajou
Sorry for the tiramisu but I ate it without taking pictures!!! Sweeties make me crazy!
Zoukamine band
After this good meal, direction the zouk party! It was great ! The Caribbean music is so cool and make you feel so well!
Zouk
Municipalities try to be very attractive during the summer season and each evening you can enjoy for free with concerts, balls…
Now, I’m waiting for my daughter arriving from Budapest and in the next days we go together for new adventures in Waterloo by my dear blog friend Gattina! So stay tuned!
Let’s go and zouk with us! Click here!zoukamine
5 août 2011
Just art, today!
Octobre 2010, Mélissa art creation.
Mélissa is at the Faculty . She studies plastic arts. This is a video she created in october 2010 for an art work . You could be suprised but the fact is the artistic approach should be as important as the creation in itself.
Just for art!
You’ll see here some of her creations she did for her exams. I remember two themes: one asked to create a painting with colors but she couldn’t use painting and any colors and the other was a sculpture. She used recovery materials. Click here and discover the diaporama on Flickr!
Now Mélissa is preparing her trip for the Sziget, a giant European festival in Hungary! click here if you want to know more about! She and her friends can’t wait to see their star Prince!
30 juillet 2011
Park Olbius Riquier
When Anaïs and Kalle were at home, South of France, we did several walks. One of them was very interesting if you like plants and flowers! One afternoon we took the car, drove to Hyères les palmiers and had a halt at the Olbius R iquier park! This is a municipal park. It is classified by the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Remarkables garden of France.
« The seven hectare park contains a botanical garden with collections of palm trees and bamboo, and a greenhouse with tropical birds and plants. It also contain a zoo, a lake, and a cascade. Trees and plants in the park include Magnolia, Catalpa, Taxodium distichum, Quercus lanuginosa, Yucca, Firmiana simplex, mélaleuca linariifolia, and Buxus. Birds include balearica» wikipédia
This park was given by Olbius Riquier to the town by testament in 1868 and became in 1872 the acclimatization garden of Hyères Les Palmiers as an annex of the acclimation garden of Paris.
Olbius Riquier park
Visiting the park you have the feeling to be suddenly somewhere in Africa our south America, a very exotic place.
Don’t hesitate no more and visit the park with us!
petit train olbius riquier
I created a diaporama on Flickr with several of the photos I took and as pictures speak better than words let’s have a walk with us in this green paradise by clicking here!
Flowers at Olbius Riquier Park
A way of life
Look at this young man reading under the palm trees ! The best place to forget your daily life under an exotic forest but still not so long from your home!
I hope you had great time on Lazazandcruisers!
I wish you a beautiful WE! Myself I hope a plan to the beach on sunday and tomorrow a relax saturday!
15 juillet 2011
Bastille Day Blog Gathering
Bastille Day Blog Gathering 2011
What a marvelous Bastille Day we had all, here, in Ollioules with our dear Mar from Spania and her nice husband, Mathias!
It is the second time I meet Mar, my Blogfriend since 2006. The first time it was in Marseille with my two daughters.
As she’s on holiday with her husband not so long from Ollioules, we decided to meet us again!
In a first time we did a short visit in Ollioules walking through the streng medieval streets to the feodal castle at the top of the hill!
Kalle and Anaïs were with us.
We enjoyed the ruins of the castle and the beautiful point of view in an other castle lost on an other hill : the Evenos castle!
Then we decided to take a drink at the bar on the principal place where a Bastille Day orchestra played music (Demoiselles Mi_Sticks)! My sister and my BIL arrived and we continue looking for a restaurant, now! Finally we found a good one called « La Voute Provençale» where our friends could appreciate the french cooking.
When the fireworks began we were always at table and we just see above the roofs beautiful lights!
But pictures speak always better than words that’s why this morning I tried to create a little film just for you with Picasa! And stay tuned because we will meet our dearest friends in the evening again!
Let’s watch the video and enjoy!
Mini Blog Gathering Summer 2011
6 juillet 2011
A short walk on the Promenade Des Anglais!
Promenade des Anglais by Raoul Dufy
- When we went to Nice Airport, Mélissa and me, we did a short halt on the Promenade Des Anglais in Nice and had a nice lunch in a restaurant.
At the begining of the XIXe century it was a poor little way, called Le chemin des anglais, The way of the english people. It was built by the english community living there in winter and payed by Rev. Lewis Way.
- Houses and gardens were destroyed and at their place palaces, hostels , casinos and residential buildings were built.
- Called the Prom’, by the locals, 6 km walk in front of the sea with palms along. This is a mythical place.
See The Promenade in 1865, click here! In 1882, click here!
And now the Prom’, juni 2011!
Pictures speak better than words! Click here!
