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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)

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

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.

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

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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.