So we’ve more or less hit mid-season and how many great episodes did we have? Jeff Probst, you are a liar again. After last season, I thought you had your mojo back, that Survivor would be great again, but no this season is as boring and predictable as […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
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Martel, in the Lot department, is one of those many villages that I dearly miss having been away from France for so long now. Note that Martel has a very interesting “skyline” with seven medieval towers that can be seen from the distance. Can you see them? […]
I don’t know about you, but I have the feeling that this season of Survivor has finally started after five episodes of embarrassing people and events on a beach. Now, that there’s only one troll on the island (there’s still one though) the editors have finally started to […]
English heavy artillery in action. War of 1914-1915. Another one of those postcards depicting World War One, with the usual “inaccurate” dates as people obviously didn’t know when it was going to end.
This episode was hard to watch. It was quite emotionally draining (sure nothing of the proportions of what the Bikal tribe went through, but much more than watching Survivor should be) and not satisfying at all (no Probst, if you ever read this, that was not good TV, […]
The day started very well. I had the day off, and on my side of the planet, Survivor is at 10am, so I got to see it live (as well as the Know-it-alls podcast) for the first time in years. Then, it all went downhill from there. I […]
If you know Paris, at least a little bit, you know the statue of the Lion of Belfort on Place Denfert-Rochereau. But do you know its story? Briefly, this statue is a smaller reproduction of the original Lion of Belfort (located in the city of Belfort, duh), about […]