Araf...

Ski - Font Romeu

2009-01-20T21:09:00.004Z

Italia I - Mestre/Venezia avec Sasa, Angela, Priscilla et Philippo

2008-07-02T17:24:00.005Z

Welcome to magical Venezia :)

It all started on the Friday 6 June,

taking the train from Les Arcs-Draguignan (Camille hometown).

Luca seemed very happy, he was less once in the train in Nice

giving us a hard sleeping night while toothing...

not nice for our elderly neighbours hum hum !

The orange professional team, for a tour in the canals around Mestre

and see the fort Marghera

Look at the beautiful "FORCOLA"to hold the paddle

Attention, dangerous ground...

Sasa is saving us :)

Angela, Sasa and Camille in Pedro's sunglasses

After a nice lunch at Marcia's place

with an excellent (homegrown) zucchini pastas,

another comfort after the effort :)

very nice asparagus pasticio from Angela's mum,

anchovies by Sasa and proseccio by Sasa and Angela !

Luca is also enjoying the rest and playing with Philippo

To Angela,

the empty place where it used to be a beautiful vegetable stall :(

And then the magical Venezia started...

We went at 8 people (Angela, Sasa, Stefano, Irene, Pedro, Luca, Camille and a half blind dog)

in a little traditional barca, with beautiful colours,

from Stefano and friend, manoeuvered with brio by our master Angela,

we flew in the silence (almost, as Stefano was shouting in Italian most of the time)

in the canals and meandering around...

Of course there are tags in Venezia, but also nice red underwear...

(I have heard that for new years eve,

Italians wear red underwear... they dry it in summer then ;)

very little street

Another barca (the green, Stefano's is the blue one),

other friends... it is incredible how Venezia is a small town

Interesting drying clothing again

and Pedro is enjoying the walk hihihi

Flowers and water,

WHY the white stones within the brick walls ???

(one of the other ten thousand silly questions

we asked Angela and Sasa about Venezia)

White step at each side of the bridge, where people from

rival sides would fight until falling into the canal

religion and reflections ;)

Many pots, many ???

Street and jewelleries

Nice...

Ahhh the gondolas!

and pretty streets to get lost...

Angela, Tomasio,

Adolfo, Sasa

Katia, Pedro

Camille, Luca and pomodori

Canals and maybe Corto was here?

Altana and algae

Luca's trying to walk, Pedro's trying to pause hihihi

Well, with a chair it is easier

View from the Accademia bridge

Tourists... everywhere...

Piazza San Marco view from the tower Campanile

Spying from the balcony...

Corto was definitively here

A bit tired the family from walking around and getting lost

Roooar pour rugir de plaisir

Corto es tu la?

And above all the beautiful smell of Jasmin all around us...

Tres enivrant

Roooar

Pour Gege et Domi

A gondola is hiding

After being naughy when I was collapsing due to hypoglycemia,

this was my message to Pedro

Luca enjoying the view

The pigeon repelant... everywhere

The gondolianer everywhere too

Look the bull at the back of the boat... wrong place?

Incredible, a woman gondolianer, but she is not wearing the uniform

(stripped top) as no woman are officially gondolianer.

We told you they were everywhere... look at the mess

He is soooo cute ;)

Marghera from the train between Venezia

and Mestre on our way home

Italia II - Pisa

2008-07-02T17:06:00.000Z

Luca et la tour, que c'est beau!

Entre Venizia et Pisa Luca est tout content

La tour en entier, enfin presque, oui elle penche beaucoup

Luca qui marche un peu et se repose a l'hotel

En fait a Pisa, il y a plein de monuments reunis autour de la tour,

elle est pas toute seule quand meme

Italia III - Lucca :)

2008-07-02T16:30:00.001Z

Avec Luca a Lucca, pendant que Pedro travaillait a Pisa,

il ne faisait pas tres beau, mais on s'est re-ga-les :)

Le rafistolage Italien ;)

Premiere histoire de balancoire, ca a beaucoup plu a Luca

il en redemande, dommage, la pluie nous a arretes

Tel est pris qui croyait prendre,

le voyageur avait son portrait tague sur un train ;)

Un Luca malade sur le chemin du retour vers la France,

le jour de son anniversaire, mince alors :(

Luca danse

2008-07-02T12:45:00.000Z

Malgré la varicelle, Luca continue de jouer,
de danser et de détruire les tours autour de lui :)

France June 2008

2008-06-23T11:23:00.000Z

Random Lisbon ;)

2008-06-23T11:20:00.001Z

Meuuuuummmmm ;)

Sintra with Tash, Matty and Rosie May 2008

2008-06-23T11:04:00.000Z

Ilha do Farol :)

2008-05-05T17:16:00.001Z

Thanks Ferhat

2008-05-05T17:13:00.001Z

ahahaha, before my life was almost hell.. my pictures were too big and it was taking me too much time to post them on this blog...
BUT NOW, thanks to my dearest friend Ferhat, my life is much easier as I can very easily resize my pictures...
if you want to know more check out this link:
microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

:) happy Camille

Camping, random

2008-04-29T09:24:00.000Z

Puppet time :)

2008-04-22T16:51:00.000Z

Luca enjoying Mar's puppet before going to bed :)

Noël 2007 à Edohé

2008-03-03T13:09:00.000Z

Les traditionnelles photos de Noël...
Mais c'est toujours aussi bon :)
Il faisait chaud ce 24 décembre :)

Ski in the Pyrenees, dec 2007

2008-03-03T12:53:00.000Z

We went for the week-end in Odeillo,

to my Cati's place for skiing with:

Duarte, Kate and Alain.

