Well here we are, almost at the mi-novembre (mid-November). In France, tout comme aux États-Unis (just like in the United States), we’ve changed the clocks and it gets dark earlier. Growing up in the northeastern United States, I’m used to early evenings. But when I went to France for the first time, I was hardly ready for just how early evening could come.

Nuit noir / The black of night

Paris (and the surrounding area where I lived) is actually much further north on the globe than where I grew up, lying somewhere on a par latitudinally with the city of Québec, some 396 miles north from my hometown.

The difference in latitude means that, in the winter, le soleil se lève plus tard et se couche plus tôt (the sun rises later and sets earlier) than even I was used to. Le jeudi (On Thursday’s), my longest day of school, I would walk to school in the dark in the morning and come home after dark in the evening.

I might have been 16 years old (and living in a well-lit urban area!), but it might have been nice still, to have a luminou for company.

Luminou

Luminou is a product of Jemini, une entreprise familiale Française basée en Sarthe à Ecommoy (a family-owned business in the commune of Ecommoy in the Sarthe department), specialized in la peluche et du jouet pour enfant (stuffed animals and toys for children).

Blog photo by Ruvim from Pexels

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  selon votre pays/depending on your country
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  combination of the word lumineux / light-up, luminous and nounours/teddybear or nounou/nanny, minder