<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083</id><updated>2011-06-07T23:40:57.896-07:00</updated><category term='Photos'/><category term='capsaicin'/><category term='disney sea'/><category term='comic'/><category term='Fitow'/><category term='hot sauce'/><category term='komoro'/><category term='Tsukiji'/><category term='tiphon'/><category term='Typhoon'/><category term='Tokyo boys'/><title type='text'>Adventures in Japan  Aventures Nippones</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-5066806685130698338</id><published>2007-11-11T01:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T01:54:10.608-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Qui veut des yeux!?</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;	&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/1962550824/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2412/1962550824_7ebc1a4ba4.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	&lt;span class="flickr-caption"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/1962550824/"&gt;Eyeball donuts!&lt;/a&gt;, originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pabloberlanga/"&gt;pabloberlanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;				&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;	Halloween est la fête la plus importante de l'année chez nous:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est difficile de faire mieux qu'une fête païenne pour laquelle tout le monde compétitionne pour trouver le déguisement le plus épouvantable à ses enfants, pour mieux emmerder les voisins du quartier en leur soutirant des bonbons et passer le reste de la soirée à manger du sucre! Et en plus, c'est l'anniversaire de Crista!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour l'occasion j'ai fait un peu de popotte: Admirez mes yeux injectés de sang bien gluant! Ils ont eu un succès fou auprès des trolls et morts-vivants du coin. (Nous avons organisé la fête d'Halloween dans la court de l'ambassadeur comme l'année dernière.) Cliquez sur l'image pour voir les autres photos sur Flickr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En passant, Jérémie déguisé en Naruto et Manu en Sasuke. Deux personnages de dessins animé japonais. Crista a fait les costumes elle meme!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-5066806685130698338?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/5066806685130698338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=5066806685130698338' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5066806685130698338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5066806685130698338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/11/qui-veut-des-yeux.html' title='Qui veut des yeux!?'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2412/1962550824_7ebc1a4ba4_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-5316744202646536392</id><published>2007-10-28T05:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-18T16:57:33.528-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>Tsukiji en noir et sang....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/1789785722/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2081/1789785722_a614fcc3d2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="flickr-caption"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/1789785722/"&gt;IMG_2692.JPG&lt;/a&gt;, originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pabloberlanga/"&gt;pabloberlanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Voici quelques nouvelles photos du marché de poisson à Tsukiji. Cette fois nous sommes arrivé assez tôt pour la vente aux enchères des thons. Allez les voir dans l'album Flickr si le coeur vous en dit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Voici le &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/sets/72157602758055852/"&gt;lien&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-5316744202646536392?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/5316744202646536392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=5316744202646536392' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5316744202646536392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5316744202646536392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/10/tsukiji-en-noir-et-sang.html' title='Tsukiji en noir et sang....'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2081/1789785722_a614fcc3d2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-5230252272453745513</id><published>2007-10-15T03:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-15T04:03:12.903-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le français Cadien de Louisiane, ca c'est bien beau.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param value="http://youtube.com/v/djzvwE_9Pj8" name="movie"&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://youtube.com/v/djzvwE_9Pj8" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Rien à voir avec le Japon. Je lisais un article sur la Louisiane récemment et j'ai cherché un peu sur Internet, curieux d'entendre le français du sud des états-Unis. J'ai trouvé ce petit vidéo, et je me suis dit que ça en intéresserait d'autres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;À noter que le Français Cadien ne doit pas être confondu avec le français créole de Louisiane, qui est un autre dialecte fascinant.  (Le créole Louisianais utilise un lexique français mais une grammaire assez bizarre. (Les articles viennent après le nom par exemple. )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour en lire plus :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_French"&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70"&gt;Francais&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71"&gt;Cadien&lt;/span&gt; (article &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72"&gt;wikipedia&lt;/span&gt; en &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73"&gt;anglais&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais_cajun"&gt;-en &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74"&gt;francais&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75"&gt;moins&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76"&gt;complet&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_French"&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77"&gt;Créole&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78"&gt;Louisianais&lt;/span&gt; (Article &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79"&gt;wikipedia&lt;/span&gt; en &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80"&gt;anglais&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9ole_louisianais"&gt;- en &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81"&gt;francais&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82"&gt;mais&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83"&gt;moins&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84"&gt;complet&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-5230252272453745513?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/5230252272453745513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=5230252272453745513' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5230252272453745513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5230252272453745513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/10/le-franais-cadien-de-louisiane.html' title='Le français Cadien de Louisiane, ca c&apos;est bien beau.'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-6656632603327160005</id><published>2007-10-08T19:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-08T19:40:53.123-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Retrouvailles...</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;	&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/1515496691/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2286/1515496691_48a50192d8.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	&lt;span class="flickr-caption"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/1515496691/"&gt;boddhisatva.JPG&lt;/a&gt;, originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pabloberlanga/"&gt;pabloberlanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;				&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;	J'ai reçu un courriel de Meiwen récemment m'annoncant que Robert, un copain mutuel, était au Japon pour quelques semaines.  Quelques coups de fil plus tard, Robert et moi nous promenions dans les quartiers de Tokyo.  Nous avons visité, dans le désordre, Tsukiji (le marché de poisson), Akihabara (le quartier électronique), Motomachi chukagai (le quartier chinois), Yokohama (pour l'Oktobefest), et Kamakura (l'ancienne capitale du Japon).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc si le coeur vous en dit, allez sur notre album Flickr pour voir quelques photos de Kamakura, avec Robert, nos amis Serge et Jeanine et notre équippe de foot : Jun Kun, Manu kun, Yani kun, Jeremie kun et Nano kun.  (Eliot kun n'était pas la ce jour-là.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je mettrai les photos de nos autres excursions sur le blog un peu plus tard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-6656632603327160005?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6656632603327160005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=6656632603327160005' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/6656632603327160005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/6656632603327160005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/10/retrouvailles.html' title='Retrouvailles...'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2286/1515496691_48a50192d8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-3615220489079812996</id><published>2007-09-10T04:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T04:36:38.184-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hot sauce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='capsaicin'/><title type='text'>I do not have a hot sauce problem, I can stop anytime I want, I swear....  Now hit me with capsaicin.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/RuUr3C0bB9I/AAAAAAAAAgY/LpOga4RzRSU/s1600-h/hot-sauce-from-hell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/RuUr3C0bB9I/AAAAAAAAAgY/LpOga4RzRSU/s400/hot-sauce-from-hell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108537576971241426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone was wondering which hot sauce it was that created such delight in the children (see last post), her it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you want to really feel alive again, alive, get it here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotsauceworld.com/habhotsaucfr.html"&gt;http://www.hotsauceworld.com/habhotsaucfr.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin"&gt;capsaicin&lt;/a&gt; is a the last uncontrolled substance, freely available in a bottle, that will open for you the doors of perception, legally....  It is the active ingredient is any hot sauce worth talking about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici la sauce responsable de tout ce bonheur qu'on peut voir dans les yeux de Yani et Nano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si la vie vous semble triste et que vous vous sentez morose, rien ne vous fera sentir aussi vivant que ce concentré de &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsa%C3%AFcine"&gt;capsaïcin&lt;/a&gt;...  En ventre libre (pour l'instant), ici: &lt;a href="http://www.hotsauceworld.com/habhotsaucfr.html"&gt;http://www.hotsauceworld.com/habhotsaucfr.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-3615220489079812996?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/3615220489079812996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=3615220489079812996' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/3615220489079812996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/3615220489079812996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-do-not-have-hot-sauce-problem-i-can.html' title='I do not have a hot sauce problem, I can stop anytime I want, I swear....  Now hit me with capsaicin.'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/RuUr3C0bB9I/AAAAAAAAAgY/LpOga4RzRSU/s72-c/hot-sauce-from-hell.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-7178389981693491385</id><published>2007-09-09T23:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T04:11:49.730-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tokyo boys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disney sea'/><title type='text'>The Adventures of The Tokyo Boys</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1396/1353867730_9c0e090339_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1396/1353867730_9c0e090339_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1164/1352980929_c7a17a0cf8_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1164/1352980929_c7a17a0cf8_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1328/1352982989_0aebf066cb_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1328/1352982989_0aebf066cb_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici la dernière édition d'un manga très populaire au Japon, intitulé, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Adventures of the Tokyo Boys&lt;/span&gt;, l'histoire est basé sur sur des faits réels... La version originale haute résolution, grand format et imprimable est disponible sur notre album Flickr, &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/sets/72157601932871046/"&gt;ici.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Cliquez sur "all sizes" au-dessus de la photo pour voir une grande version.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vous n'arrivez pas à lire sur le blog, cliquer sur les images, elles ouvriront plus grandes dans une nouvelle fenêtre.  Pour voir encore plus gros, vous verrez au coin inférieur droit de l'image un petit icone carré, cliquez la dessus pour agrandir l'image encore plus. ou allez voir directement sur l'album Flickr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the latest edition of an very popular manga in Japan called &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Adventures of the Tokyo Boys&lt;/span&gt;, based on a true story.... The original, high resolution, large format, printable version is available on our Flickr album, &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/sets/72157601932871046/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1396/1353867730_9c0e090339_b.jpg"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(click on "all sizes" to see bigger versions.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on the images if you can`t read directly of the blog, the images will be larger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1328/1352982989_0aebf066cb_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-7178389981693491385?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/7178389981693491385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=7178389981693491385' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7178389981693491385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7178389981693491385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/09/adventures-of-tokyo-boys.html' title='The Adventures of The Tokyo Boys'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1396/1353867730_9c0e090339_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-3505428752075496545</id><published>2007-09-09T04:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T06:07:21.554-07:00</updated><title type='text'>HEY!!!! SALUT, CA VA???!