tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21167834010018801492024-03-13T13:35:13.521-07:00Quoi de 9 chez BelAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12352774262651558254noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116783401001880149.post-60207243110290767682014-04-27T06:04:00.000-07:002014-04-27T06:04:13.509-07:00A short video of my holiday in Madagascar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you may have guessed I've been off exploring the world again <i>(that is also why I haven't been blogging recently).</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After getting back from moroccan desert I flew off to a a place that I have been wanting to visit for ages : <b>Madagascar</b>. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent 2 weeks in this wonderful country. 2 weeks is really to short, but I got an amazing peek of the island. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mind blowing landscapes, meeting wonderful people that live in little villages in the middle of nowhere, stunning animals that you can see nowhere else… </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 4 days I spent being rowed 170km of canals on a dugout canoe was a real adventure! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So here's a quick shot at when my Jeep (well ex Jeep now) got to meet the enormous Hummer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did this happen? Well, when I was in a <a href="http://b-by-bel.blogspot.fr/2013/04/the-transahara-electro-festival-dancing.html">music festival in the middle of the Sahara desert</a> the guy in the tent next to ours was actually from where I lived in France and his dad owned this H2…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Becoming good friends and discovering my madness for big american 4x4's he asked if I would like to come and try out the Hummer :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was really awesome to drive this car!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me explain… Not only are there not many Hummer's in France … apparently there are only 2 of these special ones! The only other person that owns one is the famous French singer <span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;">JOHNNY HALLYDAY!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This black monster is a real beast!!! Just look at how tiny I am next to it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only joking. The Hummer is actually really easy to drive. Of course it's large, a bit like a driving a lorry, but it's tiny sporty wheel, powered steering, and sporty gearbox make it feel like driving any - powerful- car.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compared to my Jeep , even though it is twice the weight, the Hummer felt so light and sporty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when you hit over 90km/h the beast started to roar… It is the military version that has no soundproofing...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That mighty engine would roar like a lion with a nasty soar throat!! You cannot hear anyone speak inside the car. You cannot hear the radio on full blare. That beastful engine just sings the song of it's people - GRRRRR BRRRR GGGRRRRR - To drive that crazy monster for more than 100km at 130km/h on the highway, either you have to love the thing to bits or be deaf!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So to sum up … driving this car was comply awesome!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It sure is not a car for towns (my friend admitted that his dad brought it only to go to and 'cruise' at St Tropez during the summer)…</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">…it's a shame because this beast is made for the hard life, life in the desert.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> No plastic, this monster is 100% metal , 2,6m large and 4,6m long… weighing 3,5 tones! To move this girl, in a powerful way, the V8 6.5l turbo diesel engine develops 398 horse power! With a low gravity center, this babe is great for climbing and crossing sand dunes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A real dessert car… I would love her and adopt her straight away… if not for a couple of things…</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is a real thirsty girl … 22l of diesel for 100km!!!! Crazy!!! You can also imagine how much that kind of monster spits out thought it's exhaust… pollution queen…</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12352774262651558254noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116783401001880149.post-21943051772324782442014-02-21T06:33:00.000-08:002014-02-21T06:33:12.593-08:00Gorgeous Burgundy and Grey hair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No travel posts today. I'm back home in France, and I made the most of my stay to get my hair sorted out! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted a reddish color, but with some blonde … this is what my hairdresser friend came up with…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been a weird white blond color for a while now. Weird because I have been trying to get all the blue-pink-green out of my hair. That was one hell of task! I will explain how I did it in another post :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, here above is how my hair has been for the last couple of months… White with a yellowish tint…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">I love having crazy blue or pink hair … only problem is that my bosses aren't too fond of it. They love my crazy personality and </span>creativity , and I think secretly they like my funky colored hair, but in the mean old work world colored hair doesn't work out too well… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even though I work in multimedia communication, which is a kind of arty thing, people still judge you by how you look. Anything like tattoos, piercings, bright colored hair … some people put you straight into a certain category. In their mind you are not a hardworking, trustworthy person. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The thing is, I'm setting up my own company … so bye bye crazy colorful hair for now! Sadly, people judge books by their cover…Crazy hair = crazy person, not professional and not trustworthy (which is so not true!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I've gone back to a more natural color … but with a hint of fun all the same!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find that it makes my skin kind of glow! My natural color brown does have a reddish tint to it… maybe red is my color! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Orange sand, black stones, spiky acacias, tea that is way too sugary, salty warm water, a fierce sun that has no pity against my white skin. A land of emptiness and silence. A </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">unrelieved landscape, and everyday's work. Always the same but never boring. Never.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Cela fait un moment déjà que je voyage dans le désert du Sahara, mais j'ai toujours autant a le décrire. A décrire cette sensation que l'on ressent lorsqu'on est là-bas, au milieu de nul part, loin de tout.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Du sable orange, des cailloux noirs, des acacias épineux, du thé trop sucré, de l'eau salé et tiède, un soleil féroce, impitoyable aux chairs déshabitués de sa morsure. La routine quotidienne du travail. Monotone, sans doute; ennuyeux , jamais. Et puis il y a une certaine saveur de liberté, de simplicité. Une fascination de l'horizon sans limites, des nuits sans toit, de la vie sans superflu. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Bien que je ne suis pas née ici, ni même grandie, c'est ici dans cet endroit impossible a décrire que je me sens chez moi; sereine et en sécurité.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, I Bel McCall has been bad at blogging this last month … like the month before … and the one before that…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're probably all fed up with the excuses I keep posting … </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I enjoy blogging more than anything, but time just seems to fly by! Plus my new job is taking up most of my time, or should I say my life! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Talking about life, I am <b>so so so lucky</b> to have some fabulous friends that are letting me stay at their place (until I get things sorted out proper and all!). So a big big cheers to them! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, this is just a really quick post to just send all you lovelies lots of hugs and kisses and a big big thanks for all your gorgeous comments!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to be offline for a week or so … yep, in half an hour I'm heading off again to that far away land called the Sahara Desert … a place where the Internet does not exist …</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A week of sand, sand, sand is awaiting me… I must admit that the desert sand is a pain! It gets everywhere! In you bags, clothes, toothbrush, computer… But I'll also admit that I'm more than happy to get away from this rainy windy weather and hit some sun and heat!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh and, most of you know that I'm a 'Jeeper Girl', well today I'm traveling by Toyota! The Toyota-Jeep friendly war is still on … so I made a little picture for my Toyota buddies!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a peak at my one week holiday on the <b>Island of Djerba in Tunisia.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This trip was not planned at all! It was a really last minute decision!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After Christmas I was feeling a bit down and depressed. The whole brake up and moving house stress had really gotten to me. I was feeling so down that I didn't even want to celebrate new year, I just wanted to stay at home and watch TV…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, the person that knows me the best in the world, my little sister, was back from Canada, and she gave me a good old telling off and a kick up the backside! She basically told me that I had to get off my bum and do something before this downwards spiral I had got into got any worse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was Friday. I thought about it most of the night and the next day. What should I do?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday evening I went on one of those last minute holiday booking sites. I found a really good cheap deal for a week, all inclusive, in Tunisia. I booked it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Early rise and shine to be at the airport at 8am. I still didn't really know if I had made the right choice to just go off on my own for New Year!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11am, sitting in the plane, time to take off! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weirdest thing is that the plane I boarded for Tunisia was parked right next to my usual plane to Casablanca (that takes off everyday at 11h30)!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little bit about Djerba! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before arriving there I didn't even know it was an island. Like I said this was such an unplanned trip!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Djerba, nicknamed the Dream Island, is a pretty little island located in the south east of Tunisia. The place is renowned for its white sandy beaches, turquoise sea and mild climate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the plane the view of the island was beautiful! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hotel club was pretty nice. It was only a 3 star, but that was good enough for me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was actually the first time that I was going on 'this kind' of holiday. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have never been in a hotel club, I normally go on road trips or backpacking around!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ambiance seemed really family orientated. The hotel wasn't very busy, but most of the people who were there seemed to know each other <i>(later I learnt that lots of people, older and younger, come here about 5 times a year and have been for 10 years! A big family!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided that, being on my own, I would just have a nice relaxing week. A week making the most of the spa and massages, no stress and lots of sleep… well that's what I thought the first day!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sky was really dark, rain was defiantly coming in! I had booked to go on a horse riding excursion to the local village. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just my luck! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I had expected, Tunisia looks very much like Morocco. One difference that I nearly immediately noticed is that the locals don't seem to mind you taking photos. In Morocco people hide when they see a camera.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This horse riding trip was a really 'tourist' thing. I was bored. Just horses and camels slowly following each other. Luckily I started chatting with the guides who were really friendly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's another difference I found with Morocco. Here the guys, when I said I lived and Morocco, and talked a bit of arabic with them, were so friendly! They didn't consider me as a tourist, but more as one of them. We had lots of fun talking and laughing. They also secretly told me that we were going to go to a souvenir shop in the village, and not to buy anything because it was 'tourist' prices. