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While I’m spending some vacations in France, I saw this commercial in a local newspaper. It always surprises me to see how the Che Guevara’s image is used widly around the world. In this case, they used it for promoting a ski resort in the Pyrenees [mountains between Spain and France]. It does say something like: “Freedom at the end of the ski.” They also used the ski resort white symbol on what looks like the Che’s hat. None of this makes sense to me. What do you think?

I have to admit that most of the time I spent watching TV is to watch movies in English, and Argentinian news channels. Recently I got myself watching more and more the french Tv5 channel, mostly the news to kind of keep in touch with what’s happening over there. Then I discovered the website TV5 and I found lots of resourceful links, info, especially the one link about culture du monde, well-designed with videos, photos and interesting texts. The site is worth checking for all the French people around the world - and those of you in France too The site is only available in French though.

Pictures from Germany have been uploaded. You can access the link by clicking on the picture.

Fourth link’s uploaded and will let you discover Paris through our pictures. Click on the picture to access the link.

Third link uploaded that will allow you to discover pictures from Mediteranean beach cities and surroundings. Click on the picture to access the link.

Second link up and running where you’ll be discovering pictures of Perpignan, the city where I spent most of my university years. Located near the Mediteranean sea, located in the French Catalonia. A funny story about the city is that following a visit in 1963, the Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí declared the city’s railway station’s toilets, the center of the Universe. Above the station is a monument in Dali’s honour, and on the station’s ground is painted, in big letters, « perpignan centre du monde » (French for “perpignan centre of the world“).

I’m finally getting busy sorting out our pictures. I just finished uploading pictures from Toulouse, South of France. I created an easy Photoshop web gallery which really displays them nicely. Click the picture below, and enjoy some views of this charming southern French city, Toulouse, commonly called “The pink city”.

Enjoying our last day in France and tomorrow we will leave for Barcelona where we will spend our 3 last days. Our month vacations has been great, we did so much that we can’t count all the pictures we’re bringing back to Argentina. It has been nice spending time with my family and seeing my friends from the university, long-time friend in Germany, close friends living in the South of France, and the numerous French cities we visited during this time. All of this, all of you, made our trip exceptional, we enjoyed a lot every places we’ve been to. Here are some random pictures from Paris. Together with Ati, we should have some 1500 pix of Paris!! In the next posting, I’ll show you pictures taken with my friends in each city, and a bit of Germany too. Later will come picture from the French Riviera… lots to come as you can see

Center G.Pompidou

Le Marais

Les Halles

Parc Monceau

Mosquee de Paris

Rue Mouffetard

Le Pantheon

Passage sur les Grands Boulevards

Places des Voges

Ahhh days are going way too fast and we’re doing so much I don’t feel like I can really rest. I feel tired and the heat just knocked me down Yesterday I wanted to post pictures of our trip, well I just could not do it. Busy watching the Tour de France; right at our door, Carcassonne was bustling with tons of tourists, I had never saw so much people in the city!! It was fun though. Moreover, they were broadcasting a TV show right in the center of the city, so it was packed again with people watching French variety singers. You can take a look at a picture of the fireworks here.
Here’s a picture of the Tour de France speeding up right in front of our house

Today we’re going to Font-Romeu, a city in the Pyrénéens. We feel we need to take some fresh air and get away from the city for a few days.

As I see our last week schedule, I may not have time posting the pictures. Either way, if I can do it next week I’ll work on them, if not, I’ll do that when we’ll be back to Buenos Aires in a week.

We made it back after an extraordinary 10 days trip during which we’ve seen a lot! Thanks again to my friends who welcomed us in Germany- Melanie & Nino- and in Antibes - Maya & Pat. You guys have been amazingly nice to drive us around, stay at your place, showed us so many things in such a short time.. it is been really good and nice to see you all again. Thanks again for your warm welcome. We enjoyed our stay a lot and you made our trip even more pleasant

We have tons of pictures - of course We can’t count them, but there are a lot! We need to sort them out first and I will post some of them a little later today.