Tally-Two

Transparency scares the bad guys !

2010-12-12T23:16:00.011Z

– Are you scared now ???

Find your own view of "truth"
Start asking questions !

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Réforme des retraites

2010-05-28T09:53:00.005+01:00

Sarkozy satisfait de la tactique gouvernementale..... les syndicats peinent à mobiliser en masse.... le Grand Sud mobilisé.... Retraite à 42 ans !!!

Montmorency, May 26, 2010. Val-d'Oise (Paris), France.

2010-05-26T09:43:00.006+01:00

I'm tired after an almost sleepless night, preparing myself for another hard day at headquarter. The dreaded date of June will soon arrive to Paris. The date on which we have to prove that we can deliver better results, even in France. We are placed under heavy stress from the finance department and expected to deliver good results now...

I feel affection for France and to live here but the cost-effectiveness in France is too low, compared with Europe and the rest of the world. Many says; Too many Frenchmen talks too much and work too little and still calls for higher wages...
Il est impossible de concilier!

So right now I feel I want to escape from negotiations with unions and my own Executive Board. I want to saddle my horse and ride away ... but I have no horse and no saddle so I can only dream me away. Right now everything feels heavy, as a long uphill climb in the freezing cold rain.

It is difficult to see any reward on the horizon and the wind is blowing cold today. – Would you like to Come Away With Me?

"Come Away With Me"
(NORAH JONES)
Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With their lies

I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

Paris or Papeete ?

2010-02-16T12:57:00.025Z

Help the sun is shining and we are pleased to discover that the temperature is on the plus scale !!!!!!!!! – What happened ?

OK, Paris is the capital of France, but the weather is usually boring “gray & dull” but now the sun shines in Paris, even if it's only for a few hours...
PARIS + SUN (+2 °C) = Almost SPRING FEVER !!!

Everyone who lives here knows that the normal weather forecasts for Paris are usually:

Light, mixture of precipitation. Mostly cloudy and Cool.
Scattered flurries. Passing clouds and Chilly.
Rain changing to an icy mix. Afternoon clouds. Cool.
Snow changing to rain. Afternoon clouds. Cool.
Rain changing to snow. Afternoon clouds. Cool.

But we actually had "winter" and 2 cm of snow for almost three days, only a few days ago. It was exciting, exotic and cheered all at our office. Everyone started to throw snowballs at each other. The snow even made the old rigid bureaucrats playing like children.
– Why can’t we get sun and snow at the same time ? – Please, please, please..... please

Many of us have talked and dreamed about the weather in Polynésie française. – But is it so much better than Paris ?

Papeete is capital of the island Tahiti (French Polynesia) and today reporting:

28 °C Partly cloudy. Warm. Thunderstorms. Partly sunny. Mild.
31 °C Mostly cloudy. Mild.
28 °C Tons of rain. Mostly cloudy. Warm.
29 °C Strong thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. Warm

– What do you think a French bureaucrat could do in the rain and heat ?

Cry or Smile ???

Sydney New Years Eve 2009

2010-01-01T00:41:00.002Z

Sidney, Australia NYE 2008

2008-12-29T23:44:00.005Z

Only 35 hours left… For me and friends is it time to start to prepare for the New Years Eve and the luxurious celebrations of NYE08 and 2009.

I’m happy to be back once more in Sydney and delighted to make new travel plans, cheerful to spend 6 weeks in Australia 2009.

– I did ask you in August if you were interested to follow me downunder to celebrate NYE08 , but you didn’t respond before 11 of December… That’s bad bad bad bad and sad for me and you too !!!

Current conditions in Paris, France

2008-11-30T22:26:00.005Z

2008-11-30, 23:33:31 CET

Light rain, Passing clouds, Chilly.

Temperature: 2 °C
Comfort level: -3 °C
Dew point: 2 °C
Barometer: 993 millibars
Humidity: 93%
Visibility: 7 km
Wind: 15 km/h from 190° South by westWind blowing from South by west to North by east

That's Current conditions in Paris...
the capital of France is freezing cold !!!

Change has come to America

2008-11-06T16:03:00.012Z

Barack Obama Makes History

The 44th President of the United States

Barack Obama was elected on November 4th, 2008

Thank you!
You proved that change can happen. You built an unprecedented grassroots organization in all 50 states that brought a record number of people into the political process -- many for the first time, many for the first time in a long time.

Election Night, Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Grant Park Chicago, Illinois

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference. It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America. It’s the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America. I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he’s fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ahead. I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the Vice President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation’s next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House. And while she’s no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure. To my campaign manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David Axelrod, and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics – you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it done. But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to – it belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington – it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory. I know you didn’t do this just to win an election and I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime – two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor’s bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America – I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you – we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek – it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you. So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers – in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people. Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House – a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, “We are not enemies, but friends…though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.” And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn – I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too. And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world – our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down – we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security – we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright – tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America – that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that’s on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She’s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing – Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old. She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons – because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin. And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America – the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can’t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can. At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can. When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can. She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that “We Shall Overcome.” Yes we can. A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can. America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves – if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made? This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time – to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth – that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama
http://www.barackobama.com

“Toxic Assets” or ‘The Economic Stabilization Plan’

2008-10-01T10:16:00.008+01:00

Jay Leno

Quote from AFP September 22, 2008:
The 700-billion dollar Wall Street bailout plan, put together last week by the U.S. administration, would allow the U.S .Treasury to sell new debt to buy vast amounts of mortgage securities and other “toxic” assets that have clogged the financial system.

Quote from NBC “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno:
“A failed President and a failed Congress invest 700 billion of your money into failed businesses. Believe me, this can’t fail!”

Do you think anybody is or will be responsible for “Toxic Assets” ?
Do you think “the (dirty) man behind” already have been cleaning his hands after a hard days work with “Toxic Assets” ?

Some days back in time… America was grimly focused on another 20,000 troops going into Iraq. – Maybe its time for the American people to send troops to observe Wall Street?

Americans should demand to know what exactly is being done with 700 billion of your money. Who gains, who pays, who is responsible for “Toxic Assets” ???

– No Comments !

2008 – A Year of Heavy Losses

2008-09-18T10:39:00.019+01:00

Four Trillion Dollars Down The Drain....

A list of some individual losses by market capital between October 9, 2007 and September 12, 2008.

Citigroup: $236.7 billion to $97.8 billion.
Bank of America: $236.5 billion to $150.2 billion.
AIG: $179.8 billion to $32.3 billion
Goldman Sachs: $97.7 billion to $61.3 billion
American Express: $74.8 billion to $45 billion.
Morgan Stanley: $73.1 billion to $41.1 billion.
Fannie Mae: $64.8 billion to $700 million.
Merrill Lynch: $63.9 billion to $24.2 billion
Freddie Mac: $41.5 billion to $300 million.
Lehman Brothers: $34.4 billion to $2.5 billion.
Washington Mutual: $31.1 billion to $2.9 billion

(More at The New York Times )

The magician with gold fingers

2008-09-18T10:39:00.014+01:00

– Do you trust the magician with gold fingers, called yours Investment Advisor (IA) ?
– Do you trust The Expert that advises you on investment matters on a professional basis….???

