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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Sawing… 

I have to cut 6 old (about 40 years old) and big (about 15m high) firs in the garden near our house. Started on last Saturday with the first one…

Always have the impression I’m Charles Ingalls in the Little House on the prairie :-)

 

My son (1.35m) in the branchs!

So, still 5 to go :-)

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Snowy morning… 

March 11, still winter time.

This morning: snow and -3°C.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

ST BARTH DAY16 – Bye bye St Barth… 

So, I’m closing this St Barth 2010 holidays report with this post.

It was always not easy to come back from St Barth, but this time, gosh…, it was even more difficult. These 2 weeks were so great.

Two pictures from the flight between St Barth and Saint Martin.

Saline beach and Petite Anse

 

Colombier…

 

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Monday, March 08, 2010

ST BARTH DAY15 – Villa RGR and sunset 

Some views from the Villa we have rent this year…

From far the best one we have ever rent in Saint Barth! Among others, the view on Saint Jean Bay was absolutely fantastic…

Villa RGR

 

Panorama from the villa

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Sunset

 

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Friday, March 05, 2010

ST BARTH DAY14 – Saint Jean and its sea turtles 

Again, Saint Jean Beach, with its sea turtles. So elegant!

Sea turtles

 

Saint Jean

 

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Thursday, March 04, 2010

ST BARTH DAY13 – Saline beach again 

Saline beach again…

Saline beach

 

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Monday, February 22, 2010

ST BARTH DAY11 – The wild Toiny 

We are back…

So, we are back from Saint Barth, still jet-lagged, already missing our island, its colors, its people, the sea and the sun. Almost everything…

The “back to reality” journey is, as usual, not super interesting ;-)

It is really hard to leave after having such a nice time with wife and son. No drama but I always feel like I am leaving something behind…

Anyway, I would like to finish to post some pictures from our last days in Saint Barth. Good reminder for me, at least ;-)

The wild Toiny

Very breezy, but so fantastic, hike at La Pointe around Toiny. A rare wild area on the island. Second time there, again "plein les yeux"!

I will keep the lights and colors of this hike in my head/eyes for a while :-)

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

ST BARTH DAY10 – Morning and evening lights 

Some examples of the different lights on Saint Barth. Always changing, always interesting and beautiful...

From the villa at 07:00

 

From the Gustavia lighthouse at 18:00

 

Gustavia harbor at 18:30

 

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

ST BARTH DAY9 – Gouverneur 

Ahhh Gouverneur…

Surely one of our preferred beach on Saint Barth. The colors are just crazy. We had definitely a great time there!

Gouverneur beach

 

 

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Monday, February 15, 2010

ST BARTH DAY8 – Big waves at Flamand and Lorient beach 

The swell has generated quite bug waves yesterday! We had a walk at Flamand beach in the morning, quite impressive. Never seen such kind of waves in the last 6 years…

Then, a visit to the Lorient beach, beautiful colors, lots of families. Really cool.

We had a super nice dinner at the Eden Rock. Always one of the dinners’ highlight on Saint Barth ;-)

Big waves at Flamand

 

Lorient beach

 

 

Intensive day ;-)

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

ST BARTH DAY7 – Palm trees shadows on Saint Jean Beach 

We had another great morning at the Saint Jean Beach. The afternoon was quite cloudy, but hey, that was ok for our skins ;-)

A “simple” evening at the restaurant/take away “Le Petit Bouchon”. I had a cool Beef Carpaccio, with a lot of Parmesan and … French fries!

Shadows on Saint Jean Beach

This evening should one of the “dinner highlight”!

More on that tomorrow.

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Friday, February 12, 2010

ST BARTH DAY6 – Colombier and Petite Anse 

Colombier Bay is still so marvelous. We were there quite early in the morning and were alone on the beach during 2 hours. Nice experience ;-)

The views during the walk to the Colombier beach are quite fantastic.

Nice evening too at the Pipiri Palace restaurant in Gustavia. As usual there, good atmosphere, good service, nice people, and very good meal.

Colombier

 

Walk to Colombier

 

Petite Anse

 

Yes, we know that it is still snowing at home, again 10cm!

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