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the shop it was rather fun to. The same as in Morocco, you go with a guide and you always get dragged into some shop where you get stuck for hours until you end up buying something. The shop owner asked everyone where they were from. When I said Tangier, he moved on quickly to the next tourist and seemed to ignore me. I thought he hadn't heard or didn't understand what I had said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After having shown and talked about all his products, he started getting his salespeople to dress the tourists up in a traditional tunisan dress. When one came towards me, he immediately said 'no, not her, she's a girl from our land, she's a local'. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While people were busy getting dressed up he came and sat next to me and started to chat about tourism. Times are hard in Tunisia, the tourism industry has been hit hard. Morocco tourism is doing well, Tunisia is hoping that someday people will start coming back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the shop and a quick visit of the village, we got back on the horses to ride back home. It poured with rain! Night fell fast. It was cold and wet, but I was still having good fun joking, singing and laughing with the guides. They also told me how they new that I must be bored just walking with a horse (I had told them that I have been horse riding since I was 9 years old). The 'boss' quietly told me that I could come back the next day to do some proper riding, just me and a guide (for 'local' price). I accepted at once! I was amazing at how friendly they were towards me. In Morocco, in touristy areas, I tell shop owners and guides that I live in country, but they still try to sell stuff or ask for a tip. Here the guides didn't ask for any extra tips… such a difference and it made the ambiance so much better. I didn't feel like 'the rich european that you've got to get the most money from'. It was just friendly and nice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back at the riding club the rain was still pouring. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were all freezing. There was only one car to get us all back to the hotel… well we all managed to fit in! The driver, 2 on the front seat, 5 on the back seats and 4 in the boot! Plus the car was a really old reanult, nothing seemed to work! It was raining cats and dogs and the windscreen wipers didn't work! You couldn't see a thing! Plus, in Djerba (I also learnt this while driving there) not only do they drive twice as fast as the speed limit, but also on the wrong side of the road (instead of driving a bit further to a roundabout to get on the other side of the road, they just drive towards oncoming traffic!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is when I met Jerome from Paris (JD) and Jerome from Nantes (JR). They had both also come on their own. Jerome from Nantes had actually been in the same plane as me, sat just in front. I recognized him because when he sat down in the plane, being really tall, he slammed his seat backwards, nearly knowing me in the head! He also recognized me by my … trainers … my blue and black nikes are obviously remarkable!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all got on really well! Actually we had lots of things in common. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were inseparable for the rest of the week. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought that I was going to get lots of sleep during this holiday … after this first evening I knew I would not! After having been to the hotel animation and disco we caught a cab to a local club. We got back at 6am… I had to be up and on a horse at 10am…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hearing that alarm ring after only a couple of hours of sleep was hard. I wasn't too sure about going riding… but when I was the weather I jumped out of bed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 10am I was surprisingly wide awake and on my horse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 hours of fun! Nothing like the day before! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lots of galloping, freedom! The guy that came with me was really nice to. Plus he was really good at taking photos while riding so I got some nice pics of me :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Galloping along the beach, white sand, blue sky, turquoise water! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back at the hotel I found my two buddies … </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We spent the rest of the day just lazing around. After my evening spa and massage we had dinner, then went to the hotel animation and then clubbing again!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 31st of december was a lazy day for me! I got up really late and then just hung around the pool, dozing on sun beds and sipping cocktails.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After my evening spa seance, and having my hair done by a crazy hairdresser, it was time to hit the New Year's Eve Party!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We managed to cause chaos at the begging of the evening. You had to book your table on the sunday when we arrived. All 3 of having arrived separately we all booked different tables. They day before I managed to change my table to be on JD's (there was a spare place)…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being a girl of course I was late. I was surprised to see JR at our table as well! How did he do it, he just ignored the waiters and went and sat down. Of course he had teen someone's place, which then caused the usual organization chaos that I am so used to in Morocco. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sat next to us were some lovely girls. At first we thought that they were a family, mother and 3 daughters. But no, they just knew each other really well because they had been coming to this hotel for the last 8 years! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The food, I must admit wasn't that good… It was a big menu, that sounded tasty but wasn't. Things were cold and tasteless…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How ever, the ambiance was great! Lots of dancing and fun! And meeting new people!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We got a brand new Renault Symbol. It's a bit like a Clio with a boot or a luxury Dacia Logan. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>(Talking about cars, the cars are much newer and in better state here than in Morocco. For example, the taxis have to change car every 5 years, whereas in Morocco the taxis are old Mercedes D class than have over 1 million km's on the clock!!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was driver (because I'm used to this kind of crazy driving and bad roads) and JD was the navigator :) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a nice lunch. Fresh grilled fish. Nice to eat something other than hotel food!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First stop : a visit of a traditional troglodyte house in <b>Matmata</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part of the Star Wars films was actually filmed in this area of Tunisia.<a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1527055_10202857988232217_342896796_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/1527055_10202857988232217_342896796_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in the Toyota we were off for long drive towards the desert.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally we arrived in <b>Douz</b>, a town in southern Tunisia also know as <b><i>'the gateway to the Sahara'</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was happy to be back in the <b>desert</b>, even if it was only for a short time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like in Morocco, this also the Sahara Desert, but the sand is so white here! <i>(in Morocco the sand dunes are red).</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On our drive back were came across yet more beautiful scenery and cute villages.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well not much of a night. Our plane to Nantes took off at 7am sunday morning, which meant we had to be at the airport at 4.30am!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That didn't stop us from having one last party! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dancing and fun until the early hours of the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a very different holiday for me. No rushing around, just relaxing and having fun, not having to think about anything. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a great time and met some lovely people. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't think I'll go back to this same hotel <i>(like most people seem to do here)</i>, but I'm sure I'll go back to Tunisia. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The people were just so friendly and good spirited, and I'd like to see more of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tomorrow I'm driving though Spain and back down to the Sahara, but this back in Morocco :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a lovely week!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hot news! Bel got back in the kitchen and backed a cake!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Last November it was my birthday, and for once I was back in France for the occasion!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I never considered myself a very good cook … I was more known for setting fire to ovens <i>(and being banned from the kitchen)</i> than creating good tasty food…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the 'oven on fire accident', we never brought a proper new one. We just had a very small electric one (couldn't even fit a whole chicken in it).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back at my Dad's place in France, with a good ol' oven I've known for 20 odd years, I decided to get back into the the kitchen!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not any old cake! For my 27th birthday I decided that I would bake an amazing cake! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a pretty big challenge for a novice cook!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And not only did it look awesome, it tasted really delicious!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once all piled on top of each other, I started to try and <b>carve</b> the square cake into a sort of <b>Jeep shape</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was rather chuffed with my first time cake baking. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It really boosted my confidence in cooking, and now I'm rather hooked! I cook all sorts of different desserts and also rather tasty meals <i>(roast honey&mustard pork is one of my fave, and I've got to get cooking that for this evening!)</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12352774262651558254noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116783401001880149.post-42041887736931509862014-01-11T10:26:00.000-08:002014-01-11T10:26:15.475-08:00The cars will kill me !!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those of you who know a bit about me (or have read my blog) will know that I am a car fanatic. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During my 'driving life' (9 years now) I have owned several cars. None of which have never let me down…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>No, that's a lie…</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My very first car the <b>Seat Cordoba</b> tried to kill me… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After 3 years of loyal service that car suddenly decided to stall every time I would shift gear… and when she stalled the steering wheel would block… pretty nasty!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>New Beetle</b>. Well that car went fine, until my ex decided to drive it down a flight of stairs!! 'It's ok! No damage!' he said… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After having nearly skidded out of a roundabout and a few near misses with lorries did I take her to a garage. The garage actually called me, in panic, saying that that car had a serious problem and that they had nearly crashed it. Bust steering, bust front springs and shocks. When they asked why, imagine the look they gave me when I told them that the new beetle had been driven down 20 steps!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, there is evidence of this on this blog, the <b>Ford XR3I</b>. Two times now has she played up! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But being an very old girl she is excused! Nothing nasty, she just scared me a couple of times!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a month or so of the Cherokee being a pain in the a** we finally got time of work to take her back to Portugal (the gearbox was under guarantee). Only problem, we would have to leave her for an uncertain time at the garage, so we had to go there with 2 cars.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And guess what, I've just brought a new (but old, 2003) one!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even worse, it's a Renault Megane! I have driven 2 of these Renaults in the past as company cars (smaller engines ones) both of which the engine 'died' at 150000km…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and good fun on New Year's eve! