http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/florencesophie/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from florencesophie en-us Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:01:06 BST Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:01:06 BST Just to share new photos taken with my new camera. That's amazing the quality is just awesome I can have wonderful items with the sun in front of me And for my friends who shared the evening in Paris last Saturday that was really much fun good salmon and great wine.... and here some memories...you deserve it.... well John remember to invite me for the after hour party By the way Silvi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-304482.html I spent such a lovely week end at my so dearest friend Mano and in her eden world. There you can feel peace your difficult thoughts slip away...Finally one can be aware of the life's beauty the surprises we live every single day all of a suddens appears as beautiful gifts.Life is an unforeseen mystery and finally I felt how much I was alive and free like a small fairy smelling the pure air..... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Champagne-Ardenne/blog-296143.html Again I wanted to share a place of eden in the nicest private garden I have ever seen. Magali is une fe aux doigts d'or or a fairie with golden fingersHer garden is a magical place of peace with so many flowers which all smell so glad.Our week end there with our friends from Tanzania was really great. We spoke a lot laughed a lot and had such a good time. We went to a field full of strawber http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/blog-290455.html Rediscovering Versailles Castle Gardens with other eyes is always a delight.Then Magali's garden is the Eden on earth....well that's my point of view and she is a magician for the result is magnificent. Thank you dear Magali for the joy you shared with me http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Versailles/blog-277418.html I finally discovered Zurich after so many trips to Baden without taking the time to get a chance to visit it. In fact each step would bring me in a plce I would adore. I was like a child discovering a great place with lovely cute places cute paths nice houses and enjoying each part of it.The weather was just gorgeous and we had a great drink on a bench at the lake side and then went to a very l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/North-East/Z-rich/blog-272864.html On May 1st lily day and labour day I went for the first time to Luzern and the lake neighborhoods with my friend Daniela. The weather was just splendid and I discovered such fantastic views on the mountain.We enjoyed life as it was and took caffe latte on cute garden terraces at the edge of the lake in beautiful hotels in both Weggis we both preferred and in Witznau. Peace is the word there http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/South-West/blog-272540.html This journey is rather different from the others and just wanted to share with you. that was my birthday very egocentric I knowA great time spent with my best friends in Paris and nice chats nice music nice hands and foot massage.That's called a trip in happiness with true friends which I would like to share with you all my friends who were not part of this nice genuine trip.LOL http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/-le-de-France/Paris/blog-268420.html Hi againI was really excited to discover Norway for the first time in Stavanger.I had a transit in Amsterdam and was amazed by this beautiful airport the nicest I have ever seen since I travel. Huge and quite a nice dynamic and atmosphere.I saw a great quote on one jetway and discover it on the photo slide....you will understand how women are so important on this earth LOLI was there for a bu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Norway/Vestlandet/Stavanger/blog-267802.html Hola y buon diaQue tal Barcelona this sunny livable and just wonderful city is always a pleasure to visit and live.Although it is still quite cold in the evening the days can be hot til 22 degrees celsius. Here there is a coffee terrace and tapas bar every 100 meters well almost. My favorite place for this coffee is placa Reial.Just have a look at Gaudi's house and then went took the funicula http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona/blog-263517.html Easter in Zagreb and with kids that's amazing You get so much chocolate then invited at one of my cousins' house for Easter dinner waouah I think I had not eaten that well since a long time. Then I left for Ljubjana for a day to meet other relatives and one of my best friends.I needed to go there to buy a yoga silk trousers You always find a reason to buy something nice and I also found gr http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Croatia/Central-Croatia/Zagreb/blog-260106.html Finally Lake Manyara and again a great safari in this huge parc. We saw lots of rhinoceros birds pelicans spending the winter here instead of Alsace. Much nicer I admit. We saw my favorite animal the dik dik impalas buffaloes and finally we met our challenge of the Big Five. Big five Rhinoceros lion jida leopard buffaloWe saw a leopard hard to see in one's life. They are mostly hidden http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Lake-Manyara/blog-256633.html We left the Gols Mountains to drive cross country towards the Rifts of the Lake Natron and one of the most beautiful New Year's day of my life We trekked in the rifts of a small fast river to reach the paradisiac cascade where we swum in the hottest cascade water I ever saw. We had lots of fun and it was just fantastic.That was so great that I asked the guide to come back again the day after. I http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/blog-254291.html One of our longest treks Seven hours under the sun and in beautiful mountains crossing Massai villages and going up quite high up to 1500 metres. We had a picnic in a very beautiful place where we could see the active volcano Oldoinyo Lengai. Quite amazing and lots of fun too.My nicest trek in my life...Then we had Champagne for New Years Eve under the thousands and thousands stars and a n http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Olduvai-Gorge/blog-254271.html There we did real cross country in the Olduvai plains and then went up to the Gol Moutains.We finally visited a Massai village and entered their house.The more houses in a village the more wives the massai chief has 8 in this oneThey sleep with their goats in their house...you can smell the massais from far away.... The men and women are so long and so thin. Some of the girls and teenagers http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Olduvai-Gorge/blog-254261.html Finally on the road again cross country through magical and hugely neverending Serengeti Parc.Lots of gnous and Zebras. We saw lions and finally djidas...just amazing I was again all the time standing up in the car head and shoulders out of the roof feeling like flying.We stoped at the entrance of the Serengit Parc whic means neverending plains and sat down on the car I jumped down so hot w http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Serengeti-National-Park/blog-253832.html I finally went for the first time in Lisboa and discovered not only a great and magic city but also wonderful and warm people.If you ask for your way they will change their direction even go into a shop to get the right direction and then explain you in either Portugese or English if they speak.The city is big however you can walk quite a lot and the pedestrians ways are lovely with small ston http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Portugal/Lisbon-and-Tagus-Valley/Lisbon/blog-253818.html A wonderful week end in Varese with my cute friend Myriam. We had a nice walk in the woods on the mountain and had the opportunity to see from far away Laggo Maggiore.We had the joy to sit on a nice coffee terrace on the mountain and watch the sun set sitting in the sun. Just great http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Lombardy/Milan/blog-250799.html a nice week end in Lausanne with my best friend Walter. Just enjoy the beauty.We had a nice walk on the hill and the view was so nice.And with Walter it's always lots of laugh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Switzerland/South-West/Lausanne/blog-250787.html Whe we discovered the Crater it was just amazing to see the hugeness and beauty of this place. We saw so many animals and had a fun picnic with good food always nice food prepared by our cook in the car otherwise the birds would come and steal it from our plate. We had lots of laugh.to be continued out of my 900 photos I could not upload all of them. the adventure continues and I am glad to sha http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tanzania/North/Ngorongoro-Conservation-Area/blog-235972.html I was surprised by the beauty of this part of Europe and the snow made it so smooth and white http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Poland/Warmian-Masurian/Elblag/blog-235970.html