This was my second time going to St. Cyprien in South of France. This time we experienced a lot more: beautiful foods and places, freshly picked fruits sold right at the farms, boating, etc.




The 5 French phrases I love the most are:


1. C'est mignon
2. C'est pas Versailles ici
3. Je ne parle pas francais
4. J'ai faim
5. Je t'aime

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Spending weekends in France while not exactly on holiday could consist of:


- going to dog school with Beca, Oscar & Naomi,
- eating the super yummy Jamboneau
- going to Alsace to meet other family and friends
- getting invited to BBQ

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Spending weekends in France while not exactly on holiday could consist of:


- going to dog school with Beca, Oscar & Naomi,
- eating the super yummy Jamboneau
- going to Alsace to meet other family and friends
- getting invited to BBQ

Follow our instagram at @leschanliaudebali
Back in Bali since I've been with Bibou, we used to celebrate Bastille Day when the French Consulate had an open house.  We came mainly for the French food (or maybe I came mainly for the food lol). Now that we happen to be in France during Bastille day, I am sharing with you what we did.



Camera: Sony a5100

Editing software: Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018



Okay it is not really a garden. More like a space to hang laundry that has never been used forever.

With the AC dispensing water every night, this small space actually grows more plants during the dry season than my again-not-really main garden in front. We have had problem with the air conditioner upstairs mainly because of the climbing plants reached the AC engine.

There is this teenage boy who doesn't speak much and very shy. He is the son of my masseuse. Iluh, my masseuse, told me if I had a garden job for his son to do, he'd be happy to make extra money from it. I hired him once to move the pots from the top of my gate wall. Now I hired him to clean up this space.

I felt happy with the clean solution; something I will never find myself have time to do, or would be willing to do. He felt happy for the extra pocket money. Iluh told me he also gives some to his younger brother and sister from what he earns.

There is nothing better than giving opportunity for a young person to get a taste of having a job and his own money for the first time. I remember how happy I was to get money other than from the allowance money my parents gave me when I was young.

He is a good boy and he will succeed if he keeps up being hardworking.

I am rarely sick. But when I do get sick, it's usually the bad kind of sickness.

I have been feeling pain on my side and my back in the past 4 days. I tried to give it time for my body to heal itself before I let chemicals in. This time it got even worse.

I didn't recognise this type of pain. It is not the menstrual pain, not the overtiredness pain, earlier on I thought it was muscle pain due to too much dancing but counterpain didn't fix it this time. In the last 2 nights my stomach started hurting too. It was almost unbearable that I had to order Uber last night to go to BIMC hospital.

The doctor thought it could be kidney stone. I've got to have few tests to make sure of that. My urine test came out negative so he told me to do the ultra sound test this afternoon.

I feel so tired and drained. I hope it is nothing serious and can be fixed with oral medication only....