By definition an investment advisor is considered to be acting in a fiduciary capacity on behalf of clients with a higher standard of disclosure and due care, a commitment to disclose, minimize and resolve conflicts of interest than would be found in a tradition securities brokerage environment. In addition, most IAs are compensated on a fee basis (usually as a percentage of assets under management) rather than a commission basis…

I was told that this was the master’s voice of independent and independent-minded advisers willing to serve as high educated financial slaves just to make me happy.

– Are you smiling today?
Probably not, but in a way I think you are… Take a step back and try to see that money is only money; You are still alive and happy to be part of a small wealthy part of the world.
Remember that Federal Reserve is protecting us and the world economy… and we are still happy to sleep under the shelter of a roof.

Wall Street and Wall Street Journal says “No End Yet in Sight for Financial Crisis”
– The financial crisis that began 13 months ago entered a new, far more serious phase as hopes that the damage could be contained have evaporated.

– Have you found the Investor's Shop ?
– Are you still listening to experts?
– Do you still trust the financial wizard, the magic man with fingers of gold ?

The games of money, the art of financial wizards is a future gift-giving with Unique Gifts designed just for you… Find just the right gift for that hard-to-please financial wizard! AND SMILE... !!!

– Can we trust Rating Institute any more ?
– Can we trust Moody's or Standard & Poors Investors Service ?

Do you trust Moody's Investor Service Credit Rating Guide or Standard & Poors Credit Rating Guide Today ?

(You can read more at Stevens Institute of Technology )

NO, NO, NO… It’s easy for a company to lose an AAA Bond Rating and easier for us to lose money listening to “good advices” from high educated financial wizard sometimes called Investment Advisor's !

It’s Time to Listen to Pete Seeger –
What Did You Learn in School today, Dear little boy of mine?

I learned that Washington never told a lie.
I learned that soldiers never die.
I learned that everybody's free,
And that's what the teacher said to me.
–
That's what I learned in school today,
That's what I learned in school.

I dedicated this song to a teacher in French Polynesia that hopefully didn’t lose any money on AIG, Lehman Brothers or Merrill Lynch...
As a teacher and expert giving advises on a professional basis is it time to come to a decision and Make your own decisions !

Take Care !!!

Pete Seeger

Mariza, la diva du Fado

2008-09-04T11:52:00.018+01:00

Terra - A new album from Mariza
It’s a privilege to listen to Mariza and her new songs. Her music is a little bit different this time and the Fado has a touch of jazz embraced with Flamenco.

Is it a new type of Fado or a new Mariza ?
– Enjoy and listen to her performing her music, you will not be disappointed. If you prefer, you can always listen to Ó Gente da Minha Terra or Chuva they will probably still be favourites for many days.

Remember when you are listening to Ó Gente da Minha Terra (Oh People of My Land) that lyrics by Amália Rodrigues and music by Tiago Machado are more traditional Fado.

The album Terra (EMI) is produced by Javier Limon
and released in Europe, September 2008.
(Official Release date in Portugal and Spain 2008-06-30)

Tracklist:
1. Já Me Deixou
2. Minh’alma
3. Rosa Branca
4. Recurso
5. Beijo De Saudade
6. Voces Do Mar
7. Fronteira
8. Alfama
10. Alma De Vento
11. Se Eu Mandassa Nas Palavras
12. As Guitarras
13. Pequeñas Verdades
14. Morada Aberta

Mariza

Mariza at Cirque d’Hiver, Paris

Why not join me and meet Mariza live at Le Festival d’Ile de France (www.festival-idf.fr) in Cirque d’Hiver, Paris 11e (110, rue Amelot)

Time for Mariza at Cirque d’Hiver, Paris:
2008-09-26, 20h30
2008-09-27, 20h30
2008-09-28, 16h30

A Torrid Start for the French EU Presidency

2008-08-07T09:15:00.004+01:00

As I write, July 1st, France takes over the six-month Presidency of the EU. And they're off to a rough start, for this morning's news is that Polish President Lech Kaczynski has refused to sign off the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, on the very reasonable grounds that after the Irish NO vote, the Treaty is dead. The splendid Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic is also delaying ratification.

Meantime other EU leaders mouth platitudes about "respecting the Irish vote", yet they press ahead with ratification in defiance of public opinion. The EU loves to talk about "democracy and the rule of law", yet if you want to find those values you have to look not in London, or Paris, or Berlin, but in Prague and Warsaw. At least Poland and the Czech Republic are prepared to stand up for freedom and democracy. Well done them.

What the Irish Commissioner said...
Ireland's EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy (a fairly sensible man for a Commissioner) has passed some trenchant remarks on the Irish referendum result. According to the Irish Independent, he said the turnout for the referendum had been very high; the people had spoken; and the treaty as planned could not go ahead. He told Irish radio, "I somehow suspect that if many other member states of the EU had to put it before their people, the result would be the same". According to EUobserver, McCreevy added: "We should remember that Ireland is not alone in being unable to secure a popular endorsement of a European Treaty. As politicians this is something we need to learn from."

What the French President said...
"The Irish are bloody fools. They have been stuffing their faces at Europe's expense for years, and now they dump us in the s**t" (reported in The Times, June 20th). This is what is known in Brussels as "Respecting the Irish vote".

And an Irish view on the US elections: 'We in Ireland can't figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States. On one side, you have a gal who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, running against a lawyer who is married to a gal who is a lawyer. On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good looking woman who owns a beer distributorship.
- What are you lads thinking over there?'

... Rainfall in Paris today... what’s about tomorrow, Nicolas?

It's August -- have a great holiday!

Barney McKenna and The Dubliners - Fiddlers green

2008-07-09T16:49:00.001+01:00

Barney sings this amazing ballad Live at Vicar Street. He sings for me and my bleeding broken hart, waiting for you. – Can it be so difficult to write a single letter ?

Barney McKenna and The Dubliners - Fiddlers green

Barney McKenna and The Dubliners - I Wish I had someone to love me

2008-07-08T16:38:00.008+01:00

Barney sings this amazing ballad Live at Vicar Street. He sings for me and my hart still waiting for ...
I wish I had someone to love me, Someone to call me her own. Someone to kiss and caress me, I'm tired of living alone...

Barney McKenna and The Dubliners - I Wish I had someone to love me

The Dubliners - Molly Malone

2008-07-07T15:48:00.004+01:00

This song is dedicated to you Agnès Cadart. We all knows that you are happy to sing and your voice is sweet as honey. Sing-along and be happy together with us, it’s easy to fall in love with Irish Folk Music.

The Dubliners - Molly Malone

Midnight Sun 24 h/day

2008-07-06T15:34:00.004+01:00

Happy Music for my hart... after 6 x 24 hours of continuously Sunlight up North Svalbard.

Andre Rieu & The Dubliners

Music everywhere

2008-07-01T13:16:00.004+01:00

Fête de la Musique is probably the most important music festival in

France

and something to take care off for future. If you can – Look for it, you can find it all over the country. You will find music everywhere and you can dance, sing, listen and play on every street (and parks) and for at least for one day free of charge (in Paris the whole summer).

This year was my debut in France and together with friends playing Swedish folk music in Cannes and Garbejaire. I was hoping to be able to invite Agnès to the Fête, but she didn’t respond… she is maybe still celebrating the 40^th birthday or in chock after discover the difference between 39 and 40 ?

More Swedes were playing in Garbejaire like Therese (fiddle) and Fredrik (flute). Therese is a lovely performer she loves to play jazz (look in her eyes) and a beauty too. :-)

See you next year!

Don’t miss Fête de la Musique !