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1377/1349598935_11bbe6698f_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1377/1349598935_11bbe6698f_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="flickr-caption"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/1349598935/"&gt;IMG_2108.JPG&lt;/a&gt;, originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pabloberlanga/"&gt;pabloberlanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Bon, j'ai pris le temps de créer un nouvel album sur Flickr. Ce sont les photos de mon court séjour à Ottawa. Je voulais mettre une photo de Clémentine mais pour attirer les lecteurs, rien de tel qu'un sourire intense. Merci Paloma! (Il y a quand même de très jolies photos de Clémentine dans l'album).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Le lien pour notre album est a droite. Seul les membres de la famille et les amis enregistrés sur Flickr peuvent voir les photos, donc envoyez moi un courriel si vous ne pouvez rien voir, j'arrangerai ça pour vous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;-------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I posted a few pictures from my short trip in Ottawa on our Flickr album. I wanted to have a picture of Clémentine but since I'm trying to attract reader ship, I figured nothing beats an intense smile. Thanks Paloma.&lt;/p&gt;The link to our Flickr album is on the right of the Blog. You need to be registered on Flickr an added as a family of friend to see them. Send me an email if you can't see the pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-3505428752075496545?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/3505428752075496545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=3505428752075496545' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/3505428752075496545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/3505428752075496545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/09/des-photos.html' title='HEY!!!! SALUT, CA VA???!!!!!!'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1377/1349598935_11bbe6698f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-8752653406115612873</id><published>2007-09-06T19:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T19:25:59.875-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fitow'/><title type='text'>Much ado about nothing...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/RuCzgC0bB7I/AAAAAAAAAgI/ExT0KEpqT7A/s1600-h/10W_052330sams.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107279340532074418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/RuCzgC0bB7I/AAAAAAAAAgI/ExT0KEpqT7A/s320/10W_052330sams.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Bof&lt;/span&gt;.... &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Ça&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;l'air&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;impressionant&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;comme&lt;/span&gt; ca, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;mais&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;je&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;suis&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;bien&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;décu&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Il&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;pleuvait&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;un&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;peu&lt;/span&gt; fort &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;et&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;le&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;cerf&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;volant&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;volait&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;bien&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;mais&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;je&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;n'ai&lt;/span&gt; pas &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;décolé&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;du&lt;/span&gt; sol plus &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;que&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;deux&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;mètres&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;au&lt;/span&gt; plus....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;Blagues&lt;/span&gt; à part, nous &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;avons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;dormi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"&gt;comme&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"&gt;des&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"&gt;bébés&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"&gt;et&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;malgré&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"&gt;les&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"&gt;raffales&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"&gt;assez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"&gt;puissantes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"&gt;d'après&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"&gt;le&lt;/span&gt; bulletin &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"&gt;météo&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"&gt;rien&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"&gt;ne&lt;/span&gt; nous a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"&gt;réveillé&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"&gt;Je&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"&gt;dirais&lt;/span&gt; ``nothing to write home about`` &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"&gt;mais&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"&gt;c'est&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"&gt;trop&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"&gt;tard&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"&gt;j'ai&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"&gt;déja&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"&gt;écrit&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"&gt;Peut&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57"&gt;être&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58"&gt;que&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59"&gt;l'année&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60"&gt;prochaine&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61"&gt;ce&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62"&gt;sera&lt;/span&gt; plus &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63"&gt;excitant&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, looking at this picture you would think it would get pretty rough but in the end we slept like babies and while the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64"&gt;weather&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65"&gt;forecast&lt;/span&gt; said the wind gusts were very strong, we only woke up at 5:30, when the school called to confirm that the school was closed for the day. Crista &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; I have to work but at least half the family is thanking Typhoon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt; for its benevolence. (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt; means delicate flower in Malaysian apparently, they got the name right anyway...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-8752653406115612873?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/8752653406115612873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=8752653406115612873' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/8752653406115612873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/8752653406115612873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/09/much-ado-about-nothing.html' title='Much ado about nothing...'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/RuCzgC0bB7I/AAAAAAAAAgI/ExT0KEpqT7A/s72-c/10W_052330sams.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-2032952684726567307</id><published>2007-09-05T18:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T18:52:24.539-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tiphon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Typhoon'/><title type='text'>Une bonne journée pour faire voler notre cerf-volant.  / A good day for kitting.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/Rt9bOC0bB6I/AAAAAAAAAgA/vkD5Ez4SIiI/s1600-h/xxirgms5bbm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106900799294474146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/Rt9bOC0bB6I/AAAAAAAAAgA/vkD5Ez4SIiI/s320/xxirgms5bbm.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/Rt9Wxi0bB5I/AAAAAAAAAf4/zY28WzDkLj0/s1600-h/xxirgms5bbm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;enfants&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;sont&lt;/span&gt; revenues &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;l'école&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;bien&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;heureux&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;hier&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;soir&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;``&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Il&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;va&lt;/span&gt; y &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;avoir&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;un&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;typhon&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;vendredi&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;l'école&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;sera&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;fermé&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;Yahou&lt;/span&gt;!!``&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Septembre&lt;/span&gt; est la &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;saison&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;des&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;typhons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;au&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;Japon&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;donc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;histoire&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;vous&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;inquièter&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;un&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;peu&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;je&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"&gt;copie&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"&gt;le&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"&gt;dernier&lt;/span&gt; bulletin &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;nouvelle&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Sans &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"&gt;blague&lt;/span&gt;, pas &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"&gt;d'inquètudes&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"&gt;l'embassade&lt;/span&gt; en a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"&gt;vue&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"&gt;bien&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"&gt;pires&lt;/span&gt;. On nous a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"&gt;seulement&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"&gt;demander&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"&gt;rentrer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"&gt;les&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"&gt;plantes&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"&gt;extérieur&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"&gt;et&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"&gt;les&lt;/span&gt; parasols. ) En passant, les morts due au typhon l'année dernière, mentionné dans l'article,  étaient tous dans la région d'Okinawa et Kyushu, ou les typhon sont beaucoup plus violents.  Les morts sont aussi presque toujours des gens qui décident que c'est une journée idéal pour aller sur le toit réparer la cheminé, ou faire un petit tour en bateau pour pecher la sardine...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"&gt;vous&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"&gt;donne&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"&gt;des&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"&gt;nouvelles après&lt;/span&gt; la &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57"&gt;tempête&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No worries guys, the embassy has seen much worse. They only asked us to get our potted plants and parasols inside... Not as exciting as it sounds... Just FYI. Update after the storm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Typhoon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt; Strengthens; May Reach Land Near Tokyo (Update2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Aaron &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59"&gt;Sheldrick&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sept. 5 (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60"&gt;Bloomberg&lt;/span&gt;) -- Typhoon &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt; strengthened as it plowed across the Pacific Ocean toward Japan and is forecast to gain in power before landing southwest of Tokyo tomorrow with winds of 166 kilometers per hour (104 miles an hour).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The eye of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt; was 654 kilometers south of Tokyo at 3 p.m. Japan time today, according to the latest advisory on the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center's Web site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63"&gt;Fitow's&lt;/span&gt; winds strengthened to 138 kilometers per hour, with gusts to 166 kilometers an hour. The storm was heading north at 13 kilometers an hour. Wave heights were 33 feet (10 meters) in the vicinity of the eye of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt;, the 10&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; storm of the northwestern Pacific cyclone season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt; is forecast to strengthen tonight and tomorrow as it swings to the north and may threaten areas southwest of Tokyo tomorrow. Japan is regularly buffeted by tropical cyclones during the northern hemisphere's summer, and three people died last month when Typhoon Man-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67"&gt;Yi&lt;/span&gt; swept across Okinawa and Kyushu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The typhoon's winds are expected to strengthen to 166 kilometers per hour by tomorrow, making it a Category 2 storm, the second-weakest on the five-step &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68"&gt;Saffir&lt;/span&gt;-Simpson scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69"&gt;Fitow&lt;/span&gt; is the name of a flower found on the island of Yap in Micronesia, according to the Web site of the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70"&gt;Hong&lt;/span&gt; Kong Observatory, which lists cyclone names in use in the Pacific.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A record 10 tropical storms and typhoons hit Japan during 2004, killing more than 60 people and causing billions of dollars of damage. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-2032952684726567307?