tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64104737143419372842024-03-05T05:45:18.229+01:00Shhh... The secret life of an actress - A travel & lifestyle blogA travel & lifestyle blog from Italian born, Paris based actress, Umberta : Travel, wanderlust, fashion, art, photography, recipes... but also auditions, shooting, theatre, movies & acting tips... All the nice little adventures in life!Umbertahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063412172521701557noreply@blogger.comBlogger336125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410473714341937284.post-17420358346345302032016-12-17T13:28:00.000+01:002016-12-17T13:28:54.962+01:00Blog migration: a new website for The Secret Life of an Actress<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I took a big step & migrated my blog from blogger to wordpress! I wanted more freedom & I believe <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/" target="_blank">my new space on the web</a> will allow me to better express myself & will better reflect my personality!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I hope you'll love the new design & website & I hope you'll stop by to say hi :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The migration is now completed, therefore this is my last post on blogger... from now on you can find me on <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/">http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/</a>.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">Je viens de sauter le pas et j'ai migré mon blog de blogger à wordpress! Je voulais plus de liberté et je crois que <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/" target="_blank">mon nouvel espace sur le web</a> me permettra de mieux m'exprimer et reflétera mieux ma personnalité!</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">J'espère que vous allez aimer le nouveau design et le </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">nouveau</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> site & j'espère que vous allez passer me dire bonjour :)</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;">La migration est maintenant terminée, ce-ci est donc mon dernier post sur blogger... à partir de maintenant, vous pouvez me trouver ici <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/">http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/</a>.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: normal; text-align: left;">Ciao a tutti :)
Ho fatto il grande passo e migrato il mio blog da Blogger a WordPress! Volevo più libertà e penso che questo <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/" target="_blank">mio nuovo spazio sul web</a> mi permetterà di esprimermi meglio e rispecchierà meglio la mia personalità!
Spero che il nuovo design & ed il nuovo sito vi piacciano & spero che passerete a dirmi ciao :)
La migrazione è terminata, quindi questo è il mio ultimo post su Blogger... d'ora in poi mi potete trovare su <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/">http://thesecretlifeofanactress.com/</a>.</span></span></div>
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</i></span></span>Umbertahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063412172521701557noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410473714341937284.post-68354512749478302172016-12-13T16:33:00.002+01:002016-12-13T16:35:47.749+01:00Reims Christmas market<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">As you may know, I just love Christmas markets!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The cute, wooden chalets, the sweet smells, the mulled wine... All this just put me in an happy & christmasy mood! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Happily in France there are <i>lots</i> of Christmas markets, like one in a every little town!! Last year we visited the most famous of all, <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.blogspot.fr/2016/03/strasbourg-christmas-market-day-1.html" target="_blank">Strasbourg Christmas market</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">This year, we decided to go to the one of Reims, some friends told us it was very nice plus there is a wonderful Cathedral to visit as well in Reims.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">So on yesterday's misty morning, we jumped in the car, direction Reims.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Btw, misty is an understatement: on the highway the fog was so thick, we could only see at 30 meters... it was quite scary!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">But we made it to Reims countryside.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The region of Reims is well know for champagne production & our first stop was at some clients of hubby who produce champagne to take the bottles hubby ordered for Christmas. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">They also made us visit their vineyard & their firm, explaining us how the champagne production works. We finished the visit with some champagne tasting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I was too shy to take pictures, so you just have to believe me when I say it was very nice & interesting, sorry! 🙈 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">where we started our tour with an oysters based aperitif - or more exactly, I watched hubby having his aperitif as I don't like oysters...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">After which, ready we were to wander among the wooden stalls!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">They settled the Christmas market all around the famous Cathedral </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">(apparently, the previous years, the market was in another square & it was much bigger. The changed the location for security reasons. I've never been there before, but I found it was very nice nevertheless).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Plus if you go there with children, there's a big area for them to play, a little train & even some ponies! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I regretted not being a child btw, as I would have loved to ride a pony! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3640424/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Allied</a>" a good, beautiful, old-style movie that recalls the old Hollywood films from the '50. The kind of movie they don't produce very often anymore. Everything is in there: secret intelligence, love story, a tricking plot, glamour & elegance...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& in addition to all that, Brad Pitt, class '63, is cooler than when he was 30! How is this even possible?? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Even though it's the story of 2 spies during world war 2, don't expect a big, action movie: there are not many spectacular action scenes, the film is quite long indeed, especially the first part. But the plot is interesting & unexpected. Plus, photography & images are very beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& I won't say anything... but the end... 💔</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I really had a good time watching "Allied", so if you don't know what to do this upcoming weekend, may I suggest a theater night? ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Hubby & I watched it last weekend. It was a while since last time we went to the cinema, I cannot even remember the last movie we saw... I missed it. I like it so much to seat in the velvet chair, waiting in the warm, dark room to be taken faraway by the story...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Anyway, we were supposed to have a proper date night: movie & dinner. Except that hubby ate too much popcorn while watching the movie, that by the end of it, he wasn't hungry anymore... So we just went back home & shared a frozen pizza & watched the end of "Dance avec les stars" (Dancing with stars) ahah. Well, as long as we're together, everything's perfect anyway</span> 😻</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Taganga is a cute, little fishermen village on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. It's the first beach outside Tayrona National Park & it's only 15 minutes away from the city of Santa Marta.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">When I heard there's a daily boat connecting Taganga & Tayrona (the boat leaves from Taganga at 11am & from Tayrona at 4pm), I</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> thought that was a better option than walking or horse-riding for more than one hour in the heat til the entrance of the park & then taking a bus to Santa Marta.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I imagined an enjoyable boat ride along the coast, that would have allowed us to have a look at the beaches where one can't go by foot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Plus, I thought it would be nicer to spend the evening on a little village by the sea than in a big city.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">That was true, I wasn't excepting nothing special about Taganga, but it actually was a very nice place &, if I knew that before, I would have spent a whole day there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">As for the boat ride, DON'T take the boat connecting Tayrona & Taganga. Just don't.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The boat had 20 seats, when I saw we were almost the double, I thought a 2nd boat would have arrived. Instead, they made all of us go in the same boat, almost 40 people on a 20 people boat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">People were sitting on the floor of the boat, which was all cracked. A particularly big crack became bigger & bigger at every wave we hit. We were all staring at it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I already mentioned that the sea near Tayrona is rough. But going offshore, it was rougher! Big waves were </span>continuously<span style="font-family: inherit;"> hitting the small boat making us jump. The boat was clearly not built to resist this kind of waves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At a </span>particular<span style="font-family: inherit;"> big wave, I was so scared that I accidentally grabbed the leg of the girl sitting next me...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I put me feet under the people sitting on the floor of the boat so that they would have someway kept me, if I was jumping too much.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I told you before that in Colombia they </span>didn't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> seem too careful about safety. This boat ride was just a nightmare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I do love going on fast boats & jumping on the waves, I do like go on a banana boat or similar... But in Colombia nothing was under control. It wasn't done on purpose as a fun activity... Just imagine, you're on a small boat on a rough, full of underwater currents sea, faraway from the beach, all your luggage, passport, money, camera... being on the boat too... I mean, if something went wrong, we could have died.