Dinner & Fireworks!

Our good friend Naim was visiting the Cote d’Azur this week. I had already attended one of his legendary Nice meetups on Wednesday, but Mathilde was also quite keen to hear what Naim had to say about Brussels (where he has at least temporarily relocated for work). So, we decided to invite him over for dinner. Since Aki and Henna haven’t been over to our place either, we decided to invite them over as well.

The dinner went rather well, sitting as we were on the terrace. We had prepared a spinach & saumon lasagna for main course, and to finish off, Mathilde had prepared an absolutely delicious apricot crumble. Yummie. It was great to hear about Naim’s adventures in Brussels (he seems to have integrated rather well – although he does seem to miss the good weather), and also good to see that Henna’s belly is growing encouragingly (not because of our lasagna – as you may have guessed, she’s pregnant).

The dinner finished, we decided to head out to next-door Villeneuve-Loubet to check out the fireworks (one nice thing about the Cote d’Azur in summer time is that there are some fireworks going on at least somewhere on the Cote every couple of days). Parking turned out to be a real nightmare, but we made it eventually. After the uninspiring fire acrobatics show, the fireworks kicked off – and rather impressive they were, I have to admit, especially for a small town like Villeneuve-Loubet. Samar joined us to check out the fireworks as well, good to catch up with him as well.

All in all, a rather nice evening amongst friends!