And Dream of Spots: TBT: Summer Wanders

As a recap', I speaked a lot to you about the fact I lived in Brussels, Belgium, my hometown (where I was born & raised) and my french hobby friends, the first time we met then the second time...
We arrived at the first "new age" for me as I left Brussel around 2014 for... well you know, some place in France called Ariège.

Ariège, it's the Pyrenee.
My first stop was about visiting my future new home, I will share with my best friend, Jaf

It was 'of course' an excuse to test the breyer shooting potential of the place 0:)

By the time, I was wondering where to shoot my plastic horses, when... this happened.

But the real fact, it was -I swear- my first hiking in the Pyrennee. My camera wasn't that good, but he was in fact real close.
(For the little story, when I was a child, my father used to pay for the reintroducing of the bears in the Pyrenees with my family allowances. It drives my mother mad, but it pays... at last. This bear is sort of my half brother you know.)

The rest of the trip was much common, filled with...

ice cream

local cows

and mountains

Then it was time to go back to Brussels and prepare myself to leave... first moving home that far!

I had, three important things to move in prior, my horse (of course) that goes directly to Ariège with Jaf for the summer and the year to come.

Sweetie that said goodbye to the Belgian ground

the VAN in my street before picking the horses!

And...

Darjeeling & Lady Gray

My cats, that we moved to my mother's house, 1000km+ in the french Alps for the summer.
We stopped our trip in the Jura, for the cats to have a break at...

Clémentine's location (that time)

And no, the rain didn't stop us to do what we had to do... of course you know it...

This kind of sport!

It was wet and quick, also filled with amazing hamburgers and a bowling match. But all great things end and it was time to move on!

So, once the horse well arrived in the Pyrenneans fields...

And the cats left in the Alps...

My wander continued. I had nothing to do anywhere, so I began a french trip, visiting my friends...
Starting in Brittany to visit my dear friend Sophie, nicknamed Riri (as I'm Ruru).
Riri is one of my way before modelhorse hobby internet friend, years ago we used to met around 3/4 times a years (rotating one time in Lille, one time in Brussels, one time in Rennes and one time in Paris) with our geek team...
We started collect licenced game or comics/manga characters figures together, it was the "great times".

If I remember well, this picture was taken around 2008
(Paris, Lille, Brussels, Rennes)

and this one is current of my 2014 trip!

We did a LOT of great things, like visiting an expo about carriages,

Filled with mini size carriages,

traditionnal size carriages (I wanted those so bad),

Real carriages and horses...

A really great expo!

But it was not the most exciting about this trip, oh no... we left Rennes for Nantes, a couple of days, and do you know who lives in Nantes?

Some of my hobby friends of course!!

And that's how I met Aurélia (Alizarine) and Mélanie (Orcanie's Stables)

Aurélia (Alizarine) is one of the most particular hobbyist in our French community, she's interrested in taxidermy and osteology and she knows everything about the little plastic horsies.

Mélanie (Orcanie's Stables) host one of the largest and ambitious collection in our French community. She's well know as a pioneer and she's the one who makes me discover the whole thing!

We did a lot of things together, including...

visiting botanic gardens

toast with a cappuccino and a cocktail

visiting a Samouraï themed expo

We all find something we liked for a long time at this expo, I was so happy to saw this screen (featured here) in real, this was something I didn't expected at all.