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Anyway, after a horrible hour or so, we finally made it to Taganga.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Taganga is a </span>colorful<span style="font-family: inherit;"> village, well known for having graffiti everywhere, as we could see as soon as we put our feet on the ground.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the other hand, Taganga is unsafe at night. It's </span>actually<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the only place in Colombia where the hotel staff told us not to walk at night. Except for the seafront walk that is well lit & full of people even at night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">That's the reason why I booked the only hotel that is located on the seafront walk, the <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.fr/Hotel_Review-g1149024-d6405915-Reviews-Taganga_Beach_Hotel-Taganga_Santa_Marta_District_Magdalena_Department.html" target="_blank">Taganga Beach Hotel</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The rooms are not particularly pretty, but the location is the best you can have. Plus, once you arrive, you're welcomed with a delicious cocktail - we had an <i>amazing</i> pina colada - that you can enjoy in the bar on the beach; breakfast is super yummy; down the hotel on the beach there's a restaurant, </span><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.fr/Restaurant_Review-g1149024-d7356377-Reviews-Taco_Beach_Bar_Grill-Taganga_Santa_Marta_District_Magdalena_Department.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Taco Bar</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, serving good food - especially the fish tacos -</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> with good music & a nice atmosphere; & last but not least the hotel staff is <i>super </i>nice!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are other hotels on the beach, but a bit isolated at the end of the beach, so I wouldn't </span>recommend<span style="font-family: inherit;"> going there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Otherwise, I had a very good echo from a friend of <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.fr/Hotel_Review-g1149024-d799758-Reviews-La_Casa_de_Felipe-Taganga_Santa_Marta_District_Magdalena_Department.html" target="_blank">La Casa de Felipe</a>. The main reason we didn't go there is that it's a bit faraway from the beach so if you wanna go out at night you have to take a taxi & the hotel restaurant, which is apparently delicious, was closed when we were there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">For the same reason, we didn't go in one of <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.fr/Hotel_Review-g1149024-d1594085-Reviews-Hotel_Cactus_Taganga-Taganga_Santa_Marta_District_Magdalena_Department.html" target="_blank">those cute cabins</a> overlooking the bay, whose pictures stole my heart ;)</span></div>
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<img alt="Taganga, a cute fishermen village in Colombia" border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yZQ46XaDO6o/WEUrFrlf2bI/AAAAAAAAM28/OV3D19LbKVAkEQpH0nW-zpQFL_09bIucwCPcB/s1600/Taganga1.JPG" title="Taganga, Colombia" /></div>
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<img alt="Taco Beach Bar in Taganga, Colombia" border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jFXcZmUi88w/WEUrFvNMTOI/AAAAAAAAM28/cycm7SS8ynE-kZLGrSIzsKjjk9Z-b2uggCPcB/s1600/Taganga11.JPG" title="Taco Beach Bar, Taganga" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A bit tipsy - they really make big, strong cocktails in South America 😜 we went back on the seafront walk to have a better look at the shops & </span>jewelry<span style="font-family: inherit;"> stands...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy & tired, we retired for the night... at 8.15pm! Ahah! I thought it was like 10 o'clock when I went to bed & instead it was 8! A new record! Truth is that when we travel, we wake up very early & do so many things during the day, that at night we're exhausted. Plus, in Colombia it's dark at like 6pm. But I really like this </span>rhythm<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of life, if I could do the same in Paris I would, except that if I wake-up before 8am in Paris it's still night & at 6pm I'm still at work... ;)</span></span></div>
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<img alt="Guanabana fresh juice at Taganga Beach Bar in Taganga, Colombia" border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PUoe_0XqsFQ/WEUrFvS6K8I/AAAAAAAAM28/jOU4rsthgIAMCE9z9tiAauiXry1MH6JJwCPcB/s1600/Taganga34.JPG" title="Guanabana juice" /></div>
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<img alt="Breakfast at Taganga Beach Hotel in Taganga, Colombia" border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mqagfQso4w8/WEUrFojDYGI/AAAAAAAAM28/Gmc5T77_340pLNW1_L-MEObD1AvjcVtWACPcB/s1600/Taganga36.JPG" title="Taganga Beach Hotel" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">...before continuing our adventure direction Minca, a little village in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Very kindly, the hotel owner was going to Santa Marta, so she gave us a ride & help us to find the bus to Minca, which </span>actually<span style="font-family: inherit;"> wasn't a bus but a 4x4.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Being able to watch the sun rise above the ocean from the coziness of your own bed it's not a bad way to start the day ;) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& that's exactly how our 2nd day in Tayrona begun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We just had to unzip our tent, to have this magical view in front of us :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We woke up so early (on the other side, in Tayrona there's no much to do at night, so we went to bed so early, too) that the restaurant wasn't even open yet for breakfast. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">While waiting, we had a walk on the beach, that is actually the way each day should begin, in my ideal world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We enjoyed a good breakfast as we needed lot of energy for the day: we planned to hike to Pueblito, an ancient indian village, known to be a small version of <i>la ciudad perdida </i>(the lost city) which is an ancient indian village lost in the middle jungle, to reach which you need a several days trek.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Now, we did difficult treks, probably most difficult than the one to Pueblito, but the heat & above all the humidity made this hike s<i>o very difficult</i>!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Honestly, I don't know if I ever sweat that much!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">There are information on your way up, for you to be prepared, the worst part is between 60% & 80% of the path.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Also, we generally find that informations regarding hiking time & difficulty are often overestimated, usually when we read that a hike takes 3 hours, we usually do it in 2,5 for instance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Well, </span><span style="color: #666666;">Colombia is the only place where this is the opposite: if they say a trek takes around 2 hours & it's easy, consider it's 3 hours long & quite difficult!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The hike to Pueblito for instance is quite demanding, you're constantly</span><span style="color: #666666;"> obliged to walk on shaky stones & at times there's a rope to help you going up otherwise it's too slippery or steep. They say it's a family hike, I wouldn't recommend</span><span style="color: #666666;"> bring children there! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Don't get me wrong, Tayrona is a beautiful place & I'm not complaining, but I would have liked to know all that before going, that's why I'm saying.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The hike was nice, but all in all, I wouldn't do it again. Heat & humidity make it really difficult, honestly I wanted to turn back half way, but hubby wanted to finish the hike so... Plus, I spent most of the time looking at where I put my feet for not falling down instead of enjoying the view...</span></div>
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<img alt="Trek to Pueblito, Tayrona National Park, Colombia" border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6OeFq2gdKSU/WEFckoaAJSI/AAAAAAAAMzU/0seM7-CZ0XYU8JjBONBmeHgWokkps30AQCPcB/s1600/Tayrona81.JPG" title="Tayrona National Park, Colombia" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Next to El Cabo (again, they say it's a 10 minutes walk to go there, but it's more the double!) there's a beach called <i>La Piscina</i> (the swimming pool) known to be a perfect place for snorkeling as the beach is protected by coral reefs that create a sort of lagoon with calm water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The beach is beautiful, fringed by palm trees & almost desert.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">But snorkeling was disappointing: the sea was quite rough so we couldn't see much underwater, but worst - despite the fact that everyone in the park will tell you la Piscina is a safe place to swim - there were very strong currents. We entered the water without palms - as the stand renting snorkeling gear was empty - we didn't go that far & we're pretty good swimmers (actually, I'm a former Italian champion of finswimming), but at a certain point, we were unable to swim back to the beach. We started to panic, before realizing that the current was taking us on some stones from which we could go back on the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Still it was stupid to go in the water without palm & I really advice you to be <i>very careful</i> if you're traveling in Colombia. Not only in Tayrona, but everywhere, we really felt that safety it's not really a priority.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Over the beach, there's some cabins, we went there to see if we could have lunch & enjoyed a delicious fish in front of the ocean! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We went back to El Cabo, happily meeting some monkeys along the way 🙊 🙉</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">where we spent the rest of the afternoon, soaking up the sun & playing in the water (in my experience, El Cabo is safer for swimming than La Piscina & there were more fishes to see there) before taking the boat to Taganga, a small fishing village just outside the park. But that's tomorrow's story 😉</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">After a couple of days in Bogota, a very early flight took us to Santa Marta, the start point to explore Colombia </span><span style="color: #666666;">Caribbean</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> coast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We planned to go to Tayrona national park, where the Sierra Nevada mountains go down directly on unspoiled beaches, where nature is wild & human presence is almost invisible.</span><br />
