Hey!

Here are some of my crazy travellers friends I would like to introduce:
[Unfortunatly all the sites are in French, so learn French or enjoy the pictures :]

Claire
who took a backpack for a year to see the world.

Gwen
who will set up a paper mill in Brazil sooner or later.

Thomas
who will take his thumb to see the world in September.

Jo
who decided to go where nobody go.

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Samedi 24 juin 2006
Saturday 24th of June 2006. Hum, my placement has finally ended yesterday.
After 2 horrible weeks typing my thesis while the two only weeks of summer weather were outside, I am almost released from my university duties. The paper was sent Thursday, and I still have an oral presentation left the 4th of July.
I would have so much more to tell, about how the English burn at the sun, use tan lotion or Tanning room (there is one in my student residence), how the girls are so fashion in their own way, how they cheer up at football, how the life now depends entirely on the national team or how I found a book about the French seen from an English point of view…..

BUT

Everything has an end and I won’t be too sad to end this English experience…
Hum actually I am going home in a week as I am flying to Ireland for a week before.

After that my schedule will be a bit busy, I can however announce my schedule at a glance:

June - July
1 week in Ireland
1 week at home
(yes I still know the way home)
with my oral presentation of my thesis
(If you are there, call me, my French number hasn’t changed!)
1 week in Tunisia
as a graduation trip (25 paper and printing engineers!!)
1 week in South Italy (Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Vesuvius…)
with my Official Globe Trotter friend Claire ;)

August
TBA (To Be Announced, but I will find something to do ;)

September October
A month at my relatives in Laos
TBC (To Be Confirmed)

As you can see I take a long graduation holyday before thinking about looking for a job… And travelling is not over… so the blog is not dead yet…

I don’t promise to write more during the summer as I know that last summer I didn’t take the time (and I said I would), and I am already very late if I want to tell about my trips in summer 2005 or my autumn 2005 in Finland…
But you never know, keep on checking the page (or subscribe to the mailing list, no spam but only new articles and new pictures online [and I don’t have access to your email])

Finally I would like to thank each of you who visit this page (especially the non French speakers, otherwise I should wonder why I bother to type in English)
Special thanks go to Marianne Raynaud, my former English teacher who contributes to improve my English by correcting it (but corrections are not made straight away so the first publication may contain basic mistakes).
You can post a comment (commentaire) if you want to say anything :) Either in French or in English (I understand both :p

And now, enjoy your summer wherever you are, whatever you do :)
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Samedi 24 juin 2006
What could I say about English houses I have seen so far?
Architecture is part of the culture as well as a "house's features"... some features can be really surprising ;)

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From the outside
 they all look alike :)
Manchester has many houses with red bricks.
Usually, there are blocks of house all glued to each other built according to the same organisation plan, with one or 3 floors and a small courtyard behind.

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Manchester

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Liverpool

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York

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From the inside

all the doors are "Fire" doors and close automatically (really annoying but I use this thing below).

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a plastic door edge

In the bathroom, washing your hands can be a real challenge
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Wash basin in my flat

The shower is usually a box where you can adjust the temperature and pressure. Well not in my student residence where you can adjust only the temperature and have to be lucky with the pressure which goes up and down...

In the kitchen, well you cannot eat properly, (the typical English person DOESN'T eat) as there is no table (valid in my hall of residence but also in all the houses I have been) but sometime there are very high seats to eat half bent over as if you were a piece of paper folded...
[But I am an engineer, look how I found a table for free :]
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Dinner table

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If ever you have to stay in England for more than a holiday, be mentally prepared to that...
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