Roppongi Midtown : we will make you love winter season.

Fantasia de Disney. Tout un poème.

Et voilà d'où vient ma passion pour le cocooning.

Tokyo is the brightest place in the night worldmap. No surprise. Living in Japan allows you to have a daily shot of light. Just look at the dose of brightness you can get here in 24 hours of time.

BY NIGHT
In Shinjuku South, you should get lost in the restaurant floor of Takashimaya's block
and find this garden of lucky star in the airs.









BY DAY
Pieces of sky on the way to work, every morning or almost,
under the sunshine that have never deserted Tokyo since November

Sorry for this long silence, but I volontarily subscribed to a ten-days laptop rehab during my holidays. My poor eyes were thanskful for this break, but as soon as I went back to my Japanese home, my old addiction took the controle again. Here I am, in front of the screen...
But I have good reasons for this ! Let me make you Christmas-nostalgic already with these beautiful pictures of the holidays I spent in France with my family and old friends. Let it snow !

クリスマスのとき一週間にフランスに帰りました。本当に楽しかったです。家族や友達に会えて、幸せ！

Christmas Outside
My most poetic Christmas gift this year :
on the morning of 25th, when everyone was still asleep,
I went out and had the best walk ever in the snow, under the winter sunshine.
25日の朝に少し散歩しました。寒かったですがいい天気だし、
景色は本当にクリスマスのイメージでした。





















Christmas Inside
You can count on the my girls to bring Christmas home.
Every year, sorry to say it, but my Clan have the most beautiful tree,
the most beautiful table, the most perfect atmosphere.
And all of this was waiting for me as soon as I jumped out the plane...
母と妹のおかげで、家はとてもきれいになりました。
完璧な雰囲気でした。
















Tasty Christmas
Packaging matters, that's true.
But what about the content of the plates ?
France is the place to be at Christmas to eat the most delicious food
you can imagine.
This is just a little piece of what I had during my stay !
もちろん良く食べました。クリスマスの食べ物はとってもおいしいです！


"International" toasts with tarama, fish eggs, guacamole and tatziki to start...


No Christmas without foie-gras...


Scallops and leek fondue


No less than 3 "buches de Noel" : Vanilla, Caramel & Fruits, 3 Chocolates...
God bles the student job of my young sister,
who works at a famous French Patissier's House...




Christmas Breakfast in family...
with Rose & Raspberry cake !


Many "catching-up-with-friends" times in Paris means :
many, many good things to eat together...






Christmas with Family
Family is the most important ingredient
or a successful Christmas holidays.
I have to thank Mr. K.I., our special guest-star for this Family Portrait !
クリスマスは家族といなかったら本当なクリスマスではないと思います。






Christmas with Friends
Being in Paris for a week is a marathon
to meet your friends despite their own schedules and special plans.
And I also forget to take pictures with many of them...
友達も大切です！
皆忙しかったのに少し会えってうれしかったです。

Thank you guys for this perfect Christmas Holidays !
Take care, and come to visit me again in Japan. Let's celebrate again and again !

ステキなクリスマス、ありがとう！

Hallelujah ! I learnt that I will be allowed to go back to Fance and spend Christmas 2010 in family - finally ! I experienced Christmas in Japan twice and even if it's funny, that's really not the same. Looking forward the D-Day, I became Christmasholic. Totally obsessed. Look at what I have eaten a few days ago.

Xmas in a pizza

Xmas in a scone

I just can't wait the smell of the real tree.

This little picture is for my family and friends who are freezing in France.
A wave of snow invited itself in Paris and because nothing was ready for it, everyone is stuck where they are - when it's home, it's fine...
So please have a look at it and remember that before being a boring stuff that prevent you to go where you want to go, snow is the most beautiful thing in the world. I know, it's easy to say from my sunny Tokyo...

今のパリは雪が強く降っています。早いから皆はびっくりしました。そして特に大きい雪で、乗り物は色々な問題があります。少し大変ですが、雪はきれいではないでしょうか。
雪を浴びんでいる家族や友達のことを考えています！

Most of the graveyards in Japan have no walls, no fences, no gates; and it made me realize that our graveyards really look like prisons. It's not surprising that the Western zombies just want to escape and walk freely in town like anyone else.
So there is no gates, no guardians, and you can come anytime - by night, too. It's a place like another. So it's really not frightening. Even ghost stories are used to take place in summer in the Japanese tales, when it's super-warm - while we can not imaging a dead spirit without thinking of cold, freezing wind... as a result, in this sunny December, no way you feel ill at ease in a Japanese cemetery !

Aoyama yard, Tokyo

Christmas as it is used to be in Tokyo : totally non-Christian (Jeezus who ?...), colorful, shiny, German-spirited (did you know the Christmas sausage ? Me neither) and... romantic. This is the time for couple to go to Disneyland and joyfully mix the Christmas symbols with a kind of American-style naive romance. Look at this atmosphere at Roppongi Hills.

No Christmas without a tree...

... or two...


... or three.


Here it is : Drosselmeier's magic castle !


And... the Nutcracker ! Yesss !
(but ahem... could you please become Hans quickly ? thanx)


I shrinked for real... I could enter a snowball.


Oh ! A giant Barley Sugar over there !


"la neige ressemble à du glaçage à la vanille"


The Snow-man took the keys and stole the house. Damned.


Lights... lights... lights.

The Reds and the Yellows are fighting at Koyama, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.
Who wins ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

The Reds ?

The Yellows ?

I just can't choose, make your choice.