So I’ve been a smartphone owner for about a month now. In other words, I’m a newbie and I’m sure I know less about those things than you. Some of you may even be reading this from one. One thing you need to know about me is that while […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
27 posts
Also known by English speakers as “The other Arc de Triomphe” “that monument that looks like the Arc de Triomphe but not exactly” or also “the Louvre’s Arc de Triomphe.” For more details, please check the Wikipedia page of course.
I’ve never been to North Korea and I don’t think I’ll go in the foreseeable future, but the current news reminded me that I got a glimpse of it once: This was taken from a plane, about to land in Incheon International Airport and the mountains in […]
Saucisson (and to a lesser extent dried-up ham) is, in my opinion, one of the most important elements of French cuisine. Strangely foreigners rarely mention it when they think of French cuisine. I assume that it is because they simply have no idea what it is, how to […]
When I visited Brussels back in 2009, I had a fascinating “encounter” near the European Parliament. It was an exhibit made of parts from the Berlin Wall! I have never been to Berlin, but growing up, the Berlin Wall was something that was all too real and even from […]
I’m back online ! For those of you who haven’t followed the latest developments after my last post, I finally made it safely to Japan 5 days later, I started my new job two weeks ago, and moved into my new apartment (with an included internet connection) yesterday. So […]
If you’ve been to Paris, you most likely have seen this clock at the Conciergerie. It dates from the 15th Century (although it has been restored several times since, the last one being 1909) and it was the first public clock in Paris.
(or why I am blogging in France tonight instead of being awake in the middle of the night because of jetlag in Japan) If you follow my other blogs a little bit (Ogijima and David in France) you must know that yesterday was supposed the day I moved to […]
A short while ago, I told you about all of those old postcards from the beginning of the 20th Century that I own and that originally belonged to my grandfather. A certain number of them were sent by one of his cousin’s who was sent to the front of […]
We end our short overview of Andorra with El Pas de la Casa, a quite peculiar and unique town in my opinion. There are two ways to reach it (and only one road really). The first one is from Soldeu and the rest of Andorra through the Port d’Envalira […]