3 days in Öja (Landsort)

After moving out (we have still not moved in anywhere else), we spent 3 days in the archipelago, - Öja/Landsort - taking pictures, walking a lot and enjoying the outdoor-life out of Stockholm.

Midsummer 2008

Hervé (cousin) and Catherine (a friend of his and us) had come from Paris to visit us in 'the far North'.

We took them to Skansen (the open-air museum) but unfortunately after most of the dances were over (it was a real mess to enter the park that afternoon).

To find an open restaurant that evening was also a challenge and we ended up at Zum Franziskaner eating potatoes, sausages and fish (wow)!

The rest of the week end was dedicated to visits in 'the colonies' (an area with small houses constructed during WWI with their own gardens, first dedicated to poor people who couldn't afford going abroad, today inhabited by their ascendants, not at all poor and having houses worth many hundres of thousands of Skr) and on the different islands in Stockholm.

It was exhausting for the Parisians, not being used moving their bodies (oh la la!) more than from the appartment to the car, from the car to their work places, from their work places etc... (according to certain polls the average Frenchman and -woman, walks only 300 meters per day!!).

Aurore and the lazy cousin

(Photo 'Zum Franziskaner' copied from: http://gastrogate.com/restpics/restid/upload/1243/zumfr1.jpg)

Fred from Montreal

Frederic is from Britanny (Bretagne) and lives in Montreal.

On Friday the 13th of June (scary isn't it?), he came to visit us in Stockholm.
A nice encounter and we'll see when we'll meet again in Sweden, Canada or France?

Above you can see Fred cautiously trying to get acquainted with the Barnacle-geese - unfortunately not the Canada Geese. The latter might explain his hesitation?

Below Fred and Aurore stages a scene from the Star Wars-movies.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Steven Spielberg

Mediocre 4th episode.

French Film Festival 2008

Below the films we saw during this festival (except the ones already mentioned):

Les Chansons d'Amour - Christophe Honoré (film that won the Youth Jury Price)


Cow Boy - Benoît Mariage


Les Femmes de l'Ombre - Jean-Paul Salomé


J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster - Samuel Benchetrit

Comme des Voleurs - Lionel Baier


Bande annonce Comme des voleurs
envoyé par GayClic. - Court métrage, documentaire et bande annonce.
Peur(s) du Noir - Lorenzo Mattotti and Marie Caillou (who we met personally for a chat around her film making, this in company with Olivier Guerpillon) among others.


Actrices - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi


Actrices de Valeria Bruni Tedeschi par citevents.tv
envoyé par citeventstv. - Regardez des web séries et des films.
Les Vacances de M. Hulot - Jacques Tati


Jacques Tati - Les vacances de M. Hulot (1953)
envoyé par Maitreyoda077. - Regardez plus de films, séries et bandes annonces.
Tout est pardonné - Mia Hansen-Løve


We were exhausted once the film festival was over as we were still over focused on "where are we going to live from now on"?