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<img alt="Nudist beach in Tayrona National Park, Colombia" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpGYfWz0JmNISkU8vBhyJ-p-n4X5CkpMZ6ewSlJhUMOxVFh-X0rxx04_m1b28sq7uyDtBN9gC25gHfT74P7LwtP0dy7RoK1h1aKXgyT8oyvlPLsbxokHgsrIbN5Ch9QxfLYqiorEQeEr0/s1600/P5150052.JPG" title="Parque Tayrona" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Tayrona being so uncontaminated & remote is a <i>long</i> trip to reach the heart of the park.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I searched google for hours to find out how to go from the airport to Tayrona, but I could find no information. So we just thought we figured it out once we got there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Indeed, there was no need to worry: once you arrive at Santa Marta airport, you'll find all the information you need, not only to go to Tayrona, but to go to all the other destinations nearby, such as Palomino, Minca, ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Basically you can go everywhere by bus, but in this case you need to have time as the journey will take longer: you'll need to take a first bus to Santa Marta central market & from there one or two other buses to your final destination.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Also people are really nice, so if you're a bit lost with all the buses in Santa Marta, they'll help you out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Or you can go by taxi. The taxi fares are fixed and clearly displayed on several billboards inside the airport and in the taxis as well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">For European standards, those taxi fares are really, really, reasonable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Once you arrive at Tayrona entrance, you're still faraway to the final destination. We were there in the middle of the week & it was low season, still we had to queue more than 1 hour to pay our entrance fees. Once you have your entrance tickets, you still have to watch a video on how to behave in the park, then you have to take back the bus or the taxi to go a bit further in the park & finally you can choose to walk or ride a horse to your final destination in the park (cars are not allowed in the park).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">There are no many places where to stay in Tayrona: some luxurious & completely over priced cabins on the first the beach & a sort of a camping on the most remote & most beautiful beach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We obviously chose this last option and ride our horses until Cabo San Juan. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">There we queued <i>again</i> - </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I must say that all those tourists take away some of the beauty & wilderness of the place... - to book a place to sleep, you can choose between hammocks or tents.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">There are also two double rooms in the wooden cabin overlooking the sea. You can book them in advance through internet, but they're obviously quite always full.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We finally had our tent & strategically placed in front of the sea and a bit far away from all the others ;) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Tired & hungry from the long trip to reach El Cabo, we made a beeline for the only restaurant available.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I read food was expensive & not really tasty in Tayorna, but I actually found the restaurant served good food, exceptionally good seafood & prices were quite affordable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Plus, when you can have lunch in front fo such a view, who would complain? 😜</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The next beach was even more </span><span style="color: #666666;">beautiful</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> & also much more wild.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">But waves & currents are really strong - not only in Tayrona but generally on this side of Colombian coast - and swimming is not </span><span style="color: #666666;">recommended, except in naturally protected beaches like El Cabo or La Piscina.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nevertheless, the place is beautiful & just walking on the sand enjoying the view is wonderful...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">...until you start seeing naked people & you realize you're on a nudist beach. 🙈 That's when we decided to turn back to El Cabo beach.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">& we took possession of our tent to relax & watch the sunset...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">...Before heading back to the camp restaurant for some grilled fish & exceptionally good fruit juice.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">What you should also know is that, except for a couple of hours in the restaurant, there is no electricity nor lights in Tayrona. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Once the sun sets down, it's very dark & there's no much to do at night... But if you don't mind being surrounded by nature in a still untouched place, El Cabo in Tayrona is a perfect, wonderful place. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Back in cold & gray Paris from warm & colorful Brazil... such a change of scenery ahah! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I obviously didn't even begin to go through all the pics from Brazil, but I finished with the ones from Colombia in May. And to live again our Colombia trip should be a good antidote to the winter weather ;)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">Colombia wasn’t
one of the first destinations on our bucket list, but we have friends living in Bogota so we took the chance to visit them & explore the country.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">It was a wonderful discovery as there are some really stunning natural places & </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">people
are really kind and open to tourists; if you speak a bit of Spanish, almost
everyone will be happy to talk with you, tell you about his country & know
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our trip with a couple of days in Bogota.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">Honestly, Bogota isn't exactly a nice city: it's built incoherently, with ugly, modern buildings touching old, cute houses; the weather is quite disappointing too as the city being quite high on the mountains, the sky is often grey & rainy and it's never very hot, nor too cold neither; & it's quite dangerous too. About that :</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666;">Taxi can really be an issue: don’t
ever grab a taxi in the street; always book a taxi from the official app or ask your hotel or restaurant to book one for you;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666;">Book in advance a taxi for you arrival at the airport too;</span></li>
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to wear any signs of wealth: jewelry, watches...</span></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">But enough with
the downsides! We actually had a very good time in Bogota, as we were with our
friends who live there. And if you know the city & where to go, there are really some cool places to go out in Bogota!</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">All the
ceviches we shared were incredibly yummy & fresh (we had others during our trip, but
couldn’t find any as good as the ones at Central Cevicheria).<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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I was feeling quite bad (note to myself: never drinking that much again before a long flight, ever. To my excuse, the night before the flight was one of my best friends' birthday!). So I don't have any picture of the place or the food... You'll just have to trust me and pay Central Cevicheria a visit!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">By the morning after, I was feeling super good & after a yummy breakfast - we tasted pan de yuca (manioca bread), which I really liked - we started our visit of Bogota with the Gold Museum. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">The museum displays a collection of gold & stone objects from the </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">pre-Columbian civilizations.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #666666;">And finally reached Bolivar square, the city main square, house of all the government buildings & the surprisingly simply decorated Cathedral.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">After lunch we climbed the Cerro de Monserrate, to have a view of the city from above, realizing how big it really is...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I really wanted to visit the Holy Mother of Carmen church - I saw a picture on google & it looked incredible - but unfortunately we were only able to see the exterior as it only opens for the the holy Mass.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Just as Paris has become all grey & rainy, it's time for our holiday! We're flying to Brazil tonight & we'll be exploring the country for 3 weeks... I can't wait!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you have any suggestion about places to go, restaurants, bars, activities... please leave me a comment :))</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We'll be starting with some days in Rio, where first of all I wanna surf, as it's too much time I didn't catch waves!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And of course visit all the rest the city has to offer ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& we'll finish with 2 days in Olinda :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I really can't wait!! I'll tell you all when I'm back!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">There's really one thing that lacks in Paris: the sea!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The water is quite freezing & the sky often grey, but you can still walk on the beach, loose your sight over the infinity of the ocean & get that feeling... