Summer 2010 - What we did

While we were away:

- we drove many miles
- we walked/hiked
- we swam both in the sea and in a lake
- we visited a castle (Neuschwanstein)
- we took a cogwheel train + an aerial cablecar to the highest summit in Germany (the Zugspitze that culminates at 2900m)
- we walked through the Parnach gorge
- we ate new foods (incl. some weird Bavarian sausages)
- we saw many cows
- we slept in 11 different places
- we attended Gaëlle & Karsten's wedding
- we spent time with family
- we spent time with friends
- we picked mirabelle plums and made 35 jars of jam
- we met several contractors to talk about the renovation of the old house in Beauberty
- we celebrated Elise & Etienne's birthdays
- we celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary


While at home:

- we had fun in the little inflatable swimming pool (esp. Gaëtan!)
- we watched the fireworks on Ile St Germain on Bastille Day
- we went to Thoiry zoo and to Bagatelle gardens with Jeanne
- we took the métro to Paris plage and ate a picnic on a deck overlooking the Seine river
- we took the tramway to La Défense to meet Daddy at work and have lunch with him
- we ate homegrown strawberries from the terrace

Summer 2010 - itineraries

This summer we've done a lot of travelling by car, either as a family of 3 or just the 2 of us (Gaëtan + me).
Considering how many miles we've traveled, I'm deeply grateful that:
- Gaëtan has never been sick in the car + is fairly quiet even though he doesn't sleep much
- we haven't had any accident or any mechanical problem with the car
- Jérôme and I both love to drive


These are our itineraries:

- 1st trip (July 2-11): 1300km
Issy (Paris/home) - Mesquer / Pornichet (Southern Brittany) - Cussac (Limousin) - Issy
- 2nd trip (July 22-August 4): 1300km
Issy - Beauberty (Auvergne) - St Etienne (Rhône-Alpes) - Clémensat (Auvergne)- Issy

- 3rd trip (August 14-29): 2600km
Issy - Strasbourg (Alsace) [sleepover] - Garmisch Partenkirchen (Southern Bavaria, Germany) - Nürnberg (Northern Bavaria) - Beaune (Burgundy) [sleepover] - Cussac - Issy


For a grand total of 5200km!! This could be roughly translated in the US as a Seattle-Miami road trip: makes me dizzy just (re)thinking about it...

Best of summer 2010

Our summer looked like this:

More pics and more details in the days to come ;)