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/2032952684726567307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=2032952684726567307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/2032952684726567307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/2032952684726567307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/09/une-bonne-journe-pour-faire-voler-notre.html' title='Une bonne journée pour faire voler notre cerf-volant.  / A good day for kitting.'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/Rt9bOC0bB6I/AAAAAAAAAgA/vkD5Ez4SIiI/s72-c/xxirgms5bbm.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-1220254320617803922</id><published>2007-07-09T02:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T06:09:36.365-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='komoro'/><title type='text'>Chloé, Olivier et Paloma au Japon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1024/754569450_9a824cd4b7_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1024/754569450_9a824cd4b7_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span class="flickr-caption"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/754569450/"&gt;IMG_1230.JPG&lt;/a&gt;, originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pabloberlanga/"&gt;pabloberlanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; Salut a tous,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici quelques photos prises pendant que Chloé Olivier et la princesse Paloma était au Japon avec nous.  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/sets/72157600715261739/"&gt;Suivez le lien vers l'album Flicker :&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Les photos sont maintenant privés, vous devez donc vous inscrire sur Flickr pour voir les photos.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;======&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are a few pictures taken while Chloé Olivier et princess Paloma were visiting us in Japan.  Please follow the &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/sets/72157600715261739/"&gt;link to Flickr to see the pictures,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The albums are now private so you ave to register to be able to see the pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-1220254320617803922?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/1220254320617803922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=1220254320617803922' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/1220254320617803922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/1220254320617803922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/07/chlo-olivier-et-paloma-au-japon.html' title='Chloé, Olivier et Paloma au Japon'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-5936785175855436506</id><published>2007-06-23T23:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-24T21:51:52.213-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Japan's new  radio idol</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/Rn4cddFNvYI/AAAAAAAAAfw/D7cfsXQEiEI/s1600-h/ontheair.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079528722068782466" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/Rn4cddFNvYI/AAAAAAAAAfw/D7cfsXQEiEI/s320/ontheair.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok everyone, I want you to remain calm, just because we have a radio star in our family does not mean we should loose our heads, act like idiots and think we're something special.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That being said, WOOOHOOO !!!! WE ROCK!!! We know a radio Star in Japan!!!! (and I married her!)... Haha! Who else knows someone on National radio in Japan, huh? huh?&lt;br /&gt;Yeah thats what I thought, NO ONE!! Mwuahahahahha!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ehem.. right... As I was saying, our own Crista McInnis was on NHK Radio (the equivalent of CBC or Radio Canada in Japan) about two weeks ago for an interview on Canada. They talked about what Crista likes in Japan, Japanese culture, Canadian food, maple sirup, ice wine and so on. About half-way through the show the interviewer asked Crista to choose some groovy Canadian music, she made an excellent choice with the Bedouin Soundclash's "When The Night Feels My Song" If you like it, here's the link to their &lt;a href="http://www.bedouinsoundclash.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;. We saw them in concert in Tokyo a few months ago and they gave a great show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, not that anyone would doubt it, but Crista's Japanese is something to be reckoned with, I was truly impressed with her Nihongo (japanese) abilities in the interview. Not only does she sound fluent as all heck, she also sounds very classy. But don't take my word for it, the proof in the pudding is that she is getting gifts from Japanese admirers sent to the embassy. No joke. (I'm not jealous, I get to eat the cookies they send her)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;del&gt;So, without further ado, here is the full interview. Get your dictionaries out my non-japanese-speaking friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(There's a 6 second silence at the begining of the track)&lt;/del&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;UPDATE: Due to copyright issues, the file has been removed. If you are interested in hearing the show, send me an email.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-5936785175855436506?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/5936785175855436506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=5936785175855436506' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5936785175855436506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5936785175855436506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/06/crista-on-nhk.html' title='Japan&apos;s new  radio idol'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hOGTXFosPaA/Rn4cddFNvYI/AAAAAAAAAfw/D7cfsXQEiEI/s72-c/ontheair.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-6511774146750211900</id><published>2007-04-13T03:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-24T17:33:07.268-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What's a foodie?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&amp;disp=emb&amp;amp;view=att&amp;th=111e944d687f908b" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Here is my sister Chloé, Queen of all foodies, making fantastic bread.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nathan asked what a foodie is, so for the general betterment of mankind, I hereby offer you a public explanation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A foodie is a food lover, someone who loves food but not only fancy gourmet foods, anything that makes your taste buds happy. The word can be used in a sentence such as: ``Sasaki san is a foodie, therefore he is my friend, Tanaka san on the other hand does not enjoy food, what a boring chump``&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the Wikipedia definition:&lt;br /&gt;______________________________&lt;wbr&gt;_____________________&lt;br /&gt;Foodie is often used by the media as a conversational &lt;a title="Synonym" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym" target="_blank"&gt;synonym&lt;/a&gt; for gourmet. The word was coined synchronously by Gael Greene and by &lt;a title="Paul Levy" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Levy" target="_blank"&gt;Paul Levy&lt;/a&gt; and Ann Barr, co-authors of The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). But there are important distinctions to be made between the two terms. Some gourmets would not consider themselves foodies and many foodies would not consider themselves gourmets. A foodie might easily get caught up in a taco hunt—a search for the best taco stands and trucks in an area. But this would not be an adventure for a gourmet, strictly speaking. Generally speaking, a foodie is a person who has a special interest in food, even foods that a self-identified gourmet would turn his or her nose up at.&lt;br /&gt;______________________________&lt;wbr&gt;_____________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The great thing about foodies is that they tend to be happy laid back people, and even if they have no conversational skills, you can always sit down with a foodie and enjoy a good meal in silence, smiling, because it tastes so darn good...&lt;script&gt;&lt;!-- D(["mb","\u003cbr\&gt; \u003c/div\&gt;\u003c/div\&gt;\n\u003cdiv align\u003d\"left\"\&gt;\n\u003cdiv align\u003d\"left\"\&gt;\n\u003cdiv align\u003d\"left\"\&gt;\u003ca title\u003d\"mailto:pablo.berlanga@international.gc.ca\" href\u003d\"mailto:pablo.berlanga@international.gc.ca\" target\u003d\"_blank\" onclick\u003d\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"\&gt;\u003c/a\&gt;\u003c/div\&gt;\u003c/div\&gt;\u003c/div\&gt;\u003c/div\&gt;\n",0] ); D(["ce"]);  //--&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-6511774146750211900?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6511774146750211900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=6511774146750211900' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/6511774146750211900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/6511774146750211900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/04/whats-foodie.html' title='What&apos;s a foodie?'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-5040377963488324228</id><published>2007-04-07T19:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T06:11:25.276-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Une fin de semaine a Komoro avec Sasaki san et sa famille</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/450115750_7810f0ed93_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/450115750_7810f0ed93_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="flickr-caption"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;In front of an old Ryokan in Komoro&lt;/span&gt;, originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pabloberlanga/"&gt;pabloberlanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; Mon ami et collègue Sasaki san nous a invité a son chalet a Komoro, près de Nagano, pour le fin de semaine.  Komoro est un village de montagne (800 mètres) ou poussent le soba, le riz et la tranquillité.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sasaki san est un vrai “Foodie” est nous a fait du Soba avec de la farine de Sarazin organique qu’il a planté, entretenu et récolté dans un champ qu’ont pouvait voir par la fenêtre.  Délicieux!  Il nous a invite à aide a planté des pommes de terres, du sarazin et du riz cet été!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allez voir les photos sur &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/sets/72157600054863492/"&gt;Flicker&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chloé, Olivier et Paloma, les photos de la tente mongole sont pour vous!  Le proprio d’un petit café un peu hippie nous a proposé de louer la tente pour 2000 yen par personne par nuit!  Nous allons faire les réservations et passerons une nuit la dedans ensemble!  Il y a même un âne a coté!  Sasaki san a hâte de te rencontrer Chloé. Entre foodies on s’entend toujours bien!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-5040377963488324228?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/5040377963488324228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=5040377963488324228' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5040377963488324228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/5040377963488324228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/04/une-fin-de-semaine-komor-avec-sasaki.html' title='Une fin de semaine a Komoro avec Sasaki san et sa famille'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-7904848932900855874</id><published>2007-03-18T04:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-18T04:58:32.987-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gaki no Tsukai</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/jGKj_eYbBkQ' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/jGKj_eYbBkQ'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I upload more pictures, here is a little interlude showing you the highly intellectual show "Gaki to tsukai".  Here they demonstrate the fantastic abilities of a japanese student of the english language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is typical of late night TV shows here. The "students" are actually all very well known comedians and the setup is that they have to listen to this guy practice English but cannot laugh or they can he cane.  (Nathan knows something about that, as do I...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The funny part is that english really is very hard for the Japanese and you do here this kind of stuff fairly regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-7904848932900855874?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/7904848932900855874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=7904848932900855874' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7904848932900855874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7904848932900855874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/03/gaki-no-tsukai.html' title='Gaki no Tsukai'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-8230989849149822653</id><published>2007-03-18T04:17:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-18T05:45:37.799-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tsukiji'/><title type='text'>The Blog is back!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/425040213/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/425040213_9a0a140b87.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="flickr-caption"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/425040213/"&gt;Fish knives (swords more like)&lt;/a&gt;, originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/pabloberlanga/"&gt;pabloberlanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; Ok, we have got ourselves a new IMac 24". (We were using my laptop before.) and fixed a bunch of problems we we`re having with internet.  We are all setup tp start blogging again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this time, for our own sanity, we will write in one language only ; Sometimes in english sometimes in french.  For those of you who are not bilingual...  They say pictures are worth a thousand words, so we setup a pro account on www.flickr.com for your viewing pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we will be posting articles here, and will be letting you know when we have new pictures for you to see on flickr.  Our albums are here ;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/"&gt;http://flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can leave comments so please do, that`s what keeps us writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, for this new articles, I will talk about our latest trip to Tsukiji, Tokyo`s fish market.  Some fishmonger ask the kids if they wanted to hold these huge tuna knives...  Why I call these knives, I don`t know, no samurai ever wielded such deadly weapons... In a moment of temporary insanity, I let my 6 and 9 year old hold these things.  Incredibly, no one was hurt and we got a very cool photo so all is well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More tsukiji pictures in the picture gallery on &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/pabloberlanga/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-8230989849149822653?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/8230989849149822653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=8230989849149822653' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/8230989849149822653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/8230989849149822653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-is-back.html' title='The Blog is back!!!'