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">(you know what I mean or am I the only one feeling that good by the ocean?)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">If we're really lucky there are also waves & we can even surf! Otherwise it's just enjoyable to escape Paris, spend some time outdoor by the beach & eat seafood ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Starting with mussels & french fries on a Friday evening in Trouville, where my lovely hubby brought me for the weekend :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Having a walk after dinner, we ended up at the little fun-fair, where we had some rides before going back to our home for the week-end, tired & happy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">We stayed in this nice bed & breakfast, <a href="http://www.villacaroline.fr/accueil.html" target="_blank">Villa Caroline</a>, which is located in a beautiful family house built in 1830. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">They only have 4 rooms, each one decorated in a particular way to make you travel faraway: we were in the Malabar room, which took us to India, the other rooms are Venice, Zanzibar & Essaouira.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Another advantage of Villa Carolina is its position, 100 m from the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The beach in Trouville is a long sand stretch surrounded by beautiful mansions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">After a yummy breakfast, we had a morning walk on the beach</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Where we arrived just in time for lunch :) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Nothing better than to pick your favorite seafood directly from the market </span><span style="color: #666666;">& enjoy it with a glass of wine</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Trouville & Deauville are two different towns, but they're touching each other; so no matter where you're staying (I personally prefer Trouville as it seems nicer & more "real" to me, if you know what I mean) you can easily walk from one to another.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Every year Deauville hosts the American Film Festival & the film making industry is omnipresent on the beach.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">We walked a little more on the beach </span><span style="color: #666666;">& into town, marveling at the houses, that in Deauville aren't bad either ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Plus, they have the cutest LV boutique ever!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Where we ended our day with more seafood. Can one ever have too much seafood? ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">We started the following morning in same exact way than the previous one: walking on the beach (honestly, <i>every</i> day should start this way).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Except that, frustrated from being outside the water, I tried to bathe despite the cold. Unsuccessfully.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Keen to explore more the surroundings, we ventured inland to take the <i>cider route</i>. Apple cider is mainly produced in Normandy and the cider route is a road that passes through the region & crosses several apple farms. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I've already been there once a couple of years ago, when I road-tripped in Normandy with one of my best friends. I have very good memories of that trip & it was very nice to take that road again. I have a particularly vivid souvenir of an old, suggestive, little church, from where you have a beautiful view over the valley.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We found that church again. :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">As always, we had a very good time in Normandy. So I guess it's safe to say, see you very soon Northern Territory of France :)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Claire was the first person I met when I arrived
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<span style="color: #666666;">I was in the subway going back home from an acting class when this girl, who was also in the class, came to talk to me.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">She thought I was crying, probably sad because I was away from my family... For the record, I just have <i>very</i> sensitive eyes...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Anyway, we exchanged our numbers & she told me she would have called me. I honestly didn't think she would have <i>really</i> called. But she actually did & a couple of days later we went out with other friends to watch "Bridget Jones' diary".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">And that was the beginning of a very beautiful friendship.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Regrettably, a couple of years ago she moved to Zurich where she lives happily with her very cute & very blonde family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">So now I can't see her very often, but I can go to Switzerland for the weekend ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">When I thought of Zurich, I had images of serious men dressed up in black suits, carrying their suitcases on their way to work, of modern bright buildings occupied by all the big banks, coming to my mind.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I couldn't be wronger: Zurich is a cute, small & very clean little city, built around a beautiful lake &</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> surrounded by mountains. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Nature is everywhere & it's really easy to access. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Now, this wasn't just like going to the countryside and swimming in a lake. Zurich’s lake is more like going to the beach: you have green grasses to lay down and sunbathe, volleyball fields, playgrounds for children, a floating platform to sunbathe in the middle of the water, boats for renting and a toboggan, that we enjoyed very much!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">A couple of days ago we went to <a href="http://thesecretlifeofanactress.blogspot.fr/2014/02/liege-day-1.html" target="_blank">Liège</a>, Belgium for my brilliant brother in law Ph.D.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I didn't plan on writing a post about this trip, as we went there very quickly, and I thought we would have just gone to the university to listen to his Ph.D. thesis & spent some time with the family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Which we actually did. B</span><span style="color: #666666;">ut the day after the Ph.D. thesis & the celebration party, we went to Brussels.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I must admit Brussels is not a city I particularly like (what do you think about it?), but we went to a place I've never heard of before & I found quite amusing: the <a href="http://www.atomium.be/Headlines.aspx?xunq=1" target="_blank">Atomium</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The Atomium is a monument built for the 1958 World's Fair, that represents the cell of an iron crystal, magnified 165 billion times.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">It's quite impressive & its construction was a technical exploit, as you can imagine by looking at the pictures taken during the construction works.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Speaking of that, 6 of the 9 spheres are open to the public; the highest offers a beautiful 360° view over Bruxelles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">In the other ones, you can enjoy a permanent exhibition on the design & the construction of the monument, as well as a temporary exhibition. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">During our visit, the temporary exhibition was "Talk", a sounds & lights experience from the collective of artists <i>Visual System</i>. It was a futuristic exhibition, which I found suited the place really well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">In the central tube, the lift taking the visitors up to the highest sphere was the faster lift never constructed at the time of the World's Fair in 1958.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">There is also a sphere for children, where groups of children can spend the night sleeping in circular beds in little spheres & looking at the stars. No need to say, I was <i>very jealous</i> of that!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Carrying the Atomium's weight on our little shoulders was quite tiring though... So we decided to go to Bruxelles' main square to have a drink in the sun & possibly a chocolate waffle, I mean, we were in Belgium after all, could I possibly leave the country without having had a waffle?! ;p</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s been some time now that I’ve been hearing about the beauty & anti-ageing benefits of silk
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was curious to try,</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"> but the high price of silk pillowcases combined
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From time to time I kept searching Google though to check new companies
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eventually, a couple of weeks ago, I ordered 2 silk pillowcases from <a href="http://www.lilysilk.com/" target="_blank">Lilysilk</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I chose this company as they had good feedbacks, an interesting & complete FAQ
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(It’s not the cheaper seller you can find, but I was not looking for the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;">But as soon as he put his head on the pillow, he was conquered by the
delicate fabric & decided he won’t sleep on cotton pillowcase anymore.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Actually he now would like to sleep on silk sheets too, but given the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #666666;">It’s true that I too can feel a huge difference between my head resting on
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<li><span style="color: #666666;">Silk is a
hypoallergenic fabric, very gentle against skin : I don’t know about allergies,
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up in the morning with pillow marks on your face thus preventing wrinkles : Indeed I have no pillow marks on my face when I wake up so I guess this is
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on the hair, they break less => I don’t have any hair problem, but every day
I was used to find lots of hubby’s hair on the pillow (sorry love for saying
this out loud ;p) but since we’re sleeping on silk pillowcase there are no more hair.
