While Carol is in Norway with Kiki, I went back to my family and my friends in my hometown Niort in France. Niort is located in west-central near the Atlantic coast in the region of Marais Poitevin.

It’s good to see everybody again after so long, and it’s nice to be back here in the middle of the summer. First of all, I joined my sisters and nephews for a family lunch in the garden of my mother.

Then I went to visit my friends, usually I spend only a few days in France for holidays, this time I’m here for longer so I have time to enjoy everyone.

After 10 days of separation, Carol left her family in Norway and came to join me in France. She got just in time to go to my family reunion, it had been more than 10 years that the family hadn’t get together! We spent two days all together to eat, talk, sing, dance and party.

This same week-end it was Carol’s birthday, so for her 34th birthday everybody sang for her, she blew out the candles on the cake and she got some presents.

Carol visited the beautiful town center of Niort for the first time.

Next week-end we spent a weekend with our friends Mika and Gaelle to celebrate their new home! Carol cooked some Brazilian food for the occasion. We had a great weekend!

After a lot of great dinners, aperitifs and barbecues with friends, we are obviously putting on weight, but it’s now or never to enjoy the delicious French food.

We are trying to compensated that with some bike ride through the beautiful region in the fields of corn and sunflower, we took the opportunity to pick blackberries on the side of the road to make a pie and jam.