Therese

Not "Agnès"... but Agnes...

2008-06-27T14:30:00.009+01:00

Se is the beauty of the day waiting for a "friend" that didn't show up...
- What's the problem today?
- And why is Agnès not writing letters today as before?

Do you know the difference between Paris and New York?

2008-06-18T08:42:00.007+01:00

– NO ?

Paris

Le pétrole...

2008-06-17T15:34:00.004+01:00

La flambée des prix du pétrole modifie les habitudes des Français… ???

2008-06-17T14:56:00.007+01:00

1. Le pétrole:
Le pétrole affiche un nouveau record absolu malgré le geste des Saoudiens

Le prix du baril de brut inscrit un nouveau record absolu à 139,89 dollars (contre un précédent record le 6 juin à 139,12 dollars) pour le WTI. Le Brent à Londres est également au plus haut. Le marché fait preuve d'une très grande volatilité. Les cours remontent ce lundi après avoir nettement accusé le coup ce matin dans la perspective d'une augmentation de la production saoudienne

2. Baril:
Le baril (symbole bl ou bbl) est une unité de mesure surtout utilisée de nos jours pour le pétrole brut et ses dérivés. Un baril de pétrole équivaut à 42 gallons américains, soit environ 35 gallons impériaux (précisément 34.9723) ou 159 litres (précisément 158.9873).

3. USD:
Live rates at 2008.06.17 13:40:50 UTC : 1.00 USD = 0.645032 EUR
(United States Dollars / Euro >?< 1 USD = 0.645032 EUR , 1 EUR = 1.55031 USD)

4. Prix:
>> 139,89 dollars / 158.9873 litres = 0,879881 dollars / litres = 0,56755 EUR / litres << La flambée des prix du pétrole (0,56755 EUR / litres) modifie les habitudes des Français ???

Happy birthday to you, my special friend !

2008-06-16T16:11:00.006+01:00

All my love to you this precious day!

Part of me knows just what I should say;
Part perhaps some deeper word would send.

You're the strand on which I silent write
Before my dreams are swept far out to sea.

In you there's room to canter and run free,
Restoring my lost sense of space and light.

To me you are a place where I can stay,
Hanging out to watch the rush of time,
Drawing in the sand a lazy line
Along which I can go my own sweet way.

You are my sun and shade, my bread and wine.

Happy birthday to you, my special friend !

Happy Birthday Agnès !!!‏

2008-06-16T15:35:00.009+01:00

“Happy Birthday to You"
"Happy Birthday to You"
"Happy Birthday dear Agnès”
"Happy Birthday to You ! ! !

Wherever you are on your birthday....
...hope it feels like home !

Happy Birthday Agnès !
Have a great day !
...and may all your birthday wishes come true !!!

After 40 years of waiting...

2008-06-16T07:32:00.001+01:00

If I could turn back time

2008-06-12T20:38:00.002+01:00

I don't know why I did the things I did
I don't know why I said the things I said
Pride's like a knife, it can cut deep inside
Words are like weapons, they wound sometimes
I didn't really mean to hurt you
I didn't wanna see you go
I know I made you cry

But baby
If I could turn back time
If I could find a way
I'd take back those words that have hurt you
And you'd stay
If I could reach the stars
I'd give them all to you
Then you'd love me, love me
Like you used to do
If I could turn back

My world was shattered, I was torn apart
Like somebody took a knife
And drove it deep in my heart
When you walked out that door
I swore that I didn't care
But I lost every thing darling then and there
Too strong to tell you I was sorry
Too proud to tell you I was wrong
I know that I was blind, and darling

Back home

2008-05-26T23:07:00.009+01:00

Back home: Not really sure its “back home” but it's a sort of home and yeee I’m back. So, I suppose you can say I’m back home… I’m back in Montmorency after a weekend in Cannes. Not too Bad weekend. Not too bad at all...

It’s good to be back home, I’m not exhausted but a bit tired after a long day. I'm living in Montmorency in Val-d'Oise (Paris), France. Its lovely and beautiful and the house is in a quiet area like back home…

There is a note on my fridge saying “Le Val-d'Oise est un département français, appartenant à la région Île-de-France…” But all French people here call it “RP” the Région Parisienne. They are like dogs… when the master is out of control you can do what ever you like… and when the master is back you can always bark… and many Frenchmen is barking on the streets nowadays, not too happy with «Sarko» (Nicolas Sarkozy). Not too happy at all...

It’s time to say goodnight… Tomorrow will be an exciting day in many prospective. Oh yeee, I have a brand new car outside waiting for me tomorrow morning…AND its only 21 days left before the big happening, it’s only 3 weeks before the big anniversary. – What do you want for your birthday present, after 40 years of waiting ?

Oh yeee, it’s good to be "back home"....
Bon voyage !

Palme d'Or - The official 61st Fesival de Cannes

2008-05-25T12:53:00.000+01:00

Okay, I can admit that the OpenAir Cinema at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney is greater… but the glamour and atmosphere in Cannes makes the Open-Air Cinéma de la Plage an fascinating and for us Europeans a greater experience. Please join us next year!

The night was dark and Sean Penn and Robert de Niro were taking care of evening prize winners during the closing ceremony of Fesival de Cannes (at the Grand Théâtre Lumière). - We ware maybe not so excited by the award “the Palme d’or” to the best film among the 22 in Competition. Because here on the beach was the competition "bloody hard" between the 100.000 mosquitoes and the film lovers.

Agnès Cadart, hope to See you next year (together with more mosquito repellent) ! ! !

Ingvar Kamprad, fondateur du groupe IKEA

2008-05-23T10:13:00.005+01:00

Ingvar Kamprad, fondateur du groupe IKEA

Ingvar Kamprad a fondé IKEA en 1943 à l'âge de 17 ans. Les meubles en kit ont été lancés à la fin des années 1950.

Fortune : 34 milliards de dollars en 2007
Age : 82 ans (1926-03-30)
Nationalité : Suédois

Après avoir vendu des allumettes, des décorations de Noël et des graines de semence pendant son adolescence, Invar Kamprad crée son entreprise en 1943, à l'âge de 17 ans : baptisé à partir de ses initiales et de la 1ère lettre du nom de la ferme et du village où il a grandi (Elmtaryd er Agunnary), IKEA vend d'abord des stylos, de la petite maroquinerie, des cadres, des nappes, des bijoux et des bas en nylon. La vente de meubles débute seulement en 1947. Le concept des meubles "en kit" prendra son envol à la fin des années 1950. Grâce à ces innovations bon marché, IKEA conquiert le marché mondial. Le groupe possède 231 magasins et emploie 90 000 salariés dans 44 pays. IKEA n'est pourtant pas coté en bourse. Avec une fortune estimée à 28 milliards de dollars, son fondateur revendique une vie simple, évite de porter des costumes et voyage en classe économique !

Paris - Manifestation du 22 mai

2008-05-22T22:11:00.009+01:00

Paris - Manifestation 15, 21, 22 may; my University friends were out on the street, once again, demonstrating the happiness with «Sarko»….
– Do you think Nicolas Sarkozy is the happiest man in Paris today ?. (Probably not, but who knows what’s in his mind?).

We were looking for you and we were hoping to see you Mme Agnès Cadart taking part in the Manifestation today, but you didn’t show up. – So you will likely not enter my front door in Montmorency today ?

Anyhow, it will probably rain tomorrow…Time to pack my sack, time to leave Paris over the weekend. – Will I see you in Festival de Cannes?

