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25 octobre 2014

Have a break in Lisbon

Sometimes your friends get married. And sometimes you decide that the best way to celebrate a bachelorett party is to fly to Lisbon. Mid-october and it felt like summer on the beach at Cascais. People were smiling, the old town was elegant, food was delicious,...

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Tags: colors, holidays, europe, fun, friends, love, city, south, wedding, happy, friendship, lisboa, lisbon, october, portugal

30 mars 2014

Happo-en by night

I eventually fulfilled one of my most secret desires : visiting Happo-en, the beautiful garden and event-space near Shirokane (Tokyo) by night, when the sakura start to blossom. Check! And it was gorgeous! Happo-en by night is a fantastic, unreal-looking...

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Tags: colors, tokyo, spring, beauty, cherry blossoms, sakura, happy, pink, happo-en

13 mai 2013

Painting the roses red

Shinjuku gyoen is my favorite oasis in Tokyo. Of course I love Korakuen's sweet hills, Rikugien's flaming maple leaves, and Hamarikyuen's calm waters, but the western Shinjuku gyoen is the very best of the capital's parks. Imagine a smooth grass carpet...

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Tags: colors, shinjuku, sweet, spring, park, sky, happy, sunday, weekend, flowers

30 mars 2013

Local Sakura

Something really amazing is happening this week: it's cold outside. Which means: the sakura are still on the branches, yeah. What is supposed to go back to the dust so quickly doesn't seem to want to leave the place. I am happy that the cherry clossoms...

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Tags: colors, spring, beauty, cherry blossoms, sakura, Koyama, happy, pink, senzokuike

22 mars 2013

春が来た - It's Spring, baby !

Spring day in Japan! No work! Sunshine! The first sakura are on the trees, strawberries are sparkling under their green leaves, and the author of this blog is insanely happy. Just to let you know. Last Wednesday, my roomates and I decided to have a one-day...

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Tags: colors, holidays, friends, yummy, spring, nature, happy, flowers, chiba-ken, strawberry

10 mars 2013

Spring Preview : Plum Trees

In old Japan, the shy and perfumed plum tree flowers (梅, ume) were venerated even more than the gorgeous sakura. With their round blossoms and their sweet smell, they meant the end of the winter, the very first step towards spring. Nowadays, the tradition...

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Tags: colors, tokyo, spring, happy, blossom, hanegi park, perfume, plum trres, setagaya, ume

6 février 2013

Absolut(e) Trip to Thailand - Part 2 : Chiang-Mai

They say that there are 300 temples in Chiang-Mai. Obviously, we have visited only a few of them, and this is a city that you can explore endlessly. I fall in love with this old town, with its square-shaped historic center, its old walls, its palm trees,...

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Tags: colors, holidays, friends, beauty, happy, trip, temples, thailand, chiang-mai, savage, tiger

4 janvier 2012

Dragonish 2012

Happy Dragon Year !

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Tags: new year, happy, dragon

30 décembre 2011

Mes bonnes resolutions 2012

Les bonnes resolutions recurrentes (la meme rengaine depuis vingt ans... allez, cette fois c'est la bonne) - Arreter d'en vouloir toujours plus, profiter de ce que j'ai - Cesser de me faire du cinema et de me tourmenter moi-meme, le reste du monde s'en...

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Tags: new year, Petite Note, happy, resolutions

9 novembre 2011

Friendship is not dead

Japan / France / Poland / Italy / UK ETP 2009 is far behind us already, and our small group is shrinking month after month, but sometimes one of us comes back to Tokyo and this is just as if we had never left each other. ETP friendship is not dead !

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Tags: etp japan, tokyo, friends, happy