On the wings of wind

I'm on the move. Four weeks after arriving home, it was high time to begin traveling around again. So many places to go, so many people to see, and a hectic schedule. Not helped by the fact that I have no car, that intercity buses don't exist in France...

I finished work on Saturday evening. My mother owns a shop in which she sells organic products (food, cosmetics, drinks, teas) and fair trade items, as well as plants and aromatherapy medicines. I love her shop. It's all in wood so the atmosphere is really...

This afternoon, my mother sent me to the "déchèterie" (which is a kind of 'waste collection site') to sort out the paper from the metal and glass into different boxes. I love doing that........ Anyway, the collection site is outside of the village so...

But obviously, I live next to the sea (means the air is warmer and a little salty) so there is no chance of it yet. Fo your information, dear friends, salty water freezes with more difficulties, that's why we put salt on the roads in winter. I don't know...

And so the time came to "undress" the Christmas tree... My mother had waited for me to decorate it so we put the garlands and the balls on the 24th, just a few hours before the Big Dinner. It's not so important anymore for me to do it, but I hadn't decorated...

I know I'm in France but you have these things I can't get rid of... - I still can't eat with my left hand, even Christmas chocolate - I'm always looking for the dustbin to throw toilet paper (but never find it, as we don't need it in France) - I always...

I don't know what happens in Asia for New Year's Eve but over here, it's always pretty much the same. Friends gather and eat (or drink) their way to midnight, they cheer, kiss and keep on "partying". The older you are, the more you eat a beautiful and...

On the frozen windshield yesterday morning, in front of my mother's shop. I just got the impulse and I had no dictionary to check whether I was writing something correct or not. Whatever... I wish you all a very happy New Year. May it be 2009, 2552 or...

Well, here, the first lights appear around 8.45am so "early" morning is not exactly the same than in Thailand. Not only so because of the belated sunrise but also because of the cold. In the morning, when the sun rise, the dew freezes on the ground. Right...

(I'm not going to begin that blog with rants and complaints. Am I ?) - I saw my brother !! Last time I saw him was 3 days, 1 year and 4 months ago. The time before that was before August 2007. Needless to say : I missed him a lot. And he hasn't even changed......