The beginning wasn’t easy…
My departure was supposed to be 4th.
But my travel agency called me and said that my flight was cancelled and asked me to choose one leaving on 3rd or another on 6th…
My mum was coming in Paris in 5th so I had in fact no choice.
So I had to leave one day earlier…
It is not good to be in hurry for trip preparation…
I forgot all cash at home that I was going to spend during my trip…
I noticed that only when I was at the airport while waiting for check-in and going to change the money in my wallet…
I can’t travel !!!
But fortunately I had my credit card in another wallet in my bag so I could withdraw some cash from machine as soon as I arrived in Paris.
Relieved…
As I arrived one day earlier, my friend with who I was going to travel wasn’t in Paris yet so her friend took care of me.
He took me to the areas where Parisians spend time, not ones with full of tourists by bike.
Musicians playing (practicing) at a bar
People reading and chatting at a park
Couple walking in a nice public garden
Market
It was different Paris than one I used to see.
I really like it.
Green curtain (an ecological solution to keep inside of the building cool)
There were also several problems like my French mobile phone that a friend sold me was invalid, my mum lost hers, we lost each other in a museum, my return flight was also cancelled etc…
Anyway, I spent very very touristic 2 days in Paris with her that I hadn’t seen for 15 months.
Then I headed toward west coastal side of France (until Bordeaux) by car with my friend who I met in Bobo and who returned to Europe 6 months ago.
As we were in Burkina where there is no sea, we missed so much sea, fish and seafood!
We took national roads as close as possible to ocean instead of highway for 6 days.
@St-Lazaire : Bretagne
Ocean!!!
Organic veggies and fresh seafood :D
Salt pan
@Rochelle
Let’s read books! (interesting art on the wall of medieval rampart.
@St-Emilion (my friend’s uncle produces wine there and I slept at his very nice old house.
The biggest dune in Europe
From the top,
My right was deep green forests
My left was sky blue ocean.
Taking the sun?!
The whole town of St-Emilion is registered in UNESCO. The medieval atmosphere is conserved with very old houses and churches.
The region was totally covered with wine fields like in Japan with rice fields.
Then I went to Barcelona by myself by train. (Unfortunately my friend couldn’t come with me…)
Barcelona was the town where I was 3 years ago and where my wallet was stolen…
But I really liked the atmosphere of the town and I wanted to come back.
Also this time, I wasn’t alone. A Portuguese friend who I met in Japan lives there and accepted me.
The first day, he told me several times to be careful with my bag…
I wasn’t paying attention with forgetting my bad experience 3 years ago…
But from the 2nd day, I started to get used to it and walked around the city with seeing interesting architectures and doing shopping at small original shops.
Paella and lobsters!!! (I ate too much at this lunch and didn’t have appétit until next morning…)
I went to beach too. There were already people enjoying summer (it was still mid-June though)
At his place, there were 2 Spanish roommates and one Italian. We tried to communicate in English, Spanish and Italian… It was funny.
Traditional Catalan dance competition (apparently)
I could meet 3 other friends in Paris too.
It was very very nice trip.
It refreshed me and gave me again motivation of one more year work in Burkina !
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