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/425040213_9a0a140b87_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-7106336549988773336</id><published>2006-09-10T05:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-10T05:54:19.407-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Week of Firsts</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Well, we knew that we would be in for a lot of firsts: moving to a new country, starting new jobs, going to new schools and many others. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;So, in short, here is a list of some of our firsts from this week:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;August 30&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;: first lunch at the Official residence. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;After about one month at the Embassy, I had my first lunch at the Ambassador’s Residence. Formal, with place names, and a printed menu and a full agenda, I busied myself eating with my formal manners, taking notes of the conversation and generally enjoying the interesting job that I am fortunate enough to have!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;August 31&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;: First earthquake. 4.7 on the Richter Scale; 4.0 on the Japanese scale (and they know what they’re talking about); epicenter Yokohama (20km away from Tokyo); as for our take on it- Crista “I heard a big bang and felt one sharp drop. After that the building (the Embassy which is built on rollers or something similar to absorb the shock of an earthquake- the shocks do not feel as strong but it moves slightly for quite a while afterwards) swayed for about a minute. The swaying made me feel a little car-sick, but otherwise it was ok.” Pablo, Jeremie and Manu: “There was an earthquake??&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;We were in the pool and didn’t feel anything!”&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;At home: Nothing fell off the walls or fell over, but a few of our photos advanced towards the edge of the bookcases they were lodged in. The feeling around Tokyo: “Oh good, it was about time we had an earthquake!” All in all: we are happy to have the first one under our belt, we will be heading out to the earthquake training centre soon, and are getting our quake kits on Monday!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sept 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;: First Reception. After a full day of wondering what I should wear to a reception on board a friggate, I settled on a suit and headed off for my first reception. I was a little nervous, I had a few contacts that I had invited, but until they got there the only people that I knew were my colleagues- all of whom had guests of their own that they were talking with. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Once my guests arrived, I was happy to show them around the HMCS Regina, introduce them to the Canadian sailors aboard, and show them to the Canadian kitchen party that we had organized. All in all it was a fun evening, and I found out that a suit is totally appropriate to wear on board a Canadian friggate if ever you need to go to a reception!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sept 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;: First Contract. Pablo took the long train ride out to Nissan for his first contract with his new company. The day was interesting- allot of interaction with a team of engineers looking to improve their performance in English. They worked on lots of drills to improve arguing a point, interjection, negotiating, describing etc. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;At the end of the day, in typical Japanese fashion, Pablo, his colleagues and their Japanese students went out to a bar for a nomikai, a “drinking meeting”. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;My culturally sensitive husband joined in for a couple of beers, but mostly enjoyed the company of his students and marveled at how different their personalities seemed from earlier in the day. Later on, after a look to his watch, Pablo realized that if they didn’t leave immediately, they would have to take a very expensive 2 hour car ride back into the city!!!! With his palm pilot in tow (he has a map of all of the Tokyo trains on it) he managed to get everyone back to downtown Tokyo before the last train!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sept 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;: First day of Homesick. Well, it’s official- it wouldn’t be a trans-oceanic move without a little homesickness. I think that after a month of meeting new colleagues, seeing families arrive and leave, getting the boys settled in, finding out where to buy our groceries etc. I finally started to feel lonesome for things that are familiar, people that I know and am already comfortable with, and a place where I feel comfortable.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It kind of felt as though I was “on” all the time.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;After a couple of days I felt, better, but I can see now that it is hitting the boys! Our little ones who are happy when they are swimming in the Embassy pool and running around the Embassy ground, have been a little upset now that a new routine, with new friends, and a new school have shown up on the scene.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sept: 5 First day of School: Tuesday arrived and off we all went to meet Jeremie and Manu’s new teachers, and see what classes they would be in.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The boys were excited to see the inside of their school, and to hear about how delicious the menu is going to be all year long!! After finding their teachers and getting in line with their classmates it was time for Mom and Dad to leave. Later that day, at about 3:30 we went back to pick them up. As expected lots of things are different at a new school, but the saddest one for the little ones as their first day wrapped up, and as the temperature reached 35 degrees, is the fact that there was no water fountain anywhere in the school!!!! Needless to say the first thing on our list of things to do that day was to get these boys a celebratory back to school drink, and buy them&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;a big water bottle to carry back and forth to school!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sept 6: First day on the bus!!! WOW WOW WOW!!!! What a bus!! These guys go to school in style!!! We went down to the stop to wait for the bus, and after a five minute wait what did we see but a navy blue coach pulling up towards us, with individual seats, curtains, and everything!!! The boys stepped up, and a few seconds later they were on their way!! At the end of the day, we were happy to see them home safe and sound. The only thing is, poor Manu missed the bus…. at least at first he did!! After school is over, the boys come down from their classrooms, and head out towards the exit (you have to know that the entrance and exit to the school is a narrow gated courtyard that is overflowing with parents, nannies and preschoolers waiting for the school children to exit).&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The street in front of the entrance, though, is so narrow that the parents can’t move out of the way even to let the children exit. Needless to say, there is more than a little bit of confusion at the end of each day.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Well, following all of this confusion, the bus supervisor counts to make sure that each of the kids are present and accounted for. On the first day, she realized that she was missing four children. Since the street is so narrow, though, she couldn’t have the bus park out front to wait. So while the bus with all of the other children circled around the school, she went on the hunt for the ‘missing’ kids. She found them, as the bus came around the corner. They got on the bus and left…. Only to find out that they still did not have Manu!! Jeremie had come up to the front&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;to let her know, she called the school and found out that indeed poor Manu was sitting in the principal’s office crying, and the bus rounded back again to the school to collect their little passenger!!! Manu now pays very close attention to where the bus is!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Well there are certainly more firsts in store for us, but now that everyone is settling in to their new routines, maybe things will settle down for a while!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Love you all!! Crista, Pablo, Jeremie and Manu!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-7106336549988773336?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/7106336549988773336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=7106336549988773336' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7106336549988773336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7106336549988773336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/09/week-of-firsts.html' title='A Week of Firsts'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-1788185349226280333</id><published>2006-09-04T04:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T05:16:30.606-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jeremie’s B day- on the Town!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Who ever said you could only have one birthday a year?  Well, of course, if you are talking about REAL birthday’s that’s correct, but if your parents are dragging you to the other side of the planet and you are saying good-bye to friends, grand-parents, cousins etc. You might be forgiven for clocking in a few extra parties (not to mention presents). It also means that if your real birthday happens to be just after you have arrived in your new country, you might again be forgiven, despite the many earlier parties, of having just one more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Such was the case for M. Jeremie Berlanga, in the celebration of his ninth birthday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;So what does a nine year old do to ring in a new year in the big city, you ask? Well, let me enlighten you! Naturally it involves some kind of over-rich, over sweet delicacy, a dinner of one’s favorite food, and some entertainment. In Tokyo this translated into the following very sweet and very fun afternoon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;We began things at our new favorite family restaurant, La Pausa, a little family Italian eatery that has great pizza, pasta, tiramisu, coffee, and Jeremie’s new favorite dessert- a custard, chocolate banana pizza! (For the record it also is home to Manu’s new favorite dessert: a vanilla, caramel ice cream sundae with about 1 cup of fresh whipped cream, drizzled chocolate overtop and two wafer cookies stuck in for good measure!!!!) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;With our bellies full, and another dessert still ahead of us, we set out to satisfy the entertainment portion of our celebration. In the city of flashing lights, bling bling, rattle and bang etc. what better way to celebrate than to hit an arcade!! And so we did. Mom, Dad , little brother, everyone – we played Mario Kart, Naruto, Kabuto Mushi, Taiko Drums, Can Mom Beat Dad at the Game Where You Have to Solve Problems Faster Than the Other Person (by the way, yes she can…). Movies were made, pictures were taken and fun was had by all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Before heading home to sleep off our sugar high, we naturally had to let the boys indulge in one more treat- and what a treat!!!! In Japan, if you follow the Harajuku girls (explanation to follow in another blog) for a while you will eventually walk past a stall where you will be enticed by a delicious smell, and prompted to investigate what could produce such an aroma.  A glance at the display window will reveal an assortment of crepes filled with a multitude of delicious fillings ranging from butter and sugar all the way to cheese cake, ice cream, whipped cream, strawberries and chocolate. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Hard to imagine that the boys would have fallen asleep easily after so much sugar, but they did, and our very fun day (and the fifth birthday party we celebrated this summer for Jeremie) quickly became a happy memory!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-1788185349226280333?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/1788185349226280333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=1788185349226280333' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/1788185349226280333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/1788185349226280333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/09/jeremies-b-day-on-town.html' title='Jeremie’s B day- on the Town!!'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-7003878393778129792</id><published>2006-08-17T18:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T20:13:51.747-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sushi! (yet again)  (encore)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4811/3741/1600/Sushicard-kanji-names.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4811/3741/320/Sushicard-kanji-names.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;You can click on all photos in this blog to see bigger versions. Try it on this one...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Vous pouvez cliquer sur les photos dans ce blog pour voir une version agrandie.  Essayez!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4811/3741/1600/100_0479.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4811/3741/320/100_0479.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;The picture above is a plate of Sushi I had in Tsukiji, the world's biggest fish market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Ci-dessus : Un plat de sushi que j'ai mangé à Tsukiji, le plus grand marché de poisson au monde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/905/661_678b5b884c9aa77cb9a33d7cd83c1fab.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/905/661_678b5b884c9aa77cb9a33d7cd83c1fab.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Parents among you might recognize this varity of Sushi, don't show the kids...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Les parents reconnaitrons ce types de Sushi, ne pas montrer au enfants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4811/3741/1600/100_0491.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4811/3741/320/100_0491.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Say Sushi!   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Dites Sushi!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Maintenant que vous savez tout sur l’étiquette entourant la consommation du sushi (grâce à l’excellent documentaire du mois dernier), voici un autre petit film ou vous pouvez nous voir dévorant des Sushi dans un kaitenzushi.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Il existe deux types d’endroits ou on peut manger des sushis : les sushiya et les kaitenzushi.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Les sushiya sont des restaurants ou on s’assoie en général devant le &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;chef qui prépare les sushi pour les clients un à la fois (&lt;i style=""&gt;itamae&lt;/i&gt; est le terme japonais pour celui qui prépare les sushi).&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Le sushiya est considéré comme un restaurant à sushi plus traditionnel.