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        <title>Every book has its own story</title>   
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        <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">From the Ho Chi Minh French library, I borrowed “<a href="http://www.amazon.fr/LIle-Gauchers-Alexandre-Jardin/dp/2070401685/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1257652415&amp;sr=8-4" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 68, 119); text-decoration: underline; " target="_blank">L’île des gauchers</a>” – which in English would make “The island if the left-handed” – by French writer&#160;<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Jardin&amp;sl=fr&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 68, 119); text-decoration: underline; " target="_blank">Alexandre Jardin</a>. I do not know if this novel is goor or not ; I haven’t read it yet.</p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_360" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; display: block; width: 510px; "><img alt="L&#39;ile aux gauchers" class="size-full wp-image-360" height="500" src="http://alexhanders.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mg_0287-webres.jpg?w=500&amp;h=500" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; " title="L&#39;ile aux gauchers" width="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">L&#39;île des gauchers</p></div><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Whenever I pick-up &#160;a book at the library, &#160;one of the first page I read is the handwritten list of subscribers who read it already. The computerization of libraries force the lists to end around 2004, but still, it is nice to see how many times the book was picked up.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">In this particular book, the second page caught my intention because it contains a personal note.</p><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://s2.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/journalist/images/quote.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; min-height: 50px; background-position: 0% 0%; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Ha quel chemin difficile mais la finalité est belle.<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " />A mon p’tit Didou,<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " />Tendrement,<br style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " />Valé</p></blockquote><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">From these words, multiple stories may be invented.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><span id="more-364" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></span></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_362" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; display: block; width: 510px; "><img alt="...mais la finalité est belle" class="size-full wp-image-362" height="500" src="http://alexhanders.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mg_0296-webres.jpg?w=500&amp;h=500" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; " title="...mais la finalité est belle" width="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">...mais la finalité est belle</p></div><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">The dedication may be roughly translated by “Ha! Such a difficult journey but the destination is beautiful. To my lil’ Didou, Tenderly, Valé.”&#160;At the moment I have no idea if this sentence is related to the story narrated in the novel. But O wonder how a dedication ends up in a public library?</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Did Didier (Didou) broke up with Valérie (Valé) and offered the book? Not very plausible… Lovers would not use these words. Perhaps they were friends and Didier moved abroad, his luggage loaded with more important souvenirs and thus gave the book to the library?</p><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><dl style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></dl></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_363" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; display: block; width: 510px; "><img alt="Pause à la page 25" class="size-full wp-image-363" height="500" src="http://alexhanders.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mg_0304-webres.jpg?w=500&amp;h=500" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; " title="Pause à la page 25" width="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Pause à la page 25</p></div><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">The novel starts with a love story. At least for the 25 first pages, the narrative tone is of romantism.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Valérie perhaps could not express directly her feelings to Didier, and used a gift to voice them? Would Didier have understood? Perhaps no, perhaps yes and rejected the offer: and the book ended in the library?! Or again a jealous wife did not want this book on her shelves and dumped it?</p><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><dl style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></dl></div><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_361" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; display: block; width: 510px; "><img alt="Lecteurs" class="size-full wp-image-361" height="500" src="http://alexhanders.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mg_0294-webres.jpg?w=500&amp;h=500" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; " title="Lecteurs" width="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Lecteurs</p></div><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">One thing is sure though: the book was printed in November 1996 and by July 1998, someone picked it up from the library’s shelves.</p><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><dl style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></dl></div><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Books have stories printed in them. They make the imaginative reader dreaming of lives he could not have imagined, share passion(s) with characters he would never meet, or even adventure himself in whatever future centuries and alternate realities ; but yet, each books has it own, personal story, which is often not expectable and not ended.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">We will never what is the story behind this book. Why was it bought and how it ended up so quickly in a library, 10′000 kilometers from where it was printed.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">But I still wonder.</p></span> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Details at the Victoria Angkor Resort</title>   