It was great fun, but I got really exhausted ;)

Christmas in Portugal and Spain

2008-03-03T12:21:00.000Z

Before New Years eve,

we passed by Viana to visit Mario, Teresa, Mario and Manuel.

We also visited together Baiona and met Mar.

Visite des parents fin novembre 2007

2008-03-03T10:59:00.000Z

Just as we arrived in Lisbon,

Domi and Gégé came to visit us.

It was cold and beautiful!

It was so nice to have them with us.

We did loads of DIY in the house

and enjoyed each other company :)

Aveiro 11/2007

2008-03-03T10:57:00.000Z

And here we arrived in Aveiro, after a long long journey.

The weather was great and we enjoyed walking around the channels.

Note the beautiful bib made by Fatima to Luca :)

St Sulpice

2008-02-28T17:35:00.000Z

We also Eventually stopped to visit Marie, Simon, Emile and Lucie in St Sulpice.

It was excellent, Marie took one day holidays to spend some time with us around the town.

We played in the square with Emile and Lucie. The weather was not great, but the house was warm and cosy, all you need for a very comforting stop.

They had prepared loads of goodies to take with us for Luca.

Then we headed directly to Portugal, we didn't stop in Spain it was strait to Aveiro...

Brussels

2008-02-28T17:31:00.000Z

We eventually passed to visit Mario, Teresa, Mario and Manuel at Brussels...

We indulged ourselves with a facial ahahaha it was good to be there,

we had excellent food as usual by grand chef Mario :)

Manuel was recovering from a quasi pneumonia and was pretty tired...

It was a lovely halt :)

Holland

2008-02-28T16:56:00.002Z

After crossing the English channel, we passed to Holland.

I had a conference in Vlinssingen (Zealand),

there and met up with Jens, Luca, June, and a lot more..

Then we had a nice week-end with Alain and Catarina,

she was so pretty with little Alice in her belly.

We visited the Oosterscheldekering, a storm barrier which is incredible.

According to Wikipedia, the Oosterscheldekering "is sometimes referred to as the eighth Wonder of the World, and has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonder of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosterscheldekering

The building of this barrier/dam is incredible. We almost watched an interesting 3D movies (hence the black specs) , but at the end it was a nice 2D movie of its construction.

Après avoir traversé la manche, nous sommes passés en Hollande.

J'avais une conférence et nous avons rencontrés là-bas Jens, Luca, June et bien d'autres...

Ensuite nous avons eu un week-end bien sympa en compagnie d'Alain et de Catarina,

elle était toute jolie avec la petite Alice dans son bidon :).

Nous avons visités le Oosterscheldekering (Barrage de l'Escaut oriental), une barrière contre les tempêtes et le risque d'innondation de la Hollande. C'était impressionnant. Selon Wikipedia: "L'Oosterscheldekering est considéré par certains comme la huitième merveille du monde, et fut d'ailleurs nommé l'une des sept merveilles du monde moderne par l'association American Society of Civil Engneers". Si vous voulez plus d'informations je vous conseille d'aller faire un tour du côté de Wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosterscheldekering

Good bye Wales 1, November 2007

2008-02-28T16:51:00.000Z

Let's go back a bit in time, this is a collage of the good-bye party we had in the Auckland. It was the evening before we left for a long long journey crossing Europe up to Portugal. It was a special night, special people were there and we enjoyed sharing a last pint together...

A bit of madness, let's enjoy the people, sorry some are missing.

Also, I am too much present in those pictures, sorry about that hihihi, the joy of self portrait :)

Back?

2008-02-26T11:02:00.000Z

Mouahahhahah

This is little Luca is his Tiger outfit from My-Anh :)

Isn't he happy?

Whouahou the full outfit, very soft and fluffy.

So, here are the latest new,

as we have been very lazy and out of touch:

I am a Doctor hihihih, believe it,

I passed the viva and here it is: FINITO the PhD...

a new life for me :)

I will try to post more stuffs,

so many things have happened since the last post

that I need to get organised.

All is well, we are back to Lisbon,

Happy family, after a bit of "man cold" for Luca...

(see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE)

Whouahouu, la tenue complète, très douce et molletoneuse

Donc, voici les dernières nouvelles,

après avoir été bein faignant sur ce blog:

Je suis docteur hihihi, croyez moi,

J'ai réussi le viva et le résultat est: FINITO le PhD...

à moi la nouvelle vie :)

Je vais essayer de poster plus de choses,

il s'est passé tellement d'évènements depuis le dernier post

que je vais essayer d'être un peu plus organisée.

Tout va très bien ici, nous sommes de retour à Lisbonne

La famille est heureuse après une petite "man cold" pour Luca, et moi ;)

Almost back :)

2008-01-04T16:10:00.000Z

Happy New year to you all :)

Well well, sorry, we haven't had time to post anything lately (for a long time to be honnest), but we have been very busy. And as I am quite lazy, I took the opportunity that Mar sent me some recent pictures taken on the 31st dec. in Baiona, Spain (where we met) to post a sample of those pictures. Soooo, soon some more, but we are thinking a lot of you all. We are very fine and very happy and running running...

