On frog level

On frog level

After a long journey flying from Sweden down to Marseilles, renting a car and having a road trip up along the gorgeous coast line of France, detouring through Saint Tropez and Cannes, me and my dear friend Hanna arrived in Juan Les Pines quite late at night. Here we were going to stay for a week with “the girl gang”, just enjoying life and feeling luxurious. And trust me, we did 🙂

Although the first thing I noticed when stepping out of the car and starting to pull my overweight bag over the pavement was… a tiny but very green frog, standing there in my way. Since I just loooove tiny little frogs I had to take a closer look, and I saw that there wasn’t only one. There were two! Mating! At first Hanna looked at me with worried eyes when I absolutely threw myself at the ground with my camera in my hand. But it didn’t take long before she was down there herself. So, before all the luxury started, I was spending my first minutes at the French Riviera flat on my stomach, in the middle of the night, sniffing asphalt, photographing one of nature’s wonders. And it was a perfect moment in time.

Our Paris in springtime

Our Paris in springtime

April 2011. Our so well planned 2.5 week trip to Japan was of course cancelled due to the horrible tragedy that hit the east coast there a few weeks earlier. So… what emergency trip could we come up with on such short notice… during spring… not so far away… for relaxing but still a lot of fun… OF COURSE! Why not go to Paris??

Paris delivered everything you can imagine. Romance (well, of course, since I was there with Andreas), sunny days and warm evenings, trees in bloom, lots and lots of coffee at cosy cafés, great architecture, a cultural boost, wonderful food… I could go on and on. But I think I’ll show you instead!

Eiffel

Eiffel tower