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>May this new year bring you immense happiness in all you do!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last few months of 2013 have been pretty crappy for me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The minor problem was both of the Jeeps ending up having to be repaired so causing havoc, running from one garage in Spain to another in Portugal (I'll tell you more about that in a future post!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The worst thing that happened a couple of months ago is that I split up with my fiancé. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had been together for 7 years. Things hadn't been all pretty and pink between us for the last couple of years. We tried to work stuff out but nothing seemed to put things right. So the two of us agreed to end the relationship. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting all my stuff out of his two flats was yet again chaos. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In France I only had the small peugeot 206, whose of which back bumper was nearly scrapping along the ground once I had loaded all my belongings. Then I had to speed off to Morocco to collect my stuff there. The Jeep Wrangler was virtually bursting it was so full!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next problem was trying to fit all my stuff into a small bedroom at my Dad's place! Complete chaos!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, all that with a couple of health problems as well, I was tired, stressed and fed up. Really not in the mood for blogging.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Christmas</b> brought my spirits up. My </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sister came back from Canada</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, so pleased to see her again! It was a fun day!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once Xmas passed the question that came to mind was what am I going to do for New Year? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was supposed to celebrate the evening in Morocco but didn't have a car to get down there. <i>The Cherokee is still in the garage and I have sold the Wrangler :( </i>… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friends in France had planned to go skiing, I really didn't feel like that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be honest I really didn't feel like celebrating the new year at all. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't want to see people I knew, I was fed up with the weather in France… at first I decided that I would do nothing. Just have a glass of wine and go to bed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I announced my project to my little sister I got a good telling off!! <i>'Bel, what is up with you! I just can't imagine you sitting around doing nothing, especially for the New Year! Get off your bum and just go do something!!''</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was I thinking just spending new year's eve doing nothing, on my own with a glass of wine (which would have probably ended up with more in a very sad and pathetic way). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was Saturday afternoon. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I though about those all night parties in London, Barceona or Amsterdam, but felt to tired for that. I just wanted to relax a bit after all that running around!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I looked up some last minute holidays. There were lots for Morocco, but of course that wasn't very interesting for me as I live there! There were also some cheap all inclusive ones for Tunisia… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...So I booked a week in Djerba!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a real last minute cheap deal! It was 6pm and my flight was the next day at 9am! When I told my Dad that I needed a lift to the airport the next morning I thought he would be surprised! Not at all, and neither was my sister… I suppose with all my rushing around traveling for work, cars and leisure nothing I do will surprise them anymore!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next morning I was in the plane and off to Tunisia! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was wonderful!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Year's Eve was so fun!! (all about that in a next post).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after a bad 2013, 2014 seems to have started well!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>New Year comes with glows of hopes in our mind. It gives us new confidence and courage for a fresh start.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A fresh start for me! Time to get things in order again! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm working on a project in Morocco, setting up a company, get my asthma and allergy problems sorted and need to buy a 4 wheel drive and a practical car!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish you all luck, good health, prosperity and lots of good things!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been getting so many questions about my hair recently that I decided to make a quick post about it :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Salut!</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On me pose souvent des questions sur mes cheveux, donc j'ai <span style="text-align: left;">décidé de faire une article sur ce sujet :)</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After many years of having boring ol' blond (bleached) hair I decided to brighten things up a bit. Add some color!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did a lot of research on internet about different bright color dyes, and finally decided to choose <b>La Riche Directions</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>J'en avais vraiment marre de mes cheveux blonds, donc j'ai décidé d'ajouter une peu de couleur!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>J'ai fais pas de mal de recherches sur internet pour me renseigner sur les différents produits et marques qui existent. En fin de compte, et après beaucoup de comparaisons, j'ai opté pour la marque La Riche Directions.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I had great difficulty trying to find a store that ships these dies to France! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally came across <a href="http://www.color-mania.fr/"><b>www.color-mania.fr</b></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A great online shop for hair dyes, loads of colors and different choices! I placed my order and a couple of days later received it. Really fast delivery! Plus you get a couple of sweets with your order; really cute intention :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Ensuite est survenu le problème de trouver un site qui <span style="text-align: left;">expédie ces colorations en France.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Je suis tombé sur le site </span></span><b><a href="http://www.color-mania.fr/">www.color-mania.fr</a> .</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Un vrai bonheur! Il y a plein de choix de marques et couleurs! En plus la livraison est super rapide.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had decided that I wanted pink&blue hair, so I choose Direction's '</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pink Flamingo</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">' and '</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turquoise</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">J</span><span style="color: #783f04;">e voulais avoir les cheveux bleu & rose. J'ai donc commandé le '</span><span style="color: #741b47;">Pink Flamingo</span><span style="color: #783f04;">' and '</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Turquoise</span><span style="color: #783f04;">' de la marque Directions.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As soon as I received the products I ran to see my good friend Clemance. She's a professional hair dresser and was more than pleased to help me color my hair (much more fun than the boring brown and blond colors she has to do at work).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Des que j'ai <span style="text-align: left;">reçu mes couleurs j'ai couru voir Clémence, une amie coiffeuse. C'est elle qui me fais mes couleurs et me coiffe a chaque fois. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Pour qe les couleurs ressortent bien on conseil de les appliquer sur cheveux blonds ou décolorés.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I would always recommend to get a professional to do the bleaching...I tried once on my own and didn't use enough toner...my hair came out really damaged and was weird orange-yellow color!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mine was already bleached so all we had to do was apply the colors!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Pas besoin de faire une décoloration, mes cheveux étant <span style="text-align: left;">déjà blonds, il suffisait d'appliquer les couleurs!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The flamingo pink and turquoise came out really bright!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was really pleased with Direction's dyes. Really flashy plus they leave your hair so silky and soft afterwards!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Le Rose Flamand et Turquoise sont en fait des couleurs vraiment flashy!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>J'étais super satisfaite de la marque Directions. Non seulement leurs couleurs sont vraiment intense mais en plus après application ils laissent les cheveux doux et brillants.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pink seemed to wash out really fast, and the turquoise would 'bleed' into it. I actually prefer the pastel color these dyes left after being washed out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I wanted the colors to become brighter, I'd just applie some more dye.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Voici ci dessus une photo de la coloration après plusieurs lavages. Le rose semble se délaver assez rapidement, et le bleu a tendance a <span style="text-align: left;">déteindre sur le rose! Ca a donné un joli effet pastel que j'aimais beaucoup.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Si je voulais avoir de nouveau des couleurs plus prononcés il me suffisait d'appliquer un peu de coloration.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Apres quelques mois j'ai décidé de teindre toute ma tête en turquoise.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My roots were really starting to show and I was starting to get fed up with my blue hair ^^</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Voici le <span style="text-align: left;">résultat après 4 mois.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><span style="text-align: left;">Mes cheveux avaient bien poussé, et mes racines plus que visibles! En plus je </span><span style="text-align: left;">commençais a en avoir marre du bleu...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I ordered some different colors: </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carnation pink</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>(which is more of a pastel pink compared to the Flamingo pink I used before)</i> and </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spring Green</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Donc j'ai repassé commande. Cette fois ci j'ai choisi la couleur Rose Carnation (plus clair que le Rose Flamand) et Vert Printemps.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My roots turned white easily, but it was impossible to get rid of all the blue! That turquoise is one tough color!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Une décoloration qui s'est <span style="text-align: left;">avéré plus compliqué que </span><span style="text-align: left;">prévu! Impossible de faire partir ce bleu turquoise! La preuve que c'est une couleur qui tient!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I gave up on the idea of having just pink & green hair. Some would come out purple...I'd just have to wait and see!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">J'ai abandonné </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">l'ides d'avoir les cheveux rose pastel avec des pointes vertes. Impossible avec ce bleu! Une partie allait surement finir dans les tons violets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clemance and I had no idea what the final result would be like... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we rinsed the dyes out we actually had a laughing fit! The colors were really vivid and kind of blended into each other! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She said I reminded her of 'My Little Pony' and their multicolor mains and tails!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On n'avait aucune idée de ce que cette mélange de teintes et couleurs allait donner...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Lorsque Clémence a fini de me rincer la tête, et que je me suis vu dans le miroir on a eu un fou rire! La couleur de dingue! Enfin plutôt 'les' couleurs de dingue! Le mélange de couleurs a formé une sorte de dégradé, passant du rose au violet puis bleu et vert! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Des cheveux arc-en-ciel!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>On aurait dit la crinière de 'Mon Petit Poney'!