Loads of love for this New Year :)

Hihihihih, it was so good to meet with Mar :)

Baiona was so pretty and the vegan cake delicious ;)

Wellington boots :)

2007-11-08T18:51:00.000Z

HEheheehe

Luca is a spoiled little pretty kid.

and Pedro and I are too ;)

Spoiled by our wonderful friends from the school

There are so many jokes/stories that could be told about

the yellow wellington boots, stripes, bees, wings, lobsters,

razor clams, queenies, little boats, sampling, coffee break,

buoys, anchors, ropes, TNT,

but I prefer to tell them around a pint ;)

Ah you cannot imagine how we felt with this present

it was such a wonderful surprise

and there are no words to express our feelings and happiness

Thank you so much for all these incredible moments we spent together

for your time, exceptional work, smiles, help, jokes, stories, friendship

we will miss you enormously

Thank you.

heheheh look at this happy Bee :)

a future seafood collector, oh yes

Bouncer :)

2007-10-28T11:08:00.000Z

Maher and My-Anh gave to Luca, My-Lan's bouncer
Hihihihi he is really enjoying it :)
thank you so much :)

Sorry, I had a nose job

2007-10-25T11:29:00.000Z

Yes, it is me :) check out my beautiful nose :)

I had a septoplasty and

what I believe a turbinectomy (reduction of the terbinates)

My nose look a bit like the one on the picture :) thanks girls :)

Hummmm lovely check out the diagram below

to have an idea of before and after.

Beurk, I couldn't breath before my nose was like a crashed frog
but thanks to NHS, my inside nose looks goooood :)

Well, hopefully you won't see me with tissues all the time or sneezing
and bye bye sinusites, bad diving and crazy planes!

and as I was telling to friends earlier:

I had new sensations... yes :)

I had some chocolate when I came back from hospital yesterday, and

believe it or not, I had the feeling that the flavour and taste

were very much enhanced since the surgery, via my right nostril

beware, that might be intox,

as the food from the hospital is quite untasty,

and I had packs into my nose

but.. this chocolate was delicious

Although, it is incredible the flow of air that can now pass through my nose

Ahhhh :) breath in.... breath out.....

Luca et la girafe

2007-10-18T22:01:00.000Z

tired tired tired

2007-10-09T20:18:00.000Z

Ils sont choux...
ils sont fatigues apres une longue journee a se ballader
en chantant lalala...

Raquel our wonderful Lucasitter

2007-10-08T10:37:00.000Z

It is just a love story...

Aberffraw

2007-10-07T18:11:00.000Z

les petits piedpieds de Luca

Aberffraw

queuleuleu

jolie la vue

Wales, petites histoires...

2007-10-07T17:49:00.000Z

Luca enjoying the mobile sent via Ana from Italy

by Sasa and Angela..

usually it is placed above the changing table

and Luca admire it all the time :)

Ahh Mark, we thought a lot of you

we went to collect mushrooms: success

the first parasol were there,

but the giant puff balls were over ripped ;)

In the coffee room with Cara,

enjoying being tall

Little walk along the strait in Beaumaris

Doctor, day +1

2007-10-07T17:31:00.000Z

Ahhh what a day:) went to the traditional pier

for a tea and scone, the weather was incredible

Kate was so hungry she was going to eat them all...

Well, at the end, she prefered to eat Luca hhihihi

Then we were so tired, after the loooong day,

that we went, Pedro, Luca and me

to have a siesta between the 2 bridges

There were nice cows with a nice view on the swellies

Luca was full of energy

And played with his tongue with Pedro

It was so lovely to watch the tree leaves

et on s'est fait plein de calins :)

Doctor Pedro :)

2007-10-07T17:10:00.000Z

Eheheh, he made it, well done, congratulation Dr. Pedro :)

Yiiipppppppeeeeeeee!!!!!

That is it, we were all celebrating in the Auckland, Pedro's viva

Here you can see his smile and the welcomed flatliners ;)

Pedro a bit tense,

trying some of Duarte's clothes before the t-time

Margarita, Camille and Raquel celebrating.

I had only one flatliner,

so Luca could celebrate with us too

Yes Luca was almost seeing double with Rubina

hihihihih petit oubli....

2007-09-24T21:51:00.000Z

J'ai remarque avec horreur ;)
qu'il n'y avait pas de photos
avec les grand-parents Saurel heheh.
Celle-ci est un peu ancienne,
et il me tarde de pouvoir en mettre une nouvelle.

En rentrant au Pays de Galles apres
nos grandes peripeties de cet ete,
je suis remontee dans le temps
et j'ai revu avec grand bonheur les photos de Luca a ses debuts...
Il a deja bien change, il commence la creche, il gazouille,
il lance des cris, il sourit, il rit et il pleure bien aussi,
il est en train de dormir
et j'en profite pour contempler sa petite gueule d'ange :)

Lisboa, petite histoire 4

2007-09-24T21:37:00.000Z

Lisboa Bridge...non ce n'est pas San Francisco

et en plus il est plus grand!

Les pasteis de Belem miam,

a noter le "Leite com chocolate" j'adore :)

Lisboa, petite histoire 3

2007-09-20T09:59:00.000Z

I really love going around Lisbon. It is full of colors, and tiles...

sometimes it is less nice, but it is what makes it charming too ;)

Enjoy the tiles ...