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;On peut y commander des plats dans un menu, qui inclus une variété de sushi, ou commander les sushi un à la fois.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Une autre façon de commander est de dire à l’Itamae de nous préparer une variété de sushi pour une certaine somme (4000 yen de onegaishimasu! Par exemple).&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Contrairement à l’Amérique du nord, les&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Sushiya au Japon ne sont habituellement pas très cher, à moins d’aller dans un Sushiya très réputé.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;À midi ont y mange très bien pour moins de 1500 ou 2000 yen (15 à 20 dollars).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;L’autre type de restaurant est le kaitenzushi, on les sushi sont préparés continuellement par deux ou trois itamae qui les déposent sur un tapis roulant. Le prix des plats est codé selon la couleur des plats.  Les prix varient entre 120 et 600 yen par plat généralement, après 7 ou 8, une soupe miso au crabe et une bière Sapporo, on est bourré.  Dans les kaitenzushi, les itamae préparent en général les sushis les plus populaires pour le tapis roulant, si on veut autre chose, on commande comme on le ferait dans un sushi ya.  J’ai appris aux enfants à commandé en japonais : pour dire excusez-moi on dit : sumimasen; pour dire s’il vous plait on dit : onegaishimasu, et comme les enfants n’aiment pas le wasabi, on dit sabinuki pour dire sans wasabi.  (sabi est une contraction populaire de wasabi).  Donc à chaque fois qu’on va manger des sushi, Jérémie et Manu passent leurs temps à crier : Sumimasen, kappamaki sabinuki onegaishimasu!!  Sumimasen, inarizushi nimai onegaishimasu!.... Tordant….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Le film est à la fin de l'article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;English version coming real soon. Promise!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4379695630090716177&amp;amp;hl=en" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" salign="TL" flashvars="playerMode=embedded" align="middle"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-7003878393778129792?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/7003878393778129792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=7003878393778129792' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7003878393778129792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/7003878393778129792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/08/sushi.html' title='Sushi! (yet again)  (encore)'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-1685171101625291988</id><published>2006-08-16T06:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T06:52:13.522-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pablo à un boulot!  Pablo gets a Job!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://euroshots.com/Japan_Images/Tokyo2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://euroshots.com/Japan_Images/Tokyo2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Bonne nouvelle!  J’ai eu une entrevue ce midi avec le président d’une compagnie de consultants en communication.  Nous avons mangé dans un magnifique restaurant chinois au 42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;ième&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt; de l’édifice Mitsui au cœur de Shinjuku, (l'édifice noir sur la photo) avec une vue incroyable sur la métropole.  Le pgd est américain et vit au Japon depuis près de 20 ans, il  parle Japonais parfaitement et à étudié en philosophie et en sociologie à l’université Sophia à Tokyo, une type bien intéressant.  Après un lunch de près de deux heures, il m’a offert un emploi comme consultant dans sa boite.  Le travail est très intéressant, il s’agit de créer des ponts entres les cultures Japonaises et occidentales : les clients sont des compagnies Japonaise qui veulent mieux comprendre la pensée occidentale et apprendre à communiqué plus efficacement avec l’occident, en particulier dans des contextes d’affaire.  Le livre de Catherine Bergman, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;L’Empire Désorienté&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;,  cerne très bien le genre de différences culturelles qui limite les échanges entre l’est et l’ouest.  Je commence Lundi. Je vous tiendrai au courant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;I had lunch with the president of a communication consulting compagnie today.  We ate in a beautiful chinese restaurant on the 42nd floor of the Mitsui building in Shinjuku, in the heart of Tokyo. You can see the building (the black one) on the picture here.  He is american, has lived in Japan for nearly 20 years, speaks flawless Japanese and studied philosophy and sociology at Sophia University in Tokyo, a very interesting guy.  After about a two hour lunch, he offered me to work as a consultant for his firm.  The job consists in creating bridges between the east and west.  The clients are Japanese corporations wanting to train their employees to better communicate with their western counter-parts in business contexts.  It looks like a very interesting job (and it pays well....)I start on Monday, I will keep you posted...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-1685171101625291988?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/1685171101625291988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=1685171101625291988' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/1685171101625291988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/1685171101625291988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/08/du-boulot-job.html' title='Pablo à un boulot!  Pablo gets a Job!'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-2527285101679139362</id><published>2006-08-16T05:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T05:50:35.181-07:00</updated><title type='text'>“We’re Canadian” … “Me Too!”… or Jeremie and Manu buy Juice in the Big City. "On est Canadien! ”Moi aussi!" : Jérémie et Manu achètent du jus en ville</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bento.com/kansai/rpk/os-nanba-yamaya.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.bento.com/kansai/rpk/os-nanba-yamaya.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.seisen.com/SeisenHomePage/transportation/pix/ampm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.seisen.com/SeisenHomePage/transportation/pix/ampm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Well, Japan is safe. The boys have been wandering around the city every day exploring new places and interesting things to do. They have explored the neighborhood around the Embassy, with Pablo, with me, with Lisa, with their friends, with other nannies on compound…. The time had come to let them go out on a small errand by themselves and discover that this city is their new home! So Pablo and I decided to let them go and buy juice… by themselves……&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;It started off pretty well.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“Jeremie, would you like to go and get us some juice?”&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“By myself?”&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“Sure, or Manu could go with you…”&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“OK”&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;And then they left. Not before we had given them all kinds of instructions and reminders.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“Remember, you want to go to Yamaya… you won’t have to cross the big street… it’s right by where we take the metro all of the time….”&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;They set off like two confident adventurers on a quest that might leave them with enough money to buy a few treats, and vowed to be right back.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;And so we waited… 5min, 10 min, 15 min, 20min… soon I had to be back at work so I decided to wander out after them and escort them back home. Except that I didn’t see them, and on my way back when I asked the Embassy security guard, he hadn’t seen them either. By the time I rushed back to the apartment to let Pablo know that our early experiment had been a mistake, I walked into the house only to find that Jeremie and Manu had safely returned home!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“What happened? How did you guys get home?” I quickly enquired.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“We just walked here.” answered Manu.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“Tell her the whole story.” interjected Pablo, and there it began!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;It turns out that while our boys started on the right path to the convenience store located two blocks away from our home, they somehow got sidetracked and ended up on the main street that leads to the Embassy. Someway down this metropolitan boulevard, Manu had some inclination that they might be lost and began to cry. Jeremie, however, reassured him that HE knew where they were going.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;You will be happy to note, however, that the plight of a young boy crying, even if he is accompanied by a confident older brother, does not go unnoticed in the vibrant metropolis that is Tokyo! A young man walked over to the two boys and asked them if everything was OK. Manu explained that they were lost, while Jeremie reassured the Samaritan that he had everything under control.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“We’re Canadian!” interjected Manu in despair.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“So am I.” answered the kindly fellow. “Where are your parents? What are you doing here?”&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“We need to buy Orange Juice, and I have money.” answered Jeremie.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;“Well, you can buy Orange Juice at the AM PM,” answered the man pointing in the direction of a general store.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;From there, Jeremie assured the young man that he did indeed have control of the situation. He thanked him for his help, and he and Manu went to make their purchase. When they asked the attendant where they could find the Orange Juice, Jeremie showed him his money, and the man explained that they could buy two bottles.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;The boys, anxious to make sure that they wouldn’t be overburdened on their return trip, decided to only buy one bottle.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;They returned home without incident, although, Manu does not seem too keen to make any further forays on his own in the big city for a little while…. Until Pablo pointed out that maybe next time, he could buy a treat!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Le Japon étant un des pays les plus sécuritaires au monde, Crista et moi avons décidé d'envoyer les enfants chercher du jus seuls chez Yamaya au coin de la rue. Histoire de les rendre plus indépendants. Jérémie était enchanté de pouvoir aller se balader dans Tokyo comme un homme, Manu semblait partant, mais un peu moins sûr de lui. Nous étant assuré que Jérémie se souvenait bien de quel magasin il s'agissait et comment s'y rendre (nous y sommes allé très souvent), je leurs ai donné les 500 yens et ils étaient partis. 10 ; 15 ; 20 minutes plus tard, Crista n'en pouvait plus et décide d'aller voir comment leur aventure se déroule. Elle ne les trouve pas en chemin vers Yamaya et revient pour m'avertir que notre idée n'était peut-être pas si bonne. Heureusement, les enfants étaient déjà de retour quand Crista est revenu. Nous avons alors appris les détails de leur petite excursion : Jérémie avait manqué le seul coin de rue ou il devait tourner et les enfants se sont dirigés vers Aoyamadori, le grand boulevard ou se trouves les magasins huppés genre Louis Vuiton et Coco Chanel. Ils ont marché pendant quelques minutes en direction d'un autre magasin qu'ils connaissent. Avec chaque pas qu'il prenait, Manu perdait de plus en plus confiance et finalement s'est mis à pleurer. Un jeune homme s'est approché d'eux et voici la conversation qui suivit :&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jeune homme : Vous êtes perdus ?&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jérémie : Non&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Manu : Oui&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jeune homme : (en pointant vers Manu) pourquoi il pleure ?&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jérémie : Il croit qu'on est perdu.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Manu : On est Canadien!!!!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jeune homme : Moi aussi!!! Pourquoi vos parents ne sont pas avec vous?&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jérémie : On doit aller acheter du jus d'orange, et j'ai des sous!&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jeune homme : Ah…. Vous pouvez acheter du jus là-bas. (En pointant vers un AMPM, un dépanneur (combini en japonais)).&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Les enfants : Merci.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Et ils entrent acheter leur jus.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Jérémie dit qu'il est tout à fait prêt à répéter l'expérience, Manu dit que Jérémie peut y aller s'il veut, mais que lui il ne sort plus sans nous. Il était moins sur quand je lui ai dit que je nous leurs donnerions des sous parfois pour qu'ils puissent s'acheter des bonbons parfois…&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Crista va faire circuler un courriel pour à l'embassade pour trouver le bon Samaritain Canadien, (surement un employé à l'embassade) qui à secouru nos enfants, pour que nous puissions lui offrir une bière...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-2527285101679139362?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/2527285101679139362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=2527285101679139362' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/2527285101679139362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/2527285101679139362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/08/were-canadian-me-too-or-jeremie-and.html' title='“We’re Canadian” … “Me Too!”… or Jeremie and Manu buy Juice in the Big City. &quot;On est Canadien! ”Moi aussi!&quot; : Jérémie et Manu achètent du jus en ville'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115476480415411479</id><published>2006-08-05T00:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T18:01:02.786-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Long Lost English Correspondent</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;After a few complaints from our viewing public about the dearth of English language content, your delinquent English correspondent has broken free from the confines of her office to update you on the family's trip to Thailand and their recent adventures in Japan.... Please peruse the postings below and look for updates, long awaited, to the blog of the fabulous family McInnis-Berlanga!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Check the posts called "Koh Samet" and "Finally Internet, Finally some News" for updated English content.... more to come soon!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115476480415411479?