la plage: Palavas les Flots

We did hit the beach first time this year on sunday. It was just perfect weather, +30 with the cool breeze.
Since I burn really easily because of the fair skin, this time I did splash sun cream already at home, more than 2 hours before the tanning. And it did save my skin, mostly, but I forgot one thigh - sunburn!

I didn't dare to take my camera to the beach, because of the amount of people  and I don't want it to be stolen. I have older Canon what I wanted to take, but it requires 4 batteries and I forgot to charge these.
that's how my memory works - I need to do lists and notes to remember everything.

So here is one picture of the beach day with R's iphone. I'm not really into to the latest smart phones and stuff, but I want quite badly the iphone 4 because of the cool apps to take quickly nice photos.
like these times when I can't take my DSRL with me.

So, do you take your expencive SRL to the beach?
Are you ever worried that it could get stolen?

hello hello.

Hello, everyone.

It has been long time since the last post. I felt like there's nothing special to share,but..

There was still something.

My parents visited 1,5 weeks ago here! They came on wednesday evening to see us, they had to spend thursday by themselves driving around Marseille and then we had 3 days together before they left up to the north again, by car.

Did I told you, they always take a boat from Finland to Germany, then long drive from the harbour to south France. That makes 27 hours in the boat, then long 1500km by car.

So we visited cities, villages and had family time together. When they left, we cried. I felt so bad, that few days after I was still weepy, when driving from work to home, I felt like crying.

It's always hard to be apart from your family. This decision, to be away from my family is heavy in my heart. 

But I can't be in two places what I love,same time.

Maybe someday we can have tiny house by a lake, in Finland, we can visit there when ever we want.

 Nuuksio National Park, Finland

I told in the other post, that we decided to take a cat. My feelings about it has gone from being crazy happy to crazy worried, you know when your life is about to change and you feel all the extreme emotions. This is what is happening to me, with a cat! ha ha. It's just a long wait before he is coming home, almost one month still.

So in the end of june, we will have the little guy here. 

I sure will share some photos when the owner will send those.

 Fontaine

de Vaucluse

I haven't been taking photos lately,I need to take my camera out more.

It's been +30 every day, and it's way too warm for a northern girl like me.

I can't have walk outside without being in the edge of heatstroke.. Can't even think of sports outside.

I just keep on dreaming of the garden, nice patio and evenings with a barbeque.

Hope you all have great week!

NaturAvignon

last sunday we had amazing weather and we spent the morning in the "NaturAvignon" happening,

I was mostly interested to see the local and bio producers.

I love markets.

In our square, we have every saturday local market, and just next to our house is a cyclopanier boutique, for local and bio veggies, fruits and products.

 

 from this herb seller, we bought a basil, just need to plant it and hope the southern sun and heat won't kill it this time.. Any tips?

I also found yerba mate, I have had it on my mind since I read about it in Boho Girl's blog.

I drink it plain but that vanilla rice milk sounds really good, maybe i try to find some and test this recipe. 

Yerba Mate (pronounced "Mah-Tay") is truly a remarkable herbal beverage which ranks exceptionally high in nutritional content among brewed or steeped drink products. For pennies a serving, a cup of yerba mate provides more value and is more cost effective than many manufactured energy drinks or meal replacement options on the market. Additionally, a large number of consumers trying to kick the coffee habit have found yerba mate to be a healthful, yet still stimulating, alternative to their cup of joe.

 yerba mate 

This market had so many interesting things, 

but unfortunately the bio makes everything ridiculously expencive.  

I can find local (and even bio) things around the city less pricey..

there were honey producer, who sold honey candies with bees ;)

 On our way back, R showed me something sweet. he knew there was petits poulains,  

small foals near in the area, so we stopped by to say hello.

 Yes I am supercute!

this one was little bit shy, wanted to come and say hello but didn't dare, yet. 

the other one stayed with the mama, like foals does when they are small. 

we need to go back when they start to run around.

Happy (late) Mother's day to all moms , 

I called my äiti on sunday and we had nice talk. 

my family is visiting soon here, so happy about that!