Bica

2007-09-10T08:49:00.000Z

Ahahah, I couldn't resist, I had to take this tourist picture.
The quality of this picture is very bad, but, hey, what the hell!
This is where we live, in a little perpendicular street from this elevador!

Pedro and Luca were so happy to pose for me hihiihihihi.

This is a little pause in the blog. I am so late in the posting!
There are so many events that happened these last 2 weeks,
that I am really too late.

Therefore, to come: Viana 2 (heheh we went back),
The visit of Adri, Greg, Marta, Heitor and Tiago...
Festa d'Avante...petit tour in Lisboa with Rita and Francisco...

Casa de queijadas de Oeiras

2007-09-10T08:35:00.000Z

Carlos and Rui with Luca in the Casa de queijadas de Oeiras.

We eventually went to visit smiling Rui and Carlos in Oeiras.

It was so nice to be back and spend some time with the two brothers.

We had miss their company a lot.

They are making fantastic sweets and juices and delicacies in Oeiras.

A definite stop that should be in the "guide du routard"

or maybe not, so you can eat more sweets when you go there.

We tried so many delicious things,

that just to think about it

and a happy smile come to my face,

while my stomach is crying.

Their speciality is this: a fantastic queijada made with chestnuts....

Degustation of all the little delices in a wonderful atmosphere

Carlos and Luca and Rui with suspiros (meringue)

and elderberry juice, all homemade of course :)
There are a nice stories and love behind all these sweets,

you should go there to discover them, laugh, eat, and be happy :)

:)

2007-09-04T13:48:00.000Z

Ana and Gareth went sampling all over Europe
They took this picture thinking of me in Arcachon
and of course,
it brings to me a lot of emotions and happiness
Thank you my friends for sending me this "clin d'Oeil"
I really love it and you look soooo good: What a shot!!!

Les Retrouvailles

2007-08-30T13:35:00.000Z

Back to Lisbon. The meeting with good old friends.
Rita, Flavio and Naien finally meet Luca.

Getting the tea ready, with some coca leaves

imported straight from Bolivia,

Rita and Naien

Lisboa - petite histoire 3

2007-08-30T13:31:00.000Z

No comment hihihi

O Luca e o livro do bebe

2007-08-30T13:27:00.000Z

Hehehe, regardez moi ce p'tit mec

qui s'eclate avec son livre heheh

A Viana Luca a recu des supers livres

os caracois e a Imperial com Luis

2007-08-30T13:23:00.000Z

Miam, after a long and warm day,

nothing better than sharing a plate of snails

and a beer with Luis, next to our place

The snails are quite small and tasty :)

Lisboa, petite histoire 2

2007-08-28T09:10:00.000Z

Pedro is working intensively to finish the thesis

We are enjoying this time with him at his institute :)

Frozen fish at Jumbo my new friend :)

I will soon speak more about the food in portugal

and the quality of the supermarkets,

small or big, they offer a huge variety of products,

it is INCREDIBLE

and I feel that my life is going to be very much enriched

by all these little pleasures...,

I prefer not to mention yet all the desserts available around...

I need to find a gym soon ;)

Lisboa, petite histoire 1

2007-08-28T09:03:00.000Z

One of the great thing of being in Portugal is

to find new little things every day...

Such as, when I visit Pedro's family, old pictures :) :)

I love it

Here are 2 pictures, Pedro (6 months) and Luca (2.5 months)

Viana and the Sardinhada!!!

2007-08-27T21:37:00.000Z

We went for the week-end to Viana, north of Porto

To visit Teresa and Mario....
We were welcomed by a very nice meal

Arroz de tamboril
Monk fish with rice
made by chef Mario... miammmmm

But, we were on a mission....
to find Sardines for a sardinhada
on Saturday night fever

We went to Vila Praia de Ancora
were you can see the women taking care
of selling fish and other sea food
Manuel, Teresa's father had a connection there

clean cloths were drying next to the fish

but still no sign of the contact

seagulls were fighting for fish..

Meanwhile the deal was on,

Luca was on the spot too

while I was contemplating the wonderful fruits

the big and delicious octopus

and the woman cleaning cloths

Back to Teresa and Mario's place,

in the fishermen area of Viana,

it is very cute and calm

Teresa and Luca

Teresa reading a story to interested Luca

In the north of Portugal, there is a lot of granit

and the post to hold the vignes are made of it.

There are also loads of corn fields

and wonderful beaches,

very similar to the Malibu ones ;)

"hey girls have you seen the lifeguards?"

"Ahh here they are not, these are

Mario and Pedro...."

"Here they are: Mitch and Motch"

"Let's go and try to get their attention,

and let's keep a low profile ;)"

But Viana, is also synomymous of PASSION

passion for the futchball

with Mario and Mario

and Manuel of course

Passion between the grand-ma and Luca

passion for the swimming pool

for the brothers

Yipoeeeee Yahhaaaa

this is a picture break (nice flower, hey?),

to introduce THE SUBJECT:

remember we went for a SARDINHADA!!!!

Here are the cooks

and here are the SARDINES :)

Wouhaouuuuu , miamimiamiamaim it was delicious

To resume, we had a fantastic week-end:

Lovely people, lovely weather, lovely place, lovely food, lovely atmosphere

we will come back I hope :)

Doctors Marikaki and Phil

2007-08-24T09:06:00.000Z

Just a little post to congratulate Dr Marikaki.
She just had her viva yeserday and passed it very well.
I wish we were there to celebrate with her
and have some flat liners hihihih.
As I didn't have the time to post Phil's viva night,
here I take the opportunity to put some crazy pictures
from that famous night ahahahha
Well done our friends!

drunk?

nice tie :)

Dinner...

