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Looking for Bill: Luang Namtha
Luan Namtha is not a very touristy place. Most of tourists come in more or less large groups, spend one night there before getting on a trek in the mountains. After the hustle and bustle of even the smallest Thaï places, it was pretty weird. There I was...
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Cat Picture Day #1
That was a lovely guest-house. I chose the cheapest room, which meant a monk-no-windowed-stifling space with a bed in it (add some wet air to it), but I felt perfect for my $4 stay. The lady who owned the place was not that easy and sometimes told the...
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Between brackets
This is what I'm looking for in life: that bracket around the corner of a mouth. It announces everything from silence to roars of laughter, from a smile to a complete story. Marcel Proust's quest could be summed up in that very bracket before it finds...
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Yourcatfish friend
Catfishes (yeah, i know, there shouldn't be any plural, but it seems weird, and they're scary enough) are scary. Their mouth open so wide that it looks they could swallow the whole world, and what they can't get yet, they can wait for it to rot and melt....
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DIY #4
Let’s say you’re heading to Chinatown in Bangkok. Although you’re a mature grown up, rightly appalled by sweatshops and child-labour, your neurones have all turned into girly bubbles popping off into lovely bags, cheap jewellery, useless paraphernalia....
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Chao Praya River (Bangkok)
School-kids feeding fish by the river. I just loved the place: around 5 pm, it was already sunset and you could hear the monks chanting in the temple behind. Those were the first days of my trip, my senses were overwhelmed and the tiniest detail got magical…...
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Boulevards, avenues et autres endroits où se perdre
On avait commencé avec un pique-nique Parc Monceau. Ca me plaisait bien: il y faisait frais; au milieu d'une prétendue canicule, on pouvait boire autant de bières qu'il y avait de gens à tête nouvelle, le balafré de Fersen affûtait sa scie musicale, bref,...
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My golden parachute
I soared to the skies and found no limit And I was all churny inside, Like the engine was in my stomach And I was spreading my arms, Coz there was no one to disturb And I could laugh so loud, Coz there was nobody minding And I started to grow worried,...
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Ruth is stranger than Richard but Robert beats them all Malgré les apparences, je n'ai pas l'intention de rédiger un nouveau manuel d'apprentissage de l'anglais pour les petits. Beaucoup l'auront déjà deviné, je m'en vais vous causer ce soir au coucher...
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Yummy Maybe #6
Après 15 jours d’expérimentations, j’en arrive à la conclusion suivante: il n’ y a pas, en Thaïlande, d’équivalent européen du « un peu épicé ». Il y a le: * « pas épicé ». Par exemple l’eau (et encore, pas celle du robinet). * « ça brûle pas mal quand...
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Night out in Sukothaï #2
You know, that moment when you leave with some specific pictures in you mind, that sometimes you're not even aware of. I wanted to be lost in translation and be saved by Bill Murray. I was not in China, even less Japan. I walked past some fired insects...
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Clockwork orange
Ok, true, this is NOT trendy. But 1) Who cares, nobody can know who you are. 2) It's kind of better to have a silly look than a suntroke (also protects your neck from sunburns thanks to the convenient tail) 3) It looks like Grandma's napkins, kind of...
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Looking for Bill M. (Asia riderz)
Sukothaï and the ride along the river on the one side, and the banana plantations on the other. Kids, people, whole families shouting and waving hello on the way. Yeah well, also crazy stray dogs yelling but you know, barking dogs don't bite (actually,...
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Sail away #2
I'd been for one week in Ayuttayah, not too convinced about going on a tourist boat to be offered the regular show off. But I mean, we're talking temples on islands on a river. I hadn't seen too many temples (yet) and was still (still is) getting crazy...
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Believe in chance
When I arrived in Ayuttayah, I was still sticking to my guides and the guest-houses mentioned there. So, my one-ton-heavy back-pack on my bare shoulders, sweating in the scorching heat (also: no water), I walked for one hour before I could find the first...
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Chinese New Year (backstage)
I'm a curious girl, that's what people say, and as my cat never got killed for that, I go on. So that day, I just wanted to take a picture of the Chinese theatre backstage, coz it was really intriguing. I thought I was doing it cape-of-invisibility-like....
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A few things about Chiang Maï #1
So, right, Chiang Mai is a lovely city if you want to hang around with hundreds of patronizing expats and thousands of fun-looking tourists (and there’s admittedly a WIDE range of fun activities of all kinds over there)… I spent my first night in what...
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Why the Buddha smiles #2
1) He’s made of gold, which is good for self-confidence. 2) He gets lots of presents on billions of occasions. And I mean cool presents: shampoo, moisturizer, coffee, tea, crackers… fruits and strangely enough, many toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste....
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Late afternoon along the Mekong (1)
At that time of the day (around 5 pm), everything feels so sweet and mellow that it's like the whole place has turned into a soft drug. It's warm, you get wrapped in by the air and the breeze, and you feel like a gift.The sky turns into some kind of unctuous...
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Looking for Bill M: Chiang Sen (1)
Chiang Sen, première rencontre avec le Mékong. La ville est somnolente mais les abords du fleuve, déserts ou transformés en terrasses nomades à l’heure vespérale ont un charme certain. A quelques km, le sulfureux triangle d’or s’est transformé en lieu...
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Asian Zumba
Free access to the old, iron, screeching fitness machines whenever you feel like it. And every evening, you can come to the fitness class, loudspeakers blasting some kind of Eastern Latin American music. Everyone is absolutely serious about it and it's...
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Fucking Darling ou le mystère de la boîte rouge
Juste, ça fait deux fois qu'on m'en parle cette semaine. Je ne compte plus le nombre de fois où je me suis fait avoir: imaginez: un emballage tout rose et brillant. Qui crisse un peu sous les doigts quand on l'ouvre. Dedans, une bouchée de chocolat noir,...
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still teaching me the beauty of things you find on the ground)
Concert à la Menuiserie le vendredi 7 mars 2014. https://vimeo.com/88510363 Ce qu'il y a c'est que Des phrases, ou bien des histoires Ca commence, Ca débute Y a une majuscule Une MAJUSCULE Alors si on commence, On devient minuscule Minuscule Et si on...
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Singing in the rain
Bon soyons d'accord, je suis à donf pour l'adoption en refuge. Mais à chaque fois que je vois cette affiche j'ai envie de dire: "Je t'attendrai, même sous la pluie vu que 1) t'as pas été foutu de me construire une chatière 2) tu ne m'as appelé que 7 fois...
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Looking for Bill M.: Mae Salong (2)
Mae Salong, tout en haut des montagnes – quelques heures de taxi-bus en pleine chaleur, vapeurs de diesel comprises et possibles coups dans ma côte fragile: une merveille. Un tout petit hameau essentiellement chinois, entouré de minuscules villages Akha....