See you soon, à bientôt, salut, au revoir, bonne journée.... Hi!
/Tally-Two

Mariza "Chuva"

2008-05-21T08:04:00.000+01:00

Lisboa and Fado Music of Portugal...
...was for me a new experience. Please, listen to Mariza !!!
The song "Chuva" from the fado Portuguese singer Mariz is so lovely.

Mariza is the best fado/popular singer since Amalia Rodrigues, the great classic fado singer. Her voice is outstanding. Such a hard style of music to sing and she does it so effortlessly. Yes, she is what you can call "A REAL ARTIST and MASTER OF HIS ART".

MARIZA - FADO EM MIM
This is the best cd of fado of all time?!

Mariza Nunes

2008-05-21T07:51:00.000+01:00

Mariza Nunes "Chuva" live

The JobCentre muse

2008-05-20T22:28:00.006+01:00

Sue Tilley, Freud's JobCentre muse

Today, the woman in the picture, 51-year-old Sue Tilley, who works in a West End JobCentre, told how it was almost never painted. The first time the artist met her, in a Soho nightclub 20 years ago, he criticized her lipstick. "He said it had too many blue tones. The next time we met was over lunch at the River Café and I wore a different lipstick," she said.

She knew she was effectively being interviewed for the role of artist's muse and was briefed on how to behave by their mutual friend, performance artist Leigh Bowery. "But I just did as I wanted as usual," said Ms Tilley.

"Soon after, Leigh called me up and said, 'Lucian wants you to start work next week' and he made me practice stripping off on my settee at home before I went to Lucian's house in Holland Park. I like a bit of excitement but I was still mortified when I got there and he told me to take my clothes off. For the first picture I had to lie on the floorboards in a most uncomfortable position with Leigh and Nicola, the woman he married, and a dog.

"I was in agony and I thought about giving up. But we work hard in my family so I stuck it for the whole nine months. Leigh got rubbed out because he went to Scotland and Lucian needs you to be devoted. He won't work on the painting when you're not there." Ms Tilley, who has worked at the JobCentre in Denmark Street for 30 years and previously worked in nightclubs, modelled for Freud on her days off. "For the picture on the sofa I only had three days off in two years. Every weekend he expected me to be there and I couldn't go on holiday because I couldn't get a tan," she said.

"It was wonderful to spend time with such a fantastic person and see him working. Lucian has an opinion on everything and he was interested in my run-of-the-mill life."
Three years ago she sold an etching of herself she was given by Freud, whom she has lost touch with, for £26,000.
But she was astonished by the estimate Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, has attracted.
"I'm beside myself. Wait till I tell my mum," she said. "If I had the money I'd buy it myself because it's my favourite."

"I might go to the exhibition...
... I'm sure no one would recognize me." :-))

The Million dollar Lady

2008-05-15T15:47:00.007+01:00

Lucian Freud - Benefit supervisor sleeping, 1995

Lucian Freud nude sets world record at auction...

A painting of a naked JobCentre manager by by British artist Lucian Freud by British artist Lucian FreudLucian Freud is the most expensive picture by a living artist ever sold. The 85-year-old British artist's huge canvas is predicted to make millions for its owner, a European collector, at a Christie's sale on 13 May. The auction house is putting the 1 x 2 m picture on show at its King Street offices, the first time it has been seen in public in Britain.

When it goes under the hammer at Christie's in New York will it be for... (aprox.) $33.640.000

Wag the Dog

2008-05-14T22:36:00.000+01:00

Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail was smarter, the tail would wag the dog.

.... still the bird bobs its tail....
.... without any lullaby Who rock you to sleep tonight ?
- Who's that character?

- Do you know?
- Do you really know....... ?

Agnès Cadart - Una misteriosa persona!

2008-05-13T18:27:00.004+01:00

¿Puede ser Agnès Cadart o es un amigo de Agnès Cadart?
Una misteriosa persona!

Can it be "Agn%60s%20Cadart" or a friend of Agnès Cadart?
A mysterious person !

– Where to find this mystifying person ?

Paris love and Champ-de-Mars

2008-05-13T17:47:00.005+01:00

Champ-de-Mars is a lovely green area and public park between the Eiffel Tower and the Military Academy (École militaire) suitable for love & kisses and picnic... and a French pique-nique in Paris includes many kisses !

All French party contains much wine, (often) little music, a lot of talk and some new smiling faces. Today, I bought olives, bread and many good cheeses plus fresh papayas & honey melons. Sally was carrying blankets and a backpack with many bottles of win. A good start to a real party!
We were hoping to see Mme Agnès Cadart, but she didn’t show up today. – You are invited to my picnic next Monday, two week from now, as all my friends.
Bienvenue, Welcome, Herzlich Willkommen,
Accueillons Chaleureusement!

Happy couple, bride and groom... ?

2008-05-07T15:39:00.002+01:00

Gasto Flosse & Chirac

Paris in springtime is Lovely !

2008-05-03T13:29:00.000+01:00

SOIS JEUNE ET TAIS TOI ....... Be young and shut up......
Yes, Paris in springtime is Lovely, Okay, it’s maybe too many dogs and maybe too many unhappy people walking around, but it is a lovely town for me to live in for awhile. We have been talking about 1968 and “the revolution”, I’m too young to remember, but here it’s in the mind of many people.

Paris 1968 - Paris 2008 The student’s riots of Paris 1968 continue to divide the French 40 years on. We share memories and two bottles Côte du Rhône for 3.50€, not too bad.

Do "Not Too Bad" mean good? – Not necessarily (or always) but it implies something marginally better than 'bad'; something that is 'reasonable', but not much more than that - just about OK, or very slightly better.

It’s too bad… 1st of May, Philip said the Louvre was closed…. and Xavier said, They stole a holiday from us! Ascension is a holiday but it's today. This year Toussaint falls on a Saturday, and all agree that “Sarko” is bad! This is a bad year ! ! !

Note: Nicolas Sarkozy, de son nom complet; Nicolas, Paul, Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, souvent appelé «Sarko» …. but that's not too bad for a given name...!?

Okay, it’s maybe too many dogs and maybe too many unhappy people walking around here, but it is a lovely area for me to live in for awhile.

– So life is Not Too Bad after all, Happy me, just waiting for Agnès Cadart, entering my front door in Montmorency, saying; Salut, Comment ça va, Bonjour or Hello... ! ! !

See you soon, à bientôt, salut, au revoir, bonne journée.... Hi!
/Tally-Two

Paris in love, happy people walking around...

2008-05-02T15:10:00.000+01:00

Paris in love, happy people walking around...

2008-05-01T22:38:00.000+01:00

la Tour Eiffel

2008-04-30T11:43:00.010+01:00

This is a not a joke it’s a true service to you…
- Just smile.... the Eiffel Tower is calling!

New!

Since March 2008, you are now able to reserve the day and time of your visit, as well as buy your tickets in advance.

Advantages: (for the Eiffel Tower)

You will have paid for your visit and you’ll have your tickets in hand when you arrive (Even if you’re delayed and missed your slot time or tickets !!!!)
You will be able to better plan your visit by choosing the day and time (visits available every half hour).
You and your group will have access to the monument at the time reserved within the half hour slot indicated.
You will be able to begin a “privileged” discovery of the Eiffel Tower...within the half hour

Please note that prior groups without prior reservation do not receive priority access to the Eiffel Tower.