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So it didn't turn out the 'light pink with green tips' that I wanted, but I actually find this way cooler!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Alors du coup je n'ai pas pu avoir la tête toute rose comme j'aurai souhaite, mais en fin de compte je ne suis pas mécontente du tout! Je dirai <span style="text-align: left;">plutôt que je trouve ce mélange de couleurs </span><span style="text-align: left;">carrément sympa!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Voici le <span style="text-align: left;">résultat!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I actually must admit that I realy like it! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So colorful and the colors are more of a pastel tone then before.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The colors blend from pink-purple-blue-green :)</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must say that I agree with Clemence, it does kind of look like My Little Pony!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A pink head, purple fringe and blue-green tail! Wicked!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Les cheveux attachés donnent un effet pas mal du tout aussi. Une tête rose, <span style="text-align: left;">fringue violet et pointes vertes! Enorme!!!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love colorful hair! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday morning we hopped into one of the famous Greyhound buses and off we were to go and discover Canada's capital city.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was in 1857 that the queen of England decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada because of it's strategical place in the country. It is between Montreal and Toronto, and is also the city the furthest away from the USA border (back then Canada still feared to be invaded by the USA).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The town is therefor full of history and old buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once off the bus we headed of to the place we had booked to spend the night. It was a double room in a university campus. In Canada, during the holidays, they let the university dorms out to tourists at very reasonnable prices. The room - more like a small flat - was really spacey, plus it had a great view over the city.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first thing we came across were the famous locks on the <b>Rideau Canal</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Legend has it that not one of the carved flowers in the library is identical to another.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All this walking around and sight-seeing made us rather hungry by the end of the day! I decided to try a bison burger ; not bad at all!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When night fell we returned to the Parliament to watch the 'light and sound' show.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This must be my fave part of my Ottawa weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show was really interesting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It explained all about Canada's history and culture using beautiful light pictures accompanied by great music.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day we hopped onto one of those 'hop in - hop off' double decker tour buses that you see in all touristy destinations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't really like visiting a town in such a 'lazy tourist' way, but I must admit that when you only have a day it is the only was to see as much as possible! Also the explanations about the different places visited was interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First stop for us was the <b>War Museum</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The was musuem was really interesting and well organized. It tells you about all the wars that Canada has been through, from the time of colonisaton up until today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we visited the <b>Civilizations Museum</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is actually in the region of Quebec, not Ontario (the other side of the river from Ottawa)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I was back visiting my family in the UK I got the chance to see up close and learn all about the <b>Evelio</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being a car loving freak this was a big deal to me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>Evelio is an electric super car</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's my cousin and her husband that had the crazy idea a couple of years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With only a small team, and no funding, they went through with the idea and built the car from scratch. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A mind blowing project!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looks like a car that has come back from the future!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as being a swish looking sports car, the Evelio is also fuel efficient and therefor friendly to the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is powered by a phosphate lithium ion battery, which is fast to charge and enables the car to be driven for 240km (less if you're racing full speed). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Evelio goes from 0-100km/h in only 3,2 seconds! That is pretty fast!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well until someone decides to make an all electric 4WD, with enough batterie power to get me through the Sahara Desert <i>(not many plugs to charge it up out there!)</i> I'll be sticking with my Jeep :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been a busy little bee this last week. Packing and unpacking bags again!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After having spent a couple of days in France I caught the ferry back to England to go to my cousin's 40th birthday party.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have missed so many family reunions and parties over the last years, I really had to make it to this one! I hadn't seen most of my cousins for over 20years!!! Not only would this party be a great way to catch up but it also seemed like it was going to be a lot of fun : it was fancy dress. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really <b>love fancy dress parties</b>. I love getting my costumes ready and being to wear really wacky clothes and accessories! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I lived there till I was 9. Seeing the place again brought back so many childhood memories.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were about 50 people there, all in 80's fancy dress. <i>I can't put many photos on here because in general people don't want to be seen on internet :)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was so nice to see all the family again, have a good chat and catch up with everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had heard of this concept for night clubs : people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones. Those with no headphones hear no music, they just see a room full of people dancing to nothing!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't too sure about this at first, thought that it seemed rather antisocial... but it was quite the opposite.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had 3 different channels to choose from, which is really great too : not everyone likes dancing to the same music! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like I said, everyone was dressed up as </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">80's characters</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. It was quite fun trying to guess who everyone was supposed to be!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My two cousins had the most awesome costumes ever!!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for me like I said earlier I went as </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cydni Lauper</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't have the same color hair but I've always loved her crazy style, with lots of layers and colors, and great songs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sort of embarrassing thing is that I had nearly everything for this flashy colored 80's outfit in my closet! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only thing I had to buy was some tulle to make a puffy tutu! I was really pleased to be able to wear all my neon colored stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not being very good with make I was rather pleased with the result.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So do you think I nailed the <b>Cyndi Lauper look</b>? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you love <b>fancy dress parties</b> like me or find find them more of a silly embarrassing thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main reason of my trip to Canada was to visit my sister who is now living in Montreal. I loved visiting the city, but I already visited the place a couple of years ago. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the week my sister was at work. I'm not the kind of person that likes to 'just stay put and relax'. I get bored, I just can't stay put when I know there are many places to discover not far away... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So instead of just hanging around Montreal I decided to go on a road trip during 5 days. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I chose to drive around and visit the gorgeous <b>peninsula of Gaspésie</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rented a car and started carefully planning my trip...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had 5 days to drive 2300km, on my own, plus loads of interesting places worth visiting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was going to be through! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On internet you see people asking if you can do it in 15 days or 3 weeks... I took up the challenge to do it in 5 days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before I spurt out all the photos of the aventure a quick warning. <b>2300km in 5 days is a lot of driving</b>, especially being on your own. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're visiting the Quebec region, Gaspesie is definitely a must (the most beautiful places I have seen in the area are here), but take more time than me to visit it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I don't want to sound as if I'm 'boasting' or a 'professionnal' driver. No. I'm just used to driving long distances and in harsh conditions. When I'm touring around the desert I drive from dawn to nearly midnight on dirt tracks and sand dunes. And when I bring the cars back and fourth from Morocco to France we drive the 1200km in one day. I've been doing it for more than 5 years now. I know when I'm tired and when to stop and also what essentials things you need to bring with you :) So I knew that 2300km in 5 days, with loads of stopping to visit places, would go fine.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So here we go! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tour of Gaspesie in five days!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day 1 : from Montreal to Rimouski </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had booked the cheapest I could find, supposedly a small car like a VW polo or Renault Clio. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the rental place the girl behind me looked at me from head to toe and said : <i>'You've got the Ford Flex'</i>. What is a Ford Flex? We don't get them in Europe or Africa! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next question : <i>'It's rather big...'</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I explained that I drive a Jeep Wrangler and Grand Cherokee she seemed more relaxed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I saw the <b>Ford Flex</b> I understood why she seemed concerned. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the top of my 1m60 height I looked like a midget next to the car! It was enormous! Not as high as my Jeeps but way longer! A 7 seat beast full of all fancy options <i>(the seat and steering wheel move when you get in or out of the car, it 'talks' to you to tell you to be careful and you talk to it to control the radio, it slows down automatically when you get to close to another car, in case of emergency braking the whole front window flashes red... even the leather seats had AC! For once I wasn't stuck to leather seats while wearing shorts!)</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was an amazing car at a first glance, and even more amazing to drive <i>(on roads and dirt tracks! So comfortable!)</i> !</span></div>
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First stop : St-Jean Port-Joli.</h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ate a delicious crepe (roquefort cheese and apple) in town and slept at the CEGEP Rimouski. A great deal for accommodation! It's basically university student rooms that they let for the summer. Cheap, clean and calm. Just what I needed to get a good night's sleep before heading off again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day 2 : From Rimouski (Park National Bic- Gardins of Metis - Cap-aux-roses) to Forillon </span></h2>
