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Reunion The Treasure Island

23/11/2012 11:13
Olivier Levasseur, better known in his time as La Buse, still must be laughing from his grave. From his grave? No, because he is not buried there. For a simple reason: the Cemetery Marine of Saint Paul, at the northwest of Reunion, formerly known as Ille Bourbon, did not exist when Levasseur was...

2,500,000 Rivets

23/11/2012 11:02
Two and a half million cast iron metal clinches solidly join 18,038 different pieces of the same material up to a high of 1062 feet above ground level, counting antennas. 109 feet should be added to match the height above the sea level. All these parts are equivalent to a weight of 10,100 tons, of...

The Celts (no filter)

23/11/2012 10:01
As French schoolboys, no matter where do they born, were inculcated in the notion that their ancestors were Gauls, even in any of the tiny Polynesia Islands or any Amazonian tribe in Guiana, Spanish pupils sought to identify with celtiberic roots, regardless these were Iberian-blooded or just...

Algeria About Gazelles and Camels

23/11/2012 09:46
Benabderramane Mahdi is tall. Very tall. He’s also very thin. And if we add a four feet long chèche, the turban kind used by touaregs, he is even taller. In his stays in Barcelona, sometimes he wandered through Gracia neighbourhood streets, looking for the same sort of tea he and his friends used...

Marrakech Fantasy

22/11/2012 11:58
Marrakech is undoubtedly one of the most touristic and spectacular of the cities of Morocco. There is not much to tell that has not been said about famed Djemaa el Fna square, its watermen, snake charmers, the Koutoubia tower, or wonderful medina, or even about the Fantasy riders, the horsemen who...

Australia Kakadu

22/11/2012 11:13
Eons and eons ago, when even the memory could not exist, heaven and earth, sun and moon, plants, animals, mountains and valleys, laws and languages ​​and beings were created in the Dreamtime. Baiame lay asleep, and in his dream he dreamed of life as it should be in the past, at present and in the...

Madagascar

22/11/2012 10:49
A Thelma et Katia, et bien sûr, a son père Henri. I was privileged to share some evening aperitifs, with Henri Andrianarijaona. Their hospitality kept me some days at his home in Antananarivo. We used to have them before dinner, with his family - wife and two daughters-, a habit closer to French...

Old Stones

22/11/2012 09:53
On the leaves of grass still covered with dew a glance looks to the rusty surface of the stone. Following up the porous granite skin striations to find an incontestable crack that splits two cyclopean blocks. The one vertically growing is interrupted by another tracing a different path. Rests...

Milan or X-ray of a memory (Updated)

21/11/2012 12:40
 …memories are life pieces teared from the void. Nothing ties them. Nothing anchors, nothing fixed. Virtually nothing ratifies them.                                              ...

Boston The Ubiquitous Rider

21/11/2012 10:56
Over all these years I’ve been in several prisons. Also in some of the most prestigious western universities: the Sorbonne, Cambridge, Berkeley. I must clarify that I have never overnight in any of them ... nor in any of the first. Once, visiting family in Boston I was even in Harvard. Walking the...
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