Travel blog by Päivi & Santeri Kannisto

Today was our fifth wedding anniversary and we celebrated it in Saló by the lake Garda in Italy. Here is a set of photos we took. Tomorrow we will celebrate Päivi's birthday and next week is the 5th anniversary of our everlasting honeymoon trip.

Eleven months and four seasons in the French Riviera plus altogether 1,5 years in France and still not fed up. Like Hong Kong and Brazil, France is one of the countries we are likely to return. If you are heading to the South of France and wondering what would be the best time to go, we recommend spring (March-June) when the area is less crowded and windy. Summer is nice, but there are far too many people. Beaches are jam-packed and traffic can be chaotic.

Blogger has failed to fix the annoying bug in their search function that rendered our country selection non-functional. Unfortunate condition began in July 2009. As a workaround we rebuilt the country menu using labels. The solution is far away from elegant but appears to function properly.

Here is a video footage showing how French people enjoy their holidays.

Carrefour states the following at the their website: “Quality is one of our main source of competitive differentiation and is part of the fundamental policies defining the implementation of the Group’s strategy. It always corresponds to what the customer explicitly or implicitly wants and must be clearly perceived as such. The value for money must be the best.” We bought last week a pair of no brand jogging shoes from Carrefour. After one week they broke down. Yesterday we went to exchange the shoes and the reaction was unpleasant and rather unexpected.

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There were demonstrations today in France against Sarkozy and his government. We took part in one of them.

The French had a pretty weird numbering system in their elevator.Country: France

Typical French parking in the middle of the road and a lucky last minute escape before the police toes the car away. One would expect him to be happy but the guy looks annoyed.

Christmas in Monaco in 2008.Country: Monaco