Into the Wild in the West

Greetings from la Grande Couronne #3

When moving to Paris, or any other big city in the world, you need to make a choice. Do you want to live inside the “city walls”, having all the beautiful benefits of that city at your doorstep, or do you prefer living outside the walls, with more space and green. We chose the latter, this time. So we now find ourselves on the outer urban edges of the greater Paris metropolitan area. We have a lot of green space and a garden. Now, with the new confinement rules that limit our movement to within a radius of 10km of our home, we still can venture into the wild. Close by is the forêt domaniale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, part of the large grounds that belong to the royal castle of that city. And in this forest, we can walk in what looks very much like a little bit of wilderness. Surely, there are paths, and a lot of people, but there are also wild mushrooms.

How close do you live to a “wilderness”?

Bisous,
and greetings from the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
in la Grande Couronne.

Maybe you’ve noticed, that this is the third postcard in the Greetings from la Grande Couronne series, but it’s hard to find the first and second postcard. That’s because I renamed the series. There is a very nice series on the official website of the Yvelines department that has a title that is similar to the original title I had in mind. To prevent confusion, I decided to find another name for my series. The Grande Couronne is the second circle around Paris, which includes the Yvelines department.

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