100 000 km in 480 days!100 000 Km in 480 Tage!100 000 km en 480 jours!
480 days traveling in 18 countries, a quite unusual and not straight route: that’s 100 000 km of flying, more than twice the circumference of Earth (40k km on Equator)! That’s 212 km a day! And 12 tonnes of CO2 generated, the equivalent of the last 10 years I rarely used a car!480 jours de voyage, 18 pays traversés, 100 000 km en avion! Plus de deux fois la circonférence de la Terre! Ou 212 km par jour! Et 12 tonnes de CO2 émis, l’équivalent de 10 ans sans voiture!
Camera broken in Laos
A few days after entering in Laos, my camera (Panasonic Lumix G3) stopped working: the power on/off switch does not react anymore. Laos is quite a bad place for such an issue: I did not find any distributor of a…
Transport in India
I posted recently about crazy warnings in the roads. They are there because people drive crazy. Especially in the cities, the traffic is in all directions; mixing cars, trucks (although less in day time), buses, auto rickshaw (“tuk-tuk”), bicycle rickshaw,…
China
I planned just one week in China, mostly to meet friends. First I am going to Shanghai to meet Olivier I know from Regensburg in 2006. Later I’ll be back in Beijing and spend some days with Lingli and Anna…
Western life in UB
Coming back into the busy Ulaan Baator (UB) was like a slap of the western world, an impressive contrast with the quiet countryside and its slow rhythm. And to make the gap even bigger, we went to the cinema for…
Economic situation in Iran
Targol and Massoud are both Project Managers in respectively telecommunication and IT security companies, are mid 30 and are married for 14 years without child. They have a good situation (upper middle class) they get before Ahmadinejad became president (2005).…
Language and French influence
The language spoken in Iran is called Farsi or Persian. It is an Indo-European language and while written with Arabic alphabet, it is not related to Arabic at all. It was funny to me to hear some words that sound…
Internet, online banking and censure in Iran
Internet is filtered by the government; some web sites like Facebook are blocked (since the Arabic Spring). Other services are limited from western countries, I think here about online payment. I had to renew the hosting of my website while…
Women and Islam
I’d like first to enumerate some terms defining how the women are covered, in order: headscarf < hijab (you saw the whole face) < chador (the extension of the hijab to cover the whole body until the toes, usually black)…