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Parc National du Bic</h3>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Parc National du Bic is a beautiful peaceful place located in the St Lawrence Estuary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many coves, capes, bays and islands that you can discover by foot or on bike.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went for a long hike up to one of the highest points where I could get a great view of 'L'anse Mouille-Cul' and 'Cap à l'Original'.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A lovely view from the top.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was still early morning, I was the only one hiking. The weather was nice and cool. Only the mosquitos were there to bother in this peaceful place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There a lots of other tracks for hiking or cycling, and mmany other activities to do in the pard, but I had a tight schedule to keep up with. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Around 9am I was off.</span></div>
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The Canyon des Portes de l'Enfer</h3>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>Canyon des Portes de l'Enfer (Hell's Gates Canyon)</b> in Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski begins with the Grand Sault waterfall and stretches nearly 5km between steep and narrow rock walls up to 90 metres high.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are lots of hiking trails that lead to stunning panoramic views.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was walking along on my own and wandering if there were bears in this forest, and what might happen if I ran into one... when suddenly this deer jumped out of the bushed into the middle of the path right in front of me! </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So glad it wasn't a bear! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is also a <b>63m high suspended foot-bridge</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the highest in Quebec.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can feel it wobble when you walk on it. Not great if you're scared of heights!</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Specacular view from the bridge.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To get to the bottom of the waterfall you have to walk down (and then climb back up) 300 stairs!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After all that morning hiking my legs were rather tired. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to get back into the car and head off to Metis to visit a botanical garden.</span></div>
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Jardins de Métis (Reford Gardens)</h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>Jardins de Métis (Reford garden)</b> is a wonderful botanical garden where you can find more than 3000 different varieties of plants. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perfect for an afternoon stroll!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not ony do you come across lots of beautiful and strange plants, there are also modern sculptures scattered around.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blue poppy is the sort of emblem of the garden. It is very rare and hard to grow.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Himalayan blue poppy is one of them </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">marvels of the plant world. Native to the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet, it grows at altitudes of 3,120 to 4000 </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">metres.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The garden also holds the International Garden Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">50 designers participated in the creation of the 26 stunning, modern and unique gardens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back on the road for a long drive along a very scenic road. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright blue sea on one side and lush green trees on the other.</span></div>
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Cape-aux-Rosiers</h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You find many light houses scattered along the St Lawence Estuary and the Gaspésie coast. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just before dusk I stopped at this one : <b>Cap-aux-Rosiers</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1759, it was from Cap-des-Rosiers that the French caught sight of General Wolfe's fleet navigating towards Quebec City. This place was also witness to many shipwrecks including that of the Carrick where 130 Irish immigrants perished. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 37-meter lighthouse was built in 1858 and is the highest in Canada. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent the night not far from here, in a nice friendly youth hostel at the entrance of Forillon National Park. </span><br />
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Day 3 : Forillon National Park & Percé</h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Up and off at 6am to visit <b>Forillon National Park.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Created in 1970, Forillon National Park lies at the tip of the
Gaspé. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Its sublime sea, cliff and mountain scenery encompasses
245 km<span style="vertical-align: 3pt;">2</span>. Forillon protects a representative sample of the Notre-
Dame and Mégantic mountains as well as certain elements of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence maritime region. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The term ‘‘Forillon’’ was used as early as 1534 by Jacques Cartier
in his accounts of his voyages to Canada.
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Champlain also mentions it in a text dating from 1626: [...] <span style="font-style: italic;">one
league from the cape of Gaspey is a small rock they call the
farillon, a stone’s throw from the mainland </span>[...].
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The word <span style="font-style: italic;">forillon </span>thus appears to designate a small, rocky islet
standing erect. But the exact location of this <span style="font-style: italic;">forillon </span>remains
uncertain. It may have been the remains of a rocky outcrop,
visible only at low tide, at the tip of the Gaspé promontory that
mapmakers called <span style="font-style: italic;">‘‘La Vieille’’</span>, or the other rock – no longer
standing – one league from Cap-Gaspé, described by Champlain.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">In any case, the name <span style="font-style: italic;">forillon </span>is now associated with the
peninsula harbouring the magnifi</span><span style="color: #444444;">cent national park that proudly
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are lots of different hiking tracks around the parc, but yet again I was tight on time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The receptionist at the youth hostel advised me to go on the hike (a 5km walk, well climb) to the highest point of the park, from where you get a spectacular view.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The tip of the Gaspé peninsula.</i></span></div>
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Percé & Ile Bonaventure</h3>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was THE PLACE that I had been wanting to see in Gaspesie.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Percé</b>, member of the association of Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec particularly well known for the attractions of Parcé Rock and Bonaventure Island. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That afternoon I set off on a boat trip to get a close up look at the rock.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The massive rocky cliff is called by several names, such as <i>le </i></span><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">richer de </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>percé, Pierced Rock, Split Rock or Percé Rock. </i>The names is attributed to the pierced rock that formed an arch of 20 meters height on its seaward southern end, as though a needle had cut through the rock.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it was seen in 1603 by the French geographer and founder of Quebec city, Samuel de Champlain, it had only one arch. However, in 1760, a picture of Percé Rock drawn by an English officer showed two arches, one of which collapsed in June 1845. Percé rock's two large holes were cut through by the sea waves. One of the holes seen now is an arch described as "gothic arch of rock", which is about 20 metres (66 ft) high. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A small boat can pass through the arch during high tide. Of the two arches, the outer arch, which had collapsed with great force in 1845, is now seen as remnants in the form of an "obelisk".</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During this trip my camera <b>SONY NEX nearly died</b>...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found the rock really fascinating, so of course I took loads of photos... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The captain said that I could stand out on the front of the boat to get some good pics. The sea was rather rough and choppy. The waves were throughing our little boat around. Suddenly the boat hit a wave staight on. The water went flying over the whole front. I just had time to shove my camera under my leather jacket. I was soaked! The camera was a bit wet, but to my great relieve it still worked :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After having floated a bit around the rock, the boat then went to the Island Bonaventure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seals lazing next to the island.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thousands of birds use this island as a nesting area. (Sailing around it it really stank!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is populated by one of the most important gannet colonies in the world. about 120 000 <b>Northern Gannets</b> nest here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are beautiful stunning big birds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When feeding, these birds are spectacular high-speed divers, plunging into the ocean from a height of 10–40 metres (33–130 ft), with their bodies straight and rigid, wings tucked close to the body but reaching back, extending beyond the tail, before piercing the water like an arrow. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> Their nearly vertical dive can reach speeds exceeding 100 km/h (60 mph) before entering the water, allowing them to penetrate 3–5 m below the surface, and occasionally swimming down to 12–15 m. If the dive was successful, gannets will swallow the fish underwater before surfacing, and will never fly with the fish in its bill. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After having dryed off and warmed up from my boat trip I headed off to a beach not far from Percé to go and look for pretty pebbles. I love to collect shells and stones when I'm on a beach, I find they make great personnal souvenirs!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Percé area beaches are well known for their colorful pebbles among with are hidden lovely <b>semi-precious stones such as agates and jaspers</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The interior decor of the store reveals past tradition through a variety of artifacts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Day 4 : Percé - Parc National de Miguasha - Causapscal - St-Jean-Port-Joli </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it was worth it. There was no-one around and it was breathtaking watch the sun come up behind the Percé Rock.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Northern Gannets flying and diving around the rock early against the golden sky.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really loved Percé, and really wanted to stay longer, but I only had 2 days left to get back to Montreal and still some places to visit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>On the road to Nouvelle I had some company : 2 punks with their dog! A gorgeous couple!!! :)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Here, fossil fish and plants tell their stories about life that existed on our plant 380 million years ago, at a time when species were making the transition from sea to land.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Parc national de Miguasha</b> is a real treasure of natural heritage, one that will marvel young and old alike...who will hear a story as fascinating as that of the dinosaurs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because of its well-preserved fossils and their importance in understanding a page from the story of evolution, the park has been placed, since 1999, on UNESCO's prestigious World Heritage List.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not far from Nouvelle, while driving along the Baie des Chaleurs I stopped to take a photo : You can see <b>Quebec on the left side and New Brunswick on the right.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Main tributary of the Matapedia River, the Causapscal River is renowned for its huge salmon. Situated in the middle of the wilderness, it offers tranquillity and wonderful landscapes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It gets its source from the Causapscal Lake, flows through the mountains on down into the heart of the small town of Causapscal into the famous pool of the Matapedia River, Les Fourches.
