Vacaciones en los alpes franceses: Grenoble, 2011

El verano pasado pasé mis vacaciones en Grenoble cerca de los Alpes franceses, una ciudad preciosa y totalmente recomendable. Dormí en la carabana llamada James que una família muy especial me dejó. Digo que son una família especial porqué entre muchas cosas, han viajado por muchos sitios del mundo en un Tandem, este es su sueño. Les encontré gracias a CouchSurfing y siempre les estaré agradecida porqué son una gran inspiración de como es posible vivir la vida a la medida de cada uno. Aquí va la ilustración. En el margen derecho podemos su tandem :-)

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Bateaux sur la mer d'Andaman

Naga Pelangi avec la gracieuse permission des propiétaires

Damai Indah Luxury Cruises avec la gracieuse permission de TripAdvisor

Pendant un moins nous sommes sur la mer d'Andaman à l'île de Langkawi où on a l'occasion de voir les plus jolies bateaux à voile. Ici une petite description de trois bateaux:

• Naga Pelangi :  bâti avec le plus beau bois du monde et fini avec perfection, on peut voir plusieurs photos ici. Elle s'appelle aussi The rainbow dragon.
• Damai Indah: nous avons fait une croisière avec Captain Dean et Eva pendant un jour et ça était une journée fantastique.
• Lili Marleen: est trop grande et magnifique.

S'il vous plaît, si vous parlez français aidez-moi à améliorer l'écriture, merci !   

Lili Marleen

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Having a scooter

My friends from Olot probably remember me in my Honda PXR, what a great bike that was! Nothing to compare with Gerard's Vespino, Arantxa's Jog or Caixas' scooter inhered from his older brother. :-P
Right now we are in the beautiful island of Langkawi where there are roads, so we have rented a scooter. Here's some things I forgot about riding a motorbike:

• The sensation of freedom that you get, it all came back to me
• How fast you can get to everywhere
• How much fun it is to pass all the cars in a traffic light and be the first one to go
• While I am riding the schooter I always sing this old song from Cristina y los subterraneos, how weird is that?

I cannot help to insert a video of Nanni Moretti riding his Vespa in Rome in Caro Diario, I love that movie!

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Hard things to understand

On July 31, 1761, the French ship L’Utile is shipwrecked on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Not long after, the sailors manage to reach Madagascar, but they leave behind the Malgache slaves they had embarked illegally on L’Utile. Only a handful of survivors remain when they are found 15 years later, in 1776. A corvette drops anchor near a small island, lost in the Indian Ocean, on November 29, 1776. The island seems completely deserted, a stretch of white sand with a few palm trees. Yet the sailors discover a baby and seven women, all former slaves from Madagascar. Dressed in tunics of woven feathers, they are the only survivors of a shipwreck 15 years earlier. They survived by eating birds, turtles and shellfish.

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Ship picks up 26 migrants -31 May 2007

The 26 African immigrants that were picked up by a Spanish fishing trawler in the open Mediterranean earlier this week have been transferred to a Spanish rescue ship, the transport ministry said.

The immigrants were taken aboard the Clara Campoamor some 40 maritime miles off the Italian island of Sicily, it said in a statement. The ship will now take them to the northeastern Spanish port of Tarragona.

Conditions aboard the trawler Montfalco were difficult due to a lack of supplies and limited space but the 26 Africans who are believed to be from the Ivory Coast were in good health, it added.

Italy, Libya and Malta refused to allow the would-be immigrants to disembark arguing the Africans were in international waters when they were rescued by the Spanish trawler despite appeals from Madrid for them to do so.

Spanish Employment and Social Affairs Minister Jesus Caldera appealed to all nations in the European Union to respect laws regarding rescues in the open waters, which he said had not occurred in this case.

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