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mardi 10 août 2010

Lyon - La Réunion à vélo

Une petite annonce qui n'a rien à voir avec Taiwan, et encore, ne sait-on jamais...! Une amie grenobloise part demain pour un périple en vélo avec son copain. Ils partent de Lyon et tenteront de joindre l'île de la Réunion 1 an et demi ou deux ans plus tard.
Cette amie prend évidemment son accordéon diatonique avec elle!!
Cela fait plus de 7 mois qu'ils préparent ce projet et comme leur vélosophie me plaît beaucoup, je me permets de relayer l'info et le lien vers leur site!

samedi 1 août 2009

My holidays in France and french liquor

If you went to the supermarket and you are too lazy to climb the stairs with your stuff, no problem, ask the Bernard's solution!!
 
You just need this thing and you can put all your food in your flat with less energy.
 
Bernard is the king of this sort of strange creations. But this time I can say it is really useful and so convenient!
Just two minutes and all the food arrives in the flat by outside. So cool!

I just want you to see how wonderful is the french lanscape, here you can see the Chartreuse, it is some montains between Grenoble and Chambery. There, I went to buy some liquor, home made! This plant is absynthe, from this plant you can do the very famous alcohol: l'absynthe, but it was forbidden since 1917 because people drunk too much so they became crazy...!! The woman showed us how to do the alcohol. You put the plant with sugar and alcohol in these boxes.
And then you take it back and put it in bottle. This alcohol is really tasty and good. But I don't think that my asiatic friends would be interested in this tradition...

Egyptian cafe in Grenoble: The Karkadé

This is one place I really like in Grenoble: the Karkadé. It is an Egyptian café where you can spend time slowly, quietly, hearing some typical music, watching some photos and sometimes speaking about politic. Some musicians friends where there this night and we spend the evening eating the Mahmoud's tajine and listening oud music.

Didi tried to play drums and Hanane sang with her fabulous voice... what's pleasure!!! So great!

If you want to go there and drink some Karkadé tea just go to the number 8 of Servan's street and just enjoy the moment.

Le Karkadé restaurant égyptien
8 rue Servan 
38000 Grenoble

jeudi 23 juillet 2009

From Aubenas to Grenoble by bus speaking in chinese

After spending the morning in Aubenas we took the bus to go to Grenoble. We passed by the Escrinet's pass and we could enjoy a fabulous landscape.
 It was very funny because we spent a long time to chat in chinese with Nan Yen who gave me a intensive chinese course during few hours, I am so grateful to her for that! The people in the bus thought, as in the Aubenas's market, I was the official traductor of the two taiwanese women hihihi!!! so funny!! My chinese is so poor, that's why it is really funny to think that!! Althought I was so used to take this road during two years, I was very happy to see the ardeche's countryside and to come back here. I was happy to see my taiwanese friends liking very much this place. And I was thinking about Jeff who spent a lot of time to bring me in this kind of places in Taiwan. It is so nice to take the chance to visit very special places of a country... Nan and Shu spent their time in watching the landscape and trying to take some pictures but in a bus it is really difficult. They saw the "Long he" 龍河 that is to say the Rhône, the second most long river of France (I think...). At last we arrived in Grenoble and few days after that, we met for a dinner in the town center of Grenoble.As usual in Grenoble during the summer, there was not a lot of people in the streets but the atmosphere was relly different from Kaohsiung, and the air was so good to breath!! (sorry for my friends who are now in Jakarta or in Kaohsiung...!! ;-)) Grenoble seems to me now, after one year in Taiwan so typically french!!! People take the time to go and to have a talk with friends, or to go in a park or to drink something in a café. I love that!
We eat together at the Grenette place and Nan Yen, who is really brave, decided to try the Ravioles which is a typical food from Grenoble. They took picture of the plates and we gave a chinese name to Mickaël, I can't write it because my laptop here is not in chinese... Now they are both in Marseille with July.
I just want to tell them; thank you very much for the great moments we had together, and I wish you a good travel in Germany and a save flight to Taiwan!! See you there!