Let's go to BAVARIA!!!

Yes, that's a fact, vacations are off...

So why not going back with us on our august road trip?

We planned a trip in Bavaria, Austria and Hungary.

We started with 2 days in Munich about 6 hours drive from home.

We visited the most touristic areas of the city...

but we also visited a few vintage shoppes and flea markets!!!

I was looking for a traditional bavarian outfit.

I found one really nice: pink dress and black apron.

It is vintage but hard to say the era because traditional dirndls still look like a 50's one!

We really enjoyed Munich.

good food, friendly people and so clean!

After that we left the city for the montains!

One of the main goal of this trip was for me to see Neuschwanstein castle...

but I must tell you that I was a bit dissapointed.

The caste is really beautiful from the village,

(Did you know that it inspired Disney for Disneyland?)

but when you see it close, it seems to be too new...

like a fake one...

Yes, it's not a medieval castle, 

just a copy from the late 19th century...

At the same place, you can see Hohenschwangau castle from the same era.

You cannot mention that on our pictures but it was SO crowdy..

Hundred of buses, mainly chineese people, were there!

The place had lost a bit its romantic side... 

We could even visit the inside of the castles...

At 10:00AM, the visits were sold out!!!

Tyrolian landscapes were so beautiful with montains and lakes!

After this stressful day, we finished our journey at Chiemsee lake.

The water was a bit fresh...

but we could not miss a small bath!!!

Yes... our skins are a bit white... we are not fan of tanning...

you will never see us laying on a beach all the day... 

we need more action!

Where did you go for vacations this summer?

Do you prefer beaches, mounstains, cities...?

FRENCH CORNER

Et voilà, c'est la rentrée... les vacances sont derrières nous! Alors pourquoi ne pas repartir avec nous pour un petit road trip en Bavière, Autriche et Hongrie? 

Nous ne sommes pas fans de bronzette sur la plage, il nous faut de l'action et des choses à visiter. Notre voyage a commencé à Munich avec un peu de tourisme, quelques boutiques vintage et bien sûr quelques marchés aux puces! Nous avons beaucoup aimé cette ville, puis nous avons pris la direction des montagnes pour visiter les châteaux de Bavière. Un des buts de ce voyage était Neuschwanstein... et bien j'ai été un peu déçue... très beau vu d'en bas, il parait trop neuf vu de près... (et oui, ce n'est qu'une copie d'un château médiéval) et contrairement à ce que nos photos laissent penser, l'endroit été bondé et perdait un peu de son côté romantique...

Les paysages étaient néanmoins magnifiques entre lacs et montagne avec un temps magnifique... nous ne pouvions pas éviter la baignade dans ces eaux limpides!!!

- A bientôt pour la suite de notre voyage -

4th BLOG ANNIVERSARY !!!!!!

Time flies... already 4 years...

All these pictures are from posts published last year,

just click on the picture to open the original post!

When you start a blog, you don't know how it will turn...

how much time you will need to make it stays alive...

find the motivation to keep going,

you sometimes feel that for just a few hundred views 

and for a few comments it isn't worth the time you spent on it.

That's why it was one of the hardest year for the blog!

I felt quite fed up to feel guilty

if I hadn't post anything for a week.

That was the same feeling of guilt

if I had no time to picture one of my outfit...

I was not that happy to make a photo shoot

 what Sylvain didn't understand.

For the first time, I took a few breaks during the year from this blog just to feel better.

For the first time I have pictures that I didn't share

(for example our nice trip in North Europe last summer)

We almost didn't take pictures at VLV in March...

I thought in june that our blog will simply die...

As a lot of bloggers my new Instagram account was remplacing the blog little by little...

less work, more interactions, more spontaneaous...

but as I'm someone who love details and precision...

I was quite sad to not share with you some details of my outfits 

and Sylvain also missed taking pictures...

So in July we found a new motivation for the blog.

But I have changed my mind about it...

This blog is not my job,

I don't HAVE TO post every week or every outfit I can wear.

I must not feel guilty to post not as often that I used to be.

I want to make quality blog posts...

and not because I HAVE TO but because I WANT TO!

Even if last year I was quite absent,

I'm quite proud of what I have posted.

Quality instead of quantity!

But of course I have some regrets...

things I wanted to share 

but didn't find motivation to finish the posts...

always that guilt that I'm trying hard to remove from my heart...

So even if I really don't know what this blog will become in the future...

I hope you still liked to read it with its up and down!

We have met so many nice people thru it around the world

that it will be sad to end it just like that!!!

So please continue to support

our little corner still lost in the 50's!

How was last year for you fellow bloggers?

How did you feel about our blog last year dear followers?

FRENCH CORNER

Et voilà, déjà 4 ans... quand j'ai commencé ce blog, j'étais absolument incapable de prévoir où cela allait nous mener... 4 ans plus tard, une routine presque malsaine s'était installée, un sentiment de culpabilité si je ne publiais rien sur le blog... ce même sentiment si je ne photographiais pas une de mes tenues... le constat était simple bloguer était devenu une charge et non plus un plaisir! Pour la première fois depuis 4 ans, j'ai pris quelques breaks, je n'ai pas posté certaines photos qui auraient pourtant mérité d'être partagées... j'ai oublié le blog pendant des semaines en essayant de gommer ce sentiment de culpabilité, j'ai même pensé en juin dernier que le blog était mort... et puis voilà un regain de motivation qui est venu sans prévenir... oui, ce serait dommage de mettre fin à une telle aventure!

Qualité plutôt que quantité, voici notre nouvelle devise! Ne pas se sentir coupables de moins publier, ce blog n'est pas notre job et cela doit rester un plaisir...

J'espère que vous avez tout de même pris plaisir à nous suivre l'année passée et malgré ces hauts et ces bas, nous sommes quand mêmes assez fiers du travail accompli!

Merci de continuer à nous soutenir, vous serez toujours les bienvenus dans notre petit coin perdu dans les années 50!!!

- A bientôt! -