One of my favorite things of being at home is sitting down and having breakfast. On holiday, it isn’t my alarm that wakes me up, but either the sun streaking through the window or else classical music that my parents play down in the kitchen. On hot days we tend to go up to the terrace to have breakfast, to the “bistro” as my Dad calls it and my brother and I fight over who gets the pain au chocolat 😉 Our house faces the Castellane valley and looks straight at one of the regions most sacred and the Pyrenees’s most tallest mountain, Mount Canigou. Canigou is a rich in iron and unlike the surrounding mountains it is bare of trees and looks blue.
This mountain has symbolical significance for Catalan people. On its summit there is a cross that is often decorated with the Catalan flag. Every year on 23 June, the night before St. John’s day (nit de Sant Joan), there is a ceremony called Flama del Canigó (Canigou Flame), where a fire is lit at the mountaintop. People keep a vigil during the night and take torches lit on that fire in a spectacular torch relay to light bonfires somewhere else. Some estimates conclude that about 30,000 bonfires are lit in this way all over Catalonia on that night.
Here I am wearing cream silk trousers and a white crochet top. As it was still breakfast
, I decided to wear my oriental mint green dressing gown as a Kimono. I have found that silk gowns tend to have beautiful patterns and are lovely to wear in the house but also look great for a chic geisha style look.
WEARING
Silk Cream Trousers – NEXT
White Crochet Top – H&M
Geisha Kimono/Dressing Gown – Charity Shop
Purple Studded Flip Flops- Primark
Beautiful view there! French is your native language?
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Hi John! Sorry for my late reply! I am glad you like the view, it is from my parent’s rooftop terrace and is the the Castellane Valley with Mount Canigou in the distance 🙂 My parents are both English and so the first language I spoke at home was english. I learnt french when I was 3 and then did all my schooling in french until 12. By 6 my french was better than my english but since doing a degree etc in England my english is is better, so really I would say that my native language was english :)))
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No worries, you are not late. 🙂 It seems many English speak French as well, maybe a misconception of mine. I bet the weather is a little less harsh in France than in London.
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Yes it was, a lot warmer there than here (thank God!) I was in the South, so about 1,000 miles from London and a very long way from Paris too…It has suddenly got quite cold here in the UK 😦 I think you are right, most English people do speak at least some French, perhaps it is because we are all taught French at school as our first foreign language. The UK and France are so close and we are friends and but mainly great rivals, so probably better said “frenemies” 😉 xxx
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Beautiful spot & lovely view for an early breakfast & great start of the day!
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Thank you so much. Yes the view is so spectacular, its always such a great way to start the day up there 🙂 I am so pleased you like d the post, Abi xxx
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I love the kimono :O! 🙂
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Aww thank you so much 🙂 So pleased that you do! This is a little secret, but it is actually a Chinese dressing gown that my Mum bought from a charity shop 😀 Abi xxx
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Beautiful photos. So chic and elegant 🙂
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Thank you so much! I am glad you like the all white oriental look 🙂 Abi xxx
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Beautiful! You live in a very stunning environment! Now I want to visit Catalonia. Inspiration must flow readily from taking in that view. I also like that you wear attainable brands.
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I am so pleased you like the view from my parents house! Catalonia is such a lovely place. It is definately more rugged, rougher but also more natural and less spoilt than the French Riviera. I love how one moment you can be in the mountains and then the next be by the sea. Glad you like the look and glad you think that my outfits are nice without me having to spend a fortune! Abi xxx
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I love hearing of your grand life.
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Hehe Thank you! I am sure it is not that grand, but glad you are enjoying reading and following my adventures nonetheless! 🙂 Abi xxx
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The food looks amazing, and I absolutely love your printed wrap!
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Aww it was so nice eating fresh French pastries in the sun! I had to fight my brother for the pain of chocolat, but in the end gave up and ate the croissant instead lol. (Sibling Rivalry and younger sibling capitulation!)Glad you like the wrap, it is actually an old Chinese dressing gown that my Mum got from a charity shop and I took off the tassel and turned it into a floor length Kimono 😉 ❤ Abi xxx
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Well-titled post. You do look as elegant as Audrey Hepburn–in the movie version of B at T.
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Hehe couldn’t resist the old play on words there! Glad you appreciate my indulgent witticims lol
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lovely photos and may i say your looking really well
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Thank you so much! I am so pleased you like the pictures of our breakfast on my parents terrace and the view of the valley from our house 🙂 Truly appreciate your kind comment ❤
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What lovely pictures! xx
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Thank you so much Amelia, I am so pleased that you like the pics 🙂 It was just such a sunny day it felt a shame not to make the most of it. Glad you enjoyed it too, Abi xxx
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Looks gorgeous there!
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Thank you, yes I just love the view! I don’t get to go often but I do get to go back home I just love the peacefulness of the mountains 🙂 Glad you like the pics, Abi xxx
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