Not-a-single-one!! Meaning that silk really is gentle on the head and hubby’s not
losing hair while sleeping anymore!!</span></li>
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leaving your night cream on your face thus allowing your skin to benefit from
all the ingredients all night long : To test this last point, I touched my
face in the morning before changing pillowcase and I touched my face after
& I must say that my skin feels “moister” & better hydrated since I’m
sleeping on silk pillowcase, so I feel confident to say that even this last point is a true beauty benefit! :)</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I'm definitely conquered by sleeping on silk pillowcase & ordering more pillowcases in additional colors! The softness of the fabric on the skin would be enough, but in addition to that it's also a beauty remedy! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">This summer the weather is being super weird... Not only in Paris, where the summer weather eventually arrived only 2 weeks ago, but in Italy as well. Even though in Italy the weather was still hot, there have been many rainy & stormy days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I go to Positano every year since my childhood & I can't recall another summer with an equal bad weather like this one (I'm so glad we got married <i>last </i>summer!!)... While rain & cold can be quite annoying when you wanna go out & enjoy the sea (luckily we also had sunny days to be fair) the cloudy weather resulted in some of the most beautiful sunsets I saw in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The stormy clouds, the pink sky & the blue sea are a great combo! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Another incredible thing that happened this summer is that one night hubby & I were ready to go out for dinner in advance & for once we could take a couple of pictures of us all dressed-up in front of one of those sunsets (honestly, I don't know you, but we never have pics of us when we're nice dressed etc as we're always late ;p). So I particularly enjoy the following photos <3 <3</span></div>
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<br />Umbertahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063412172521701557noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410473714341937284.post-38547881600686948642016-09-08T12:51:00.000+02:002016-09-08T12:51:22.610+02:00Maria Grazia, Nerano<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Today I'm gonna reveal you one of the worst kept secret of the Amalfi coast... On a lively & colorful beach, there's an always full restaurant, serving the best spaghetti with zucchini in the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I'm obviously talking about <a href="http://www.ristorantemariagrazia.com/" target="_blank">Maria Grazia</a> on Nerano beach.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The recipe is secret &, despite the many tries, no one can make spaghetti with zucchini in the same way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">What I can tell you is that even though it seems to be eggs in the sauce, there are not. The creamy, tasty, thick sauce is made by a secret mix of different cheeses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Book in advance, ask for a table on the front raw overlooking the beach (not only you'll have a better view, but it's also cooler) & prepare yourself to enjoy one of the best meals of your life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">As it'll also be one of the heaviest meal of your life, may i suggest you'll have some swimming, snorkeling & diving before ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">That's exactly what we did btw :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">leaving Positano behind us </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We eventually arrived in Nerano just in time for lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Just anchor your boat in front of the beach, & the restaurant boat will comme to pick you up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">My beach dress is from <a href="http://www.anticasartoriapositano.it/" target="_blank">L'Antica Sartoria</a>, a very well known boutique in Positano. They actually have several boutiques in Positano plus others in the nearby towns like Amalfi, Capri...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you're in the area is a perfect spot to treat yourself with a local, fashion souvenir ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">They have very nice beach dresses, cover-ups & bikinis. Prices can seem high sometimes, but the <i>always</i> have a couple of stands with super-discounted items at the entrance of the store ;))</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We took our seats in the cool shadow, enjoying the view of a typical Italian beach,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">& sipped on white wine with peaches, a local specialty, while waiting for our main course to arrive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">& here they are, the famous <i>spaghetti con le zucchine</i> di Maria Grazia!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">They also have very yummy mixed appetizers (mozzarella, fried vegetables, potato croquettes, eggplant balls...), but I suggest to take them after the main course instead of before, so that you'll still be able to enjoy the spaghetti with zucchini, it would be to heavy otherwise ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Happy & relaxed we took the sea again to come back home :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Since last summer, there's a new, charming, tiny bar in Positano: <i>Franco's</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Just next the well-known hotel Le Sirenuse & owned by the same family (the current owner Antonio Sersale opened the bar & named it after his beloved father) <a href="http://francosbar.com/en" target="_blank">Franco's</a> occupy a small terrace (a former parking lot) overlooking the sea.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">No need to say, the view is spectacular...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The decoration reminds of the colors of the Amalfi coast, the blue of the Mediterranean sea, the yellow of the local lemons...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Everything is simple & elegant from the decoration to the menu: Franco's is the only bar in Positano that doesn't offer food, but a good list of cocktails & just some nibbles (olive, salted almonds & homemade potato chips).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">& btw, why would you need food when you can have prosecco & Positano at your feet?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">As the sun sets down & the music & chatting from the guests gets louder, enjoy the relaxed atmosphere & sip on all the surrounding beauty <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you're in the area, I really suggest a visit. Just try to go there as early as you can (Franco's open at 6pm) as the place is tiny &, believe me, you want one of the tables in the front row to fully enjoy the show <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Find Franco's bar <a href="https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Franco's+Bar/@40.6289926,14.486052,18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x133b976f25a71bbb:0x1d8af8e3c4e4ee77!8m2!3d40.6287789!4d14.4877364" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& once you leave, either to go out for dinner or to come back home, while walking the streets, continue to enjoy the beautiful view of Positano at night... Isn't this place magical? :)</span><br />
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Umbertahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063412172521701557noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410473714341937284.post-54305062640788666172016-08-30T12:15:00.001+02:002016-09-01T12:20:53.926+02:00Ravello, a hidden gem in the mountains<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<img alt="Terrace of Infinity Villa Cimbrone Ravello" border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vYWZQ_jW3wA/V8PhoLMkgBI/AAAAAAAAMFY/X_m0taxoMzI-bXpEOR_sPLjccqVehO75ACPcB/s1600/P7150113.JPG" title="Villa Cimbrone Ravello" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you read my blog previously, you already know Positano is one of my favorite places on earth & I always hop on a plane a couple of times every summer to spend some days there & visit my aunt & uncle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We took advantage of a very bad weather day during our last trip there, to visit the nearby town of <i>Ravello</i>, a breathtaking gem hidden into the mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">After a quite long bus ride (actually there are not so many km to do, but the costal road is quite narrow & buses often got stuck & honestly taking the bus is an experience in itself...) from Positano to Amalfi & to Amalfi to Ravello, we finally arrived to our destination.</span><br />
