C'est fou la Picardie, surtout le dimanche en ballade à St Valery
On aperçoit des moutons au loin qui broutent gaiement dans la baie de Somme...



On découvre des églises perchées sur des collines... (si si les petits points blanc là!)



Roh, y'a même des petits villages tout mignons (ça sent la bonne France, hein ?). Ici, St-Valéry:



Mais le meilleur reste quand même la vache qui broute (elle aussi) paisiblement... cette atmosphère de campagne, c'est fantastique.



Tout ça pour dire que se ballader sur la côte de temps en temps, c'est bien agréable !

Hey hey.
I know it looks stupid showing a Christmass tree now that a new year has started, but I just wanted to show it...
Last year I've been missing it so much that this year I was delighted to have this Christmass tree at home... So here it is, with all our Christmas gifts.



If you wonder what kind of gifts I had... well, it was mostly books ha ha. That's it to be a bookworm. :)

Holidays in Lille.

My american friend went visiting me there a last time, so we went to see the Xmas market and so on to kill time... we also took a ride on the big wheel which is in Lille now...



This is the big wheel on la Grand Place (and my friend ^^ )



and the view from the top of it...


The church you can see is the one I'm living in front of !



Just a picture of inside Lille's cathedral (which is different from my church...), the light was beautiful.

This week-end I went to a huge meeting gathering student associations ("Junior-Entreprises") from all the France. The meeting took place in the west coast (^^) of France. We went there for three days so I had the chance to have a lot of fun... The best was that it was near the sea. It was the first I went to the see since I went back to France...

The ocean. The nature. The peace...

Some fresh air...

This was good.





I wish I could go more often to the sea.

It's not Christmas yet, but Lille is already full of ligths. As I mentionned before, Lille is celebrating India this year. In addition to these giant elephants I already showed, they illuminated the train station and a major building in the downtown area...
This is generously offered by the French Electric Company (EDF), for those who want to know who pay all this waste, hum, beautiful lights in the night...



This "La Grand Place", which is the heart of the city.





And here is the train station, will the elephants' street. It's quite beautiful, I agree, I shouldn't complain. I wonder what it will be like when the Xmas lights will be on !

And for those interested (who knows ? maybe some of you will come to Lille !!), Lille 3000 is not only about having some funny elephants and lights everywhere. There are plenty of concerts, exhibitions and other cultural events. You can check it on the Lille 3000 website.

Have fun...

There is this shop in my city which is selling cool and trendy objects from all over the world. Furniture, paintings, jewellery,... anything. The products come from Thaïland, India, Africa, China, and I don't know where else.

Everyday, I walk by this shop. And everyday I look at its window layout. And everyday I see this chinese-inspired painting:



Wonderful, isn't it ?

For those who are not familiar with Chinese, there is nothing special about this painting. But once you've studied a little bit the Chinese characters, you cannot help but notice that the painting is just... upside down. Too bad.

I went to see the shopkeeper to tell him. How does he want to sell Chinese things if he just don't know how Chinese things work ??? I thought I would help him doing so. It's been two weeks now. The painting is still upside down.
Is he gonna sell it one day ?

(ha ha... mauvaise langue)

It is funny.
Today the weather got kinda cold here in France (at least in the North...).

I was cold.

I don't have any more warm coat for the winter, I still wear the coat I had for the winter in Hong Kong... which means it is like nothing.
I was freezing, and I was enjoying it. I was happy (to a certain extend ^^) to be cold, it meant I was back in France. Back in Europe.

I was thinking so in the street, while going back home. I was telling myself: "oh, maybe you should write a post on your blog, to show people what it is to feel the cold like that"... and once back home, after my fingers stopped burning from the cold weather, I saw Gisi's last post. She is somehow feeling the same...



BRRRRRR... this afternoon's weather. 8°C with a little bit of rain, from time to time...

But this is nothing. It's just the beginning. It is not snowing, there are no storm or anything like in other countries. No reason to complain then ! ;)

Hello everybody !

It's been more than a month now that I went back to France. As I promised to many people (Cobi, Gisi...) I am now writing my blog in English ! It is so much more convenient !

I will try my best (which means without too many mistakes) to tell you about my daily and not so daily life, back in France... Enjoy now !

I am starting with a few pictures from Lille, the city where I will study for one more year. Lille is said to be a cold and rainy city. Well, everyone can tell, it is not said for nothing. It is cold and rainy around here. Hopefully, we had a sunny month, so I could take pictures like if it was in the middle of the summer !



Look at what I see from my flat, a nice, old church !



Again from my flat, the roofs of the city...



The opera of Lille and a fake elephant... This year Lille celebrates India !



With the opera in the back, our dear Elephant again. Next to the building, on the right-hand side of the picture, this is the street where I live. I'm lucky, it's right in the downtown area !



A sunny saturday afternoon in a shopping street...

I am sorry if the pictures are quite small, I had a technical problem which I'm gonna solve soon ! For the time being, you will have to do with it.