WONDERLAND SPRING VLOG IN FRANCE - An Alice in Wonderland Brunch

Tea room in my town called Marinette and I just had such a great time. Though the weather is still unstable, it's a joy to notice the progress of spring in town and to see so many shops who have made big efforts to decorate their shop windows for Easter. Candy shops, floral shops, chocolate shops or tea shops. And I especially love these chocolate keys. These past weeks were mainly spent filming and editing the new dollhouse workshop which I'm still working on and I love doing my editing now in the living room because this way I can do some people watching in the street while I edit and it's pretty fun. My friend from Poitiers that you have already seen in previous video came to visit me last weekend and we did a lot of fun things which included a visit at Le Puy-en-Velay but before going and taking the train we had a delicious breakfast at my favorite tea room in town. So with my friend from Poitiers we went to Le Puy-en-Velay and she never saw Le Puy-en-Velay so it's a town I've already made many videos on it. I didn't film everything when we went there because I've already filmed so many things but it's always magical and I always see different things each time. Here it was really special because there was nobody when we arrived. The city was absolutely empty because it was lunchtime on a rainy gray cold day and we had all the cathedrals, a chapelle saint-michel which is at the top of the rock entirely for ourselves. There was nobody. Each time I went there for the past years there was always depending on the season some people sometimes a lot of people during the summer time sometimes a bit less but always and this time there was nobody so it was really a nice experience too. So and I brought back a candle with me which is by Les Bougies de Polignac which is a brand of candles created around Le Puy-en-Velay and here it is blueberry so it's a sandwich which is absolutely delicious. I didn't burn it yet because it smells so good. I want to keep it and I put it in the entrance hall and it gives a nice scent to the entire entrance hall. They have other scents I don't know if the other scents are as good as this one. I'm going to try them but yes I just wanted to recommend it because they're high quality wax and all of that. I will just put the link if you are interested. I don't know if they ship worldwide but yes it's really nice a nice brand of candles which are locally produced and it was a nice little souvenir to bring back from Le Puy-en-Velay. On the balcony I have started to plant a few spring flowers but the weather is still pretty unstable and cold so for now I will wait a bit till warmer days come. Last Sunday I went for a solo brunch at Marinette, the same tea room I went with my friend which was pretty magical. And it is the first time I do something like that. The theme was Alice in Wonderland and the tea room was so beautifully decorated. Those are the sweet treats and those are all the delicious salty treats. I brought with me my Alice book and I read some passages and refreshed my memories on Larry Scarwell reading these pages in the tea room with this beautiful atmosphere and I had such a wonderful time. The Alice in Wonderland brunch at the beautiful tea room in my town called Marinette and I just had such a great time. It's the first time I do a brunch or something like that on my own. I've done a lot of things on my own in my life, traveling abroad many many times, I go to the classical concerts and operas almost 99.999% of the time on my own because people around me are not necessarily sharing the same taste or available at the same time all that. It has never been a problem for me actually at all. I always enjoy it as much as if I had someone with me to go there but restaurant, tea room and a brunch like this one it's the first time I've done it and I would totally recommend it for you if you don't dare doing these things on your own because you have such a good time and it's just a shame not to allow yourself to do it maybe because you think you will not enjoy it yourself as much as if you were with someone or you think you will feel awkward that people will judge you or anything like that. Truth is nobody cares at all I can tell you that. Most people are just enjoying themselves so they don't criticize you or anything like that. It's really the opposite. There is a lady who complimented me on my dress, there is the owner of the place who came many many times to talk to me so it was just friendly and lovely and you look what all the other people around you are doing and have this nice atmosphere of people talking and having fun and enjoying themselves around you and I had bought my Alice book so I was reading some Alice texts at the same time, enjoying the decor, the food, all that and it was just perfect absolutely lovely and she does brunches like that on different themes I think it's once a month or once every other month so I definitely will go back there when I see another one coming up because it's just nice and friendly and the food was delicious there were a lot of salty things, sweet things, I've eaten a lot and I'm not going to eat anything else today because I've just eaten way too much but it was really really delicious so I just had a good time but I wanted also to encourage you if you don't dare doing such things yourself that it's really worth doing and you never know what might happen during this time so always positive things will come out of these things I can promise you that. I've done yes many many trips, many traveling alone abroad in places I knew nobody, I've done so many shows so many nights outside on my own as well and yes only positive things came out of those moments so yes I just wanted to recommend it for you and of course if you stop in my town, who knows, this tea room is really a place to go because everything is friendly, delicious and she now has really seasonal decor on top of that which makes it really special and I will just put the link of her website under the video in case you come around I also went to a concert a little earlier this week, I go to the opera house as much as I can they don't program things every week of course but when there is something really nice I want to go and here it was La Symphonie Fantastique de Berlioz by Hector Berlioz that you may know if you have seen the film Shining it is the little theme the very scary stressful theme of the introduction of the film which is a little slice of the last movement of this symphony which is super super famous but it was really nice I think it was the first time I heard it played live with a big big orchestra and what was really cool too I suppose for the musician is that this time there were a lot of younger people in the room not not all of it of course it's just like maybe one fourth of the room was a little younger I have nothing against elderly people of course but I guess for musicians sometimes it must be a little unmotivating sometimes to see that no young people want to hear them play live I suppose musicians and singers and all that so here it was not the case I suppose they came for there was Chopin too so maybe they came for Chopin or for Berlioz I'm not sure I was glad to notice that this time because it's not so usual now the dollhouse workshop is open till the end of March so the big pink castle dollhouse workshop you can visit my website and join here at londonmagicoffpaper.com you have the link under this video if you would like to join thank you very much and I will see you very soon you