France Vacation Fall 2009

For a change, I spend my vacation in France during Fall and the hunting season.

Poorly maintain!

Instant classic!

Nice view from my Dad's home.

The president of the local hunting group and his son looking for jack rabbit.

Wow, that is an amazing picture that I shot here on my way to my grandma, near Super Besse.

Bort-les Orgues.

Fontanges where most of my family leaves must be one of the most beautiful village in France.

Les monts du Cantal.

La Bastide where I spend a few summers.

Bort-les-Orgue dam, one of the largest in France.

My friend Jean-lou's chicken running for his live.

The house is named "La Caroline" since the first owner, who spent a few years in North/South Carolina in US, decided to built it, modeled from the colonial houses.

France Vacation at Pelleloup

For our first stop in France, we spent few days at Pelleloup.

Lucas is ready to go to bed.

Bread Oven

The horse and its new house.

Lucas looks tall in the old barn unless the ceiling is really low.

Grenouille

Frog legs are so tasty that it is worth the pain to capture them. No, just kidding, it was for fun only.


Lucas is not afraid of a small frog not like Benoit!

Thiers

With the kids (Benoit, Lucas and Florence), we visited the skate park at Thiers. We did not bring the gears from US but that was not enough to stop them.


My dad posing in front of the only house in Pelleloup village.


Lucas saying high to the hunting dogs (one for the rabbits and one for the pheasants).


Thiers skate park.


Benoit jumping of the box.


Florence is resting.

Pelleloup

For my vacation in France, I traveled from San Francisco to Paris. In Paris, the bus drove me from the airport to the train station (gare de Lyon).

Francois Mitterrand library in Paris.

Gare de Lyon with the fast train in blue.


Gare de Lyon outside view.

My uncle Jean-Louis.

Abandoned house near my dad's home.

Sun rise from my bedroom.

Stone for the memory of resistant killed by the Nazi during the WWII.

Not so afraid cow with tags on it ears.

Pelleloup

After spending few days at Marseille, we stopped at my parents' house. They leave in a village called "Pelleloup" not too far from Clermont-Ferrand. The village has only one house :)

The kids helped me scared all the chicken from the farm. We caught the goose and the rooster.

After that we went to the city Lezoux. We stopped by the school where I studied when I was 11 to 14 years old. The school has a small roller park, so we decided to stop and do a little bit of skateboarding.