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115476480415411479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115476480415411479' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115476480415411479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115476480415411479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/08/long-lost-english-correspondent.html' title='Long Lost English Correspondent'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115447959118910583</id><published>2006-08-01T17:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-04T16:33:44.626-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le chant du gecko.  The gecko's call.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lclark.edu/%7Eautumn/PNAS/PNAS_images/GeckoFeet_300.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.lclark.edu/%7Eautumn/PNAS/PNAS_images/GeckoFeet_300.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Je vous ai parlé un peu des geckos qui pullulent en Thaïlande, et en particulier sur l’île de Ko Samed.  Ce sont de gentils petits lézards inoffensifs qui ont la particularité d’avoir de minuscules crochets aux pattes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt; qui leurs permettent de grimper à la vertical même sur du verre.  Les Thaïlandais sont toujours bien contents d'en avoir un dans la maison car ces bestioles sont capables de bouffer tous les moustiques dans une maison en quelques heures.  Par contre, les males aiment bien chanter la sérénade toute la nuit, ce qui est moins pratique.  Nous en avions un gros dans notre petite maisonnette sur Ko Samed,  le voici. Cliquez sur play à coté de sa photo pour l’entendre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Geckos thrive in Thailand, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1012113.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1012113.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and even more so in Koh Samed. Thai people consider themselves lucky when one moves into their house as a single gecko can eat every mosquito in the house in a matter of hours.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The bad side of it is that the males love to show off their mating calls all night.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;We had a fat one in our little hut on Koh Samed island, here he is. Click on play to here his serenade…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.gekkota.com/assets/multimedia/tokaycall.wav" volume="100" autostart="false" playcount="1" height="60" width="144"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115447959118910583?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115447959118910583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115447959118910583' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115447959118910583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115447959118910583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/08/le-chant-du-gecko-geckos-call.html' title='Le chant du gecko.  The gecko&apos;s call.'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115439704874457811</id><published>2006-07-31T18:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-31T22:15:14.506-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La bouffe Thaï!  Thai food! Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011930.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011930.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pate de curie dans le marché de Ban Phe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011929.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011929.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fruits de mer et autres trucs séchés&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011900.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011900.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011902.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011902.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Encore des curies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011904.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011904.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115439704874457811?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115439704874457811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115439704874457811' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115439704874457811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115439704874457811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/la-bouffe-tha-thai-food-part-2.html' title='La bouffe Thaï!  Thai food! Part 2'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115439614057465353</id><published>2006-07-31T18:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-31T18:35:40.666-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La bouffe Thaï!  Thai food!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011871.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011871.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poulet frit épicé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/100_0378.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/100_0378.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Engrish version Thailande&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011872.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011872.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011899.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011899.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Divers plats dans la rue&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011877.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011877.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Les Thaïlandais ne demandent pas aux étrangers s’ils aiment la cuisine Thaï, ils demandent plutôt s’ils peuvent manger la cuisine Thaï.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ceci pour deux raisons : Les Thaïlandais croient fermement qu’il faut être Thaïlandais pour vraiment apprécier leur cuisine et certains plats sont vraiment très épicés.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;J’ai mangé dans quelques restaurants Thaï au Canada mais ce que nous avons mangé en Thaïlande était vraiment particulier.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;L’usage d’épices fraiches, en particulier le galangal; ce qu’ils appellent en anglais lemon grass (je ne crois pas que ce soit la citronnelle mais je me trompe peut-être) ; la coriandre; la lime kaffir, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;la noix de coco et les piments chili donnent au plats des aromes très vifs.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Sans blague, le nez participe autant sinon plus que les papilles aux repas Thaï. Les odeurs dans les rues à midi et le soir sont incroyables. Les thaïlandais &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;mangent n’importent quoi n’importe quand et plusieurs fois par jours.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Il parait que la moyenne des gens mangent 4 ou 5 fois par jours, des petits plats, selon ce dont ils on envi. Le plus souvent dans la rue. On mange beaucoup de curies qui sont en général assez liquides.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ils sont très épicés mais souvent adoucis par de la noix de coco.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Les marchés publics sont remplis d’énormes monticules de curies de toutes les couleurs, comme vous pouvez en voir sur les photos.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Evidemment les fruits de mers sont très populaires, en particuliers les calmars et les poissons frits et recouvert de sauce chili.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;La soupe traditionnelle&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;que vous connaissez peut-être s’appelle Tom yum kung.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Kung veut dire crevette.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Cette soupe épicée est normalment remplis d’herbe non comestible qu’il faut mettre de coté au fur et à mesure qu’on la mange.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Voici la recette :&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Ingrédients :&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;500 grammes de crevettes entières.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;1 cuillère à table d’huile.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;st1:metricconverter productid="2 litres" st="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 litres&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt; d’eau&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Deux ou trois ou quatre cuillère à table de pate de curie rouge. (Dont je vous donne la recette aussi plus bas.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de purée de Tamarin.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de turmeric&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;4 ou 5 feuilles de kaffir (lime Thaï)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;1 cuillère à thé de chilis&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;haché.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillère à table sauce au poisson&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à table de jus de lime&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de sucre brun&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;¼ de tasse de feuilles de coriandre.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Enlever les têtes des crevettes et les carapaces mais ne pas les jeter.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Mettre les crevettes de coté. Faire sauter les têtes et les carapaces de crevette dans l’huile dans une casserole pendant 10 minutes a feu moyen. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Ajouter une tasse d’eau et la pate de curie au mélange.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Laisser réduire un peu puis ajouter le reste de l’eau et laisser mijoter 20 minutes.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Passer le bouillon à la passoire, jeter les têtes et carapaces et remettre le bouillon dans la casserole.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ajouter le tamarin, le turmeric, les chilis, et les feuilles de kaffir.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Faire bouillir deux minutes.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ajouter les crevettes et laisser cuire jusqu’à ce qu’elles deviennent roses.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ajouter le jus de lime, la sauce de poisson et le sucre brun,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;mélanger et servir chaude avec les feuilles de coriandre fraiche.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Si vous ne pouvez pas trouver de pate de tamarin, vous pouvez laisser un ramollir un cube de tamarin dans l’eau et le travailler avec les mains pour obtenir une pulpe qui fonctionne aussi bien.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Bon appétit.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Pate de curry rouge :&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Une cuillère à table de graines de coriandre&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de graines de cumin&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Une cuillère à thé de grain de poivre noir&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de pate de crevette séchée.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Une cuillère à thé de muscade en poudre&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;12 chili sec ou frais hachés grossièrement&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Une tasse d’échalotes hachées.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à table d’huile&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;4 tiges de lemon grass (la partie blanche seulement) haché finement&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;12 gousses d’ail haché&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à table de racine de coriandre fraiche hachée. (Les feuilles font aussi si on ne trouve pas de racines)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à table de tiges de coriandre hachées.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;6 feuilles de kaffir haché&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de zeste de lime.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de sel.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;2 cuillères à thé de turmeric&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;1 cuillère à thé de paprika.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Mettre les graines de coriandre et de cumin dans la poêle et frire en secouant la poêle constamment pendant deux ou trois minutes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Ajouter les épices grillés et le poivre dans un mortier et moudre finement. Cuire la pate de crevette sur un gril dans une feuille d’aluminium pendant 3 minutes en la retournant deux fois.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Mettre les épices moulues au mortier, la pate de crevette, la muscade et les chilis au robot culinaire pendant 5 secondes. Ajouter le reste des ingrédients au robots et haché pendant 20 secondes à la fois en raclant les bords du bol avec une spatule, jusqu’à l’obtention d’une pate.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Donne une tasse de curie rouge.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Pour répondre à la question de Chloé, bizarrement, je n’ai pas vu une seule bouteille de Sriracha en Thaïlande.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Les condiments sur les tables sont toujours les même : Chili en poudre, chili vert et rouge marinés dans le vinaigre, sucre et une sauce qui ressemble au shoyu qu’ils appellent Golden mountain sauce.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;La sauce Sriracha, parait t’il est surtout utilisé dans des plats particuliers avec des fruits de mers.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Nous n’avons pas pus nous rendre à Sriracha cette fois mais prévoyons bien y aller la prochaine fois.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Si vous avez des questions sur les photos n’hésitez pas!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115439614057465353?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115439614057465353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115439614057465353' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115439614057465353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115439614057465353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/la-bouffe-tha-thai-food.html' title='La bouffe Thaï!  Thai food!'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115421829252945780</id><published>2006-07-29T17:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T01:54:28.003-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ko Samet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1012065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1012065.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/Saikaew_Beach_map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/Saikaew_Beach_map.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/samed_map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/samed_map.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011995.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011995.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Koh Samet; Koh Samed; Ko Samet; Koh Samed… &lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Peu importe comment le nom de cette petite île du golfe de Thaïlande est traduis, c’est toujours &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;joli.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Nous nous y sommes rendus après avoir passé trois jours à Bangkok pendant lesquels nous nous sommes remis du décalage horaire et nous sommes promener un peu dans les rues colorées de la ville.