Reservations: reserve now ???

Group information and reservations:
Tel: 33 (0) 1 44 11 23 11
Fax: 33 (0) 1 44 11 23 22

This is not Agnès Cadart

2008-04-28T00:19:00.002+01:00

Oooobs!!! - This is not Agnès Cadart !!!

Aéroport Charles de Gaulle - Unbreak My Heart

2008-04-27T23:12:00.015+01:00

Aéroport Charles de Gaulle - Unbreak My Heart

I was 25 minutes late to CDG thanks to RER (Réseau “Express” Régional) and had to run once again to the terminal… But I’m a happy man !!!

I didn’t win 10 million Euros on Lotto today, but I received an email from Mme Agnès Cadart, a mail I didn’t expect to find in my mailbox, but I did !!! – Happy shit of me, she is alive !!! ....and I have received the first sign of life from her for over 100 years of waiting, it’s absolutely supernatural, it must be a sign of God and the Holy Spirit….?

Yeee-Haaa! Finally the good spirits is staying with me… this is maybe only a start, so let’s hope that Agnès Cadart keep on typing… maybe a new future is waiting in the mailbox tomorrow…..?

Oh yes, my mailbox has served me a divine email from somebody I didn’t expect to concern about me… she has caused me endless concern for many, many weeks and plenty of pain and headache.... ....but she has also caused me enormous happiness and hope for the day after tomorrow…

I'm concerned about you Mme Agnès Cadart and do hope you are okay even if your not typing for many weeks. I will continue listen to Toni Braxton “Unbreak My Heart” then the sunset turns me blue once more.

Je vous manquez sourire de chat et le soir, Take Care !

Paris & Beijing Olympic

2008-04-08T17:43:00.006+01:00

Whoops, someone tried to distinguish the torch.
I've never seen the Olympic like this.

I Wish You Were Here !!!

2008-03-23T02:03:00.010Z

I miss you......

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd ~ Wish you were here by thefastlane2hell

What's next?

2008-03-18T14:13:00.003Z

Mariza - Gente da minha terra

2008-03-17T10:12:00.024Z

Mariza Nunes - Gente da minha terra
Lyrics (Also translated from Portuguese)

Mariza Nunes was born in Moçambique, 16 December 1973, and has grown up in Portugal from the age of 3. She is a very lovely multicultural combination, with a father from Portugal and mother with origin roots from India. She has always been singing and I do hope she continue doing so...

- Listen to a voice that has been singing fado since the age of five. I do hope you can feel the magic and power in her performance.... It is a music that is real and so far away from Broadway productions...

– Can You feel it ?

I dedicate this song to my oldest daughter who can’t hear the music anymore... and I dedicate this song to you, Mme Agnès Cadart, who made my life worth living one day more...

Mariza Nunes (WideScreen & New Window)

Listen (also) to Chuva

Paris Love With A Little Help From My Friends!

2008-03-09T12:44:00.046Z

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
Lyrics

I can admit that my feelings for Paris are strong and my feelings for you, my friends and music even stronger.
So in combination… Yheeeee that feeling makes me just happy !!!!
So join me for a ride in Paris, you will not regret it, you are my friend !

Joe Cocker, Yes, this guy is amazing, he is an incredible singer, musician and he makes the music living as no one else. Enjoy !

Joe Cocker (WideScreen & New Window)
________________________________________________________________

Whitney Houston - Close your eyes and listen to her lovely voice, a great voice to remember when you start to doubt about yourself and maybe you begin to believe your own fears.
- But never loose hope, your friends will always wait for you !

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Soundtrack from "The Bodyguard"
Lyrics

Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love
Lyrics

Paris - Val-d'Oise / Montmorency

2008-02-19T12:01:00.004Z

Le Val-d'Oise

I'm living in Montmorency in Val-d'Oise (Paris), France.
I have learned (the hard way), after a study of my parking fee, that this is department number 95 ;-)

Yes, “Le Val-d'Oise est un département français, appartenant à la région Île-de-France” but all french people here call it “RP” the Région Parisienne and don’t like the administrative name Île-de-France. Anyhow it’s a lovely area to live in with two « parc naturels » filled with interesting people, some are jogging around with dogs trying to catch and hunt then down… AND just a few days ago I was eye witness when a small puppy was being “mudded” by two hungry dogs… So be careful when you enter the regional nature park in France…. ;-)

However:
Okay, it’s maybe too many dogs and too many rich people here to be “a normal French area” but it is a lovely area for me to live in for awhile.

A man told me that Val-d'Oise is named after the River Oise, but I have not seen any river accept La Seine, so it is maybe not so easy to find?

- What are you doing ????

2007-11-06T17:52:00.000Z

Hello My Friend ! - What are you doing ????

Shutdown France ?

2007-10-31T12:24:00.003Z

Hello, My Friend !
Hope you are fine? For me is it time close my house and leave France for a while. I’m packing and not so happy to do so, because I love this house, it was built in 1837 and brings me good atmosphere to relax. I’m sitting in my favorite ‘fauteuil’, you can see it near the window, with my laptop in my knee, listening to Luciano Pavarotti - "Nessun Dorma". He was a great opera star and I love to listen to him and I think you love his music too. The pictures are from the house and surrounding hill, near the village.Hope you are fine? I was very surprised and glad to read about you in the news. It’s a good for your career as a business woman!

The Winter is slowly coming to get you… don’t be afraid it happens every year:..
-- Yes, it’s time to lock and shutdown France for the winter?
very soon , Yes! Very soon!

France

2007-10-31T12:24:00.000Z

It was time for the yearly social gathering and party in Pe

What are you doing????

2007-10-26T09:19:00.000+01:00

Hello My Friend !

- What are you doing ????

What's next?

2007-10-26T08:46:00.000+01:00

and What Makes You a Good Friend?

friend

A person who would never intentionally hurt you, lie to you, deceive you, manipulate you, abuse you and who takes great care to be kind to you, honest with you, dependable and loyal. Someone who you trust without question because they have never given you any reason not to trust them. Someone you enjoy being around and look forward to seeing. Someone who would sacrifice them self for you.

YEAH!... a friend is a friend from the heart even when you are miles apart.

New Years Eve 2007

2007-10-13T21:53:00.004+01:00

Only 80 days left… For me is it time to start to prepare for the New Years Eve and the celebrations of 2008, together with my friends.

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nye/ImageGallery/2006/index.html

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/NYE/VantagePoints/Default.asp

What are you doing????

2007-10-13T21:53:00.003+01:00

Hello My Friend !
- What are you doing ????

The city with Fado

2007-09-24T22:51:00.000+01:00

Hello My Friend !
- What are you doing ????

African Queen

2007-09-14T23:49:00.000+01:00

2face idibia - african queen
Uppladdat av Afrik-Mali-Bko-Badala

Music video with 2face Idibia: African Queen (4:36)
Lyrics

2face Idibia or Innocent Ujah Idibia (real name), is today one of the most popular artists in Nigeria. Last year was he given the MTV Europe Music Awards for "Best African Act".

I was listening to the music for the first time in French Polynesia, on the ferry between Moorea and Papeete. The music went directly into my hart and still bears in mind me off all beauty in real friendship.

Kareem Salama: Baby, I'm a soldier

2007-09-14T23:41:00.002+01:00

Music video with Kareem Salama: Baby, I'm a soldier (4:52)

Lyrics

Update New link: Kareem Salama

Out of time

2007-09-13T03:15:00.000+01:00

Hi!