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>Causapscal River</b> produces some of the biggest salmon in the province of Quebec , some of them can reach 25 kg. The river generates one of the earliest runs of salmon on the east coast.
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went down to the falls to try and see some jumping upstream. I had been told that as it was so hot I probably wouldn't see any jump...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And managed to catch one on photo (so proud od this pic!) They are really amazing fish!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I drove till dusk, right back to St-Jean-Port-Joli where I stopped in a nice little auberge for the night. I was so tired!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another day of driving. I just stopped of at Wendake, a Huron amerindian reserve to visit the interesting museum. Then headed back towards Montreal under torrential rain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's a quick (well long post with loads of photos) glimpse of my 5 day trip around Gaspésie! 2300km, what a drive!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is must to visit if you're ever over in Quebec, but with more time!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12352774262651558254noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116783401001880149.post-79586044796738996442013-09-10T12:37:00.001-07:002013-09-11T09:52:30.798-07:00It's good to be back home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been on the move again. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... but only for a couple of days. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then with we're off to the UK for my cousin's 40th birthday! Will be great to see all the family again! (havn't been there for 10 years now!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's getting a big boy! Just over a year old and weights 45kgs. A lovely Dog, everybody sho sees him loves him (<i>even people in morocco that are scared of dogs ask to have a photo next to him! Such a star!</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've heard so called freinds in France 'bitching' about me lately. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>How can she go on holiday all the time? How can she have two Jeeps? </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why all this hating... because of Facebook. All they see are the lovely photos I post. They wouldn't even look if I posted photos of boring old work! Most of my holidays are 'working holidays' , I work, then spend some time touring around (mainly sleeping in my car, not a luxury holiday!) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Morocco is a loevely country, but when you live there it's a hell lot different. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People think of Morocco as desert, beaches and riding camels. Yeah, sure... if you're a tourist on holiday... Working here is a way lot different. Just for starters, minimum wage here is around 200 euros a month... you better work long hard hours if you want to have a bit to spend!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And for the Jeeps, well that's my hobby and passion! Some people like shopping, or buying video games... I like both of those, but don't send much money on either. My hobby, my 'get away from stress and work' is driving in the desert. Discovering beautiful lands and meeting lovely people. And over here (depending on where you live) you actually need a 4x4 to get to your house ;) (strange how the guys that have been bitching about this jeep stuff are all rally drivers and spends thoudands of euros on their cars... that they only drive for rallys, not everyday work and shopping errands like I have too...)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok enough about that! I just needed a good lashing out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A slight pause in all the travel blogging (lots more to come, more on Canada and the Portugal disaster holidays). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have so many things to blog about: moving house, starting school, hair dying… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ….but today it's all about <b>my tooth</b>!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, that's what I'm holding on that picture below. A tooth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My bottom right wisdom tooth to be precise. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yep, at nearly 27 years old my wisdom teeth have decided to come out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well one of the 3 anyway… yes I only have 3 on the x-rays, some strange sort of evolution of the human species...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what happened… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was off for the weekend to Marrakech to see a good friend called J. He is a great friend, the sort of friend you consider like family. But, for me, he is also </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>jinxed</b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I love spending time with him, we have the most fun, interesting and memorable moments together… but I always end up with a problem… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not the kind of girl that get's sick often. Ever since I had my tonsils out at 18, I have only been really been sick from 'mild' food poisoning (common over here in Morocco). And only a couple of times surprisingly! <i>(I think all the diet coke has mad my stomach inhabitable for the nasty parasites that live in and on food here). </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm always fit and well, until I meet up with J. </span></div>
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So last week I went to Marrakech to see J. I hadn't even arrived at is place did my silly tooth start hurting. I was sure it was just going to get better. I'm the kind of person that rarely takes medicine and thinks : I'll just sleep it off, it will be better in the morning! That normally works…but not this time… not being with my jinxed Mr J. </div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last day I knew my 'sleep it off technique wasn't working. I looked like a hamster that had stored half of it's weekly food in one cheek. My right cheek was like a ballon! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We drove straight from Marrakech to the dentist in Casablanca (more than 40°C with no AC.. damn car (Cherokee) is always breaking down at the wrong time!!!) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well as you know I live in Morocco…when you live here you're used to seeing stuff like this… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Sure he's a tourist attraction, but local dentists are not much better in the poorer areas… you have to find the right one! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had never been to the dentist in morocco, i always waited to get back to france. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now was an emergency!!! My gum or jaw seemed like it was going to explode! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok that seems rather shallow, but here if you have an internet site you're not the type of guy that works in the middle of the local market! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The internet site was true. The dentists was modern and clean. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When he saw my swollen jaw he was surprised. He didn't expect it to be that bad. Antibiotics during a week then the evil wisdom tooth would have to be ripped out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was soooo stressed. I had two of my milk teeth pulled out when I was a kid, and the pain was terrible <i>(well that's what I remember)</i>!!!! I've hated anyone touching my teeth ever since. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the dentists, sat in that horrible chair, I begged him not to pull the tooth out, to let it be. I told him how terrified I was. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was really cool, and kind of made fun of me when I said I was even petrified of the anaesthetic injection. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As usual, <b>when stressful or painful things occur, I sleep</b>. I think the stress just puts me out! May it be a tattoo, putting joints back in place or operation, I just doze off. Weird how the body reacts to stress?! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dentist was right. I didn't feel a thing. Not even the injections. Plus the tooth was out in about 5 minutes. <i>'What a nice easy tooth!' (dentists words)</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple of stitches and I was done. No time to even sleep! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the worst thing is the 'after'. The whole side of your face is num. It's kinda funny when you try to drink out of a glass…because of the numbness it feels like there is a hole in the glass, and that you are going to spill your drink!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, it's been 2 days now. No pain, no swelling, no bruising. I can eat and chew whatever I want!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I remember friends that had their wisdom teeth, being put to sleep and all, and their faces looked like footballs afterwards! And during more than a week!) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was scared of Moroccan doctors but I've been proved otherwise! </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Montreal is really a unique city. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the second-largest French speaking city in the world (after Paris). The official language is french but nearly everyone speaks english as well.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another interesting fact, Lonely planet chose Montreal as the 2nd happiest city in the world!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe because of all the festivals :)</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All summer long festivals run one after the other. I got the chance to see a couple of them!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">650 concerts (450 of which are free). </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.5 million visitors. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 outdoor stages and 10 indoor... </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...a massive festival with great music!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you love electronic music like me, the Piknic electronic is a must!</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a Montreal outdoor tradition. Set in the lovely Parc Jean-Drapeau, you can dance under the huge moderne art sculpture (l'Homme). You can also just wander around enjoying the beautiful waterfront view and the park.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is your kind of music? What kind of music festivals do you like going to?</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12352774262651558254noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116783401001880149.post-38805696672229785032013-08-29T03:15:00.001-07:002013-08-29T03:15:20.509-07:00Wandering around Montreal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A beautiful city. So many things to do and see!</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Here's a quick glimpse of my stay in Montréal :)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My little sister and her boyfriend put me up in Montreal. From their flat you can see the Olympic tower, so that was my first thing to visit on my 'to do and see' list.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You get a great view of the city from the top. It was a bit of a shame that the weather was cloudy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent the first afternoon just wandering around the city. I had no idea how big it actually is! (my feet were so sore that evening!