Midsummer weekend

 When you have children, you don't see that many sunsets anymore and your night life is pretty much non existent. Well at least mine is hahah. So the summer is my one big party. I enjoy every day when I get the opportunity to stay out past 8 in the evening. Enjoying the lake with family or friends or the seaside with children and dogs belongs to the summer for me. A dinner on the beach is just what I needed. I love the beach, the light and the tranquility of the water in the evening.. . I hope you all had a beautiful midsummer weekend!

Dresses- Jennyfer
Top- Cache Cache
Hat- Camaïeu
Sandals- Axell
Baby Hat and clothes- APDM

Midsummer's night

It is the midsummer weekend! The weekend of magical bon fires and love spells. Saint John's Eve in France Fête de la Saint-Jean is celebrated with big bonfires.In the Vosges region, this huge bonfire is called "chavande".  From my childhood I remember my grandmother telling me that the herbs are to be collected in this evening to have a stronger healing power. Also a woman can bewitch a man that she likes  and evil eye and jealoussy has stronger power than usual. People made fires to send the witches away.
This night for me was always full of dancing, herbs, spells and fires. We used to put flowers under the pillow to dream about our future husbands. Happy midsummer weekend everyone!

Summer Picnic

This is how we spent the international picnic day. It was so much fun to be in the nature again. Now that we are back home from the city, I can really apreciate having the garden and the forests and lakes around. It feels good especially in this heat. It's been so hot here lately.Not complaining hahah. I love the hot weather. I love hot summer evenings and nights. But to be in the countryside in the summer it's the best. Barbecues and picnics, strawberies, cherries and ice cream, evening walks in shorts, this is what i've been looking forward to the whole winter and now it's here. I'm enjoying every second of it, my only worry is that it's going to pass too fast. I'm trying to look at it this way, the summer holiday hasn't even started yet ;) so we've still got two good months of summer ahead of us. Have a beautiful week everyone!

Romper - Spell&the Gypsy
Slipers- Etam
Baby Hats- Du Pareil..au meme
Baby Shoes- Crocs

Chateau de Vincennes

 I am still in Paris but in a different part of the city now, I am staying in a beautiful apartment in a part called Vincennes which is also kind of a suburb of Paris. This part is more busy beacause it's only couple of metro stops away from central Paris but still feels kind of homey. It's full of families and children, even in the evenings there are still kids outside playing on the streets and families going for walk or sitting in the restaurants outside. It is nice to see , I like this kind of life with fruit shop on the corner with amazing deliciouss fruits, coffee shops and restaurants, people sitting outside and eating or having a coffee or just going for a family walk. It feels nice, summer in the city.

 Not far from my apartment here, there is a castle Chateau de Vincennes. I took a walk with Alex around and inside of it today in the pram. It felt magical. We still have couple of days left here so I need to make the most of it.I have mixed feelings about leaving Paris, I thought I would be happy to go home and I am but a part of me feels sad to be leaving this place.

Paris

Still in the beautiful part of Serris, well 20 minutes away from Paris technically but still feels like Paris, maybe because of the big shopping mall close by and the Disneyland Park. I love waking up here. It is really a beautiful part with lots of trees and parks everywhere. They even have an outlet shopping village here with all the high end shops and Starbucks. I feel at home!

I had an amazing day walking around the mall and then drinking my iced late in the children's park with Alex. It seems he likes it here too. Paris is growing on me, although I love to be in the nature with hills and forests around. There is something about this city though that you just grow to love and when you leave, you miss it. I even started considering moving here, but that requires a lot of planning so for now it is just an idea.
And guess what I did in the evening when I got home ofcourse had some Ben & Jerry's with Netflix.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Disneyland Paris

This week I we made a family trip to Disneyland Paris and had some fun time on some rides enjoying the Disney spirit. We set off early in the morning from our apartment not far from Disneyland and entered as soon as they opened. It was almost empty so we got to enjoy the train ride around the park aithout the chaos of too many people everywhere. Later the park started to get more and more crowded and it ment long queues everywhere. My favorite ride was It's a small world and I really recommend this to anyone it's soo cute it's basically a boat ride with dolls dancing and singing dressed up in national costumes representing almost every culture. It's really visually amazing and you don't even know wher to look first!

Quimper and the island of Ouessant

 My favourite thing is the traditional Breton architecture in and around the city of Quimper. It is my favorite city in Brittany with it's cute coffee shops and beautiful beaches around. We also visited Pont-Aven and it was magical. It's famous for Pont-Aven school with Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard.

A view of Quimper from the park.

After that we went to a small harbour called Le Conquet where we took a boat to the island Ouessant.
It was a 2 hour boat ride. I was quite sea sick but it was worth to see the island which is the westernmost point of France. Places like these make me happy because the connection with the nature is so strong here. I feel reenergised much more than after a trip to a big city.