We have positively experienced our first Bed & Breakfast at Hyères, at La Buanderie. Nice place with nice people, very comfortable, great garden with old big trees. Really cool!
Where we stay – La Buanderie
French Provence – Hyères (03)
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French Provence – Hyères (02)
I have forgotten to continue to publish my portfolio about our trip to Hyères, south-east of France in the Provence region, trip we have done mid of April 2010… So after the first pictures in … June about Saint Tropez, some views of the Porquerolles Island we have visited by bicycles.
Porquerolles Island
Poster ‘Saint Barth 2010’ ordered!
I’ve just ordered a new Saint Barth (2010) poster for my office. A small one, 74x114cm ;-)
Should help to wait till February 2011 for our next stay there!
Holiday is cool, as my new Canon S90!
Quick “hello” from Combrit Saint Marine in Brittany.
We are finished with our “stroll week”. Each day about 6-8 hours on foot, a looonnngggg time we haven’t done that ;-) Fantastic landscape, varying a lot each day, as the weather!
That’s a real break, different from St Barth, but still a cool break. Today, first time with a kind of real Internet connection ;-)
As I didn’t want to transport my 3+ kg Canon EOS 5D MarkII with its lens during the 6+ hours walk per day, I have bought a Canon S90, just before going on holiday. As a Canon-fan, I had mainly the choice between a G11 or a S90, both with almost the same technical and optical characteristics, excepted that the G11 is still quite big. Some pictures below (RAW + DxO post-prod, but with a small netbook ;-). More on the Canon S90 later. But generally speaking I’m super happy with it!
Now, back to the “big one”!
Two weeks off :-)
So some days off with the family from now on, that’s good! No cell phone, no emails, but for sure my iPad, Canon cameras and lens, and my netbook for the pictures ;-)
Quite a big program, this time in France, and more precisely in Brittany. All in all 2’400km with the car and some km on foot.
Different stops planed:
- Lamotte Beuvron, in the French Centre region, the capital of the Tarte Tatin, at the … Villa Tatin.
- Lannion, in the north-western France, Brittany.
- From there, we will have a 6-days stroll through the Côte de Granit Rose, till Port-Blanc:
- Lannion – Trebeurden
- Trebeurden – Kerenoc
- Kerenoc – Ploumanac’h
- Ploumanac’h – Trestel
- Trestel – La Pointe du Château / Port-Blanc
- We will stay 4 days at Combrit Saint Marine, further on in Brittany (between Quimper and Concarneau) at the Ferme Saint Vennec.
- Then we will be at the Château de Chanteloire during 2 days, which is located in Chouzy-sur-Cisse in the middle of the Châteaux of the Loire Valley region.
So quite a long journey with the car, but hopefully we should see and visit some interesting places!
New lens, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
I’ve just acquired a new Canon L-series lens for my full-frame EOS 5D MarkII, the famous EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM. First impression: very sharp, fast autofocus, controlled vignetting (as usual some issues at the ends, specially around 28mm), solid, heavy (950g…), interesting focal length range – will take it with me for the coming holidays in August.
Post-production with DxO Optics Pro 6 Elite, which has a specific module for the combination Canon EOS 5D MarkII + the Canon EF 24-70mm L.
First pictures taken with it:
Some reviews found:
Canon website about this lens.
French Provence – Hyères (01)
I will publish a portfolio about our last trip to Hyères, south-east of France in the Provence region, trip we have done mid of April 2010.
Saint-Tropez
Let’s start the visit with Saint-Tropez. We were actually positively surprised by this city. Quite nice, a kind of link with Saint Barth. Important to mention that it was not high-season yet ;-)
Food & restaurants at Saint Barth
via sbhonline.com
(Actually, the picture above has nothing to do with this post, excepted that it was taken in Saint Barth!)
A quite cool article – The Beautiful People - about Saint Barth in OceanHome magazine from October 2009. Some of the information published are not up-to-date but it describes quite good some of the “special atmosphere” dimensions of The Island ;-)
One example concerning the number of high-end restaurants at Saint Barth:
[…] Don’t visit St. Barts if you’re on a diet. In fact, I’m not sure you can even say the words “St. Barts” and “diet” in the same sentence; I think it’s against the law here. This island has the greatest collection of chefs and restaurants to be found anywhere in the Caribbean, hands down. It’s as if someone wrote to all the Michelin Guide-rated chefs in Europe and invited them to bring their pots and knives to work in a tropical paradise.
I really had to laugh when reading this part, as it exactly represents our “reality” when we are there!