Marie et la nouvelle coupe :)

2007-08-24T08:36:00.000Z

J'ai pas pu resister, elle est tellement jolie

avec sa nouvelle coiffure la Marie

Juliette aussi d'ailleurs :)

Le profil est digne d'une heroine de Hugo Pratt

Et la famille heureuse..

L'aventure complete de la coupe de cheveux sur le blog boulzec :)

Aveiro

2007-08-22T10:37:00.000Z

With Vovo

Costa Nova and the little cafe

Yoga with Francisco and Rita, Araucaria

With Carlos and Claudia

Some houses around ...

Edohe 3 - a la plage

2007-08-22T10:11:00.000Z

Ahhh le bonheur d'aller a la plage avec les tout petits...

On prend son temps pour descendre

Le premier trempage des orteils dans l'eau

avec Tonton Mario

Les petits culs

Lucie la Chipie, et Emile

Lucie fatiguette, et Luca avec Mario

pour ses premiers pas dans le sable

Gege qui fait du style

Ils sont pas beau avec leur maillot ?

Edohe 2 - activites

2007-08-22T10:02:00.000Z

Port-Vendres by night

The activities during holidays:

eat, eat, play petanque, laugh etc...

Les grandes tablees de l'ete

La partie de Boule, prise tres au serieux,

Portugal vs France,

Tu tires ou tu pointes?

Le clos de Paulilles et le festin

Paulliles 2 ah on est content :)

Les grand-parents travaillent a l'expo MacIntosh

La bonne bouffe de Cati :)

Edohe 1 - Luca & famille

2007-08-22T09:52:00.000Z

Edohe 2007, Luca rencontre avec la famille

Happy :)

Cati et Pedro

Felix, Achille et Chesca

Yvette et Jean

Rosie

2007-07-27T19:45:00.000Z

Tash and Matti had the prettyful and

cute little Rosie last wednesday.

We went to visit them with Luca,

who was a bit shy ;)

a day with Mai-Anh & My-Lan

2007-07-26T23:07:00.000Z

Ahhh babies sleeping in the car :)

Luca & My-Lan

Mai-Anh and myself, are tired of Maher and Pedro

not taking pictures of us and My-Lan or Luca

We therefore indulged ourselves and took loads

of pictures of us, us and us :) hihihihi

Here in Church Island

and there in Penmon...

The STARS, look at My-Lan, isn't she a duddette :)

:) happy family

grumpy fisherman, les mains vides...

Friends and Luca

2007-07-26T23:03:00.000Z

Vicky and Luca, week 6

Duarte on day 16th

The bath in Rubina's place on week 5

In the office with Gareth on week 4

nice

2007-07-26T22:56:00.000Z

Can't get bored of this view when it is nice weather :)

Femke and the sun

2007-07-26T22:53:00.000Z

Whoua, on the 17th it was incredibly nice weather
we took this opportunity for a little stop in the
grass in company of Femke

Heheh, took the umbrella for the rain
but it was good for the sun

Luca 6 weeks

2007-07-26T22:42:00.000Z

Had a nice dinner on the 6 weeks of Luca,

Mai-Anh took some nice pictures.

Here are the daddies ;)

Luca half asleep

Luca on the chair,

quite not sure of what was happening

The happy mummy

and again :)

Tom and the Chicken

2007-07-26T22:37:00.000Z

Ahhh on the 20th, while Pedro was in Florida,

Tom cooked a wonderful chicken

and we had a great dinner

Here is the group, Tom, Ian, Duarte, Vicky and Luca

The "chef"

The cuttest hihihih

Martin :)

2007-07-26T22:21:00.000Z

Martin came to spend some time with friends in Bedgelert.

We had the chance to meet him and his friends.

We had a real great time, we walked around the stream

and then had scones with clotted cream in a little "cave",

the atmosphere was great.

It was just one of this little moment of pleasure.

We don't have many photos unfortunately...

On this one, Kevin, Martin and Lizzy

AFTER: The trio, you can see Luca's head

BEFORE: This pic was taken at the same spot,

in February while I was pregnant hihihi,

and I had posted it on the blog ;)

Fruits

2007-07-26T22:05:00.000Z

We went to the farm for PYO (Pick Your Own) fruits..

the colors were beautiful and Luca enjoyed his first collect

With Pedro

A little stop on the breast...

It was full of Pheasants

We were very tempted to catch some ;)

le "Bib"

2007-07-11T17:26:00.000Z

The wonderful thing with Luca is that everyday there is something new, and a first time, a discovery. Let's be technical, yesterday, I managed with my new best friend: the milk expressing hand pump, to collect 30ml of breast milk (an exploit, it took me 5 min, while for the first attempt, it took me 45 min to get less than 10ml, which was very frustrating ;)). Therefore, the beauty of that experience was the first bottle feeding frenzy by Luca with Pedro. It was great and a lot of love emanated from Luca's eyes. He gulped down the 30 ml in less than 2 min...

Pub :)

2007-07-11T16:50:00.000Z

Ahhh the joy of the pub. We went with Luca for the first time to the pub. It was a quick one but we couldn't resist to celebrate Marika's submission (yipeeee) and the fact that unfortunately for us she was leaving the day after for well deserved holidays to Greece...