I’m totally out of time for the moment and will not be able to update the blog every week.

See you Soon!

Mariza "Chuva"

2007-09-10T02:10:00.000+01:00

The final curtain!

2007-09-07T10:46:00.000+01:00

Today is a sad day for us all,

tenor Luciano Pavarotti is dead

He was the Maestro, Il Divo, the greatest opera star and will now be singing together with the angels, soprano Maria Callas and tenor Enrico Caruso....

He was a great performer and will be Remembered !

He had the charisma and brought music to everybody. His charisma also enabled him to burst through the barricades of taste, class, repertoire and media that separate classical music from pop and rock music.

Pavarotti was a great opera star,
but first and foremost for us a great star!

The Three Tenors and colleagues, Domingo or José Carreras is now only two..... Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time 2007-09-06, in a age of 71 years.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5is6JB4dX0JfBxhTz8_m_DfHCVhLA

More news at: AFP.com ”Agence France-Presse”
English - www.afp.com/english/home/
Français - www.afp.com/francais/home/

Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma

2007-09-07T10:44:00.000+01:00

Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
Uppladdat av Luciano-Pavarotti

Värmland Classic Festival

2007-09-07T09:13:00.000+01:00

It’s time for the yearly music event for 'Classic Music Lovers' in my home town “The Värmland Classic Festival”

In the evening of the 5th of September was José Carreras on the stage together with Värmlandsoperans Sinfonietta conducted by David Giménez.

It was a lovely Open Air Concert with José Carreras, the brilliant tenor, and master from Barcelona. He is so brilliant, and was performing a great concert for us all.

Open Air Concerts is something special and I’m happy to be given the opportunity to take part in the event like this, only 5 minutes walk from home.

Thanks José for a grate evening and Welcome back !!!

You can find more information (in Swedish) about “The Värmland Classic Festival” at the official website:
http://www.varmlandclassic.org

The Police are back together and on a world tour…

2007-08-30T23:53:00.000+01:00

Yesterday evening, the 29th of August, was it time for a concert for all Music Lovers!

The concert with Sting and the Police @ Stockholm Globe Arena. It’s the first concert in the World tour. I was lucky to hold tickets for the concert - It was a great concert!!!

”Message in a bottle”, ”Every breath you take”, ”Can’t stand losing you” and ”Roxanne”… ”Every little thing she does is magic” is a lovely in a mix of pop, reggae, calypso and jazz… Its lovely to hear Gordon Sumner alias Sting (song & base guitar), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums) playing together again.

Website: The Police Tour Website

http://www.thepolicefile.com/

Back home

2007-08-30T23:40:00.000+01:00

Pictures

(will upload some pictures her when the time is back too me again)

LAX --- Los Angelse --- Where is my bag????

2007-08-30T23:33:00.001+01:00

Los Angeles

Where is my bag????

Time to Flyaway...

2007-08-30T23:08:00.000+01:00

Departure Faa'a

The last picture of Moorea...

Departure

You are looking but can't see anybody looking for you...

– No happy surprise are waiting for you... and nobody is waiting at Faa’a, happy too see you!

Don’t know why, maybe I got some sort of a flying virus infection, but I’m always looking for and hoping that somebody is gone meet me at the airport.....

AND I will still be looking for a smiling face and for a friend !!!

See you Soon !!!

It’s time for me to start to prepare for some new trips. The first one is going to Lisboa,

Portugal

and the next, in November, to New York,

and after that a new trip for Auckland, New Zealand and Sidney, Australia.

Le Méridien Tahiti, Punaauia

2007-08-30T23:06:00.001+01:00

Le Méridien Tahiti is located along the beach in the Punaauia region 15 kilometres from Papeete.

Le Méridien Tahiti

Friends....

Bungalows for 2 nights

The night is coming...

....gold over the Island of Moorea....

....

For my girls?

For my friend?

For Lunch !

Auira

2007-08-30T23:02:00.036+01:00

Pension Auira - Breakfast at 07:25

Kayaking in the lagoon...

Kayaking in the lagoon (Pension Auira)

Kayaking in the lagoon (the beach on Maupiti main land)

Motu Auira – The Oceanside

Motu Auira – The lava rock and reef on the Oceanside

The Green Auira

A red dream still floating in the lagoon...

Pics from Maupiti

2007-08-30T23:02:00.000+01:00

1963, terrible drame aux îles Sous-le-Vent Manuia la mal nommée fait La passe de Maupiti a mauvaise réputation

Survient alors une tragédie qui fera 15 victimes...

‘Co Co’ - Pictures from Maupiti Airport

2007-08-30T23:00:00.001+01:00

‘Co Co’ is a nickname of a lovely woman filled with plenty of energy! It must be wonderful to have your own chef at home, waiting for you with ‘Saumon a`la Crème au Muscadet’ and ‘Asperges au Beurre d’Estragon’ or ‘Girolles a`la Créme Fraiche’ .... after a hard day's work. :-)
Happy Co Co !!!

Note: As far as I know is the man on the pictures not the chef back home…

Arriving to Maupit Airport

2007-08-30T22:55:00.000+01:00

..... and making Fishy Business....

Happy to arrive to Maupit Airport with a friend and waiting together for the "Airport Transfer" and the next flight from Bora Bora.

The happy shit of mine was "happy" paying 3200 xpf extra to Air Tahiti for the doubtful privilege to re-booking my flight from Papeete to Maupiti via Bora Bora, and instead be given the opportunity to fly together with a friend via Raiatea. Nevertheless, I’m still waiting for the same airplane from Bora Bora... Fishy Business, but with a bright memory for life!

Happy to be at Maupiti after a flight from PPT via Raiatea

No Gilbert = No Transfer to Auira...

Happy to be at Maupiti

...Waiting...

Gilbert… arriving after 2 h ("Airport Transfer")

Waiting…

Waiting for the next flight from Bora Bora...

The Lounge of Maupiti Airport - BYOB

2007-08-30T22:54:00.000+01:00

The lovely Open Air Bar of Maupiti, with plenty off choices between two types of water and one type of beer. Enjoy and just take a seat in the spacey Lounge of Maupiti.

Diners Lounge in Maupiti Airport has not opened yet, so if you are expecting to stay on ground for many hours make sure to bring your own. Frequent travelers of Maupiti islands prefer the “BYOB concept” and bring there own bottles. So don’t forget to Bring Your Own Bottle for Any of Our Meals… in Maupiti. And if you are coming from Europe, don’t forget “Salt & Pepper”!

MAU - Maupiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia

2007-08-30T22:53:00.000+01:00

Happy Landing!

Maupiti is a lovely island and a beautiful airport to be landing on. The runway of Maupiti is only 956 × 23 meter and one of the shortest in French Polynesia. You can compare it with the runway of FAAA (3420 × 45 meter) witch is 350 % of Maupiti.

- So Happy Landing !

MAU - Maupiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia (PF)

Latitude: 16°25'35"S
Longitude: 152°14'36"W
Runways: 1
Longest: 956 × 23 m

PLEASE, Read the instructions for the Life Jackets before take-off and landing. Check with your fingers, under yours seat, to find the Life Jacket in place.

Safety advice!

Even if you are an expert or semi-professional passenger or as me, flying 5 days a week (or more) and only are interested to survive. – Please READ The Safety Instructions every morning when its time to fly. It’s extra important to read how to use the Life Jackets, when flying in French Polynesia, and I do hope you understand why?

