27 July 2017. Start of Summer Holiday. It has been a long time since I was not obliged to set my alarm clock. Sans alarm, I woke up at 10am on the first day of my summer break!

How refreshed I felt after a 9-hour sleep. How relaxing to start a day without any planned activities. That’s how my daily routine would be for the next five weeks. That’s not exactly true…about the planned activities. I still have to squeeze in five runs weekly, per the training program set out by my running coach.

Summer Holiday in Sebes

Another great thing about a vacation in Sebes, Romania is that my mother-in-law, Daniela, is a great cook. She always spoils Silviu and I with her sumptuous home-made meals. She prepares the meals with ingredients either from her garden or the local produce. Refer to my 2016 summer write-up for the manna found in the garden.

Quick Hello

That’s why I am able to catch up on my blog today: completed my write-up on the recent bike trip in La Loire, and dropped a quick Hello here.

More photos and writings coming up in the next five weeks as I explore Romania, and most of them will be done from my working space overlooking the garden.

That's my view for the next few weeks!

By Juste Claudia

Bonjour! Je m'appelle Claudia. That was the extent of my linguistic skills when I first came to France in 2016 from Singapore. My French is much better now (it has to after 8 years!) but I am still waiting for the day when I can dream in the language and not mix up the genders of inanimate objects. This blog is about my life in France: food & drinks, different regions, gardening, my work as as an English teacher, French bureaucracy, different French regions. I have recently moved from the Parisian suburbs to Grenoble, the flattest city in France but surrounded by mountains. I hope to share more about my adventures in Grenoble with you.

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