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<img alt="Mains square and the Cathedral in Ravello" border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6LXnCXT5MlU/V8PhoGOuKzI/AAAAAAAAMFo/CcU1N237qXcG4lr322y2pjiR4PVqhYbLwCPcB/s1600/P7150101.JPG" title="Ravello" /></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">To recover from the bus ride, we started with ice-creams in the main square.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Happily savoring our treats, we wandered the tiny streets...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& with a perfect timing, we arrived at Villa Cimbrone just as we finished our ice-creams ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.villacimbrone.com/en/home.php" target="_blank">Villa Cimbrone</a> is an historical palace in Ravello, mostly known for its fabulous gardens & its amazing belvedere, the <i>Terrace of Infinity</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The palace is now a 5 stars hotel & hosts a restaurant as well, but the gardens are open to the public.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Right in front of the ticket office, you'll find the cloister & the crypt entrance. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Unfortunately, when we went there the crypt was closed due to a wedding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Shall we continue through the gardens so?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">...the many statues...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">We eventually reached the Terrace of Infinity...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">& got lost in the blue panorama stretching in front of us...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I didn't want to leave anymore, it's true that this belvedere is kind of magical, you feel suspended between the sea & the sky. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">But there was more to explore, so we eventually took back the road through the gardens...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Getting lost in the different floors of the never-ending parc</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">& among gardens of different styles, feeling once like in Japan...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">& then like in the labyrinth of Alice in the Wonderland ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Once we explored every corner of this charming place, we found ourselves back at Villa Cimbrone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Where this kind man was sitting in the exact same place than before, only his companion had changed ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">While going back to the main square, we saw many nice places, most of them with a breathtaking view, where we would have loved to have dinner, but Ravello is up in the mountains so the weather is fresher than in other towns nearby especially when the night is coming & we were kind of cold. So we sadly decided to go back to Positano.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">But now you know, so if you plan on going there, bring a jumper with you & you'll be able to enjoy dinner in one of the nice restaurants overlooking the blue sea :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">PS. We went to Villa Cimbrone as I wanted to see the Terrace of Infinity, but there's also another palace, <a href="http://www.villarufolo.it/home.html" target="_blank">Villa Rufolo</a>, with equally beautiful gardens, that is a nice visit when in Ravello.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">No need to say Paris is a wonderful city. As it's often the case, to see the city from above is even more beautiful (or it's just me who love to see any place from above?!). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">As it happens, one of the most beautiful views over Paris is from Montmartre hill.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But when you have the </span>chance<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to enjoy this wonderful </span>panorama<span style="font-family: inherit;"> from a private terrace with a 360° view </span>instead of<span style="font-family: inherit;"> among a huge crowd of tourists... Well I'd say this is kind of magical! :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And no, before you get too excited, this is not our home... although we live really close... in a first floor apartment ;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of hubby's clients, who lives in the building, kindly told us to go on the terrace once to enjoy the view at sunset.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a shared terrace for all the building's </span>residents<span style="font-family: inherit;">, but fabulously it was just the 2 of us! Can you believe it??</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I mean, if I lived there, I would spend all my time on such a terrace: it's huge, you have wonderful view, </span>there are sun loungers, tables, chairs & even a bbq! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">End of July, to end in style a yet <a href="https://thesecretlifeofanactress.blogspot.fr/2016/08/avocado-toast-louboutin.html" target="_blank">special day</a>, we went to Rihanna's concert in Paris with all our friends. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The concert took place in the football stadium north of Paris, we took the tickets a couple of months ago, & I must admit that now I was a little bit scared of going there, among a huge crowd, with all the awful things happening in the world, but eventually we decided we can't stop living & off we went.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">At the beginning of the show, there were two singers I didn't know, but they were pretty good. Except that one of them was on the stage wearing a bulletproof vest... Which I found quite strange as if he was <i>really</i> scared, he shouldn't have been there & if that was his stage costume it was in poor taste...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I was expecting a huge show, like when I saw Beyonce or Britney Spears, & I was a bit disappointed: there was no scenography, no special effects, no beautiful choreographies... Just a couple of dancers. Except for a glimmering jumpsuit, Rhianna wasn't wearing anything special... She was singing in playback, and that's ok, but sometimes she just put down the microphone even though her voice was still singing... It was very strange.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">& can I say it? To say it politely, she was constantly touching herself in between her legs & I really found it annoying...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">There was a very beautiful moment though, when she said some kind words about what happened in France and asked everyone in the public to light up their phones & sang <i>Diamonds</i>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">...It's raining, raining, oh baby it's raining, raining, baby come here to me, come here to meeee...</span></i></div>
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Umbertahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063412172521701557noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6410473714341937284.post-48242951488889126802016-08-20T11:37:00.000+02:002016-08-20T11:37:03.538+02:00Avocado toast & Louboutin<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">If you read my blog, you already know that for our <a href="https://thesecretlifeofanactress.blogspot.fr/2016/08/surfing-biarrtiz-exploring-Saint-Jean-de-Luz-gourmet-dinner-at-Briketenia.html" target="_blank">first wedding anniversary</a>, hubby offered me a pair of Louboutin! *heart eyes emoji here*.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">But he wisely decided we should go together to choose my new Loubi.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">As the good things often come in pairs, I stopped by his office on a Saturday morning to have lunch together before shopping.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I heard of a new coffee place making avo toast & I obviously had to check it out, more it was literally around the corner from hubby's office.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Avocado toast for both of us plus iced latte for me & fresh orange juice for hubby.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Now I'm pleased to announce that Fragments offers the best avocado toast I had in Paris so far!!! (& I tasted <i>all</i> the avo toasts available in Paris!!).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Full & happy, we continued our way to Louboutin, where I tried <i>so many</i> wonderful shoes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Eventually, we chose our 2 favorites: a pair of black pumps very classic on the front, but with some sort of flames on the back going up on the ankles & a more princess-like pair of shoes, pinkish & sparkling...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Yup, I went for the sparkling, pink shoes!! I wanted something more special & particular & I wanted to feel like a princess <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I can't wait to wear them, even though honestly, they're not the most confortable shoes in the world. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">They're really for princesses, for waiting prince charming to pick you up on his white horse so that you don't have to walk! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Anyway, they're so beautiful, I think they worth a close-up ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I </span>said<span style="font-family: inherit;"> before that good things come in pairs, but I should have said they come in threes. As if tit wasn't a prefect day yet, we went to Rihanna concert that night!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">A couple of months ago, I've been contacted through <a href="http://www.castingcallpro.com/" target="_blank">CastingCallPro</a> to know if I wanted to audition for some corporate videos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I sent right away my video audition to the casting director & the client chose me! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">So a couple of days ago I flew to Milan for a 2 days shooting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I arrived at my hotel in Arcore, a small village in Milan's suburbs, on Sunday evening</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">& had a relaxing night in order to be rested & ready for the shooting the morning after!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Early morning, the crew pick me up & took me to the studio where we shot all day long.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We shot on a chroma-key green screen, meaning that I was playing with no background (plain green background) & all the background elements will then be incrusted in post-production.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Actually they used a new technology so the background wasn't really green, it was grey & there was a green light projected against it & on the camera the background appeared to be green.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I was also filming with no partner, I was alone & playing only my character without having the doctor in front of me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And we were working with a prompter. I never used one before, I was a bit worried at the beginning, but actually it was ok.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The movies are training videos for medical students & I was playing a girl with an incurable brain tumor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Despite the difficult subject, all the crew was super nice & I had a very good time!