dear eventual life partner,
long ago i started a list of places i want to take you.
places we can adventure together. places where we will be deliriously happy.
i can't wait to hide in your arms and experience the world with you.
find me soon... so we have as much time together as possible.
i don't want to wait... not another day. <3

dear eventual life partner,
long ago i started a list of places i want to take you.
places we can adventure together. places where we will be deliriously happy.
i can't wait to hide in your arms and experience the world with you.
find me soon... so we have as much time together as possible.
i don't want to wait... not another day. <3

dear eventual life partner,
long ago i started a list of places i want to take you.
places we can adventure together. places where we will be deliriously happy.
i can't wait to hide in your arms and experience the world with you.
find me soon... so we have as much time together as possible.
i don't want to wait... not another day. <3

L’histoire des salons de thé parisiens est intimement liée à l’histoire de la famille Ladurée.

Tout a commencé en 1862, lorsque Louis Ernest Ladurée, homme du sud-ouest, crée une boulangerie à Paris au 16 rue Royale. A cette époque, la Madeleine est un quartier d’affaires en plein développement où les plus grands artisans du luxe français sont déjà installés.

En 1871, alors que le baron Haussmann donne un nouveau visage à Paris, un incendie permet la transformation de la boulangerie en pâtisserie.

La décoration de la pâtisserie est confiée à Jules Chéret - célèbre peintre affichiste de la fin du siècle.

Il s’inspire des techniques picturales utilisées pour les plafonds de la Chapelle Sixtine et de l’Opéra Garnier. En les intégrant à son œuvre, il donne profondeur et relief aux plafonds, qu’il orne d’anges joufflus et en particulier « l’ange Pâtissier » qui inspirera plus tard toute la charte graphique de la maison.

Louis-Ernest Ladurée, a miller, was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day. He founded the bakery on the Rue Royale, Paris in 1862. During the Paris Commune uprising of 1871 the bakery was burnt down. A pastry shop was built at the same location and Jules Chéret was entrusted with the interior decoration. The chubby cherubsdressed as pastry cooks, painted by him on the ceiling, form the company's emblem. The interior of the premises were painted in the same celadon colour as the façade. Ladurée's rise to fame came in 1930 when his grandson, Pierre Desfontaines, had the original idea of the double-decker, sticking two macaron shells together with a creamy ganache as filling. Queen Catherine de' Medici had brought the macaron to France from Italy in the 16th century, and the recipe for the biscuit had hardly varied over the years, but the amounts of the ingredients used and the appearance of the end product were up to the individual bakers.

Desfontaines also opened a tearoom at the pastry shop. In those days ladies were not admitted to cafés, which were the exclusive domain of men. This was a big success with ladies, who enjoyed meeting in the freedom of the tearoom rather than their homes.

PresentIn 1993 the Groupe Holder took over the firm Ladurée. The Holder family also owns the PAUL bakery chain in France. Following the takeover, the company began an expansion drive, setting up pastry shops and tea rooms on the Champs-Élysées and in Le Printemps Haussmann in 1997, followed by Ladurée Bonaparte in 2002. The International development of Ladurée started in 2005 with London. Ladurée stores are now also present in Monaco, Switzerland, Japan, Italy, Lebanon, Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Luxembourg, Kuwait, Ireland, and the USA.

Ladurée made the pastries for the film Marie Antoinette, directed by Sofia Coppola; its famous macarons can be seen in a scene between Marie Antoinette and Ambassador Mercy. They can also be seen in The CW's hit teen drama Gossip Girl as Blair Waldorf's favorite pastries.

In 2012 Ladurée will also release a collection of makeup inspired by the colors of their macaroons.

dear eventual life partner,
long ago i started a list of places i want to take you.
places we can adventure together. places where we will be deliriously happy.
i can't wait to hide in your arms and experience the world with you.
find me soon... so we have as much time together as possible.
i don't want to wait... not another day. <3

Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador (located Northwest of the island) with a combined area of 405,212 square kilometres (156,500 sq mi). 

As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400. Approximately 94 percent of the province's population resides on the Island of Newfoundland (including its associated smaller islands), of which over half live on the Avalon Peninsula. The Island of Newfoundland has its own dialects of English, French, and Irish. The English dialect in Labrador is similar to that of Newfoundland. Labrador also has its own dialects of Innu-aimun and Inuktitut.

Newfoundland and Labrador's capital and largest city, St. John's, is Canada's 20th-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and is home to nearly 40 percent of the province's population. St. John's is the seat of government, home to the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador and the highest court in the jurisdiction, the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal.

A former colony and dominion of the United Kingdom, Newfoundland and Labrador became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31, 1949, as Newfoundland. On December 6, 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province's official name to Newfoundland and Labrador. In day-to-day conversation, however, Canadians generally still refer to the province itself as Newfoundland and to the region on the Canadian mainland as Labrador.

The name Newfoundland is derived from English as "New Found Land" (a translation from the Latin Terra Nova). The origin of Labrador is uncertain; it is credited to both João Fernandes Lavrador, a Portuguese explorer, and lavrador – a title meaning "landholder".

dear eventual life partner,
long ago i started a list of places i want to take you.
places we can adventure together. places where we will be deliriously happy.
i can't wait to hide in your arms and experience the world with you.
find me soon... so we have as much time together as possible.
i don't want to wait... not another day. <3

The Château de Chillon (Chillon Castle, Sorcerer's Castle) is located on the shore of Lake Léman in the commune of Veytaux, at the eastern end of the lake, 3 km fromMontreux, Switzerland. The castle consists of 100 independent buildings that were gradually connected to become the building as it stands now.

The oldest parts of the castle have not been definitively dated, but the first written record of the castle is in 1160 or 1005.[1] From the mid 12th century, the castle was home to the Counts of Savoy, and it was greatly expanded in the 13th century by Pietro II. The Castle was never taken in a siege, but did change hands through treaties.

It was made popular by Lord Byron, who wrote the poem The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) about François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk and politician who was imprisoned there from 1530 to 1536; Byron also carved his name on a pillar of the dungeon.

dear eventual life partner,
long ago i started a list of places i want to take you.
places we can adventure together. places where we will be deliriously happy.
i can't wait to hide in your arms and experience the world with you.
find me soon... so we have as much time together as possible.
i don't want to wait... not another day. <3

The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. It is in the Liguria region of Italy, to the west of the city of La Spezia. "The Five Lands" is composed of five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all part of the Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Over centuries, people have carefully built terraces on the rugged, steep landscape right up to the cliffs that overlook the sea. Part of its charm is the lack of visible corporate development. Paths, trains and boats connect the villages, and cars cannot reach them from the outside.