Well done Marikaki we are already missing you a lot.

Pedro, Luca, Dave & Margatita

hummm, happy Dave

The girls, happy friends :)

Family, so many aunties :)

2007-06-28T17:11:00.000Z

Rita, Gloria & Rubina

grand-papa & Marika

Raquel & Vicky

Luca

2007-06-28T17:06:00.000Z

ok, I suppose you might want more pics from Luca

after this food bonanza :)
Some old ones, because I like them :)

food and birth

2007-06-28T16:52:00.000Z

The beauty of giving birth is that all our friends

are taking care of us foodwise.

Here is a sample of the little beauties they made for us :)

Arnaud and Philippa's belgium chocolate delice

with Kate's wonderfull carrot cake

Mai-Anh egg rolls kit before...

Mai-Anh egg rolls cooked

Marika's greek delice

(I have to ask the spelling of the name)

Ana's chocolate and orange bomb

Duarte's pistaccio and orange cake

(recipe on the food blog)

Lucy's lemon cake

to come the pic of Jony's fantastic loaf of bread :)

marie poste

2007-06-14T20:14:00.000Z

je prends les choses en main, Pedro a oublie l'essentiel : les mensurations : 55cm pour 4kg et surtout son petit nom : Luca

la petite grenouille

la petite famille au grand complet

He has finally arrived!!!

2007-06-14T19:45:00.000Z

It was long awaited, it took a long time, pain, and waiting. Finally it had to be a cesarian, both the baby and Camille are doing very well :)

More news to come... I am leaving for the hospital again.

Fishing and Thai curry

2007-06-07T15:53:00.000Z

Ahhh it smells like summer in Menai Bridge

Here come the time for relaxing... fishing... eating with friends... and the phaeocystis!

This was the wonderful green paste Thai curry made by Kate,

DELICIOUS we hope to post the recipe on the food blog

The start of the season.. still nothing,

Gertrude seems the new best approach

Ohh still waiting, the Thai curry didn't work,

but we are so happy,

(I won't repeat what Duarte said to make us smile)

Trio 1, Where is Phil? (Lucy, Tim, Vicky)

Trio 2, in Canada or Alaska? kisses from Lucy

(Kate, Duarte and Lucy)

The cousins (Philippa and Arnaud)

And the wonderful salad made by Lucy

with home grown salad by Phil from the garden, un regal!!

Juju & Remi, la visite (12-16 Mai)

2007-06-04T16:12:00.000Z

Les cousins sont venus nous rendre visite, et ils ont bien fait :)

Ce fut un grand plaisir que de les accueillir,

malheureusement on ete un peu occupes avec Pedro.

Mais je dois dire qu'ils se sont debrouilles comme des chefs pour trouver tous les petits coins locaux et autres curiosites celebres des environs, et sans oublier la bonne bouffe britanique. Voici un petit resume en photo de leur passage flash eclair, po mal de choses en si peu de temps.

Mais qu'ils sont beaux, Remi et Justin

le detour incontournable pour des scones a Bangor Pier.

Eh oui, le musee des Beatles :) Liverpool

(un peu dur le voyage avec Ryanair super trop tot)

Le traditionel English Breakfast miam &

La Jack Patatoe au thon

le sandwish british & La souplette du jour

Petit tour a Bodnant Garden

hihihi on se la re-joue comme Domi et Gege

aller voir la photo pour la comparaison a

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1734/2477/1600/domigege1.jpg

Le traditionel Ice Cream, quand on a froid et qu'il pleut

Arretez, mais qu'il est beau

Le lapinou aussi il est mignon de Bodnant Garden

La cousine enceinte avec son cheri

Le phare de Southstack et ses belles falaises & Le macdo de Holyhead *aie aie aie

L'eglise de Porth China & La plage de Newborough

Le phare de Penmon & ses moutons, la rencontre

Conwy et son chateau

La bonne guiness qui nourrit et les crisps

Le traditionel fish & chips sur les rives

de Conwy... ca fait plaisir aux mouettes

Ca fini par un gros dodo,

c'est fatiguant de se ballader au Pays de Galles

BBQs...

2007-06-04T15:32:00.000Z

April and May 2007 were quite exceptionel in Menai Bridge, and we forgot to post many of the nice pictures from various bbq we had with friends. Here is a little sample:

Margarita, Marika and Camille eating traditional wonderful Greek food

I told you it was a wonderful plate, miammm

Pedro's desert secret recipe ;)

Eilir with some Welsh dish and Raquel with her delicious bacalhau

Philip, Jitka, ? and Fatima and Hanna

Camille and Mai-Anh,
shame on me,
I don't have the picture of the massive salmon we ate that day

Duarte and the first mussels (a bit perilous)

Come on Canoe :)

2007-06-04T10:39:00.000Z

This year, Duarte has invested in Gertrude... a beautiful pretty lady canoe :) yes she is a little beauty and on Sunday we tried her! What a pleasure, we are looking for the future adventures

Yeeeehaaaa here come the canoe and the team

(Pedro, Kate and Duarte)

ready to fish (hum not fully prepared but almost;) )

And the very HAPPY pregant lady

ready for a little run around church island

What a briliant birthday :)

The fisherman :)

"The daddy"

Hihihih I am really enjoying it

Happy Duarte

Adieux les amis, they went far under Britania bridge

And to finish and start too, we had the clafouti with the friends

Ahhhh what a day, it was so nice :)

ah ben ça oui, on est bien équipés ;)

2007-06-03T08:25:00.000Z

Bon, toujours rien...

mais on a tous les petits équipements prêts pour petitou,

alors on s'amuse pour passer le temps :)

L'incontournable "Sophie la girafe"

grâce à Domi et Gégé

Les jolies petites marionnettes,

ainsi font font font 3 petits tours et puis s'en vont ....

