http://www.tesstess.se/nice Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:31:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What lay hidden under the snow comes to light at last. One thing that was hidden for a long time, more than just a winter, is the brother of my mum. A couple of weeks ago they call me, my parents, and they say, a bit like when they once ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2010/03/30/and-the-winter-turned-into-spring/ We've signed, we got it! Incredible, really hard to believe. In july we'll be living in this wonderful place! Now we can relax for the christmas hollidays. Next year will be a different and exciting year. <br /><small>View <a style="color: #0000ff; text-align: left" mce_href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106809342795778844003.000478f1952190783e5fe&amp;ll=43.668167,6.951009&amp;spn=0.002328,0.003219&amp;z=17&amp;source=embed" xhref="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=106809342795778844003.000478f1952190783e5fe&amp;ll=43.668167,6.951009&amp;spn=0.002328,0.003219&amp;z=17&amp;source=embed">Grasse St Jean</a> in a larger map</small> http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/12/17/its-signed/ Last saturday we visited for the first time the house of our dreams. It is the most charming place we've seen and we're totally in love with this old house. The house dates from 1840, has 110m2 living area and has a land of 5000m2 around (about half in front, half ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/11/29/house-grasse-st-jean/ Same procedure as last year? Same procedure as every year, James! Just after the wine guide “Guide Hachette” came out in the shops Anthony read it in detail, together with another guide “Gault Millau” and some older versions of guides, and then composed a schedule for our ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/10/13/route-du-vin-in-jura-and-alsace/ Or not. That was the question of this weekend. After weeks of searching for lands, making offers, meeting house constructors and talking budget we needed some fresh air and took a 'weekend off' to go up in the mountains.   We started off saturday afternoon, drove up in the Mercontour and walked a ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/08/31/climbing-to-heaven/ Corte What is better than having 10 days of vacation in front of you, staying at a horse farm (knowing how much I love horses) and climbing in the wild and beautiful nature? We started our vacation in Corte, a small village in the middle of Corsica. From Nice we took the ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/05/15/corsica/ I've ache in all my muscles today. Yesterday we climbed for 5 hours, and then direct after I danced for 3 hours. Intensive day. We went up quite early, 8 is early for being saturday, and went to to Chateaudouble, a climbing site in the Var, one hour by car. Just ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/04/26/swingsoul/ We made a long weekend of the already long easter-weekend, went upp to Anthonys parents in Lorraine (close to Forbach). Thursday morning we started with bying me a new car. My first new car, completely red, a Twingo, serie Rip Curl (means red details inside and some other small things). ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/04/16/easter/ It's been a long time we wanted to cut this oak, which is stealing our evening sun, and this weekend we finally got it down. It took one complete day, lots of sweat and sore muscles, but it was well worth it, and no more sport needed this week.   The owner ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/03/29/cutting-down-the-oak/ Well, I cannot show you a lot of flowers, they'll come later... But I got 34 tagetes (oeillets d'inde). Today I attended a small workshop in Acrobatics held by Olivier & Natasha. I was lucky that there was a girl who couldn't come so I could borrow her guy. We learnt 'over ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/03/15/we-with-flowers-and-aereals/ We've tried, for the second time a recipie of pastasallad from a small recipie book we have. This year we got around 20 avocadoes. We do all kinds of things with them, but this recepie I'll share with you here is my favourite usage. For 6 people: 500 g maccheroni or penne 3 ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/02/22/pastasallad-with-chicken-avocado-and-red-curry/ Tissel Kästel, also called Trassel, TasselTrassel or IQ 0, have today went to the cat heaven. We all miss her, especially her owner Joachim Kästel, and her food-givers and home-cleaners in Skogstorp, Susanne and Leif Kästel. Tissel made her self known during her life as a very intelligent (hrm...) cat. To ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/01/15/a-big-personality-has-today-left-this-world/ Ibland när man vaknar har man en känsla av att allt är bra, och sen plötsligt slås man av det som hänt dagarna innan, som ibland varit något hemskt. Man kan knappt förstå det är sant, det är en konstig känsla att må bra en minut och sen dåligt resten ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2009/01/04/gott-nytt-ar-2009/ Now I have to write down my frustration a bit. As you know we (me and Anthony) wants to live in a house, and we have had plans to buy one or even build one. Now this is very expensive where we live. We have many questions unanswered, like, will we ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2008/12/13/frustrating/ Tuesday the 11 November Day of return to Tana. Early in the morning we took a taxi, which was not a taxi but a family going to Diego in their old 4x4. Almost arrived in Diego the car broke down, the cooling liquid ran out on the ground under the car. ... http://www.tesstess.se/nice/2008/11/11/madagascar-5-return-to-tana/