#1 Discovering. Settling. Learning.

Jan 12, 2019.Reading time 19 minutes.

Hello lovely readers, and welcome to this series of blog posts ‘Living in Lapland’, where I will write about my daily life as I was living and working in Finnish Lapland for 4 months last winter, from December 2017 to the end of March 2018. In these blog posts I’m going to write about my […]

A festive walk in Seurasaari, Helsinki

Dec 23, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

Last year (2017), before arriving in Lapland to live and work there for 5 months, I did a tour of the Scandinavian capital cities with my friend Morgane. We visited Copenhagen, Stockholm (find my article about this trip here) and Helsinki in late November. I thought that now that the festive period is in full […]

Winter’s first embrace

Dec 19, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Winter calls, and nature listens. Frost comes and covers the dead leaves, ice comes and imprisons the waters. Winter comes and nature yields. Darkness comes and enfolds the world in twilight blue. Winter comes and enshrouds everything in its cold, silent, colourless embrace. The heather is not as bright as it used […]

Autumn stories #2 🕸️🕯️🌙

Nov 30, 2018.Reading time 17 minutes.

This autumn has been a strange one; as a shy creature hidding and trying not to be seen, it seemed to be holding on to the green leaves and the warm summer air as long as it could. In some parts of the country, it now feels as if autumn was there only for one […]

Dancing between spooky trees

Sep 19, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

This photo series dates back to early August but I wanted to wait for the weather to get a little bit more autumnal before showing it to you. Although it’s mid-September and the temperatures are still very summery here (+30°C pretty much eveyday… come on summer go away, it’s been like this since May!) my […]

A summer evening with Marion Kabac

Sep 7, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

One summer evening in August I met Marion, a French photographer, to snap a few shots by a pond surrounded by tall trees and purple flowers. A while ago we realised thanks to Instagram that we were sometimes taking pictures of the same exact places, so we decided to meet somewhere in our beautiful Auvergne. […]

A journey back in time into an old steam train

Aug 31, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Earlier this month my friend Jade (@la.melancolique) and I went on a day trip into an old steam train through the countryside of my home, in Auvergne. I occasionnally love doing this, stepping and immersing myself into time, among old objects and devices that belong to another place and time. There’s something so special about […]

Summer portraits in a fireweed meadow

Aug 3, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Summer has never been the best time of the year for me regarding inspiration and creativity. On the contrary, it usually marks my worst creative slump of the year. I can try whatever I want, but the hot and dry weather wears me out, and needless to say, here in France it’s almost always way […]

Celtic dreams in the Scottish Highlands

Jul 6, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’ve always loved and felt attracted to Celtic countries like Ireland and Scotland. The Scottish Highlands most especially have always held some kind of power on my imagination. I’ve always felt fascinated by these wild, rugged and barren landscapes, by its shapes, its lights, its moods. When I stare at those Glens and Lochs I […]

Living in Lapland – Experiencing the Polar Night (Kaamos)

Mar 31, 2018.Reading time 11 minutes.

As someone who lived in Finnish Lapland, more than 300km above the Arctic circle, for the whole winter season, there’s one question I got asked very often: “but how do you cope with the dark?” Even more than the cold, the idea of the long and dark winter nights of the Arctic seems to be […]