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">After filming all day I felt the need to move & to change my mind though; I saw there was a big park not far from my hotel, so I went for a 40 minutes run. It felt so good!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The park, Villa Borromeo d'Adda, was beautiful & there were so many people running & exercising.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Running is not the sport I like the most, but I'm happy I started it as it's something I can easily do everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">On my way back, I ordered a pizza - I was in Italy after all! - & watched an episode of <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2295809/" target="_blank">Mistresses</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Before going to bed early to be ready for the second & last day of shooting!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">That I attacked after some pancakes & fruits, not the most Italian breakfast - nor the lightest one ;p - but I can't say no to pancakes ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Than back in the studio to film...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">As we finished earlier & the company I was working for has got a big French client, they also filmed a video audition of me in French :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">So hopefully we'll work together again! *fingers crossed*.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And after those 2 rewarding & absorbing days, it was yet time to go back home; sad that the filming was over, but happy to find back my love <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">My last day in Biarritz started as the previous ones: I woke up, headed to the beach, looked at the perfect waves stretching in front of me, smiled & got into the ocean.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">How beautiful is the beach early morning, when there is almost nobody? </span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I had a wonderful session, working on my turning skills. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I was alone in the water, but what I like about surfing is that I feel like there's a community: waiting for the waves, I always have a talk with other surfers & I feel like we keep an eye on each other should something go wrong.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Just before leaving, I saw this woman entering the water. She was super fit & tanned, with long blonde hair. She was maybe 40 or 45 & wearing a red bikini, while I was wrapped in my long wetsuit. & she was surfing so damn well!! </span><br>
<span style="color: #666666;">I really wanted to go to her & say "Please, I wanna become like you in 10 years!! & can we be friends?", which I obviously didn't. ;)</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">After almost 4 hours (that's the problem of living far away from the ocean, once you're in you never wanna stop as you don't know the next time you're gonna be in the waves), I came out the water in search for lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I saw on the Internet, that Biarritz is full of nice places for brunch & healthy meals. Seriously, in Paris I cannot find this kind of places whereas in Biarritz there were so many... I told it's like a little Sydney!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I chose <a href="https://www.facebook.com/milwaukeecafe/" target="_blank">Milwaukee Café</a>, as apparently they have exceptional eggs Benedict.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Unfortunately I arrived too late & kitchen was closed, so I had a quinoa salad instead, which was really yummy by the way.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& look how cute is the place anyway! So pink & sweet!!</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I sat outside happily eating & blogging. & thinking that's how life should be. </span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">After lunch, I had a last walk on the beach, soaking up as much sun as I could.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& I took the path leading to the city center to enjoy the view over the beach from up there (& to go shopping at Galeries Lafayette).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">In Biarritz there are flowers, and particularly hydrangeas, everywhere & I love this flower so much. In Italy, we always had it at home... I should buy some in Paris too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">At the end of the afternoon, after some unsuccessful shopping, I went for a coffee & cake in this <a href="http://www.miremont-biarritz.fr/en/history.html" target="_blank">tea room</a> I saw before, while coming up from the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I noticed it because it had huge windows overlooking the ocean & I was curious to see the view from the inside. Plus it was so hot, that actually sitting inside rather than outside felt like a good option.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I sat near the window & enjoyed the view with a coffee & a gateau basque, a local cake with cherries.</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Patisserie Miremont turned out to be an institution in Biarritz, it exists since 1872!! </span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">How much do they love <i>pink</i> in this city btw?? Even in this place all the walls were pink! It's the city for me ;p</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The cake I had was very good, but everything seemed yummy anyway & also, all the cakes & chocolates come in pink bags!</span><br>
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<span style="color: #666666;">At the hotel, they've been so nice to let me keep the room until night as there were no other guests coming that day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I grabbed my luggage & I had a last walk through Biarritz to go to the airport.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Yes you read well, I walked to the airport! I'm always used to airports being far away, but actually in Biarritz is so close you can go there by foot in about 25 minutes! (it's actually faster by foot than by bus!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Thank you for a wonderful time Biarritz, I'll surely come back for more! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">How good is it to wake up, wear your wet suit, jump on the scooter & head to the beach?! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Although, after the delicious but huge dinner of the previous night... I had some problems in getting up on my board, as you can see... haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Anyway, after a little hour I started feeling lighter, kept on working on my backside - something I'm trying to improve since our <a href="https://thesecretlifeofanactress.blogspot.fr/2016/07/surfing-essaouira.html" target="_blank">surf trip to Essaouira</a> - & took a wave really well :)) hoped for hubby to take a picture of this glorious moment... which he didn't! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">We asked a guy if he could take a photo of us & when I showed him which button he had to press, he answered he knew as he was a photographer... Now, my experience is that when a stranger says he's a photographer, it's better if I take the picture myself using the self-timer... This time was no exception... haha so this is the only pic of us with this beautiful panorama (I couldn't take a pic with the self-timer after asking the guy as I didn't want to upset him...).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We wanted indeed take the <a href="http://www.rhune.com/uk/index.aspx" target="_blank">train de la Rhune</a>, a cute, old train that brings you up to La Rhune mountain to admire the view & have a walk, but it was closed due to the bad weather (although the weather wasn't bad anymore..). Anyway, we'll go there next time!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">But there was no more time: hubby had to come back to Paris one day earlier because of some work issue :( </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">On the other side, I've decided to remain in Biarritz one last day even if hubby was leaving.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">So I sadly brought him to the train station, kissed him goodbye as if we were going to be separated for months & not only for 24h & go back to the city center. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I had a remedy for the goodbye sadness: açai bowl!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Right in the city center, just in front of Galeries Lafayette, there's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/balibowlsbiarritz/?fref=nf" target="_blank">this tiny little place</a>, run by a super nice Italian family, where they make açai bowl!! & other yummy fruit bowls & smoothies!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Just for you know, I was so excited for that because in France it's almost impossible to find açai bowl. I can - difficultly - find frozen açai & prepare it myself at home, but there are not many places where you can enjoy it outside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Anyway, I went to Bali Bowls, grab my açai bowl & go to sit on the beach :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I had a walk along the beach, the first half of the beach was full of people, but the second half was almost empty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; text-align: justify;">Honestly I can perfectly picture myself living in the beautiful house with the large windows, admiring the panorama from my living room, light a fire in the winter during a storm, grab my surfboard & walk to the beach with my love & my sweet dog, open the windows at night & listen to the crushing waves...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Yup I know, I got carried away... I don't even have a dog - yet - just for you to know...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Tired with this long walk, I came back to the hotel, where I enjoyed some pizza while watching some episodes of <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2295809/?ref_=tt_rec_tti" target="_blank">Mistresses</a>,</i> the new series I'm obsessed with... Have you watched it? