Name of place:
Le ruisseau (The brook in French)

Where is it exactly:
It is located down the small valley where I spent my childhood. You can’t see it from the house as it is hidden by vegetation. It’s often dry in summer as we are not far from Provence (particularly dry region of France in summer). But this year, thanks to last winter heavy snow, it was still flowing.

How do you get there:
I usually take a bike to get down there, or walk. It takes me 10 to 15 minutes on gravel roads.

Why is it so special for you:
As a child, I wanted to become an archeologist or a geologist. I spent entire afternoons roaming the marl hills around my home my eyes riveted on the ground looking for quartz, ammonites and other fossils or roman relics. This brook is the place where I found the most beautiful quartz, some incredibly pure. I extracted them from their septaria with a hammer and then put them in a special box. They were my treasures. I would often take a peep at them, touch them, compare them. They are now sleeping somewhere in my old toy box. One day I will bring them back to the brook and let them be part of the flow again.

After almost 4 years here, Christmas has lost a lot of its meaning for me too. On the evening of the 24th, my partner and I bought one Chilean bottle of wine and had dinner in a good restaurant. On the 25th, we just ordered a pizza, gnocchi and had some nice French chocolate truffles for dessert.

It was a sunny day. That was our gift.

What is your lifegoal?
To travel all around the world.

Why?
I want to visit many places and get to know the people living there.
In my opinion, the world is full of very different ways of living. I wish I could feel, touch, smell and listen to all those kinds of lives and experience them.