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This weekend my best friend and I went to a picnic in Victoria Park (Mile End, London). It was organised by a cool little café called The Pavilion. The instructions for the picnic were to bring your own blanket and something to drink whilst they would provide a seafood barbeque. Since me and my friend don’t eat seafood we brought our own food as well as a blanket and some wine.

We sat down on the grass and enjoyed the nice summer weather and looked at all the cool people. It was almost bizarre looking around: everyone looked like they were from somewhere between the 50’s and the 80’s, it felt a bit like being in Grease or some other old school movie. The atmosphere was really cool and laidback and I could have stayed there for ages.

Even though there isn’t a picnic all the time, I really recommend you to go to The Pavilion just for a coffee. It’s very nice and it’s a perfect place to hang out with your friends on a warm summer day. You get to sit in a park with a pond and a fountain just in front of you and get to be served by nice looking Aussie guys, is there anything better than that?

A small disclaimer though: I can’t promise that you’ll be served by gorgeous Aussies. However, from what I’ve heard, The Pavilion is owned by Australians and the people working behind the BBQ on Saturday were definitely good looking

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As I told you in my previous post, I’m from Lille but I grew up in Rennes, in Brittany where my family and some of my friends still live. So, when I fancy a ‘French break’, I go to Brittany for a few days in order to ‘recharge my batteries’ as they say. Literally, it means that I spend my time (and my money) shopping and having coffees and other drinks. There’s one place that I always go back to every time I’m in Rennes: l’Atelier de l’Artiste. It’s a nice café located in the centre of Rennes and basically it’s mine and my friends headquarters.

If you looked at it from the outside, you would probably wonder why I’ve recommended this place to you because it seems quite ordinary but, in fact, the nice stuff is hidden at the bottom of the café: there’s a nice patio opened in the summer as well as in the winter with big parasols (that also can be used as umbrellas sometimes), in a bohemian trendy decor with a fountain and some strange pieces of art work.

If you ever travel through Rennes, come and check, maybe I will be there…

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