This:
Became this:
And the kitchen went from this:
To this:
to this!
As for the staircase....you guessed it, work in progress. My people are on it. ;)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
House, part...uhm....
More things done! Summary: kitchen, hallway, and staircase. As the saying goes: pictures say more than a thousand words!
This:
Became this:
And the kitchen went from this:
To this:
to this!
As for the staircase....you guessed it, work in progress. My people are on it. ;)
This:
Became this:
And the kitchen went from this:
To this:
to this!
As for the staircase....you guessed it, work in progress. My people are on it. ;)
La France
Holiday season is here! Or...almost over actually. This year we decided to go to France.
Or rather: J decided, and I agreed. I've never been a great fan of France, or the French for that matter. Perhaps it is more the French then France, because the scenery is really nice.
We decided on a place called Salieu, about 60km W of Dijon in the "Bourgogne" (Burgundy). Very pretty place, quite green and slightly mountainous. We teamed up with some friends of ours who also have a little daughter and rented a little house as a home base for discovering the vicinity.
Visiting castles, little (mostly farming) villages, lakes for swimming, hiking....you know the "summer holiday drill". The of course there's the good and cheap wines. We tasted, tested, approved and discarded. And took about 5 boxes home with us. Let's get started on that wine cellar! :)
Another fun thing we arranged while we were there was a "frech" cooking lesson. You can never learn enough about cooking! Now the cook in question had his own restaurant for years, and is now retired. And in his spare time he still cooks with his friend Bernard Loiseau. Ow, who happens to have his own 3 Michelin star restaurant. Details. We thought about have having a bite to eat there, but dinner was about 150-200€ p.p, excluding drinks. A little steep.
Anyway, our chef made us a great meal, with Escargots, duck, fish....yum. I tried writing down the recipes, so perhaps material for a future blog entry. Stay tuned. ;)
Soooo, to sum things up:
2 weeks in France was fun, yet didn't really make me change my mind. Lol.
But I'm afraid this is not based on anything specific.....call it a gut feeling. ;)
Perhaps I can get away with a holiday destination a little more northern next year....more my kind of people. ;)
Or rather: J decided, and I agreed. I've never been a great fan of France, or the French for that matter. Perhaps it is more the French then France, because the scenery is really nice.
We decided on a place called Salieu, about 60km W of Dijon in the "Bourgogne" (Burgundy). Very pretty place, quite green and slightly mountainous. We teamed up with some friends of ours who also have a little daughter and rented a little house as a home base for discovering the vicinity.
Visiting castles, little (mostly farming) villages, lakes for swimming, hiking....you know the "summer holiday drill". The of course there's the good and cheap wines. We tasted, tested, approved and discarded. And took about 5 boxes home with us. Let's get started on that wine cellar! :)
Another fun thing we arranged while we were there was a "frech" cooking lesson. You can never learn enough about cooking! Now the cook in question had his own restaurant for years, and is now retired. And in his spare time he still cooks with his friend Bernard Loiseau. Ow, who happens to have his own 3 Michelin star restaurant. Details. We thought about have having a bite to eat there, but dinner was about 150-200€ p.p, excluding drinks. A little steep.
Anyway, our chef made us a great meal, with Escargots, duck, fish....yum. I tried writing down the recipes, so perhaps material for a future blog entry. Stay tuned. ;)
Soooo, to sum things up:
2 weeks in France was fun, yet didn't really make me change my mind. Lol.
But I'm afraid this is not based on anything specific.....call it a gut feeling. ;)
Perhaps I can get away with a holiday destination a little more northern next year....more my kind of people. ;)
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