w a p p u is here: peek for the goodies.

Last year, I decided that I want to cherish more the finnish traditions and I made some vappu (1st of May) goodies. This year, I continue the traditions. I know many people loses some of their culture on the way when moving to another country, as I feel like what is happening to me.

So I found some recipes, made some sima (mead) and tippaleipä (some sort of churros)
and I will cook some traditional lunch today.

Tippaleipä
 

and sima

Sima is traditional mead, fermented lemon and sugar drink. When I was choosing the recipes, I didn't even think that it would make around 6 litres of sima and 3 full plates of tippaleipä. And we are just the 2 of us.
Tonight, we will go to see the last game of Avignon volleyball team where E is playing, then my finnish friends M will go back to Finland. So sad.. hopefully I can travel to Finland to see her soon!

Traditionally, 1st of May, you take your graduation hat and have picnic at the park.
Sparkling wine and strawberries!

Have a great Vappu & 1st of May,dears.

Ps. Our little tabby kitten will arrive home in the end of june!
stay tuned to see photos at summer :)

pääsiäinen.

Hyvää Pääsiäistä! 

Happy Easter!

I got a huge bag of easter eggs from R,

I gave him Ferrero Rocher chocolates (his favourites).

and then we got dark chocolates from the family.

chocolates everywhere.

How was your Easter? :)

lovely prints and being sick.

I have been following for a while Éadaoin's blog called 

City of Blackbirds

And you know what, I won amazing prints of her

when she had giveaway on her blog last month!

So today when I came back from the doctor's office, I had these 3 lovely prints waiting.

I need to find frames for these, and put to the wall. 

Have a look at her lovely blog and etsy store!

I will keep a little pause from blogging, just to get healthy again. 

I'm having bronchitis and fever, but still need to wait 48hours before starting the antibiotics.

So off I'll go to bed, continue reafing my book called "The Book of Negroes" by Lawrence Hill

I think this is the canadian version, as in USA the book is called "someone knows my name".

It is amazing story.  and maybe a little bit of sleep would do good too..

Have a lovely wednesday, all!

seriously.

I haven't touched my camera much lately, we didn't do anything special at weekend either.. 

where is my life?

Well, I somehow got myself trapped with bad habits again, so I have been baking.

I made carrot cake and few flans. Carrot cake was success, so good that didn't stop to take pictures.

And yes, I have been feeling ill because of that crap I ate.

Flans were good, not really fan of it but it was fun to make and the taste was better than I expected

I have been sugar high few days and I'm tired

yes it looks funny, but taste was good!

So due the tired feeling, I haven't done anything lately.

where is all my hobbies, passions? 

sleeping, I guess.

I need to get out! 

seriously.

 

 

sunday trip: the riverside

Sunday, what a lovely day.

This day is made for good things.

We spend afternoon at the river, relaxing and taking sun.

And thank you for the comments on the last post,
I had my first workday on Monday and it went fine.
Now I'm learning to write with azerty keyboard istead of the qwerty, so it takes a LOT of time to write
simple things.

Happy week, everyone!

today.is.the.day

 Dear all, I have great news.

What can I say, except I am super happy!

It's a job from my own area

(office job!)

not too far away from home, 

I can speak mainly english at the work (and french too)

what else could I ask for ? 

It feels good.

ps. I bought peanut butter lately,it tastes bad. (sorry anyone who loves it)

anyway, I did think of different things where peanut butter would fit

and remembered that snickers tastes like peanut butter. 

well, I took a spoonfull of peanut butter with nutella. 

Heaven.

first weekend of April - Lake Peiroou

Yesterday afternoon we drove to the lac de Peiroou,near St. Rémy de Provence.

It's the first time we drove there, as we didn't actually know there would be a lake in Provence.

And then we saw the signs, no swimming. the lake area is closed from june to september.

What is this lake without you can swim and visit there at summer?

well, It's still nice for early summer picnics and walks at nature.

At the other side of the lake, there was stables. 

And the paddocks with beautiful horses.

After sitting by the lake, we had a short walk behind the lake.

It was relaxing, with forest and flowers around us.

I miss being close to nature, to be able to have walks in a forest easily.

I grow up living next to forest, I was always outside and discovering new places 

when I moved to my first apartment in Helsinki, it was located in an island 

where I had all the nature and sea around me.

Living in Tampere was amazing too, 

I had forest next to the building and a lake just 10 minutes by bike.

Finland is known of it's lakes, there is lakes everywhere. 

That I miss from my home,too.

Lakes.

Now living in the heart of this city, I'm staying more inside

as I don't like to walk on the streets everyday. 

I want the nature back.