A blog about our family.
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Le voyage
Lundi 13 juin 2022. Après avoir rangé autant que possible la maison, passé le week-end à préparer le jardin, à préper les personnes sympathiques qui s’occuperont du poulailler, à s’assurer que des personnes seront présentes pour veiller à ce que les poules aient assez d’eau (la France va avoir une période chaude, et nous prévoyons…
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El viaje
Lunes 13 de junio 2022. Después de ordenar la casa lo más posible, de pasar el fin de semana preparando el jardín, de preparar a las simpáticas personas que se encargarán del gallinero y otras que se encargarán de que las gallinas tengan suficiente agua (Francia va a tener un periodo de calor, y esperamos…
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Japan
Getting the blog back up for our little Japan stay… We will try to post once in each of English, French and Spanish. On met le blog à jour pour notre séjour au Japon… On va essayer de poster une fois dans chacune des langues suivantes: Anglais, Français, Espagnol. Vamos empezar el blog un vez…
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A walk around then on Gargantua's tomb
On Sunday last day of September, a day that was looking like a last day of summer at first, but turned out to be a rather greyish day in between fall and summer, we went to Saint Suliac to round the Mont Garrot, aka Gargantua’s tomb. And we did walk the 3 minutes detour to…
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Little hungry caterpillar
Last Friday, a hungry little caterpillar got confused, and mistook a green blanket for a lettuce leave… So we put it in a little terrarium we had, and gave it some lettuce leaves. And it ate and ate and ate. On Tuesday, it started spinning a cocoon (it will become a moth) And on Wednesday,…
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Tromboline, Fullbazard, and Blaise
Our egg laying trio are in good shape, laying quite some eggs. They (a bit reluctantly for the soie blanches) accepted to pose for some photos 🙂 Check the whole lot out here. (Or check a selection from their arrival in June to now.)
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Carnival 2017
We had fun preparing bird masks for Carnival this year, thanks to Noe’s expertise! But we also had fun dressing as a very famous family 😀 (As usual, you can check more photos in our gallery)
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Nantes, like Bordeaux, is a city full of mascarons, those sometimes grotesque or scary human (or antiquity god) faces ornaments that were put on buildings to scare the bad spirits. We’ve seen our share and can have family discussion about their identity and role… Some of the ones we most appreciated are below, others in…
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When we visit cities with the kids, we always look to see if there are existing discovery rallies available. These allow us to discover parts of the city in a different way, discover elements we wouldn’t have looked at, learn about history, architecture and art, and it is great fun for Gadea and Eyquem. In…
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A few weeks ago we had the good idea of spending a week-end in Nantes. Great city with nice food, nice drinks, and many things to see. We didn’t see everything by a far count, but our hotel being just at the level of the slavery abolition memorial, we did explore the memorial over two…