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">It's a super girly series, just what I like, plus I'm totally in love with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875810/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4" target="_blank">Harry</a> - although I found him a bit old... <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Anyway, if you liked Gossip Girl, Desperate Housewives, Pretty Little Liars... & you're looking for a new show to watch, you should totally go for Mistresses. Although, I'm warning you, it's highly addictive! ;p</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Our second day in Biarritz obviously started with a surf session. We went on the Grande Plage, the main beach, rented two surf boards & spent the following 3 hours into the waves!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Btw, they're super kind at the surf shop on the Grande Plage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">& the people paragliding</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A </span>friend<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of mine who lived in the region, suggested </span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.briketenia.com/en/restaurant.html" target="_blank">Briketenia</a></i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, a Gourmet restaurant with Michelin starred chef, located in Guethary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We had the season menu, which consists of a starter, a fish based main dish plus a meat based main dish & dessert. </span>Everything<span style="font-family: inherit;"> was delicious, but for me it was a little bit too much, I should have had only one main dish, as I ate so much that it took some of the </span>pleasure<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the dinner away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then it was time for gifts!! *excited emoticon here*</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The first year we were together I offered hubby a photo book to remember all the things we did during the passed year. Since then, I'm offering him a photo book every year. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I include photos of our travels, but also of the little things of our everyday life, work life, etc... I think that when we will be grey & old & we'll have </span>dozens of those books, it'll be <i>so</i> nice to look back at them :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; text-align: justify;">As it was our 1st wedding anniversary, we decided to make each other a beautiful gift. So I offered him a pair of Cartier cuff links. You can't see them well in the picture, but they're so beautiful. They have blue stones & I made them engraved: on the first one there's written "1 year" & on the second one "Many to come" :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& I had a pair of Louboutin!!!!! :))) I had a little note with a quiz & the answer was Louboutin & then we'll go together to choose them. It was the first time that hubby didn't choose a gift on his own, but I'm so glad he didn't as it'll be fun to go together to try & choose my dream, red soles shoes :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">So <i>that</i> was a special, wonderful dinner! :) if you're looking for a fancy restaurant in the Pays Basques you should definitely give Briketenia a try. In addition to the delicious food, waiters are really kind & you'll enjoy a beautiful view over the countryside from the windows.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">For our first wedding anniversary, we went to Biarritz for a weekend of surf, sea & love :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I've wanted to go to Biarritz since so long & I've not been disappointed, I loved it so much, I thought it looked like a little Sydney ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We arrived late morning & after having left our luggage at our new <a href="http://www.maison-hotes-biarritz.fr/" target="_blank">home for the weekend</a>, Villa Sanchis a bed & breakfast set in a beautiful house, run by a French-Swedish family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">For the waves we didn't have so much luck as Biarritz is best to be surfed at high tide & we were told to wait until the next morning for surfing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Honestly, this whole thing about tides is quite annoying if you ask me...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">There was a music festival, Les Casetas, on the Côte des Basques beach & several food & drink stands were lined up in front of the ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We sat in front of the beautiful view, sipping on some sangria, while waiting for our main dishes to arrive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately, before we could start eating, a heavy rain came.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We run inside the stand & had lunch there, a lot less nice than sitting in front of the ocean. So you will excuse-me if I forgot to take any pics of the nevertheless very good burger & skewers we shared ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">On the good side, after lunch, the rain slowed down & we could have a walk to Biarritz main beach.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">We passed several little coves - that's where I've been remembered of the walk from Bondi to Coogee in Sydney *sad emoticon here - as I want to go back to Australia so badly!!*.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">which we thought was much nicer than the Côte des Basques beach. We went to the surf shop & talked with the girl there, that was also nicer than the guy from the other surf shop & we decided to go there surfing the next morning :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Happy to have solved our surfing situation, we came back to the hotel to change ourselves before dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Being so close to Spain, I searched my best friend Google for the best place to eat tapas & Goole suggested <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PuigDaro/" target="_blank">Puig & Daro</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Puig & Daro was a real good pick! Yet all the waiters were super kind, there were so many tapas, I don't even know how I've been able to choose, they have very good wines - & sangria of course - & they also have sweet tapas for dessert!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">You can choose among the all mouthwatering tapas they have & compose your own tapas plate or order a pre-made selection.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">The only bad thing about this place is that inside there's a terrible light for pictures. Really. Terrible. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">So now you know why my tapas pictures are ugly... But they were so yummy that I still have to show you ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Green chili peppers - my favorite! - & cheese croquettes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"> Of course, we couldn't not to taste the sweet tapas! It was the first time I saw sweet tapas ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">& btw, I have other places to tell you about in Biarritz & surroundings, more to come in the next posts! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've heard a lot of things about Essaouira before going there: the white city - </span>because<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the white wall surrounding it, the windy city - well, because of the strong winds... I've heard about the blue fishing boats & the seagulls... But I've heard nothing about its sunsets...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Although, in my opinion, it's something the city should be known for...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Don't you think? :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">To watch the sun disappear into the Atlantic ocean & the sky become bright red, while listening to the crushing waves, is a unique picture every night...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I do love sunsets & I <i>do</i> love being by the sea, so for me sunset hours in a seaside place are like the best thing in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">But where to go in Essaouira to enjoy the sunset show, preferably with a drink in your hand?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I'm afraid that for that, I have to suggest some of the touristy places I usually try to avoid... But sometimes it worth it to make an exception to the rule ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">But it's at sunset that the place really worth it. Facing the sea & Mogador island, you'll have the most wonderful view in front of you</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">^local beer Casablanca was really tasty. Cheers! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">^not the most local food ;p but sitting there after our last surf session of the day, was a real pleasure!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Camels were enjoying sunset with us ;)</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Taros:</b> on the main square, the several terraces of Taros offer a fabulous view over the </span><span style="color: #666666;">harbor, the ocean & the old city's roofs. </span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Bands play live music every night & there's a relaxed & young atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">As well as a lot of people, especially at sunset, so you may want to arrive early to have a table & be ready to share half of your table with other guests.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Admire Moulay Hassan square & the giant fresco from Italian artist Giacomo Bufarini aka RUN.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">He painted the biggest fresco of North Africa - 5.000 sqm - in February in occasion of the Marrakech Biennale.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">It represents 2 human beings - not women nor men - standing on the opposite sides of a river, talking to each other to symbolize communication among people.</span><br />
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