One lovely breakfast in Saint Malo

Hotellissa, jossa vietimme yhden yön Saint Malossa, oli niin ihana aamiainen. Suloinen ku mikä!

One more time the apples

Tyypit, joiden kanssa kerättiin omenoita, juhlittiin myös synttäreitä. 6+1 kakun ja piiraan voimin. 

Le Marché aux Puces Saint-Ouen

Lauantaina on kirpputoripäivä! Tosin tälle kirpputorille en tänään pääse, mutta vielä viime maanantaina täällä pyörin. Le Marché aux Puces Saint-Ouen, Pariisissa. Love it, love it!

Rakastan niin kovin kirppisten tavararöykkiöitä, kauniita vanhoja esineitä ja tarinoita, joita ne kantavat mukanaan. Erityisesti pidän siisteistä ja ei pahalle haisevista kirpputoreista. 

Something to remember at the winter

Fast forward in Paris

On the couch

I'm back in Helsinki. It is cold, rainy and stormy. Miserable, I'd say. Computer's hard drive is totally full, so no pictures before I remove older pictures away. 


Be good.

The last flowers

It's not totally autumn yet in France. Still some flowers blooming. A bit like they are trying to avoid the coming winter. Like trying to fool themselves to believe that everything is just fine even though they gonna die.

Les pommes

In the neighbour there is a farm from where you can pick apples for a tarte tatin by yourself. I think we got just enough (in total 65 kg of apples).

3103

Arne Jacobsen, chair 3103. Amazing thing is that I know this chair's story from the beginning until present. I really wish I manage to get it home in safe.

J's father will send it by post, after all the package would be been a bit difficult in the Paris metro. I hope the post wont lost my new baby!

Saint Malo

One word: The Sea.

Saint Malo is a beautiful small city by the sea. At the autumn most of the tourists are gone and you can walk on your own on the beach. The wind is mild and the birds are flying away.

Cancale's oysters were fine for Louis XIV, so I might eat some as well

Cancale is famous for its oysters. This small village happened to be on our way from St Malo to Le Havre, so stopped to have a special lunch: 13 oysters for 4,50 euros!

Le Havre

Le Havre has my heart. Or should I rather say, someone there stole it totally. Little Zadig is just amazing. Thank you for your hospitality and your wonderful company. 

Merci Le Havre, mon coeur est avec toi. Ou devrais-je dire quelqu'un la-bas me l'a volé. Petit Zadig est incroyable. Merci beaucoup pour votre hospitalité et votre compagnie. 

Goûté

With the kids

These first days has been basicly eating and spending time with the kids. I don't mind at all. Their new trampoline has been in hard use and even though some jumps end up for crying they just have to get back again and again.

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When the last night dinner turns to the lunch (and a dinner again)

Kuinka voikaan 8-, 5- ja 2-vuotiaan syntymäpäiväjuhlat ottaa näin voimille. Launtai-illan päivällisellä jo vyötä höllennettiin ja jälkiruokaa syötiin vielä yhden aikaan yöllä. Sunnuntaina lounas jotenkin kummallisesti päättyi vasta aperitiiviaikaan ja yhtäkkiä pöydässä oli jälleen lautaset ja ruokaa. 

Huh, ranskalaiset.

Where is my Prada?

Tämä on juuri niitä aamuja, kun ei huvita nousta sängystä. Tuntuu, että omistan vain vääränlaisia laukkuja ja kenkiä. Takitkin on ihan tyhmiä. Kaikki vaatteet harmaita ja värittömiä. Oi, mikä ärsyttävä taantuma känkkäränkkäikään. Tässä istun aamutakki päällä, vaikka ihan kohta pitäisi olla valmis ja mennä. Annan juuri itselleni sapiskaa.

It is the season

Mini woolen socks factory

I made new pair of woolen socks for myself and there was still some wool left: I started to knit some mini socks. I'm wondering, who's little feet fit in these. Maybe next week I will have a chance to give away a pair or two. At last during the Christmas time. 

Or then J can use it as small cover for his phone. 

Breakfast number zillion

Luxury of the weekdays: breakfast. 

Goat cheese

Warm goat cheese salad. That it is, the savour of Monday evening with a glass of wine. On Saturday ended my eating-only-yogurt-season. Honestly, when I'm alone,  don't feel to cook for myself only. 

One of us is feeling blue, because of the rain, clouds and darkness. He's heard that in France the weather is amazing now: +28, sunny and warm. He is sure that the weather will change by Saturday. I think he has been too long in Finland, because he has adapted the Finnish mentality: the pessimism. 

At the night time

Kuurna

Yesterday he came back from China. Finally. I had booked a table in the restaurant Kuurna, where we haven't been before. It has been there in Kruununhaka already for years, but somehow we have just missed it. I love their interior. It's something what I've thought I can't ever find in Helsinki. 

But I did, only few kilometers away from my home. Lovely. 

PS. Their hard rye bred (näkkäri) is amazing.

Fours hours on the boat and you are fresh again

Olimme työporukalla kuunari Astridilla virkistäytymässä ja sanomassa haikeat jäähyväiset yhdelle meistä. Ilma oli upea, syksyn lämpimin päivä koskaan. Ruoka oli hyvää ja maisemat kauniita.