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         <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">I recently had the chance to stay at the&#160;<a href="http://www.victoriahotels-asia.com/eng/hotel-in-cambodia/" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 68, 119); text-decoration: underline; " target="_blank">Victoria Angkor Resort</a>&#160;Hotel, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The room was simply great, it does not get much better than this and since the attention to details is omnipresent, I took a couple ‘close-up’ pictures to showcase it.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">See all the pictures on<a href="http://alexhanders.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/details-at-the-victoria-angkor-resort/">&#160;http://alexhanders.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/details-at-the-victoria-angkor-resort/</a></p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_268" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); -webkit-border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; display: block; width: 570px; "><a href="http://alexhanders.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mg_9526-webres.jpg" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 68, 119); text-decoration: underline; "><img alt="Amenities" class="size-full wp-image-268 " height="338" src="http://alexhanders.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mg_9526-webres.jpg?w=560&amp;h=338" style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 2px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; " title="Amenities" width="560" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; ">Amenities</p></div><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, &#39;ms pgothic&#39;, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, &#39;lucida sans unicode&#39;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">La suite des photos sur&#160;<a href="http://alexhanders.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/details-at-the-victoria-angkor-resort/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">http://alexhanders.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/details-at-the-victoria-angkor-resort/</a></span></span></span></span></p></span></div>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>of (possible) Photo Projects</title>   
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        <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">This is something I’d like to kick start for a while now: a photo project. I do not know which direction should it goes ; if it should be a motivational, experimental, challenging and long&#160;process. Or a blend of those directions, in any combination? So I came up with some ideas and now am trying to measure up the pros and the cons each option implies.</span> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, &#39;lucida sans unicode&#39;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, &#39;lucida sans unicode&#39;, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Read the rest of this entry on :&#160;<a href="http://alexhanders.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/of-possible-photo-projects/">http://alexhanders.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/of-possible-photo-projects/</a></span></div></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title> on Photography, my new blog :)</title>   
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        <title>Mario Kart Wiiiiii</title>   
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        <p>Little Introduction note : Our trip took started on August 24th and lasted for almost 4 weeks. Here are some of the pictures we took. As it makes a lot already, I added some links in the short texts to even more pictures... You can also find them all under <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/france-2009/">this link</a>.</p><p><em>Petite note d&#39;introduction : Notre voyage a débuté le 24 Août et a duré pratiquement 4 semaines. On a pris un tas de photos et comme on va pas tout mettre ici, j&#39;ai rajouter des liens dans le texte vers encore plus de photos. Alternativement, elle sont aussi toutes sur <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/france-2009/">cette page</a>.<br />Enfin, vous l&#39;aurez deviné, les textes en français sont en italiques.</em></p><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce41d0860d 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8da1860c 6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59df5860b 6a00d4141d4b936a470123f16457b5860f 6a00d4141d4b936a470123f16457ac860f" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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<div>We arrived at CDG airport in Paris early morning, ending an air trip of about 11&#39;000 kilometers. We chose Qatar Airways, and, in part, regretted it (see <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/post/finally-cdg-is-not-the-worst-aiport-i-ever-visited.html">this post</a>). We had a 4 hours wait at the train station and finally a car transfer of an hour or so. A chilly whether was waiting us the next morning &amp; we loved that :)<br /><br /><em>On est arrivé à Paris-Charles de Gaulle de bon matin. Pas le meilleur endroit pour terminer un vozage de 11&#39;000 kilomètres mais maintenant <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/post/finally-cdg-is-not-the-worst-aiport-i-ever-visited.html">on a vu pire</a>. Grâce aux supers horaires de la SNCF, 4 heures d&#39;attente à la gare et une fois à Aix, une petite heure de voiture. Un petit vent de fraicheur nous attendait le lendemain matin, les vacances commencait pas si mal du tout :)</em><br /><br /></div><div><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a470123f16457ae860f 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8d92860c 6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59dfb860b 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce41d2860d" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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 </div><div>A quick look at the beast living in the garden : Kenzo, the family 9 pounds doggy ; lots of snails and a huge spider web. More insects were found during the two sessions of blackberries picking.