Chateau d'Ivoy Ivoy le Pre

... www.bestwestern-angleterre-bourges.com ), and my room is twice the size of the one in Paris. Plus, there's a shower curtain! I wish we were staying here for more than one night.

We immediately had a walking tour of the old town with Barbara, an American who has lived in Bourges for 20 years. She showed us Bourges Cathedral, which is even more imposing than Notre Dame, even though it doesn't have a transept. It was some gorgeous original windows ...

... school which itself is a 17th century little castle. We are in school 4 hours a day and working hard. After school we do homework and stuff ourselves with chocolate croissants and goat cheese. We are meeting other students from around the world and we have adopted 17 year old Emma from Ireland - a real gem. Outside of school, the 4 of us (with Emma) have gone cheese farm touring; wine tasting, and ...

... is still blowing very hard, and I know that it’s cold and rainy,
and that tomorrow I might perhaps need to buy some glue. I’m not doing anything, and yet I’m also doing the most important thing a man can do:
I’m listening to what I needed to hear from myself. The consequences of my contemplation are quite contentious; I overcame the
sense of mankind salvation, observing sheer me. I am not a philosopher
and not willing to ...

Aprés l'indépendance de 75, Manuel Pinto da Costa est élu président. Il est le leader du MLSTP, organe politique du CLSTP militant activemnet pour l'indépendance de ST.
Manuel Pinto et son premier ministre Miguel Trovoada suivent une doctrine Marxiste-Léniniste avec comme exemple Cuba et L'Angola voisin. Ils vont nationaliser l'économie, controler tous les pouvoirs de l'ile et ...

... trangers sous contrats-) en quelques heures et cela dans des conditions horribles. Ce passage est important dans l'histoire de ST car il marque un tournant dans l'histoire coloniale de l'ile et donne naissance à l'idée de "nationalisme Sao-Toméen" aisin qu'a la formation du CLSTP (Comité de Liberaçao de Sao-Tome e Prinsipe) qui sera à la base de l'indépendance de 1975.

(Prochain post: histoire moderne de 1975 à aujourd'hui)

... so I had two beers (Leffe Blonde), and they were absolute *****. I was so thirsty, I drank one and a bit, but I couldn’t drink the second one to the end. Even Rochelle hated it. The ice-cream was bad, but not inedible (Rochelle says the sorbet was fine, so there you go). Lovely pictures, though.

We had a beautiful dinner across the road, including a home-made raisin mustard, which the waiter was very proud of.

... br>Cela vient en particulier dut fait que les vents du Sud ramménent les nuages qui ne peuvent plus continuer leur route vers le Nord du fait de de la topographie de l'île. En effet, l'ile a connut une période volcanique importante; le point culminant se situe à 2024 métres et cette petite île posséde pas mois de 4 sommets supérieurs a 800 métres!!

... Composition: archipel composé de deux iles principales (Sao-Tome et Principe :) ainsi que de quelques ilots. Localisation: à 300 km a l'ouest de côtes du Gabon, au milieu de l'atlantique. Pour trouver l'ile sur une carte suivez la ligne de l'équateur et vous tomberez dessus!! Langue: Portugais. Sao-Tome est une ancienne ...

... maybe they were worried about being thrown out before the only staff member left at 10 pm. Who incidentally had told me in explicit terms that I was not bring back or let any other person in the hostel. I has asked whether I was the only one in the dorm and she went on another track. Anyway eventually she drove me to bed by constant checking the doors and windows. Kinda irritating; when they're very quiet you seem to be an inconvenience but at £17 a night your hardly ...

... a ditch filled with stinging nettles. I wondered out loud that I thought I read somewhere that urine would relieve the pain. A little too eagerly Quinn offerred "I'll pee on her". 23 years ago I came to France to bike, but fled to Greece because of the rain. I always regretted not seeing the double spiral staircase devised by Leonardo De Vinci... and we bumped into that at Chambord.