week end

After a exhausting week at work we hopped into a train at gare St Lazare and headed to Vernon to visit friends. These friends live in cute small village 70km from Paris where they are renovating their old family home.

I admire this new generation of people who are leaving the hectic city life and choosing to live more close to nature and learning to do and build things themselves. After a certain number of years living in Paris, spending hours in crowded metro, being careful of pick pockets and raging lunatics a switch to more sustainable lifestyle becomes very appealing.

At Sunday we had a delicious lunch and we ate a Salade Périgourdine with raspberry vinaigrette. So delicious!

Onpas mukava viikonloppu takana ystävien luona maalla. Hyppäsimme junaan lauantai iltana mun töiden jälkeen ja pääsimme illalla heidän omin käsin rakentamaansa saunaan saunomaan ja sunnuntaina söimme kiireettömän herkkulounaan pitkän kävelyretken jälkeen.

Tällainen elämäntyyli kyllä kiehtoo, monien Pariisin vuosien jälkeen. Ihailen tätä uutta sukupolvea, jotka ovat valmiita jättämään kaupunkilaiselämän taakseen ja opettelemaan uusia taitoja nikkaroinnista kasvien kasvatukseen tavoitteena jonkin asteinen omavaraisuus. Mielenkiintoista ja rohkeaa!

View from the San Sebastian harbour

Last year in June 2015 we went to celebrate my friend’s the last unmarried girl’s week end in Spain. What a blast, nothing else to say. But what’s interesting in traveller’s point of view is that now I can recommend the Keler’s Pintxo Week! The Keler’s Pintxo Week is coming up again in June which is a local beer and tapas festival with excellent prices for food and drink in the city’s best restaurants. Just by chance we happened to be there at that time and got to try and taste plenty of great restaurants with delicious pintxos and local beer.

Keler Pintxo Week and hen night all together

We stayed in a Airbnb flat nearby the beach and could go everywhere by foot. There were lot’s of surfers, tourists and locals in the city to create a unique cool atmosphere. Other things to do than eating pintxos there are two excellent beaches in the city and we could have stayed swimming for all day in the Atlantic Sea. I really loved the relaxed small town vibe San Sebastián has. In the evening we found some excellent bars to go out and during the day we enjoyed shopping in the beautiful fashion stores. A perfect girl’s weekend I’d say!