</div><p><br /><em>Petit Aperçu des bêbêtes vivant dans les parages : Kenzo, le vieux chien de garde plus très en forme ; des escargots par milliers et une énorme toile d&#39;araignée. Enfin, on a pu trouvé toute une variété d&#39;insectes en ramassant des mûres dans le lit de la rivière.</em></p><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b60e70e860e 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce4201860d 6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b60e706860e 6a00d4141d4b936a470123f16457e2860f" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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Experct pictures of a (sunny) day spent in the <a href="http://www.provenceweb.fr/e/hautalpe/gorges-meouge/gorges-meouge.htm">Méouge Gorges</a>.<br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000"><em>Quelques photos prises lors d&#39;une journée </em><em><a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b60e6fd860e.html">pique-nique</a>,</em><em> décidément très ensoleillée, passée dans les </em><a href="http://www.provenceweb.fr/e/hautalpe/gorges-meouge/gorges-meouge.htm"><em>Gorges de la Méouge</em></a><em>.</em></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59ea2860b 6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59e9a860b 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce424d860d 6a00d4141d4b936a470123f1645852860f" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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 </div><div>The sourroundings of my parents&#39; house prompts many <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8dd1860c.html">photo</a>graphic opportunities. Julie was kind of upset because the lavender has been harvested long ago. We only had found a field holding some skinny lavender (the picture in the middle)...&#160;</div><div><br /></div><div><em>Aux alentours de la maison de mes parents, il y a toujours une opportunité de <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8dd1860c.html">photo</a> (surtout dans les champs). La lavande avait déjà été coupée, au grand dam de Julie... On a quand trouvé un champ où les pieds étaient non coupés mais aussi loin de leur taille &quot;adulte&quot;.&#160;</em></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000"><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b613a71860e 6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b613a75860e" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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 </span></div><div>1-day visit to Marseille, to visit <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f16457f2860f.html">my sister</a> :)</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000"><em>Journée à Marseille, pour visiter et voir un petit peu </em><a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f16457f2860f.html"><em>ma grande soeur</em></a><em> :)</em></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000"><br /></span></div><div><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8dd4860c 6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59e48860b 6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b60e71b860e 6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b60e71d860e 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8dd8860c 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8ddd860c" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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 </div><div>Then we went on a road trip to France&#39;s South Western part. I know Switzerland and Vietnam quite well nut I do not much of my homeland. So I took the opportunity of this holiday to visit places I never been before. 1st stop: Lourdes. Even if you are not Christian it is a very interesting place to see. It has a particular feel on at least 2 standpoints : the fervor of pilgrims is intact and the business the city makes out of the pilgrims is HUGE. Then we checked-in our hotel in Argelès-Gazost, a cute mid-mountain village.</div><div><br /></div><div><em>Partant de Marseille, nous avions prévu une petite semaine de découverte du Sud-Ouest de la France. 1ère étape: Lourdes. Il s&#39;y dégage une double atmosphère. D&#39;un côté la ville, un amas très dense (et visiblement très lucratif) de boutiques plus ou moins catholiques et de l&#39;autre la grotte, où la Vierge serait apparue 18 fois à Bernadette. La ferveur des pélerins reste intact et sur place on a du mal à penser que l&#39;Eglise catholique est en déclin.</em></div><div><br /></div><div>
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
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 </div><div>Last but not least stage of our road trip : Carcassonne and its old city. It was bloody crowded, which is top list for us to dislike a particular place. Anyway, it is a really nice place we recommend ; paradox of the day, we had good food in a crappy restaurant. The stained-glasses of the ancient town are truly impressive but if you would like to pray admiring those, it is definitely not the place to go... I rarely saw so many un-respective tourists in a worship building.</div><div><br /></div><div><em>Dernière étape de notre semaine mi-touristique mi-gastronomique: Carcassonne et sa &quot;Cité&quot;. C&#39;était noir de monde - ce qui pour nous est synonyme de &quot;plus jamais&quot; - mais nous avons quand même profiter de notre journée dans ces vieilles rues. Les vitraux de la cathédrale sont impressionnants mais c&#39;est bien le dernier endroit où aller prier : trop de touristes sont encore (ou ça empire ?) irrespecteux des lieux de culte.</em></div><div><br /></div><div>
    
    
    

    
    
    
