Douce France...

Hi everyone!

I'm making the most of the Christmas holidays to publish a post. Nothing usually happens to me so I take advantage of holidays at my mother's to publish and make you discover how France can be. I've been first to Lyon (East of France) for two days with my sister. This is a great city where old and modern things meet and with an old part on the other side of a stream called Le Rhône. A big yellow wheel had been risen for Christmas in the main square.

While I was there I had a look at the store windows of the huge store called Le Printemps. You might know it; it's one of the most famous (and expensive) stores in Paris. They always do something special for Christmas, with puppets moving. Unfortunately, I can only show you a motionless picture as I don't know how to add a video to the post. Hélio? Would you help me?

Me and my sister went to the Christmas market that we only found 15 minutes before when we had to leave to go to my mother's.

So off we went, to spend Christmas in her house in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the Jura (department also in the eastern part of France). 2 kilometers through a forest to get to the house! And it's not tarmaced! The house is on a hill, overlooking fields and lots of other hills.

During most of our time there, there was only fog and frost on the trees and on the ground. It was wonderful!

I enjoyed wandering around although I've been scared once when I was walking on the way at twilight: I heared step noises in the forest, maybe it was a boar! I'm glad I didn't meet it, as my face is better now! (I won't put a photo here, you saw me enough!)

So unless something very interesting happens to me before Shane comes (about 5 weeks to go!!!), I won't put any new photo on this blog. But I'm looking forward to seeing yours!

I hope you've had a very good Christmas time with plenty of food! And on sunday again...send me photos of you with 5 kilos more!

Ciao amici!

p.s.: I've done several analysis to know the reason why I fainted. Nothing important appeared so there's nothing to worry about!