C'est y pas mimi (par Marika and Ferhat)

Le ventrou le retour ;) II ca continue

2007-05-07T11:17:00.000Z

(4m, 5m, 7m, 8m, 9m)

Et ca grossit encore et encore ...

(4m, 5m, 7m, 8m)

Sacha, la visite :)

2007-04-01T18:49:00.000Z

Sacha and Pedro are not helping for the comments, I will try my best on this post, but it is not like I am really inspired, anyway, here is the little story of the week-end:
Lady Sacha came to visit, this is always a very nice event full of joy and cacahomard, and craziness, and energy, and you know... the character, so you know what I am talking about...
Ahh now they are trying to help to give comments.. So from Sacha, it was supposed to be a working week-end, of course it is already 8pm, Sunday night, and we just enjoyed each other company, had a bit of nice food, relaxed, went for walk in Newborough beach. The weather was wonderful and now we are eating loads of delicious stinky Portuguese cheese... what a plan, what a day, what a week-end. They again deserted me in the help for this post, so I will carry on solo solo..
YEah yeah, now they are just correcting my bloody english ("bloody, bloody, no you should say useless" very nice comments and inputs from Pedro, I think this really helps a lot, while Sacha is just giggling next to me, yes it is fair!!!).

Well, let's carry on, while now they are speaking about my dying cactus... and the one that has a very suggestive look.. here comes the pic (I mean, you can be lucky to see this picture, it took more than 10 minutes, two peoples = Sacha and Pedro, with much artistic and technical comments... while I could place comment on allllll the rest of this post. It is hylarious to watch them struggling taking the poor little cactus picture, well I am not sure we will get it; ahhh yes here it comes :)):

Well, then this is the gorgeous day in Newborough... look at this, really fantastic :)

Silly faces and silly people going for a walk :)

We all tried the fancy hat from Femke, yes you look like a Dude

And me like a monkey, while Femke is really a pretty bee :)

Food Food!! come on woman, here come the grapes :)

The view at the end of the pseudoisland.. gorgeous innit

lovely.... simply sooooo lovely ;)

Here is a profile, yes yes at last, Camille from the side :)

Now they are starving.. Pedro is too hungry to look at this anymore, while Sacha is still giggling ;) hihihihiih I am Lovin' it :) Good giiiiirlllllll

Ventrou le retour

2007-04-01T18:46:00.000Z

Encore plus enorme, le ventrou le retour a encore frappe!!

France

2007-04-01T18:36:00.000Z

Ahhhh coming to visit the parents and enjoying working with Jens in a nice and relaxed atmosphere. Gege was a very nice guide around the "cote d'azur" and we had a little escape next to the sea. The weather was gorgeous and the food again delicious... especially the Domi's one :)

Dans les ruelles...

Le resto sur la plage :)

Les petits villages et Domi...

La vue...

Les jardins...

La plus belle ...

Late Xmas

2007-02-14T22:13:00.000Z

A bit late... Some pictures from Xmas brief passage through Barcelona.

Trendy man ...

2007-02-14T21:43:00.000Z

I am cool, no?.............. ok, that's enough girls...

Ventrou

2007-02-14T21:21:00.000Z

well well, here it comes... the little belly....

I have been asked by many friends for so long now that here it comes...

sorry for the delay, as you notice I cannot see my feet anymore :)

For you ladies, Ana, Xana, Adriana, Sara, Marta, et cetera .... ahahhaha

Le long vers Penmon

2007-02-04T19:36:00.000Z

Mysterieuse atmosphere sur le chemin de Penmon...

Il fait encore beau, j'en profite :)

les petits a, a,
les petits, gneaux, gneaux,
les petits agneaux :)

Beddgelert walk

2007-02-04T19:28:00.000Z

Yipeeeee!!!!

Ahhhh eventually some nice weather in North Wales...

We couldn't resist, and went for a walk in the snowdonia

Ahh the view...

hihihihi :)

THE climber ;)

The girls...

Pedro and Beddgelert on bottom left

Duarte and Kate

Vicky and Tom

along the river...

Break de Noel

2007-01-07T17:13:00.000Z

Les vacances de Noel a Port-Vendres... c'est tout un programme!

?? pas de plongee? non il fait trop froid!!!

Oh la grande tablee! c'est bon les reveillons de Noel on mange et on mange, on mange, on boit, on boit..

Surtout avec cette grosse bouteille :) eheheh

Lucie, Gege, Emile et Marie

Justin, Theo et Pedro qui jouent au Cerf-volant depuis la tour Madeloc

La jolie vue sur la plaine.

et hop on passe en Espagne...

Cadaques .. c'est tellement mimi

Cap de Creus et sa bonne bouffe!!

Ahhh Girona... ca donne envie :)

Les jolies maisons de Girone depuis la cathedrale

Et nous voici maintenant a Barcelone

Les bougies de Santa Maria del Mar

On joue aux fantomes...