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After a few days with my parents, back to Paris for 3 days, downtown this time. We like Paris, we can cross a couple of &quot;<a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce419f860d.html">bizarre individuals</a>&quot; in the parks, <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f1645785860f.html">buildings which belong somewhere else</a>, <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f164579a860f.html">kubrick-designed bicycles</a> AND get <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59dc0860b.html">good food</a> from all around the country. Further, it was the european patrimony day for which we had a free entrance to the Pantheon with <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59dc8860b.html">Chu Quy</a>.&#160;<br /><br /><em>Après quelques jours supplémentaires avec mes parents, retour à la case départ : Paris, et pour 3 jours. On aime bien Paris, ville hétéroclyte où l&#39;on peut croiser<a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce419f860d.html"> des énergumènes rares</a>, <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f1645785860f.html">des gratte-ciels qui n&#39;ont rien à faire là</a>, <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f164579a860f.html">des vélos </a>sortis tout droit d&#39;un film de science-fiction et enfin, <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59dc0860b.html">de la bonne bouffe</a> bien de chez nous ;) Enfin, c&#39;était les&#160;journées&#160;européennes du patrimoine, nous avons visiter le Panthéon et ses <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8d63860c.html">impressionnantes colonnes</a> avec <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59dc8860b.html">Chu Quy</a>.</em></div><div><br /></div><div><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8d4c860c 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce4174860d 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8d5b860c 6a00d4141d4b936a4701240b60e6a5860e 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce417f860d" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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 </div><div>Individually, I wanted to see the Orsay Museum. Luckily it has its own <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8d60860c.html">subway/metro station</a>, as it is a huge building (in fact a former train station). I was really impress by the permanent collections; but the layout of the exhibitions tends to overcrowd some galleries (Monet, Pissarro, Van Gogh are next to each other) and empty others (only 1 Ingres ?!). Fun fact I didn&#39;t know, the red phone not only existed in the White House and its Soviet counterparts... (Just kidding, it is the fire alarm).<br /><br /></div><div><em>Tout seul comme un grand, j&#39;ai pris l<a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8d60860c.html">e métro jusqu&#39;au Musée d&#39;Orsay</a>, que j&#39;avais hâte de visiter :) J&#39;ai été surpris par la taille de cette ancienne gare et par la richesse des collections. Le musée était très fréquenté et je m&#39;interroge sur le pourquoi d&#39;avoir installer les grands impressionistes dans la même gallerie... Du coup il faut jouer des coudes pour y voir quelque chose. J&#39;étais quand même ravi </em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: line-through; "><em>de voir</em></span><em> d&#39;apercevoir les originaux de&#160;</em><a href="http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scentedsalamander/images/Monet_La%20rue%20Montorgueil.jpg"><em>la Rue Montorgueil de Monet</em></a><em>&#160;et des </em><a href="http://lunettesrouges.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2007/05/caillebotte-raboteurs_de_parquet.1179060079.jpg"><em>Raboteurs de Caillebotte</em></a><br /><br /><div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddba8d7d860c 6a00d4141d4b936a470123ddce41af860d 6a00d4141d4b936a470123f1645798860f 6a00d4141d4b936a470123f1645795860f 6a00d4141d4b936a470123dda59dde860b" at:format="strip-horizontal" at:align="center" class="enclosure enclosure-center enclosure-strip enclosure-strip-horizontal"  style="text-align: center;">
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Paris by night or a last evening to shoot <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f1645857860f.html">pictures</a>. This year Paris surprised me a little. I had a different feeling about this city until and ô sacrilege, I might even enjoy it some day.<br /><br /><em>Dernière soirée en France et à Paris, dernières occasions de prendre des <a href="http://alexhh.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4141d4b936a470123f1645857860f.html">photo</a>s. Je dois avouer que ce voyage a imprimer dans ma mémoire un sentiment différent à propos de Paris. Qui sait, un jour je vais peut être même l&#39;apprécier?</em>&#160;</div><div><br /></div><div>
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3075fb; font-family: -editor-proxy"><strong>25&#39;000 kilometers and a broken wallet&#160;</strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3075fb; font-family: -editor-proxy"><strong>(<em>Conclusion</em>)</strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3075fb"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div>This was a very long and very interesting trip, yet probably the longest and most expensive holidays we ever had.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3075fb"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000"><em>Ce long voyage a été une réussite mais si on repart avec le portefeuille très léger ;)</em></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Finally, CDG is not the worst aiport I ever visited</title>   
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        <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1.25em; ">On a recent air trip to Paris, I had the luck to discover that Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport is NOT the worse airport in the world. To some extent, it remains incredibly bad but I truly believe Doha&#39;s airport is worse.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Dirty/stinky toilets</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Not enough seats at the gates</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Rough security personnel</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Bus from and to the airplanes (after long haul flights it is not the best)</span></span></li></ul></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1.25em; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1.25em; ">Whilst Air France shares with its main hub an equivalent sense of service and quality, Qatar Airways and Doha airport are really different. We enjoyed (as much as it is possible) the flights on the airline; but the 1h30 spent in Doha had nothing to convince us to pass by there again on our future long haul flights. So much for Qatar Airways...</span></div>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Another Weekend in Phan Thiet</title>   
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