France 🇫🇷 w/ Rita ❤

 

reunited after ~10 years!!

I AM SO FREAKIN' LUCKY!!! I first met Rita when we were in undergraduate studies at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon~

She was there to see me grow + learn throughout my college years and we lived together during our undergrad years and post at various times. I even shared a bed with her part of one summer when I just moved back to Portland and was working as AmeriCorps before moving in with another dear friend of ours named Erika!!

When I was figuring out my time and travels in Europe, I thought I'd send her a message on IG to see if it was okay to visit her in Paris. I knew she lived there, but I didn't want to bother her if she was busy or may have other plans. Luckily for me, she was free and she helped plan a trip down to the south of France with me, her and her manfriend. ☺ SO I took a cheap RyanAir flight from Dublin to Paris Beauvais Airport, and then took a shuttle bus from Beauvais to Paris Port Maillot (~1.5 hours). I arrived right at high commute time, but Rita braved the crowded metro to fetch me and we returned to her home in another part of Paris. ❤ 

The next morning we hopped on the train to Béziers, France! We got picked up by Rita's manfriend's brother and went to a small town called Cers. 

Cers Town Centre Mural 🐇🍷

It was beautiful to be able to reunite in France after all these years, and to be able to be welcomed + invited into their family home in Cers. I am constantly amazed at this thing we call life, and be a witness to see how each of us navigates through it. 

🧀ᐩ🍷🍇

[ 11 ~ 15 may ]