Un bon chocolat chaud pour se remettre de nos emotions miam :)

Non ce n'est pas "sepia a la plancha", c'est un crime delicieux :)

On fait les fous au Palau de la musica

Des jolies couleurs au Palau de la musica

Du bon et du moins bon Miro, un fou de Calder au mercure

Ca fini sur un bon fou rire a Montjuic :)

Welcome to rainy stormy Wales...

2006-12-13T09:20:00.000Z

Newborough beach ... nov 06

2006-11-26T16:41:00.000Z

I went to collect firewood in Newborough forest last week-end, the weather was crazy and very windy. I went for a short walk on the beach and saw this extraordinary kitesurfer.. it was amazing and his jumps were incredible. The light was weird.. it was a nice image after coming out of the forest :)

Pedro's birthday

2006-11-26T15:53:00.000Z

There was wonderful food for Pedro's birthday. It was "seafood bonanza" (Marika)

From left to right, top and bottom:

Chickpeas and cod salad (Ana), Octopus (Marika), Squid in tomato (Marika)

Scallops with bacon and cream (double, if you please...) (Mark), Squid with spinach (Marika), bean and whelks (Pedro&Camille)

and I forgot the delicious dutch cheese brought by Jan and Femke :)

I hope the recipes will come soon on the little stories about food :)

Delicious birthday cake (Duarte)

Chocolate mouss and carot cake (Raquel, Fatima, Isabel)

A very nice birthday present ;)

And friends very full after all these delicious delicacies :)

halloween

2006-11-26T15:34:00.000Z

Ahhh they are beautiful

Monstruous

Lovely Ana

Sexy Joao and granny Marika

Oh yes... so cute, more pictures to come ;)

2006-11-02T21:30:00.000Z

Tryffan

2006-11-02T21:25:00.000Z

Ballade a Tryffan with the Friends

The View :)

The friends :)

hehehehehe

Arcachon!!!!

2006-11-02T20:47:00.000Z

Welcome to Arcachon :) les pieds en evantails :)

Le bassin

Oyster boats

The French team and "les patins" very practical to walk on the mud

The exhausted girls

Wouhaou I love the French Sun :)

Nice :)

The beach

Les retrouvailles avec ma copine Bea de l'universite de Toulouse!!

and the visit of "La dune du Pilat ou Pyla"

La dune

La dune encore et encore

La dune dune dune

les silhouettes - le papet

Le Sable ....

Peterhead Scotland

2006-10-09T10:08:00.000Z

Two years ago, on a rainy grey day. Here in Lisbon it is sunny and warm, but I feel a bit like the photo...

Welcome to sunny Wales :(

2006-10-05T09:30:00.000Z

Barra - Aveiro

2006-10-02T09:59:00.000Z

The mouth of the lagoon on a quiet rainy morning.

Algarve: Culatra Island III

2006-09-26T12:55:00.000Z

Algarve: Culatra Island II - Boats

2006-09-26T12:40:00.000Z

Algarve: Culatra Island I

2006-09-26T12:34:00.000Z

Algarve: Fuzeta and leaving to Culatra island

2006-09-26T10:22:00.000Z

Algarve - Visit to the Ria Formosa: Olhão

2006-09-25T13:50:00.000Z

Sampling in Algarve - Portugal :)

2006-09-17T18:45:00.000Z

It all started like this: Ana and myself trapped in the inferno,

THE EASYJET HELL!

Here we are in the discusting liverpool airplane :)

We left Menai Bridge at 3.00am,

arrived in Liverpool airport at 4.30am.

Lost the mascara, the lip balm, the home made jam..

for crazy security measures...

Had to remove our shoes.. walked like cattle,

almost lost the cabine bag,

almost missed the flight boarding at 5.50am,

ran in secrets corridors...

And then, had to get out of the plane and change plane,

arrived in Faro with 2.5 hours delay and waited for our luggages

and equipment that arrived the day after... all this...

But!! what a view just before Faro! what a nice a pretty weather

Salt ponds from the plane.

We stayed the first night in Olhao reserve...

very beautiful, quiet, with nice animal species..

We looked for the cameleon,

but only managed to find one flattered to death on the road :)

Inspiring Olhao fish market...

Pretty fishes and tired friends from field work!

Hou... yes, you are seeing well there is a Pedro in the frame.

He came to help us in the field

and I have to say that he is the king of corer!!!

A good breakfast to prepare the day.

We stayed at Xana's place in Faro!

It was very nice to see Xana

and share some wonderful time with our pretty guide!

We were going visiting Culatra Island in front of Olhao

and to look for THE clams...

our main target!!! tatatatata

(the portuguese sweets and cakes are devine!!!)

Ahhhh qu'on est heureux, quand on s'aime comme nous deux...

Ana searching for the clams...

Pedro on the quest of a better shot than mine ;)

Craziness - loonies ?

Ana collecting clams

On the way to collect ...

Locals collecting...

Boat series...

on the beach

Collect on the public opended side of the island

The ponds area

Life in between the areas

Man collecting sand to consolidate the " ponds area"

We are so happy :) look what we are drinking and eating :)

Enjoying the local seafood,

kindly offered by the fishermen in a local bar,

it was delicious along with a good portuguese beer Sagres :)

after a long day walking around the Culatra Island in front of Olhao.

More beautiful pictures from Pedro to come soon I hope :)

Moita Do Ribatejo II

2006-09-13T12:27:00.000Z