My holidays in France and french liquor

If you went to the supermarket and you are too lazy to climb the stairs with your stuff, no problem, ask the Bernard's solution!!

 

You just need this thing and you can put all your food in your flat with less energy.

 

Bernard is the king of this sort of strange creations. But this time I can say it is really useful and so convenient!

Just two minutes and all the food arrives in the flat by outside. So cool!

I just want you to see how wonderful is the french lanscape, here you can see the Chartreuse, it is some montains between Grenoble and Chambery. There, I went to buy some liquor, home made! This plant is absynthe, from this plant you can do the very famous alcohol: l'absynthe, but it was forbidden since 1917 because people drunk too much so they became crazy...!! The woman showed us how to do the alcohol. You put the plant with sugar and alcohol in these boxes.

And then you take it back and put it in bottle. This alcohol is really tasty and good. But I don't think that my asiatic friends would be interested in this tradition...

Savoie with Marlène!! So coOool !!

Marlene arrived in Savoie for on day and half so we decided to go in the mountains in order to show her how this place is wonderful!!But we don't have any car so we decided to ask people to bring us in the mountains!!

After waiting during 30 minutes to catch a car, a very nice woman bring us to Meribel and from there we took the "télésiège" and a "télécabine". It was a bit scary at the beginning. The landscape is so beautiful from there that it was really marvellous to be there, in the air... in the silence of the moutains! We have fun in taking photo of the cake of Bernard, the "vacherin". He bring it in Emilie's flat, it was really icy with some cranberries. The Emilie's plates are very funny, look this one just above...!

Marlène arrived in Emilie's flat with some cake and sweet things from Aix, it was so delicious after one year in Asia! I like the Emilie's flat, watch the interior decoration you can see she is an arts teacher!

A trip in Italy with Bernard and Emilie

It is funny to go to a tourist trip with my two friends Bernard and Emilie because they are the two who came to see me in Taiwan last year! This time we decided to go to Italy by the St Bernard pass. I really don't know what this Saint Bernard did in the mountains but there, you can see his statue, and in Italy you can see his house.

At the frontier we met the "carabinieri" it means in italian: the italian policeman. But since the Europe organization and the Maastrich law there is no any frontier between european countries. It is very easy to go to Italy, England, Germany, the policemen just stare at you and that's all. No need visa, or any papers to go there.

We were at 2188 m and it was really cold!! We saw snow here and there... I was regretting Kaohsiung during few minutes!!

We met guys who were skying on the road, it is a strange sport, you wear skis with wheels on your feet and you follow the road. It is not roller, it is different because it looks like ski.

We stop to play with the snow, because it was too funny to think that it was the summer but we were in the snow. After 5 minutes I was so cold that I decided to let Bernard and Emilie playing alone and I went in the car. This picture is very good, I didn't know I succeeded to take in photo the snow ball of Bernard.

As I told you we follow the trail to go to the Bernard's house, but we never found it... We just stopped to see the church, fabulous one!! I am going to see you the picture later after the lunch.

The italian lunch was very good but a bit strange, we choose the "menu promozione" but it was 18 euros!! The food was really good, the name of this small city is La Thuile. After this sorrt of bacon we ate a bit of polenta with meet and the dessert was the best:

"gelati" ice cream with red fruits... humm!! After the meal we go to visit the town, it is a tiny touristic town, very cute!

Emilie bought a funny thing to put at her window, in the wind. I remember now that I forgot to give her the autocollant of Daila lama... I have to send you by mail now!!

This is the church I was speaking just before in La Thuile. So cute, and so old !! One year in Taiwan and I forgot how old is Europe... !

Inside is very traditional, but I didn't meet any religious woman, monk. It was really beautiful and so quiet.

It was a so good day in the mountains of french Alps, the weather was not really clear but the light was very surprising. I hope next year to live there and to invite all my friends of Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan...

First week in France (for my friends in Taiwan!!)

Quand je suis à Taiwan j'écris pour mes amis français alors j'écris en français, mais maintenant que je suis en France I write in english for my friends in Taiwan, logique non?

I arrived in Savoie, in the town of my friends. When I arrived, there was a lot of people in the streets, so cool!!! because it was the market with cheese, fruits juices, vegetables, fruits, fish...

I met Emilie in the street and we went to eat to the Mic Mac, the mediterranean restaurant. We ate a real couscous, different from the one I did for my friends Donivan, Sabina and Eric in Kaohsiung.

At last I ate goat cheese!!! tiny pieces of cheese, so GOOD!!!! It was a very good week in France.