Hotel Le Prieure Bourges

... 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 has some gorgeous original windows ...

... my life, but I gave up half way. “I do not have
enough time” I used to comfort myself, so that I lurched in the way,
holding vague goal, satisfying with currency. I was too busy to stop.
But I did, in the end, not because I finally understood the importance
of reflection, but because I had nothing to do----- things needed to be
done had all done. I was bestowed a precise opportunity to spend a day
not bustling around, and I would ...

... fils du communiste Miguel Trovoada aujourd'hui à la tête du Acion démocratique Indépendante.

Sur le plan diplomatique Sao-Tome est dés son indépendance reconnut par L'ONU, le pays fait aussi parti de l'ensemble des pays de langue portugaise.
Au niveau des relation dilatérals, ST entretient de trés bonnes relations avec Taiwan, l'Union Européenne (avec laquelle le ...

... colonisation portugaise qui va durer jusqu'a l'indépendance du pays le 12 juillet 1975. Entre temps l'esclavage sera aboli en 1875 et l'ile va connaitre le pire massacre de son histoire: le 3 Février 1953 à lieu le "massacre de Batepá". Le 3 février un officier à été tué à coup de machette et la répression qui a suivit a été particuliérement violente; on parle de plus de 1 000 morts (travailleurs dans les champs de cocao ou bien Forro ...

... s les Seychelles.

Chose a noter Sao-Tome est le pays le plus proche du "centre du monde": le croisement entre l'équateur et le méridien de Greenwich. L'équateur passe en effet par sur l'ilhéu das Rolas . (petite iles composant l'archipel au Sud du pays) et le méridien de greenwich n'est qu'a 6° de la capitale.

Le climat sur place est donc ...

... portugaise indépendante depuis 1975. Population: 200 000 (ESTIMATION, aucune donnée exactes...) Gouvernement: Démocratie, république semi présidentiel. IDH: 0,643 (128 position sur 153 pays) Monnaie: le Dobra ( 1 Euro = 20 000 Dobras) Voila pour le moment. D'autres articles concernant des thémes particuliers suivront.

... rolling hills (all cycled) I was into Bourges. Traffic was a bit heavy into the town centre but I zipped past. Then it became apparent why. There was a huge march by the "Left Front" with lots of different groups of workers going down the street I needed to go up. Time to do some pushing. Eventually the crowd became too thick to walk against so I leant the bike against a wall and watched the demo. People were very friendly, smiling and wishing me good luck. Then one fella ...

... that the next hotel we see we are in. Guess what the rain stopped!!!! So it was on until we decided to find a hotel for the night. We booked into the Le Continental hotel the lady did not speak any English and my French is to be honest rubbish! All went well she handed over the room key then offered another key saying for moto. She had given me ...

... We picked a campsite at Lunery, a small village on the banks of the Cher, a short drive from Bourges. We arrived early afternoon to find a nicely laid out site, a smart new toilet and shower block and a friendly helpful warden. However as the afternoon wore on the weather just got hotter and hotter, peaking at 33 at 7pm. It was too hot to do anything but sit with a bottle or two of 1664. As we sat there we realised the downside of a site close to a river ...

October 16 We arrived in Bourges somehow nearly on time to find the meeting point, first the guy who took us from the highway to the city was quite impress that he took foreigner along the road and wanted to 'show us' to his friends. After that awkward moment we walked to Bourges which was still a distance since we were in a suburb. Finally we found the cultural house and we only had to wait for Pierre ...