We stayed around the hotel till about 4pm. We swim and gym and breakfast and lunch and blog and work and read. The hotel is lovely. Concrete walls and a simple industrial type of architecture. This is our room.
[From the website]: Welcome to the MOB HOUSE where the notions of space and time merge to meet that new paradigm of travellers: nomadic entrepreneurs. Cyril Aouizerate and Philippe Starck have spent over three years thinking about the question of interweaving travel and optimal productivity for the independent entrepreneur. The constant amalgam between private life and the professional sphere inspired them to create a new kind of benchmark hotel. A 3-in-1 room with luxury bedding, an office and a meeting room.
An organic hotel, with natural materials: We have worked in-depth with natural materials, which we know to have a lot of benefits for our well-being. Here, the paint is a straw and clay blend spray. We used a thermal regulator with a low carbon footprint which does not release any volatile organic compounds. Home pollution is a priority issue for us. In this room, you will also find wood, Beaujolais ceramics, which are magnificently imperfect since they are artisanal, marble and concrete because concrete is indeed a natural material. In some rooms, the bed is surrounded by wood and has a rice straw headboard.
Complete with a Fatboy beanbag, low-level furniture from IKEA and mobile spotlight lighting, the guestrooms are idiosyncratic, to say the least, but also balance within them a sense of play and can be adapted to suit the needs of whoever is checking in. With a strong message to bring guests together, there are deliberately no TVs in each of the rooms, but projectors and iPads can be provided on request. The dictionary definition of mob is “a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.” Although the brand isn’t planning on causing any violence or trouble, it certainly is ready to cause a scene.
More from our room.
It seems trendy enough for the young to come to. Saturday night was DJ and party night that brought in a big crowd (and they had security on the door to control the number).
You might think it is all roses this travelling together (or you might not, Ed.) For those of you who know how I love growing and developing, the day at the AB v Les Bleus match I had to deal with myself. Bill takes in the whole atmosphere at the game, as I thought I did, and I also like to think we are side by side. I wasn't feeling the side-by-side as they sometimes say. Maybe I like a bit more dialogue. I wasn't getting it. A childhood thing to upgrade I thought after I wanted a bit more attention than I was getting. Bill is more focused. I want a bit of dialogue. As some of you know I am participating in a 9-month Wisdom course. Time to use one of the tools I am learning. This is the tool to be an adult. I could use the collaging tool. Here is my collage. I shared it with Bill.
And a double whammy. I am also on the Empowered Partner course. One of the takeaways from this course I got was to relinquish control as soon as you see you are controlling. Consider I am controlling and right when I think that Bill is super focused and I am not, and he is not giving me enough attention! Thank you, Angela Butcher - she leads the Empowered Partner course. So I let go of control too. Wow, this is easy. In an instant think I put I think 'I am alone' in the past and realise I am not. And relinquishing control so easily. I grew up quickly and became an adult. YAY 😘💪 Bill is a great sport and understands my growing and developing ways. 🌱
We taxi to Paris Montparnasse train station from MOB HOUSE.
See this familiar landmark on the way.
Back on track - just let Bill do his focusing thing, I can dialogue with my blog and projects. And then we are on track . . . at 6.11pm we leave Paris for Biarritz on SNFC, the French train. It will be 4 hours and 15 mins.
Not much you can capture on camera going 300km an hour (as fast as Max Verstappen, note Harry). I have a go.
I read a magazine I had brought from NZ. This I found interesting.
We arrive in Biarritz (10mins late) and walk to a hotel Bill had booked near the station. (I took this photo the next day.)