So Please! Read the instructions for the Life Jackets before take-off and check with your fingers, under yours seat, to find the Life Jacket in place.

As a fairly frequent flyer and member of SGU-society, knowing the physical facts for short take-off & landing under normal and poor conditions (windy and raining). I recommend you to tighten the safety belt a little bit extra 60 seconds before take-off & landing. Crashing into water or trying to go down on water is not a soft way to stop flying.

When landing (and Maupit is good as an example) is it important to have enough speed to be airborne and enough frictional resistance and power to be able stop, within a time period of 10 to 15 seconds. Normally is it no problems but you newer knows when the clock is calling for you...

Maupit has a runway with water on both ends and is good as an example. Because it’s bloody wet on both ends of the runway and about 400 meters deep only a few meters out in beautiful waves of the ocean. The reef on the Oceanside is the best place to take a morning swim… If you are “lucky” Crashing and standing in the blue lagoon, be happy!

The reef on the Oceanside

Terminal building of Maupiti

Moorea - Fare Mato Tea (Haapiti)

2007-08-30T22:52:00.010+01:00

The bungalow at Fare Mato Tea (Haapiti) is waiting for me... it will be my bungalow and home for 3 nights...

My bungalow at Fare Mato Tea (Haapiti) is waiting for me at 2.pm.

Mme. So'raia and the bungalow are glad and happy waiting for me.

My bungalow view

The end of the day is coming without a sound. My view from the bungalow is extra ordinary and so beautiful. I’m soundless sharing it all with myself and my diary... a little bit sad to be alone. Thinking about Janis Joplin and the lyrics in “So Sad To Be Alone”

It's sad, so sad to be alone
It's sad, so sad to be alone
No friends to help you, no family no home
It's sad, so sad to be alone
….

My blue bungalow view...

... and with gold

Papeete to Maupiti PPT-MAU

2007-08-30T22:52:00.009+01:00

It was a lovely sunny Sunday and hard to find a taxi or ‘le truck’ in Papeete. I was hitchhiking with a happy family from the town center to the airport.

A Sunny Sunday turns soon into rain in French Polynesia, its part of the Paradise and noting to talk about. If you do, it will scare presumptive visitors and tourists from coming to the Paradise... - So don't!!!

Waiting in Moorea...

2007-08-30T22:52:00.008+01:00

Waiting in Moorea... for the future to come?

I’m on holyday and have been off from work for some weeks, so for me is it easy to adapt the leisurely speed in Moorea. It’s easy to see how the rhythm of the ferry traffic is affecting the life in Moorea in many ways. And how the people of Moorea are waiting, waiting and waiting...

I was waiting this morning too... to see my friend from Moorea, once more. It was a new type of lonely weekend at the beautiful island of Moorea. I wasn’t prepared for it and was now thinking about my friends back home and what was going on...

The Buss is waiting...

Le Truck is waiting...

.... and God is waiting too...

.... and the port of Moorea is waiting for...

....for The Ferry !

Time's Up!

2007-08-30T22:52:00.007+01:00

Time's Up! ... I must leave Moorea now....
… and catch the ferry to Papeete

I’m still sleepy after the long lonely tropical night, lasting for 13 hours... The alarm clock is “kindly” waking me up before dawn. I open up the door looking for signs of the Sun, but its pit dark outside my bungalow...

- Time to take a quick shower and to make a gigantic coup of café

Time's Up!

Pictures of Moorea

2007-08-30T22:52:00.005+01:00

Pictures of Moorea

(will upload some pictures her when the time is back too me again)

Den lilla byn

2007-08-30T22:52:00.003+01:00

The lovely shopping center at 'Centre commercial Le Petit village Haapiti' - "Den lilla byn" is providing me with crême glacée and le pamplemousse :-)

After water the most important to find to stay alive and survive in the paradise...

Le Petit village

The Petrol station

- You can save up to 100% just not to stop....

Happy car wash of the year 2007

2007-08-30T22:51:00.005+01:00

I’m so happy to see you and my car again, what a happy coincident!

- Just look at the shining and glowing car ! - It’s an amassing result !!!

Car washing is a tuff and hard duty and sometimes performed and handled by uneducated trainees. But her can we see the good result after a long time of hard work at the University and many years of concentrated study in the art of horsepower’s and speedy cars.

As you can see is the result of the yearly car wash a dirty bath sponge, and not a brand new car !!!

A friend of mine - Fighting demons in the fridge...

2007-08-30T22:51:00.004+01:00

WARNING - Hunting down demons in the fridge...

After a long time of awareness is it finally Time to kill the monster that are stealing the precious Chocolate and eating-up the food !

“The Orange Shadow”

2007-08-30T22:51:00.003+01:00

“The Orange Shadow”

The mysterious woman with a name, a voice and a beautiful face with a lovely hair… – Why so shy and timid?

She is a friend to a friend too me, afraid ‘too be’ and maybe don’t want to become a friend to me? For us who is ‘out in the sun’ is perhaps the name of the shadow a clue.... But still is it sad to find a shy good neighbor, to a good friend of mine.

Quiet & silent
You don’t have to say “keep quiet” or "be quiet".... It’s maybe a tacit understanding ("unspoken agreement") in a quiet way, but on the quite "unobtrusively" way is something fading away.

The answer is:
The life you are living, is the real life you are living together with us... and you are already part of our life !

– I want to be you friend, why don’t you let me in?

PLEASE !!!

"I JUST WANT TO BE FRIENDS"

Moorea - Space holder for a friend of mine

2007-08-30T22:51:00.001+01:00

Oh dear! Moorea is waiting....!!!

Time to leave Papeete for fresh air and lebensraum !!! (Lebensraum (German for "habitat" or "living space"))

One of the Best & Worst place to live in French Polynesia is probably Moorea and Papeete (so different)? – But why compare? Papeete is fairly ok and almost certainly an okay place to work in, and Moorea is just lovely and absolutely the best place to live. – So at this moment I hope Moorea is waiting for me! I need to stay for 2 days and need accommodations for 3 nights.

I don’t want to waste my time. I’ve been waiting too long... at 22000 kilometers distance.

– Friends and cheerful people of Moorea, are you ready to meet me?
– I’m on my way… I’ve been waiting to see you !!!

Oh dear! It's Time to run... the ferry is waiting...

On the Aremiti 5 Ferry, 'top deck' is the place for lovers of the sea!

Le Truck is waiting... at the Port of Moorea....

.... and the fruit is waiting...

Europcar and Fleur is waiting for me!

.... and this is my number....

Moorea - Look at the vegetation and trees...

– I know that my friend is occupied and very busy working today… I hope you are as me, happy waiting and glad to see me later in the evening too...

...... and hopefully....

...... and hopefully are le pamplemousse waiting in the fridge too ?

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The bungalow at Fare Mato Tea (Haapiti)

My bungalow at Fare Mato Tea (Haapiti) is waiting for me at 2.pm, and Fare Mato Tea don’t expect me to arrive before 1.30 pm.

– How to spend some hours in Moorea before 1.30 pm?

I don’t want to waste my time. I’ve been traveling and waiting too long…

..... Let’s see if my music-friend is at home and if it's possible to go for a swim at the beach? I have been flying for 3 days and need to cool down and maybe, if possible, get a shower in the garden.