On the diaporama you will see the Fondation Lenval (children’s hospital) on the promenade des Anglais. More than 35 000 children are treated per year in the emergency department.
I was very impressed by this modern building on the Prom’.
I am on holiday, now. I enjoy blogging and come back on the blogosphere!
Fondation Lenval
11 juin 2011
Grasse, the world’s capital of perfume
When we went to catch my daughter arriving from Finland at the Nice Côte d’Azur airport, we did a halt in the town Grasse, on the back way to home!
It was a long time I wanted to visit this famous capital of perfume!
« Grasse is situated in the Alpes Maritime department on the french Riviera. This is the town of the french perfume industry and is known as the world’s perfume capital. This industry turns over more than 600 million euros a year.
Jasmine, a key ingredient of many perfumes, was brought to southern France by the Moors in the 16th century. Twenty-seven tonnes of jasmine are now harvested in Grasse annually.
There are numerous old ‘parfumeries’ in Grasse, such as Molinard, Fragonard and Galimard, each with tours and a museum.
In the Middle Ages, Grasse specializes in leather tanning. Once tanned, the hides are often exported to Pisa or Genoa with that Grasse had made a commercial alliance. Several centuries of this intense activity was witnessed many technological advances tannery industries. Hides Grasse acquired a reputation of high quality. But the leather smells bad, something that does not please the nobility who wears gloves in this matter. Galimard tanner had the idea to create scented leather gloves. He offers a pair to Catherine de Medicis who is seduced by the gift. Therefore, the product is spreading to the Court in the high society and made a worldwide reputation of Grasse. We’re in the seventeenth century, the heyday of the « Perfumers Glovers. But taxes on leather and competition from Manchester did decline the leather industry in Grasse and succeeded to the leather scent.
The scents of Grasse Rare (lavender, myrtle, jasmine, rose, orange blossom wild mimosa) did win the title of the world’s capital perfume. Jasmine was in a few decades ago a labor-intensive: the flowers had to be hand picked at dawn, when their scent is most developed, to be treated immediately by enfleurage cold.» Wikipedia
We stopped in and visited the Fragonard Parfumerie
« dedicated to the painter.»
Let’s go and visit the Parfumerie with us! Click here!
At the end of the visit we bought three perfumes:
- Belle de nuit
- Cherries flower
- Fig perfume
We are just spoiled for choice, now!
And just for you, bougainvillea I captured in Nice on the Promenade des Anglais!
15 mai 2011
At the bakery with the pupils
Last week the pupils of my class were invited by the baker.
Bakery La Banette
He asked the pupils what they need to cook some bread:
They knew the respond of course! Flour, salt, water and and baking powder! All that in the kneading bread machine!
flours' bags
Now he must share the dough into pieces
La diviseuse or in french the divide machine
La diviseuse et à l'arrière le repose pâte
He put each pâton or piece in a machine called La diviseuse and made 12 little pâtons or little pieces. After that he put the little pâtons in the machine you see behind the baker. The dough must stay a time in Le Repose Pâte! The dough should rest for a night in a cold room with a special temperature and humidity. If a long time ago the baker cooked the bread at night, now he practices that job during the day!
raw french loaf
Now the baker will shape a baguette with each little pâton.
before baking bread
Before the cooking
Enjoy the diaporama !!!! click here!
The pupils learnt so much this day and the owner of the bakery offered a gift to each one!!!
cerf volant
Kites and cards!!
cards
It was a great, great visit!
24 avril 2011
If you were in Saint Tropez …
Let’s go in Saint Tropez with Gattina and me!
Saint Tropez harbour
A sunny day! Enjoy walking on the harbour with us!
We are all so exciting! How funny to discover the place all together!
Oslo blogfriends ship
This luxious ship from Oslo!!! Perhaps will we meet our blogfriends in Saint Tropez!!!!
Gattina on St Trop Harbour
Just arriving on the port, you find painting! All sort of painting realistic like abstract style!
Choose your painting
Those represent the daily life in Saint Tropez village!
By Sénéquier
Time to drink something by Sénéquier! Perhaps you should recognize a star, who knows?
No super star around! But we were the stars!!! And you are too, of course!
Let’s go and see the Diaporama!!! Click here!
18 avril 2011
Mini Blog Gathering in Ollioules with Gattina!
Blogging connect people!
Since 2006 I have a blog. I knew Gattina in 2006! I had a blog on Window Live when I met her ! For six years now we were connected! It was time to know us in the real world!
We did it!!!
She posted on her blog about our gathering! Click here!
This afternoon, we had great, great time, visiting different balnear stations like Sanary, Bandol and Six-Fours!
We had long conversations about our blog world with so many friends all around the world!
Tomorrow we ‘ll go for some new adventures, perhaps in Hyères Les Palmiers!
Stay tuned!