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July 2020 Favorites: French Brands made in France
“Thanks to Covid, we were able to stay in France for a long time. I took the opportunity to test some French brands, which are inaccessible to me on the other side of the planet. Jewelry My favorite jewelers. It is handmade, customizable and made in France of course. You can even visit their workshops. Beautiful Accident (of which I spoke here): jeweler who makes extraordinary models, 100% customizable, from the size, to the choice of materials and stones. Bruno is in the Marais. Black Iris : my jewelry teacher, she makes jewelry inspired by the ocean, the sea. To see her creations, you have to contact her because she…
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[Shopping] Beautiful Accident Paris, affordable Customized Jewelry
Just before the Covid, my sister and I went to the Marais for a massage. Being very early, we went around the neighborhood and my flair did the rest: I found a beautiful jewelry store: Beautiful Accident. The jewelry was so beautiful and well executed that I didn’t immediately grasp that it was made by ankle (an expression that means they are hand made), until I opened the door and saw the workshop, the tools and the jewelers. Having taken a few jewelry courses, I have some notions and what struck me was the technicality behind each piece of jewelry, I have never seen this type of jewelry, nor this…
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Take advantage of Shareholder Club Benefits for Exceptional Visits
If you want to buy shares, don’t go through a traditional bank which will charge you a lot of fees. I advise you to go through Boursorama, which I mentioned in this article. I have already touched on the subject in this article: as self-employed people, we assume that we have to rely only on ourselves for our retirement. If we are entitled to a small pension, it will be a bonus. Among other investments, we therefore invest part of our savings by becoming a shareholder in listed companies. This is riskier than an A passbook, but in the long term, it is likely to be much more successful. It…
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Apple Sidecar: your iPad as a second screen on your Macbook
Being nomadic means having to limit your computer equipment. No more big external screen associated with the Macbook! As a result, I was super happy when Apple announced the release of Sidecar with the Catalina macOS update in October 2019. Sidecar is a feature that allows you touse an iPad as a secondary screen of a Macbook. It’s very simple and it works: Either wireless through the Wifi network Either with a cable lightning (Amazon link) When I tested this feature at the time of its release, it was unfortunately not a great success. I was in Central America with low performance Wifi connections, so there was a latency time…
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[Shopping in Paris] I bought Dior Rings in place Vendôme
After the Hermès squares at 24 Faubourg, we continue the series of luxury tourism / shopping in Paris with this article on Dior and their famous boutique on Place Vendôme Why Dior? When I discovered the “OUI” and “MINIOUI” collections at Dior, I was still a student, but I kept them in the surroundings of my head, waiting to be able to offer them to me one day. The years passed and my girlfriends started buying jewelry at Dior. I could see how it looked on them, it was even more beautiful than on the pictures. I told JB about it and at that time, our tradition was that he…
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[Shopping in Paris] I bought Hermès Scarves at 24 Faubourg Saint-Honoré Paris
In spite of my love for craftsmanship, handcraft, technicality … I confess I have never fallen for a single Hermès square. When JB was working in a sales depot, I have seen countless luxury items go through. After the initial excitement of touching and looking at them closely, by dint of seeing them pass through our workshop, they simply became ordinary objects, and we ended up finding them far too expensive for what they were. Until recently… We were driving through Normandy, I was half asleep and JB was putting the radio on so as not to fall asleep on the road, we came across a very interesting radio report…
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IP Tracking: myth or reality?
In the category “tips and tricks” to get cheap airline tickets, I already talked about round trips cheaper than one-way tickets. I also mentioned the trick of paying in the currency of the country of departure. Another trick that is very regularly mentioned by groups of travelers is IP Tracking. IP Tracking is the belief that the airline increases the price of your ticket after your first search to create a sense of urgency and to encourage you to book your ticket as soon as possible. The airlines would use your IP address, which is your identifier on the Internet. Based on this belief, some will recommend you to use…
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Subscribe to Free Mobile on an interactive kiosk
I’ve already mentioned that Free Mobile is an excellent subscription for travelers because it is possible to switch from the €2 to the €20 plan and vice versa whenever you want. The €2 plan is minimalist and mainly allows you to keep your phone number and receive SMS messages anywhere in the world. The €20 package allows you to use 25 GB of internet in about 60 countries. This is particularly interesting in countries like Canada, the United States or Australia where mobile Internet is very expensive. For nomads like us who no longer have a fixed address, Free also offers to subscribe directly via interactive terminals. In 10 minutes,…
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Small Cities of Character #2: Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei, Saint-Léonard-des-Bois, La Perrière and Mortagne-au-Perche
We continue our road trip in Mayenne / Perche. If it isn’t done yet, I invite you to read the first part of this mini road trip here. Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary Day 2: Saturday Wheat & Poppy Field Poppies are becoming rarer, contrary to what we saw in June, but we still manage to spot some flowered places. It is at the edge of a wheat field that we found them. I recovered a few heads, which I will dry and incorporate into my paper flowers. The presence of poppies in a wheat field is apparently a good sign: it means…
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Small Cities of Character #1: Le Sap, Camembert & Ecouché, 2 hours from Rouen
Another weekend of incredible wandering, which started off badly. We are still in Rouen and thanks to the car rental rates found at the pif by JB, we leave for a weekend from time to time, 2 hours maximum from Rouen. This weekend started off on the wrong foot: a girlfriend who was supposed to come and do the mini road trip with us, but she couldn’t make it. The weather was dull, with intermittent rain, and a headache not possible for me. Limit, I was too tempted to sleep in Rouen 🙁 but we were too lucky, I explain it all in this travel diary. Part 1: Travel Diary…
