Showing posts with label South of France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South of France. Show all posts

10 Apr 2025

HODGEPODGE APRIL 10

 1. What's a lesson you've learned from a mistake?

Be more careful with making friends

2. Do you salt food while you're cooking or let diners add their own?  What's a food you think must be salted ? Do you like pepper? 

I prefer to salt a little bit, and let my guests add salt, that's easier then to take the salt out again. And egg has to be salted. I like pepper, but it depends on what.

3. What was the last gathering you attended and what did you do there? 

I raked my brain if I ever attended a gathering, but can't remember any.

4. Your favorite shade of purple? What's your favorite purple flower? 


 I am very ignorant in flower names, but I believe that this is a Hortensia and I like this purple shade too.

5. Share a favorite spring travel memory. 

We never traveled in spring, rather in autumn to escape the cold. But I have been several times visiting a friend in spring, who lives in the South of France and I loved it, because I was living in her family and she showed me a lot. She came then in August to Brussels and loved the North.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I have no special thought, it's nice that at least the sun is shining, because if I see and listen to the News, I think how is it possible to have voted for a sick man ? for me he suffers from Narcissistic personality disorder which is a mental condition characterized by a constant feeling of superiority (megalomania), a need to be admired. I think I don't have to mention a name.


31 Dec 2013

RESUME OF MY WORLD IN 2013

As I love to travel and visit countries and cities as much as I can, I started beginning 2013 with a visit to my friend Claudie, who lives at the French Riviera.



I spent New Year with her and her family

End May, my friend Ilona and I decided to make a tour around the UK.



Before we started the tour, I showed her a bit of London. Next day early morning we took the Bus and started our tour. We were 10 different nationalities on board !




First stop was in Cambridge where we visited the town on the River cam with a punt boat.



York was a beautiful town and we visited the Roman bath.



We saw Hadrian's wall and the beautiful landscape until we arrived at the Scottish border.



We loved Edinburgh very much and stayed there for two days.



The next day we drove to Loch Ness and were so lucky because we had wonderful sunny weather



The drive through the Highlands was just breathtaking



And then we followed the traces of the Beatles in Liverpool



visited Stratford upon Avon



and arrived the next day in Bath. Where we literally took a bath, it poured and we didn't see very much of the city.



Stonehenge too, was rather wet, fortunately I had seen it the year before when the sun was shining.



After we had returned to London we spent another day there and met Marie from After 60.

Beginning August I went as I do each year, to my friends in Eastbourne at the English South East coast.



It's a beautiful place and I always discover new things to see.

On my way back to Brussels, I stopped again in London for the day,



until I took the Eurostar (train) back to Brussels in the evening.

Normally in October or November I spent 12 days in Egypt at the Red Sea. But this time I couldn't due to the political troubles there.

Instead I followed the invitation of my friend Claudie and went again to the South of France end October,



to collect some sunshine, and enjoy the exceptionally warm weather. This usually helps me to go through the dark, cold and short winter days.

Now 2013 is over and I wish you all a happy New Year ! 




1 Jan 2013

OUR WORLD - SOUTH OF FRANCE



In not even 2 h my world changed completely !



I took the plane at 8.20 in Brussels in an ice cold weather and a lot of wind and arrived



at 10 am in Marseille where my friend picked me up !



What a difference, the sun was shining it, was warm, and I could even sit outside ! Christmas tree and Palmtrees what a combination for an old Northern girl !



and here we are sitting at the sea enjoying a coffee !

Hope you all had a nice New Year's Eve !