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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Meet the Interpretation and Guiding Club
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Sunday, 31 January 2010. Meet the Interpretation and Guiding Club. So, having just arrived in Kyoto (and dropped bags off at Mrs Hashimoto's quaint little ryokan) and then walking up Chawan-zaka (Teapot Lane) to the famous Kiyomizu Temple, it was somewhat unexpected to be approached by a smiling young Japanese girl on the temple's steps. This is after all the land of being reserved and extremely polite. Do you want a guide? Our young student guides all clutched colourful not...
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Recipe wanted!
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Tuesday, 1 February 2011. This was the treat that meant Sansibar was nearly always included on our walks: the warmer Schokoladenkuchen mit flüssigem Kern auf Himbeeren und Vanillerahm. Hot and melting chocolate cake on raspberries and vanilla cream. I've emailed the chef to ask if he would be willing to share the recipe as this dessert does not appear in the various Sansibar cook books. So far I have not received a reply, but I've been experimenting on my own. Only the blood...
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Les boules, c'est cool!
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Saturday, 31 July 2010. Les boules, c'est cool! Oh la la the Brits. Have discovered that boules is now becoming the height of cool. Either that or the editors of the G2 section of The Guardian have had a little too much sun. What next? Will Pastis replace Pimms as the Poms' summer drink of choice? It's funny how a game I've played all my life, is now chic with les rosbifs. Then it's Team A's turn again. First to 13 points wins! Thanks to Mr Aventures. 1 August 2010 at 11:17.
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Andrew Brown's "Inyenzi" - recommended reading for Rwanda
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Friday, 23 July 2010. Andrew Brown's "Inyenzi" - recommended reading for Rwanda. A few weeks ago during the pre-world cup South Africa hype I read an interesting interview with Andrew Brown, a young author from Cape Town. His first novel "Inyenzi". If this got you curious, leave me a message and I'll put the book in the post to you - but only on condition that you forward it to the next person interested. 17 August 2010 at 21:00. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Searching...
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Funky word clouds
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Thursday, 9 September 2010. This is snapshot of Petites et Grandes Aventures created with Wordle. A handy little tool for generating “word clouds” from text (or websites) that you provide. You'll see, the clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. I think it's a funky visualisation toy. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes - and just have fun! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Every day arou...
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Ouagadougou's best kept secret: Lebanese Manoushe
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Monday, 24 January 2011. Ouagadougou's best kept secret: Lebanese Manoushe. Now that I have a few days off work I've finally got around to post a recipe that I meant to share from my last trip to Ouagadougou, the vibrant capital of Burkina Faso. We conducted our journalism workshop at the Hotel Splendide and every day for lunch we whizzed up to Chez Simon. Just a block away. It's a buzzing little Lebanese food mecca known for its cheap eats and delicious pastries. Add a smal...
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Bad Fortune
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Sunday, 27 January 2008. Day 2 in Tokyo. We start off with a great breakfast of Soba noodles in a traditional little restaurant in the old Asakusa neighbourhood. Sitting on tatami mats sharing the table with locals and slurping the delicious noodle soup is a great start into the day and it's now time to explore Tokyo despite freezing temperatures. I am shocked at my fate. Fortunately Guy from Notes From The Field. Drew No. 52. 31 January 2010 at 17:20. Subscribe to my blog.
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: Short stop over in Warsaw
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Tuesday, 7 December 2010. Short stop over in Warsaw. A boutique hotel housed in the beautiful arcaded 18th century Mokrowski Palace and a great place to unwind. Plus it has fantastic weekend deals and lies smack bang in the historic centre of Warsaw - the Stare Miasto. Freta 33, New Town, Warsaw. And of course I also had to sample Polish cuisine. I went to Restauracja Pod Samsonem a local restaurant just down the road known for its tasty Polish food infused with a Jewish...
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: 9 hours in Kyoto
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Monday, 8 August 2011. 9 hours in Kyoto. Japanese capsule hotels have always intrigued me. Who stays in these places? How do you sleep in a space barely bigger than a coffin? And don't you get woken up by the snoring of your neighbours? On my last trip to Kyoto I decided to check out 9 hours. A new capsule hotel with a difference. 9 hours couldn't have made for a starker contrast. Tradition and high-tech, elaborate rituals and minimalist design - in Japan it's all side b...
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Petites et Grandes Aventures: They're big, hairy and really look like us
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Petites et Grandes Aventures. Friday, 5 March 2010. They're big, hairy and really look like us. Staring into the eyes of a mountain gorilla in their natural habitat is a special experience. And it takes on an even greater significance when you think that there are only 700 mountain gorillas remaining in the world today. All of them live in central African nature reserves on the border between Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Last year I traveled to Uganda to report on refugees in Northern Uganda. Check out this...
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