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Week-end in Strasbourg

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We had some great time this week-end in Strasbourg (wikipedia) with my wife and son. Always a great pleasure to go there, as it is a great city, and also because we have studied there for a while ;-)

We had two great meals:

  • a lunch at an Italian restaurant called “La Grappa”, really great. Good atmosphere and service, everything fresh, reasonable price.
  • a wonderful dinner at “La cuiller à Pot” (no error ;-), a gastronomic restaurant. Really worth a try!! And not just because we know one of the owner ;-) The Chef was nominated as a “Young Talent 2009” by the Gault & Millau. Have a look:

[…] Numerous gourmet guides have noticed the restaurant, the cuisine being daring, and the mixes being done with “opposites attract” as a motto. A star is born…
Here is Gault Millau Young Talent that really charmed ideal gourmet. Ideally located, decorated with a lot of taste and personality, this gourmet address is on the rise and it will no doubt surprise you thanks to an ideal gourmet menu composed according to the season, with a thousand and one surprises in store for you. […]

Besides the meals and shopping, I could test a bit more my new Canon EPS 5D MarkII, this time with my “old” wide-angle lens (Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0). I could really feel the advantage of the “full-frame” for the first-time. Great!

Full gallery here.

The beginner’s guide to St Barts

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via passionateforparis and The New York Times

I have found by chance this excellent article introducing St. Barts (Saint Barth for the French-speaking persons ;-) to newbies. Really worth a read, very funny and informative, a good summary of the possible explanations of the “why do so many people go back to Saint Barth?”.

It’s relatively easy to maintain a healthy disdain for the renowned fabulousness of the Caribbean island of St.-Barthélemy until you actually go there and find yourself up to your neck in deliciously warm turquoise water, not quite hungry after your recent two-hour lunch but beginning nonetheless to ponder your plans for the drinks and dinner to come. […]

It’s not an instant process, but there are steps you can take, places you can pause and genuflect, like stations of the cross, on your way to that nirvanalike state of a St. Barts veteran. It needn’t take as long as you think, or even, perhaps as much money, though a credit card certainly helps.

“Yes, St. Barts, I am here, at last, here I am where I belong.” […]

Too late for us ;-)

Saint Barth Portfolio 2009 (10) – February 2009

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Just a precision based on some of your comments here and there: no, I am *not* in Saint Barth right now. Actually the next stay there is planned for February 2010. Unfortunately, still some months to wait. On the other side, we are lucky enough to be able to go there again ;-)

As a reminder, I am re-publishing parts of my last Saint Barth portfolio from February 2009!

No fear, you will know when I will be again “back home” :-)

 

Lorient