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old parts of Montreal. Beautiful old buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new business center of the town; lots of big modern skyscrapers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The underground shopping malls were impressive! The whole underground system in Montreal is massive. Kilometers of tunnels and loads of shops and restaurants.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The subway in Montreal is a great way of getting around. It's a really nice public transport (for once). It is clean and not too crowded (nothing like the one in Paris!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You get a great view of the city from the bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is lots of public art around the city of Montreal. You come across many different types of statues.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are also nice arty things scattered around for special events, like this unicorn above, or the piano below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A photo booth just outside of the Mont Royal underground station. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A must to visit in Montreal is the Mont Royal. It's a bit of a hike to get up there but it's well worth the view.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This small restaurant was pretty fun, especially because the chairs were in fact swings!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A really big storm (nearly hurricane like) hit the city the day before I left. Trees were blown down all over the city. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the photo above you can see some of the damage done in the street were my sister lives. I had in fact parked my rental car just in front of the blue car, but decided to move it earlier on to be closer to the house. Just as well I did! That branch would have made a nasty dent on the roof!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Hi guys! As some of you already know I spent a couple of weeks in Canada last month. I visited many places in such a short time, and of course had lots of fun taking photos (I am actually trying to learn use my Sony NEX-5N properly) so lots of 'Canada photo posts' will be flowing from this blog this week! I hope you like them (and don't get too bored) and enjoy discovering some awesome places in the gorgeous country of Canada!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>While staying with my sister in Montreal I got the chance to visit many places around the city, two of which were the Jardin Botanique (botanical garden) and the Biodome. If you like nature, plants and animals, both places are an absolute must to visit!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Jardin Botanique de Montréal is one of the world's greatest botanical gardens. It hosts different events and exhibitions all year long.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During my visit the Mosaicultures Internationales de Montréal 2013 wa being held in the garden.</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">The Montréal Biodôme</span></u></h2>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A beautiful oasis in the middle of the city. The name Biodôme means 'house of life'. Here you can discover the different ecosystems of the Americas. Lush and humid tropical rain forests, maple forests, the gulf of St Lawrence, the sub polar regions...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I am absolutely sure that I am a bad blogger. </span><br />
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I keep posting that I will be back blogging but every time something new comes up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything has been a rush lately. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all we had to move house (from Tangier to Casablanca) early. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We only should have been moving in september, but we found the flat of our dreams after months of searching and decided to grab it at once! (I will explain the whole drama of the 'new flat' in a future post!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, we had to move house in July... only problem was that I had only 3 days between coming back from france and leaving for Canada. 3 days to unpack my bag, repack it for Canada and pack all the rest of my stuff in boxes for the move! A real rush! Franck was on his own for the actual house moving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got back to Casablanca from Canada a week after the moving. It is a rather strange feeling to leave your house to go on vacation, and come back to another home in a different city. Plus, nothing had been put in place. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boxes everywhere! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hardly time to unpack, 4 days later we were off to Portugal, where we had terrible problems with not only our Jeep but also the rental car. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know what the weather is like with you, but here in Morocco it has been lovely and sunny for the last month or so. Some days were even a bit too hot!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to get the bikinis and surf boards out and hit the beach!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the summer season. Great weather. I love the sun and the heat. I love the beach, the warm sand and cool breeze. Plus I love the waves. I can spend hours in the water surfing or bodyboarding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the summer sun over here does have some bad sides... Sunburn.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course it's the same sun as all around the world, the same sun as where I used to live in england or france, but it just seems more 'powerful'. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being and english girl I must say that I am lucky that I don't have very pale white skin that burns quickly. After day under the sun my skin turns to a nice golden color. I think the last time I got sunburnt in France was when I was about 9 or 10 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sun in Morocco is a whole different thing. It scorches your skin. It kind of feels like you're being roasted on the spot! Even covered in 50+ sunscreen and staying in the shade, it still manages to get you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I got burn by the sun. Bad sunburn on my shoulders. Not at the beach, but following the guys around a golf course. I had put sun screen on, but as I said sunscreen cannot beat the sun here! We played golf from 10am till 2pm. 4 hours under the red hot sun. There was no shade on the course. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That evening my shoulders were red. Bright red. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At home I had no 'after sun relieve' (or whatever you call them) lotions. I'm not used to getting burnt!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luckily I have a book with loads of natural remedies for all different types of problems.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For sunburn it advised potato or yogurt. One of the two you surely have in your kitchen! (Aloe gel is also great if you have it!).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the yogurt remedy: applie the yogurt to your burnt skin, let it dry, then rinse it all off gently in the shower.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the potatoes remedy : cut a potatoe in half and rub gently all over where you have sunburn. You can also make a sort of paste out of poatoes, but I didn't find it necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me, the potatoes were the best. They really soothed my burnt skin, plus it just felt so fresh and cool.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And belive it or not, that potatoes thing worked! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day no pain, no blisters or peeling. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(BTW , if you do start peeling after being sunburnt, or even if you just have really dry skin, <b>Shea butter </b>is a must! I use it all the time! On my skin and hair! It's really nourishing! It smells kind of weird but I have never found any other product that can work the same kind of miracles as it does)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there's a couple of natural tips to sooth sunburn! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course it's best not to get burnt to begin with, always use sunscreen and stay out of the sun when it's really hot (between 11am and 2pm) ... easier said than done, if you're like me, you love the warm weather and outdoor sports and </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">activities!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You must have heard about all those different pills you can take, that are supposed to prepare your skin for the sun, and let you get a nice tan without getting burnt. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I did try some of those pills. They did not work, well for me anyway. They were damn expensive and I did not see or feel a difference on my skin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing that does help my skin get a natural tan is carrot juice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Researches have found fruits and vegetables that contain carotenoids give a tan-like glow. Carotenoids are antioxidants that help soak up damaging compounds by the stresses and strains of everyday living. It's responsible for the red colorizing in fruit and veggies such as carrots or tomatoes...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, carotenoids are good for your skin. And the vegetable that has the most is the carrot (carrot - carotednoid... sounds similar!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only problem is, I don't like the taste of carrots... yep,I'm not often picky on foods (I mean I eat snails and other wierd stuff), but i just don't like eating or drinking carrots. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I steam cook (or boil) the carrots to get them soft, then put them in the mixer, pour some freshly squeezed orange juice in, plus a bit of vanilla yogurt, mix them all together to make a sort of purée...and there you go! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't given precise quantities of each product because you can put what you want in depending on your likes. For example, I put hardly any yogurt in because dairy products have bad side effects on me, hehe! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now I'm back in Europe. Terrible weather, rain and wind all day long! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So these littles tips arn't much good as there is no sun... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So too cheer things up, and add a bit of color against the dark grey sky, I've dyed my hair...dyed it some very bright colors...but that's another subject for another blog post!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well 'Jeep' and 4x4 adventure posts are coming back to this blog for the meantime, I have really not enough time to keep 2 blogs running....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Being the Jeep freak lover that I am I just had to introduce my new car to you guys!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You probably remember my other Jeep, the Wrangler ' Desert Frog'...the car that has taken me several </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">times around the Moroccan desert...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Well I still have my cute little green amphibian Jeep, but not in Morocco at the moment...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We knew that the front axle was dead, and got it changed...but more bad news arrived later...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My 4x4 garage in Spain, Sahara 4x4 , put a new front axle in for me said that there was a 8cm difference between the left side of the car and the right...bad news...very bad news... To get a chassis put straight you have to strip the car naked to be able to get the job done. That takes a lot of work, so is very expensive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So the 'Frog' is now back in France at our insurance's garage...up to them to decide the future of the Desert Frog. If the repairs cost more than what the 'Frog' is worth they will send it to the crushing yard for scrap metal... