France Part 2: Cheesy times at the countryside

Ok. Now I know what I want from life. To live in the French countryside, in a house like Sam's parents do, eat smelly cheese and sit by the fire place. Because that's what life is like in this beautiful house where we spent the weekend. 

 

This vehicle would bring us back to the airport. Jeoffrey's dad had bought it for him for 200 euros, and it sure had a nice sound and smell of rubber in it, as we took it for some nightly spins. I loved it! (I still don't have a driver's license, but I know when I get one, I'll be just like all 18-year old boys who just go cruisin' pointlessly into the night.)

 

Jeoffrey's birthday party somehow reminded me of Mexican parties with the latin spirit, loads of food, being in a garage decorated with balloons, people dancing their asses off... and me not understanding most of what was going on. :)

 

 

Laundry of the day: top - H&M pants - Herrlicher shoes - a small Turkish shop on Karl Marx Strasse hat - Rene found it in Sam's closet, but nobody really knows how it got there. Apparently someone stole it, and almost everyone claimed it to be theirs.

Waking up again to the beauty of the morning in the most idyllic house.

Some of us chose not to wake up at all.

Cats are so cute. And unpredictable.

I can't begin to imagine how long it had taken Sam's mom to cook for us, since just eating it all took like 2 hours. It was so good! Mom's are the best - all over the world!

 

  

This is what we call "the french country bread" in Finland, and it's true!

 

Main course was a stuffed turkey with those golden brown small potatoes cooked in the oven. Mmmm...

 

 After hours of eating, relaxing, and having some tea, we took a little walk at the area.

And found some neighbours.

Where does this lead? If I lived here, I wouldn't need any goals. No need to go anywhere. Everything seems just perfect as it is.

To top it all off, Sam's mom gave us a huge bag full of different types of cheese to bring home to Berlin! Oh, the bliss! Our flat smelled pretty intense, and Rene had to wash all of his clothes that were in the same suitcase, but man, it was worth it. We invited some friends over for a spontanious cheese-feast...

 

OMG OMG OMG how perfect was that! I'm a bit sorry, cos I know I made all of you jealous. I'm actually making myself jealous! I'm jealous at the 3-days-ago-me! I can't thank my roommates and their families and friends enough for taking such good care of us. Hey folks, let's go there again soon, OK?

France Part 1: Berliners in Paris

Paris was better than ever, especially this time 'cos we went with Sam, our roommate, who knows the city like her own pockets. I've been there twice before, and my experiences were pretty horrible. It was like 40 degrees Celsius, water was over priced, we got lost big time, and nobody really felt like helping us. It looks like it's good to know people, because this time it was all bliss! We only had 1 night in Paris, literally, and I'm not referring to Miss Hilton. But we made the most of it. (That's what Rick Salomon said.) We stayed at Sam's friend's cosy Parisian apartment, had some croissants, saw some Eiffel, had the whole Paris experience! We even had a short time to see my cousin's cute little family. We definitely need to go back for more soon, the flights were like 60 € with EasyJet, man, and it was quite painless! On the way back we even bought loads of fresh warm croissants in Orly airport for 1 €/piece, since there's no food on the plane. Good times!

 

This one's dedicated to mom. We used to take pics like this under every highstreet sign (and Gucci store) in every city we would visit. Not that we'd buy anything there.

It's probably no surprise, but my post mainly revolves around food.

 

   

 Heaven.

 

In part 2 I'll show you as our trip follows to the countryside, where things get even more idyllic! Unfortunately we had a really short stay in France for just the weekend, but I hope we can go back soon.