What a happy surprise "DéDé" is at home and the wife is just preparing her self to go for a swim !
Friends of mine, "DéDé and Babsy" He is an extraordinary performer of jazz music, and a Lover of rhythm...

Papeete

2007-08-30T17:39:00.001+01:00

Hôtel de Ville

A helping friend of mine – Thanks!

Hôtel de Ville de Pape'ete

A place for you when you need it…

VAIETE

PPT

FAA'A International Airport, PAPEETE

2007-08-30T16:59:00.000+01:00

FAA'A International Airport, PAPEETE Society Islands, French Polynesia

PPT Arrival time 03:40 am (in the early, early morning) its pit black outside and WHAT TO DO for many hours at an Airport without a normal Lounge?

This is not my ordinary Airport, but I have been here before and know fairly what to expect. Plenty of people are waiting for somebody too arrive tonight, but not for me. You are looking but can't see anybody looking for you...

– No happy surprise are waiting for you... and nobody is waiting at Faa’a, happy too see you!

Don’t know why, maybe I got some sort of a flying virus infection, but I’m always looking for and hoping that somebody is gone meet me at the airport…

I’m on holiday, now, and ‘off from work’ for some weeks. Normal for me is to leave my hometown in the early morning and fly back after work in the evening, 5 days/week.

AND I’m Still looking for somebody… – a smiling faces, a friend…

– Hello are you looking for me…???

But if nobody is waiting for you! – Who are you waiting for, who are you expecting to be present at the Airport and waiting for you, at 03:40 am in Faa’a International Airport in the morning of 2007-06-22 ???

Happy to have a friend to share the night with...

– Are you looking for a Buss Transfer at FAA'A International Airport... ???

FAA'A Morning traffic, and no real hiking spirit... – Must be exhausted !!!

Time to take le truck to the town center...

Le Truck, the public transport
The bus service in French Polynesia is called le truck, this is a great way to get around and is a definite must for every traveler. Le truck are unique vehicles, best explained as a truck converted into a bus. The windows are open, and there's just one bench seat down each side of the vehicle. Le truck is much more than a great way to get around, it's a great travel experience.
The services are most frequent on the more populated islands, so it's no surprise that Tahiti has the most extensive service. After Tahiti, both Moorea and Bora Bora are reasonably well connected, however the le truck service on many of the less visited islands is much less reliable and in many cases, non-existant.

Time to Pack & Time to Flyaway...

2007-08-30T16:02:00.000+01:00

At The 20th of June, 9.30 am was it time for me to start a new trip for about 3 days and 22000 kilometres. I was lucky to hold a set of tickets for Air France and Star Alliance, and was briefly prepared for a meeting with possible, and too me unknown, relative friends of my family in PF.

And I was truly happy to have Time to meet a business friend again, and Time to fly to the lovely island of Maupiti !

CDG Paris

France

It was cloudy over France...

"The end of France..."

Pics from Maupiti (more to come)

2007-05-30T16:25:00.004+01:00

The lagoon one early morning, Motu Auira, Maupiti

The reef on the ocean side, Motu Auira, Maupiti

Est Est Est !!!

Maupiti

Maupiti

Motu Auira, Maupiti

The blue lagoon at night, Maupiti

My view from the bungalow, Motu Auira, Maupiti

Airport Shuttle

Maupiti – French Polynesia / Polynésie française

2007-05-29T14:20:00.002+01:00

Mermaids of Maupiti

2007-05-28T14:19:00.003+01:00

Will start to upload some of my resized pictures on the blog, just to give you an idée of what you can find on the coral island of Maupiti.

For me is the small island part of my own restart of life and a new turning point after a long time of travel in Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. It’s much easier to find a perfect sushi in Vancouver or a spectacular and beautiful view up in The Rocky Mountains, but Maupiti and the people here, gave me something more and filled my hart with energy and hope for the future.

I will go back as soon as possible to refill my hart with love and kindness. My skin on my nose loves the atmosphere and the mermaids helping hand in the lagoon, when I’m floating in the sunny ocean.

Kind-hearted and lovely the mermaid is part of the sea. If you are totally open-minded, you maybe can become a friend...

Lily-of-the-valley

2007-05-18T22:58:00.000+01:00

Liljekonvalj - 'lilium convallium' (latin)

The English name is Lily-of-the-valley
You can find plenty of them in my garden. graceful and good smelling. Whey are free living just connected in theirs own network, deep under the surface down in the soil...

Springtime is lovely! Take your time and Enjoy!

Sockie

2007-05-16T03:09:00.002+01:00

This is the owner of “Sockie”. Sockie is a beautiful black cat with white socks. The owner is looking lovely in the tiara and is smelling good like a Swedish Midsummer night...

The Flowers and flower decorations are rewards and part of the owner’s daily and very appreciated work. So that’s way I suppose that Sockie also loves flowers.

Agnès Cadart 2007 Auira, Maupiti

Hibiscus

2007-05-16T03:06:00.000+01:00

Hibiscus is one of my favorit plants and flower. This lovely one is living in my bedroom and not so easy to find.

Please reade more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus

Alma af Stoneridge

2007-05-16T03:01:00.000+01:00

Alma af Stoneridge 2007-05-14

She is a friendly partner and my companion sharing my dinner table and bed. As a true "Holy Birma" she is very polite and always taking care of me. She is today an old lady at the age of 8 years.

Typ of cat: Holy Birma

More about Birma Cats can be found at:
http://www.birma.nu/ (in Swedish)
http://www.nordsternchens-katzen.de/Rasseportraits/HeiligeBirma.htm (in German)
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=%22holy%2Bbirma%22&meta=

Dinner 2007-05-14

2007-05-16T02:56:00.000+01:00

Dinner 2007-05-14 A classic Italian style with direct imported products from Rome.

- Four slices of Prosciutto Crudo is perfect for a dinner for one person

Breakfast 2007-05-14

2007-05-16T02:31:00.000+01:00

Breakfast 2007-05-14 A classic Italian style with direct imported products from Rome.

The salami is delicious: Salame Saipa ps Tipo Corallina

The bread is Swedish Vika Knäckebröd

Dinner 2007-05-13

2007-05-16T02:17:00.000+01:00

Dinner 2007-05-13 with “Sill & Potatoes” - A classic dinner in the Swedish springtime.

A plate with Sill & Potatoes consist of: Herring, Dill, Créme Fraiche, Onion, and new picked Fresh Potatoes.

Sill & Potatoes is part of an old tradition in Sweden. It’s very delicious and normally combined with a snaps and lots of songs together with happy friends. A Swedish Midsummer without Sill & Potatoes on the table is not possible for a genuine Swede.

The Swedish Midsummer and the Midnight Sun is something special for all Vikings!

Please come to see you self and taste the Swedish Sill & Potatoes. Feel the power of the Midsummer and the Midnight Sun and be delighted in the beauty land of Vikings, called Sweden.

Energy to restart?

2007-05-07T13:23:00.001+01:00

Is travelling and hiking a way to get enough distance, time and energy to restart your life all over again?

-Do you know the answer?

If not - Why not give it a try?

I will try to share some of my experience and some of my photos with you, just to give you a picture of some of my personal experience after a lap round the glob. A lap a little bit more rapidly then my first intention,..... but that's a different story.

Some of the pictures can also be found in "Resedagboken" together with a text in Swedish, special prepared for my Swedish friends.

Welcome to Tally-Two !