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Bangkok ce trouve à &lt;st1:metricconverter productid="200 km" st="on"&gt;200 km&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; de Ban Phe, un village de pêcheurs de calmars, à partir duquel on prend un ferry qui nous emmène sur l’une des plages de Koh Samet.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Le chauffeur de fourgonnette qui nous devait nous emmener à Ban Phe nous à laissé à quelques kilomètres de la côte nous disant que nous étions à Ban Phe.&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Nous avons donc du prendre un autobus Thaï, un pick-up&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;avec des sièges dans la benne, jusqu’à la mer.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Nous avons demandé au chauffeur de nous laisser près d’un hôtel à Ban Phe.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Le village étant populaire auprès des surfeurs, l’hôtel de ce petit bled était vraiment démesuré par rapport à la taille du village, pour accommoder les nombreux surfeurs pendant la haute saison.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Nous, par contre, étions la en pleine basse saison et nous sommes vite rendus compte que nous étions les seules résidents dans cet énorme hôtel.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Très bizarre…&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;La Thaïlande étant déjà un pays extrêmement humide, avec la mer à coté, les murs de la chambre d’Hôtel étaient couverts de moisissure verdâtre qui donnait au lieu une teinte et une odeur bien particulière.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Avant de nous coucher, nous nous sommes rendus sur la plage ou deux jeunes Thaïlandaise avaient un petit resto sur la plage. Nous avons mangé des fruits de mers et une soupe Tam Yum Kung, dont je vous donnerais la recette bientôt ici même.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Nous avons pris le ferry le lendemain à partir du port de Ban Phe, le trajet sur mer dure environ trois-quarts d’heures.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Le ferry ne pouvant pas accoster sur la plage, il ‘s’arrête a environ 50 mètres de la rive et les résidents de l’ile viennent chercher les passager sur une petite barge plate que la houle recouvre d’eau à toutes les 10 secondes.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Nous et nos bagages complètement trempés, nous avons alors découvert le véritable petit paradis qu’est la plage d’Ao Wai : Presque personne, les touristes sont rares et en majorité Thaïlandais.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;La plage de sable blanc est immaculée, la mer turquoise est chaude, est les habitants de l’île sont vraiment très sympathiques. On y dort dans des petites huttes de style Thaï au bord de l’eau et la nuit le bruit des vagues est interrompus par les chants étranges de geckos, c’est gentil lézards qui pullulent sur l’île.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;J’espère que le petit film ci-dessous vous plaira.  Il  suffit d'appuyer sur play.  Laissez vos commentaires! Vous pouvez aussi cliquer sur le bouton en bas à droite du film et selectionner go to google video pour voir une version plein écran du film.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Koh Samet, Ko Samet, Koh Samed, Ko Samed, no matter how you spell it the result is the same- a charming Island paradise nestled into the Gulf of Thailand! After three days in Bangkok where we slowly recovered from our jet lag, walked around the city and ate a lot of fabulous food, we made our way out to Ban Phe, a surf city located about 200km outside of Bangkok. Well actually, we made our way out to a small off season surf beach just outside of Ban Phe, where we would take the ferry on the nest day out to Koh Samet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;While visiting exotic locations in the low season can have great benefits, lower costs, more privacy, less tourists etc., it can also produce some rather startling results. Let me explain! After taking a mini bus out to the region of Ban Phe, we explained to our driver that we wanted to get off at a hotel that was near to the pier as we had an early morning ferry to catch. He seemed to understand by this that we needed to do groceries and dropped us off in the parking lot of what looked like a large supermarket. Figuring that he had done this because we would find a cab that could take us more easily to a hotel, we disembarked. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;There were no cabs that we could see, however, so Pablo very nicely spoke to a man who drove a sort of converted flat-bed truck that doubles as a sort of bus for commuters in the region. We explained to him what we wanted and he seemed to understand so we climbed in to the back of the truck and made our way.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;After a little too long in the back of his truck, however, we wondered if he hadn’t misunderstood! We tapped on the window and using the words from the back of our guidebook, said again that we were looking for a hotel outside of Ban Phe- this time we could see that he understood. He turned around and within about five minutes he drove up to a beautiful white stucco hotel right on the beach, and explained that the pier was a 5 min walk from here.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Delighted with our hotel, we went inside to get a room for the night, and then to head out to the beach where we saw a few little restaurants waiting for us! The clerk was pretty helpful, and we got signed in without any wait. He took our bags and began walking in front of us to lead us up to our room.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;As we passed through a completely empty dinning room and lobby (I mean empty, with no lights on and no sign of any other guests) we started to think that we might have come during the wrong season. This impression was confirmed when we got up to our room on the fourth floor, and the clerk had to turn on the lights FOR THE WHOLE FLOOR before he could show us where our room was.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;We got to our room, which was clean enough, and he brought our bags in for us. After he left, we noticed that it smelled a little musty, so we decided to open up our windows. As we pulled back the curtains, we noticed that the walls were more or less evenly covered with a light dusting of bright green mold! The combination of it being hot and humid, next to the sea, and in low season (so the air conditioning was always turned off) had encouraged the growth of the mold…. Oh well! It was too late to go any where else, and we knew that we still had to eat, and that we had an early departure the next day so we decided that we could handle the mold-palace for one night, and head out as quickly as possible for the longest dinner of our whole trip!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Our accommodations in Koh Samet were absolutely beautiful, though, and I think that we enjoyed our three days on the beach even more for having had an adventure in getting there!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;  I will add a little more to this post in a bit, but for now, have a look at the movie that Pablo put together, and you will have an idea of how much we enjoyed our time in Koh Samet!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1800792723413378970"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115421829252945780?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115421829252945780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115421829252945780' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115421829252945780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115421829252945780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/ko-samet.html' title='Ko Samet'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115407464178218723</id><published>2006-07-28T01:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T01:28:46.713-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Enfin Internet!  Enfin des nouvelles!   Finally, internet, finally, some news...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011820.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011820.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011808.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011808.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011826.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011826.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011821.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/320/P1011821.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;On ne s’aperçoit à qu’elle point on apprécie l’eau que lorsqu’il n’y en à plus…&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Pareil pour internet….&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Près de trois semaines sans accès à internet, ca été dur mais nous revoilà.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;En fait, vous verrez avec les photos de Thaïlande qu’en fait ça n’a vraiment pas été si dur que ça.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Le voyage à été fantastique,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;la Thaïlande est vraiment un pays superbe, les gens sont très sympathiques et la bouffe est extraordinaire.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Chloé m’a demandé un article détaillé sur ce que nous avons mangé là-bas, j’y travail et il y aura plusieurs photos à l’appui.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Pour l’instant je vous donne des nouvelles plus immédiates, vu que nous n’avons pas pu donner de nouvelles depuis un petit bout de temps.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Les prochains articles reprendront notre périple depuis le début.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Nous sommes à demi installés dans notre appart à Tokyo,&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;tout ce qui devait venir pas avion est arrivé avant nous, et les trucs que nous avons envoyés par bateau arrivent jeudi prochain.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Pour l’instant les enfants dorment dans le même lit, celui de Jérémie arrive par bateau aussi la semaine prochaine.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Lisa, la nanny, à aménagé aujourd’hui, elle est vraiment très gentille et les enfants l’adorent.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Elle est un peu triste par contre, parce qu’elle vient de quitter une famille qui retourne au Canada demain, avec qui elle à vécu pendant sept ans, elle est bien attachée à ces enfants.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Nous avons acheté une machine à riz japonaise, alors notre diète consiste pour l’instant de beaucoup de riz (à la maison) et encore plus de sushi et autres japonaiseries des les nombreux restos du coin.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Crista est entré au bureau le jour même ou nous sommes arrivés.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Pour l’instant&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;elle n’a pas trop de travail, ce qui est très bien, ça nous permet de nous installé tranquillement.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Pour ma part j’ai une entrevue avec une compagnie de consultant &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;en communication la semaine prochaine.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;La compagnie forment les agents japonais de grand compagnie comme Nissan ou Honda à communiquer avec et comprendre les occidentaux.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Je vous tiendrez au courant.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Les enfants se sont faits pleins de copains autour de l’ambassade et passent toutes leurs journées dehors à gambader un peu partout.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ils ont découvert que les quartiers généraux de Sony sont à deux pas de chez nous, et ils y vont régulièrement pour jouer au Playstation gratuitement. &lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;En parlant de gadget électroniques, nos n’avons pas reçu notre téléphone Skype, il a été mis par erreur sur le cargo par bateau, nous ne l’auront que Jeudi prochain, je vous appellerai avant ca mais je ne pourrai pas parler longtemps, a deux dollars la minutes…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Coté température, il fait très très très humide, et chaud.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Ce n’est vraiment pas une bonne saison pour venir.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;C’est supportable mais quand on doit marcher beaucoup, ca peut devenir assez désagréable, les vêtements collent à la peau.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Le printemps et l’automne sont les saisons idéales pour visiter. L’hiver est très bien aussi, il fait environ 5 degrés en général et il ne pleut presque pas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Voici aussi quelques photos prisent pendant notre voyage vers la Thailande. Dans l'orde, Jérémie qui hack l'ordinateur à sont siège dans l'avion.  Jérémie et Manu se font un pote rapidement à Narita (l'aéroprot de Tokyo)  et nous montre comment les enfants nouvelles générations jouent ensemble. Bizarre bizarre. Premier repas au Japon, à Narita, Soba, soupe Miso Shiru et riz.  Manu avait chaud dans l'avion comme vous pouvez le voir ...  Beaucoup d'autres photos à venir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Bon, j’arrête ici, je dois travailler sur l’article sur la bouffe Thaïlandaise pour Chloé et Céline (et tous les autres que ca intéresse bien sur.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Sayonara!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Boy, a few days without the internet is all it takes to show this family to HOW addicted they are to the World Wide Web!!! Almost three weeks cold, turkey… but we survived, and managed to understand how to get the internet hooked up in our apartment in Tokyo!! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Thailand was really wonderful, and the whole family benefitted from some quiet time together on the beach and in Bangkok. The food, which is always very important for all of us as you well know, was fantastic. Indeed, you will see a post a little later on that Pablo has devoted to his food enthusiast sister that is all about the great food that we had in Thailand.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Our first week in Tokyo was all about getting as set up as we could, first with our luggage, then as our air shipment arrived, and finally now that our sea shipment is here. The people at Canada Court (the green courtyard behind the Embassy populated with Canadians working at the Embassy and their families and the place we know call home) have been really great to us: showing us around, playing with the kids, bringing us out to find&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;the inexpensive grocery spots… all kinds of things. In addition to helping us get to know our new neighborhood a little, they have also helped us with the basics of modern life: the aforementioned internet (Hurrah!), cable (our kids can’t stop telling us how great Japan is- they even get to watch TV…. We haven’t shown them how to change the programming to English though, so little do they know this is actually a ploy by their cunning parents to try to expose them to as much Japanese as possible…). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Last Friday, Lisa, our nanny, moved in! Pablo and I were just as excited as the boys. We met Lisa while she was still working with Louise and Peter, and their two boys Pearson and Maxime. Lisa had been with them for seven years, so you can imagine the teary goodbye! We know that we are really going to enjoy having Lisa with us- she is very sweet and friendly, and is really wonderful with the boys. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Slowly but surely we have been getting out and about to make the purchases that we need to settle in – rice maker (totally essential in Japan as you can imagine), some cleaning supplies, food etc. We haven’t been in a big rush to break in the kitchen, though. Eating out in Japan is surprisingly inexpensive (especially given the cost of the ingredients!) and the variety is unimaginable- apparently they are over 80 000 restaurants in Tokyo alone, over 100 000 if you include the surrounding area!!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Settling into work has gone well so far, though I had to jump into things right away. Right now the Economic section is made up of my boss and I and no one else and until my finance colleague returns from his trip, and until my foreign affairs colleague arrives from Ottawa, I am following everything (or at least reading everything!). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;As for the boys, they made friends with Pearson and Maxime and played with them right up until the boys had to leave Tokyo. They have also met Takumi and Sayaka, two kids who live upstairs.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;You may remember that they met three brothers in Ottawa who are also moving out to Tokyo this summer, and they are anxiously awaiting their arrival!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Pablo has been having lots of adventures with the kids, as we get settled in. He has been bringing them all over Tokyo and trying to show them the parts of the city that are most likely to impress them- Shinjuku, Shibuya and all of the other bright light places that he can think of. Meanwhile, he has lined up an interview with a consulting company that has cultural training contracts with big Japanese firms- Nissan, Toyota, Coca Cola Japan etc… We will let you know how it goes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;As far as the weather goes, we had a couple of really hot and humid days when we arrived, but generally it has been fairly rainy since we got here (the tail end of the rainy season we are told). Don’t feel too bad for us though, since everyone keeps telling us that this kind of weather is great for us to get to know Tokyo in. They keep insisting that once the real summer heat hits, we will not at all feel like going outside!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Before I wrap up this post, let me quickly explain the pictures that Pablo posted up above: Jeremie hacking into the computer located in front of him on the plane; kids of the new generation “playing” together at the airport; our first meal in Japan as we transit through Narita on our way to Bangkok; Manu with a hot belly on the plane….&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;More photos to come!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Love always, Crista, Pablo, Jeremie and Manu!!!! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115407464178218723?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115407464178218723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115407464178218723' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115407464178218723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115407464178218723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/enfin-internet-enfin-des-nouvelles.html' title='Enfin Internet!  Enfin des nouvelles!   Finally, internet, finally, some news...'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115296026277734968</id><published>2006-07-15T03:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T05:01:36.463-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Petite note a partir d'un cafe internet en Thailand.  A small note written from an Internet cafe in Thailand.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Bonjour a tous! Encore une fois, vous me pardonnerez les erreurs d'accentuation, toujours les claviers Thai, heureusement le correcteur google arrive a en corriger quelques unes.... Nous revenons tout juste de Koh Sammet, une île au large de la Thaïlande, ou nous avons passer 4 jours. Je ne peut toujours pas ajouter de photos puisque l'ordinateur du café internet ne prend pas les cartes photos. Je vous promet toute une série de films et photos des notres arrivee a Tokyo le 19 Juillet. Koh Sammet est un véritable petit coin de paradis. La plage ou nous restions est peu fréquentée, nous avons loue un petit bungalow de style thai au bord de l'eau, a deux pas d'un resto ou on nous sert des curry thai excellent, qu'on deguste les pieds dans la sable en regardant la mer. Le Thaïlandais sont vraiment tres sympatique et adorent les enfants, Jeremie et Manuel on joue tous les jours avec les habitants de l'île, Manu en particulier ne voulais pas du tout quitter l'endroit...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je vous donnerai plus de détails quand j'aurai accès a un clavier accommodant et la capacité d'ajouter mes photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bientot!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Hello again from Thailand. The four of u have just returned from Ko Samet, a little island in the gulf of Thailand where we spent four wonderful days eating, swimming, playing and resting. The Thais are a very warm people who are very good to children- the boys received allot attention while we were there and never lacked for partners to play soccer with on the beach. Pablo will be uploading pictures and movies when we arrive in Tokyo on the 19th. So far the whole family has been enjoying the Thai adventure and the boys have been keeping a list of modes of transportation that we have used since leaving Ottawa- they include train; plane; taxi; tuk-tuk; minibus; open bus; ferry; 4x4 extreme jungle taxi... we are waiting to add a few more to the list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Love you all, and looking forwrad to writing you again soon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Crista, Pablo, Jeremie and Manu!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115296026277734968?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115296026277734968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115296026277734968' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115296026277734968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115296026277734968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/petite-note-partir-dun-cafe-internet.html' title='Petite note a partir d&apos;un cafe internet en Thailand.  A small note written from an Internet cafe in Thailand.'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115254640388511344</id><published>2006-07-10T08:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-10T08:46:43.906-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Bonjour a tous de Thailand!  Vous excuserez les fautes d'accents, je tape sur un clavier thai... Le voyage c'est tres bien passe, un peu long mais les enfants ont ete sage et ca, ca vaut de l'or.  Aujourd'hui Crista et moi sommes alles chez un tailleur nous faire faire des costards sur mesure, pas cher et en cachemir, rien de moins.  Nous souffrons encore un peu du decalage alors excuser moi si les idees nous pas de suite logique evidente...  Nous avons aussi visiter plusieurs temple bouddhistes magnifiques et nous sommes promener dans Bangkok en tuk tuk, les petites motos taxi a trois roues.  Malheureusement, pas de photos cette fois, l'ordinateur sur lequel je tape n'accepte pas les cartes photos.  Nous partons demain pour l'ile de Ko Sammet ou nous passerons quelques jours.  Peut-etre aurons nous plus de chance la bas pour les photos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Bisous a tous!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Hello to everyone from Thailand!! After 31 hours of travel (give or take an hour) we arrived at our hotel yesterday, safe and sound. The kids were fantastic all through the "longest day in the world" (quoth Jeremie), and happy to have stopped over, albeit quickly, in Tokyo. Today we enjoyed Bangkok a little, thanks to our knowledgable Tuk Tuk driver. Pablo will post a few pictures of the Tuk Tuk and some sites from around the capital later. Tomorrow we will make our way out to Ko Samet, so you wil not hear from us for a few days, but rest assured that we are happy and safe and thinking of all of you!! Love Crista, Pablo, Jeremie and Manuel!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115254640388511344?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115254640388511344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115254640388511344' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115254640388511344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115254640388511344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/bonjour-tous-de-thailand-vous.html' title=''/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115210706490331795</id><published>2006-07-05T06:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-05T06:49:25.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sushi : la suite.  Sushi : Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;La vérité sur le sushi enfin révélée!!  Il faudra lire les sous-titres...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The truth about sushi finally reveiled! Read the subtitles...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4971426701921585512" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" salign="TL"  FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115210706490331795?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115210706490331795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115210706490331795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115210706490331795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115210706490331795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/sushi-la-suite-sushi-part-2.html' title='Sushi : la suite.  Sushi : Part 2'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115203548735111011</id><published>2006-07-04T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-04T11:34:56.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le sushi : Un documentaire pas très serieux. Sushi : a not so serious documentary.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Pour ceux d’entre vous qui viendrez nous voir à Tokyo,  vous devinerez que l’étiquette entourant le sushi est bien compliqué, voici donc un petit documentaire sur la question.  Vous n’y apprendrez pas grand-chose mais  ca vous fera surement sourire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;For those of you planning to join us in Japan, here is a short documentary on sushi etiquette, you won’t learn a thing but you might have a few laughs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4946101556303618610" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" salign="TL" flashvars="playerMode=embedded" align="middle"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115203548735111011?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115203548735111011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115203548735111011' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115203548735111011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115203548735111011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/le-sushi-un-documentaire-pas-trs.html' title='Le sushi : Un documentaire pas très serieux. Sushi : a not so serious documentary.'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115203473544826489</id><published>2006-07-04T10:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-04T10:41:50.470-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Busy travelers.  Des voyageurs occupés.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011708.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/400/P1011708.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011711.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/400/P1011711.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Les voyageurs s'occupent...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Travelers keeping busy...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115203473544826489?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115203473544826489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115203473544826489' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115203473544826489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115203473544826489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/busy-travelers-des-voyageurs-occups.html' title='Busy travelers.  Des voyageurs occupés.'/><author><name>Pablo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18389374572642513878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30651083.post-115203443497175997</id><published>2006-07-04T10:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-05T14:38:04.566-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Départ.  Departure.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/1600/P1011714.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5661/1834/400/P1011714.3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Et voila, nous sommes officiellement une famille SDF pour les quelques semaines qui suivent. Tout notre bric-à-brac à été chargé sur un 18 roues et le tout sera envoyé vers l’archipel Nippon d’ici quelques semaines. Nous avons passé près de dix jours chez Céline et Miguel et les enfants et nous même avons passé ces quelques jours à manger surtout, en compagnie de Céline, Miguel, Chloé, Olivier, Paloma, Christian et Carole, Pierre, Guy et Dominique. Nous avons aussi eu la chance de faire nos adieux à Yvette et Loïc qui partaient en Bretagne cette semaine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Pour bien démarrer notre voyage, nous avons décidé de prendre le train pour nous rendre à Kitchener ou nous passerons également environ dix jours avec la famille de Crista. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="FR-CA"&gt;Nous partons Samedi pour la Thaïlande. Vous pourrez voir les photos ici même.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Sur la photo, deux jeunes voyageurs attendent patiemment le train pour Kitchener à la station Union de Toronto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Well, we have moved out finally. After having spent about ten days with the Berlanga family, eating most of the time with close friends, we decided to start our trip by taking the train to reach Kitchener where we will be spending another ten days with Crista’s family. We are leaving on Saturday for Thailand. You will get to see pictures here on the blog.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;The piture shows two young travelers waiting for their train at Toronto's Union Station, heading for Kitchener.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30651083-115203443497175997?l=adventuresjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/115203443497175997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30651083&amp;postID=115203443497175997' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115203443497175997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30651083/posts/default/115203443497175997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://adventuresjapan.blogspot.com/2006/07/dpart-departure.html' title='Départ.  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