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm crossing fingers at the moment that she will be repaired... I put a lot of money into this car (new shocks, springs, lift kit, snorkel...and loads more) to be able to participate in <span id="ID0EKB" style="color: #0;">humanitarian<span class="nbsp1" style="height: 12px; padding-left: 2px; width: 2px;"> </span></span> desert raids...I really hope they can make her 'road safe' again.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I still have the Ford XR3I in France... but that's a really low sport's car... Here you need a four wheel drive (the roads are really bad).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />So this Jeep was a bad buy. <b>A real piece of sh*t</b>. Franck not knowing what to look at just brought it because 'it looked good'. I was the one that had to pick it up one week later and drive 300km back home....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I still decided to drive it home. on the highway I didn't dare drive at 130km/h ( the normal speed in France). I couldn't control it. I was actually scared. I haven't often been scarred in a car, but this one was evil. Really bad.It wouldn't steer properly and wouldn't break properly. For the first time in my life I thought to myself on that lonely highway : 'damn, this car really wants to kill me!!'<br /><br />Back home safe and sound I noticed that she was leaking oil. Once having crawled underneath we found out that there were in fact several oil leaks... plus a water leak...<br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Because off all these leaks<b> this Jeep already has a name.</b> I had called her <b>Dragon</b>, but my 4x4 pals decided otherwise. All I said on Facebook was that she liked to <i>'mark her territory'</i>. Well from then on the guys decided on another name for this Jeep. As they nicknamed the Wrangler 'the Desert Frog' they decided to call this one 'the<b> Dirty Toad'. </b>Doesn't sound very glamorous hey? So I call her the <b>'Dirty Dragon</b>', but everybody else says the '<b>Toad</b>'.<br /><br /><i>This naming cars thing sounds kind of goofy...especially when a friend yells in a restaurant : 'Hey Bel! Did you bring the Dirty Toad this evening?'...weird and embarrassing. But it does actually have a reason. When we go on rallies of course some people have the same cars. Mainly Toyota's, Nissan's and Jeep's. When you talk on radio you have to be short and precise. If a car has a problem it's easier to use it's code name. And then you just get used to talking like that...</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The brakes and brake discs were dead, so were all the silent-blocs (that's why she was shaking). The 2 front tires needed changing (on a permanent 4 wheel drive all your tires must be in the same state). The worst thing was that the radiator had completely ripped apart... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As we don't live there anymore we cancelled our phone and internet line ages ago. The first few days I managed to hack into one of our neighbour's wifi...but he soon found out and cut off his wifi (apparently his internet was 'slower' when I was connected with my computer...). Only way to get other free wifi was going to McDonald's...but their internet is really slow, plus I got fed up drinking bad McDo coffee and eating Mcmuffins every morning... so I gave up internet. I was on a internet detox for nearly a month!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When the disaster happened I intimately picked up the macbook, and the champagne just poured out of
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It was dead. I cried. I had just finished some very long and laborious video editing and hadn't saved it on my external hard drive...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So now I'm back in Morocco, with internet. I'm back with a new (exactly the same as the old) Macbook...plus another toy... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A <i>Fujitsu, quad core, processor intel xeon E5-1620, 16 GO DDR3 ECC 1600 mhz</i>. When I re-read that it sounds kind of geeky...In short terms it is a monster PC. A really freaking beast of a computer. It's not really a computer, it's more of a server. Plus I've linked it up on my big Philips ambilight flat screen. Rather impressive! I'm really starting to understand why people think I'm a geek... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You're probably thinking why on earth would Bel buy that kind of computer? For gaming you don't need anything half as powerful as that...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At 26 years old I've decided to go back to school for 2 years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's not like I stopped school too early in the past. I have a bachelor's degree in wine and spirits...a great degree when you live in France... but in Morocco working with alcohol is difficult because of religion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I've decided to study something that I've always loved. Something that I actually spend hours doing... video editing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm going to do a 2 year course on 3D production (special effects, video games, animation...). The school is linked with some bad ass companies like Ubisoft, so it should be pretty awesome :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The course starts in October... So until then I'll be making the most of the summer holidays!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so SO so sorry I haven't been blogging or answering comments lately. Life has been hectic these last few weeks...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work is busy, and hard. I just had to rush back to France. I really hope next year I'll be able to go back to school :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I was back in the sahara desert again... not for jeeping...nope...this time I was out there for a festival...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The TRANSAHARA Electro festival...</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's sure, dunes can dance...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honestly, it was a wonderful festival. Dancing next to the red dunes of Merzouga! What more can you ask for!?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was sort of a 'vip' compared to others... I was there with my Frog (jeep wrangler). Not only did I run a couple of errands for food and drink (buying stuff rom the festival was way outta price), I also had to tow a couple of cars out of the sandy tracks!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a nice festival; good music, lovely people...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the organization was crap!!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photos they put on internet are complete lies. The tents they rent look gorgeous on their site, but in real they are bad. Holes everywhere, so your bed is full of sand.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food wise it was first arrived first served. There were about 1000 people at the festival, but they had only planned food for 200...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was no shade, and you had to pay a fortune for water... not a smart idea in the middle of the desert...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This lack of organization did however take an interesting and nice turn for us... The first night we got woken up at 6am in the morning by two people who came into our tent. At the entrance they had been given the same tent that we had been given the previous morning. Weird thing was that they guy was from the same town in france as my boyfriend, and that we had actually spent a weekend together at Marrakech 2 years ago! What are the odds of meeting somebody you know in an international festival in the middle of the Sahara desert!! They became our 'tent neighbors' and we spent most of the festival together and had loads of fun.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hiding from the storm in our tent. If you look behind me you can see one of our pillows covered in sand!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day we decided to climb to the top of the big sand dune...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was hard! Not only is it a long climb, but walking in sand is so difficult! You slip everywhere!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday we had a long drive (700km) back to Tangier...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and then monday caught the ferry to Spain and drove another 1600km back to our homes in France...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Happy spring everyone!!</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here in Morocco it really does feel like spring has arrived. It was lovely and hot today. The sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's nice to spend some time outside and wear spring/summer outfits.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But spring also means that nasty little creatures will be back out and about. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The creatures I'm talking about are scorpions. They also like basking under the sun...especially on my patio...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm not afraid of many things, but scorpions really scare me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They freak me out but fascinate me at the same time. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did nature create such an invincible creature? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sort of mix between a lobster, a wasp and a spider. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A sting at the end of it's tail that injects a powerful venom, capable of taking down a predator or enemy many time's it size. It's also covered by a protective armor, enabling it to survive a fire or a nuclear bomb.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Invincible and fascinating ... and scary</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't like these little guys much, but my patio and garden is their home as much as it is mine. They were here before me. I leave them alone, let them get on with their own thing and stay out of their way. You just have to be careful and you won't get stung (like check your shoes and be wary when you move any plant pot or stone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing that really worries me is our dog Hermès... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't think he realizes how dangerous these little beasts are. For him anything that moves looks like a fun toy or friend to play with. I'm really scared than one day he will get stung...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the other day when I heard him barking, my first thought was : scorpion!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rushed outside to find Hermès trying to play with (or trying to eat, I'm not sure) another creature...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To my great relief it wasn't a scorpion...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a tortoise!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have no idea where he came from or how he got into our closed garden. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've named him <b>Koopa</b>. He seems to like his new home, he spends most of his time wandering and roaming around the garden and house. I'm surprised how tame he is. He likes to come and sit by my feet, and seems to love being stroked on the head! Maybe he was somebody's pet before? Maybe that's how he got into our garden...(we've already had people 'throw' puppies over our wall in the past, sadly nothing surprises me anymore).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope he stays with us :) I've always loved tortoises and he's a real cutie! I think he'll become the mascot for my rally raid team ^^</span></div>
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<i>(More about the upcoming rally soon!)</i></div>
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