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Trip in South East Asia

Guillaume — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:12:31 +0000

It all started in Phnom Penh. The meeting point was “La Cantina” restaurant on the river side of P.P. Sophie was coming from Siem Reap, Yannick from Bangkok and me from Saigon. Thanh couldn’t make it this time because of his family house construction business in Vinh Long. We decided to go strait to Laos. It was really an amazing place … enjoy the pictures.

What is the best hum ???

Guillaume — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:06:15 +0000

While Christmas in the French mountains is very nice, it’s also a little “classical” isn’t it ? What will you prefered my friends, the one in the Alps, Les Contamines or the one in Eden Garden in Phu Quoc?

Yannick in “Les Contamines”

Guillaume in “Eden Phu Quoc”

Online pills and safety

Guillaume — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:39:51 +0000

Sorry my friends, from now on, I have to ask you to get registered for comments on my blog. Not because I need to know who is behind the comments (registering is free, I will not ask about you or who you are, just an email address) but because a #@! spam me with drugs/pills online links (30 comments this morning). I will find another way to get ride of those spammer.

It reminds me that you have really to take care of ordering drugs/medication on line: I just received this email, I’m not sure it’s real or not (hoax), but I really believe it’s not safe to order pills online:

—–Original Message—–

Please, be really careful with online pill/drug vendors:

Some of them are currently facing a big sanitary problem: rats invaded their stocks, they contaminated the packages with Cholera (wikipedia link)

In any case, do not purchase pills/drug online, it may contain diseases. The real pharmacies are much safer, nobody knows what’s inside the pills purchased online (BBC Warning).

The Princess, the fisher man and me

Guillaume — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:46:03 +0000

Hoooo Lord ! This book is so amazing — The princess and the fisher man — she just write in the perfect way — Minh Tran Huy –. Much love to Rebecca for this wonderful gift (the book). I’ve just finished it on her questions about the Japanese writer/book and I ask to myself the same questions: What happen to Nam? How did he reacted reading this book? She is French but all along this book you can feel the Vietnamese blood running in her heart. Her love to Nam is the expression of the way of love in Vietnam. Following this story, I learned about some new Vietnamese tales (I specially appreciated the on why the sea is salty) . As a French person living in Vietnam, I feel very close to every feelings she described in this book, specially the silent way of loving someone and the silent way of being jealous.

Thank you so much Minh Tran Huy, many Vietnamese Friends, that I also fall in love, told my that your name is a boy name, but reading your book, … you are really a French Lady with a Vietnamese sentimental education.

(click on the image for fnac link to the book)

Social Networking

Guillaume — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:55:27 +0000

Well, I put myself on different networks since a few days:

radar: A photo streaming, sort of flickr for mobile phone (Just get access by sending to me an email: riviereg-at-gmail.com (replace -at- by @) )
twitter: A sort of sms streaming forum, just click on the link to follow me

Back in my Blog

Guillaume — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:37:27 +0000

I did not post for a long time, I was quite busy and I faced technical problems with Photos on montailleur.org … now everything is ok. For the news, well, a lot of things in this part of the world … last month I was working Paris and in Can Tho (South Vietnam, Mekong Delta). It was very Nice, Thanh invited me for a little trip in his family it was very nice. Today I live in Cao Dat Street, in District 5 of Saigon (Cho Lon) the place of Marguerite Duras … it’s so nice, look at this scenery from my balcony:

I also started my Japanese courses, I’m not so good on this but my teacher, Rinko, is nice and very patient with me :) I will post soon on this specific subject, learning the magic language of Japan during the next week.

Another point, as you may have noticed, there is a new iflickr Album in my Photos … Taken with my iPhone (I will post soon an this fantastic little device)

Under the waterfall

Guillaume — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:50:48 +0000

You’d better know how to swim in order to search for house renting in SAIGON during the rainy season. How to describe this … Well, you are slowly driving your motorcycle, trying to survive on the road (did I told you about driving in SAIGON yet?), dry, when your passenger suddenly ask:

Isn’t it a wall of water that coming to us?

At this moment, you know that you are in big troubles, it’s just like driving a motorcycle under a waterfall … trying to stay alive (stay dry, forget it). We decided to stop searching for this house and take Hai Ba Trung street, escape the rain in district 4 … bad idea … close to the market, in the front of the place where we used to go for Massage with Sophie. The Hai Ba Trung street is more a river than a street … so it was like, driving under the waterfall and arriving into the river.

At this time we went straight to Thanh place … wet

The perfection of rising sun in Vietnam

Guillaume — Fri, 25 May 2007 06:03:40 +0000

I went to BANA last year, a fresh place close to Danang. This was the cheapest hotel ever in Vietnam, 20 000 VND for a bed (~ 1 Euro). The goal of this expedition was to see the rising sun at 4-5 AM. After running away from the Lan Co Beach resort (a little too sunny, not possible to go on the beach, the sand was too hot), we decided, 9 persons to go to BANA mountains. We did use a very simple transportation system: Bus, walk, bus again, xe om (motorcycles), bus again again and car, we finally arrived on the top of BANA mountains … it’s a fresh place and a good place. We did searched for a small hotel, 9 persons … op op … all in the same room, cheap and funny, we went around and waited for the rising sun.

And then, at 5 AM, it was the perfection of the rising sun, photos does not really deserve the beauty of this moment, but it was a really very beautiful moment of life.

Saigon - Paris - Montailleur - Paris - Saigon

Guillaume — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:52:57 +0000

I will come back soon in France, from the 8 to 25 of June. 3 years without the French spring, this is long … One thing that you discover for sure, when you travel for a long time, is that, your country, your family, your friends, you miss all this a lot. I still drink sometime the GENEPI (not yet finished), gift of Mr. B. it’s a part of the Alps in Asia. I did not send him a letter to thanks, because I’m lazy and stupid, but each time I drink it, it remind me the Alps, the Savoie and the cellar fresh drinking time.

A good friend, Mrs Shin (ì‹ ), ask me for some pictures of France, so this time, I put on line some pictures of the Alps mountains

PS: Many peoples told me that it’s difficult to post comments on montailleur.org, so I decided to remove all authentication for comments, please feel free to post, no need anymore to login.

O’ Rainy Time

Guillaume — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:15:04 +0000

Welcome in rainy season … my favorite season in South Vietnam. This night (I just wake up) there was a rain outside of the house, full of thunder and full. It’s beautiful weather, specially when you are inside your house. I’m a little sad this time.You feel always like this when friend go away … Mandrantosoa (I hope no mistake in your full name) is going back to Madagascar … with who I will sing at 3 AM, hum? before you decided to go, you did not think about this, hum? Anyway, I hope I will come to see you in Mada or wherever you are.