Back from Paris

Back from Paris

I spent the weekend of November 14-17th in Paris. I needed a change of scenery and that is just what I got.
I went to see my first play entirely in French, most of which I understood. Les Hommes Preferent Les Blonds, it didn’t occupy the highest brow on the cultural ladder but I got [...]

Steal This Film at the Utopia in Toulouse

Steal This Film at the Utopia in Toulouse

Steal This Film is a documentary about file sharing and the grand daddy of all file sharing sites The Pirate Bay. It outlines many of the legal problems that The Pirate Bay has had and its current state. Steal This Film also looks at communication throughout the centuries and draw some very interesting comparisons. Of [...]

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Free online translation tools

As my French rapidly improves I find myself needing help translating more and more complicated phrases, words, and expressions. Below is a list of links to a variety of online translators that are free. Some can only provide simple translations and some can provide more complex translations. Some have a pay version that is more [...]

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I received my new carte de sejour!

I received my new carte de sejour!

I am once again legal to live and work in France for another year. I am set until December of 2009. This time around I worried a bit because I was changing my statute. It was quite easy and painless. This time there were no special circumstances and I could provide all the things they [...]

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I received my new carte de sejour!

I received my new carte de sejour!

I am once again legal to live and work in France for another year. I am set until December of 2009. This time around I worried a bit because I was changing my statute. It was quite easy and painless. This time there were no special circumstances and I could provide all the things they [...]

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Le Zimbabwe refuse un visa à Koffi Annan

L’ancien secrétaire-général de l’ONU, Kofi Annan a dû annuler une visite à Harare.

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Bicycle Salon last Saturday in Toulouse

Bicycle Salon last Saturday in Toulouse

On Place du Capitole in Toulouse last week there was a salon devoted to other forms of transportation. Over the course of a few days buses, subways, trams, bicycles, walking were all profiled as ways to “deplacer”.
Last Saturday I went to the salon and it was all about bicycles. There were folding bicycles, electric [...]

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Le Zimbabwe refuse un visa à Koffi Annan

L’ancien secrétaire-général de l’ONU, Kofi Annan a dû annuler une visite à Harare.

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Back from Paris

Back from Paris

I spent the weekend of November 14-17th in Paris. I needed a change of scenery and that is just what I got.
I went to see my first play entirely in French, most of which I understood. Les Hommes Preferent Les Blonds, it didn’t occupy the highest brow on the cultural ladder but I got [...]

Other posts in Travel

Steal This Film at the Utopia in Toulouse

Steal This Film at the Utopia in Toulouse

Steal This Film is a documentary about file sharing and the grand daddy of all file sharing sites The Pirate Bay. It outlines many of the legal problems that The Pirate Bay has had and its current state. Steal This Film also looks at communication throughout the centuries and draw some very interesting comparisons. Of [...]

J’irai dormir à Hollywood, I saw the movie last Friday

J’irai dormir à Hollywood is a very good movie about a French man who travels across the US. He is very friendly and always trying to get strangers to let him eat with them and stay in their homes. In a way it is like Borat but instead of trying to make the people look [...]

First Sunday of the month, Free Museums in Toulouse

First Sunday of the month, Free Museums in Toulouse

Each 1st Sunday of the month the national museums are free in Toulouse. Get up early and get a good start on the day. It is great because you can go to 3-4 museums in the day. If you go and one is not your cup of tea then just leave. The museums are free [...]

Contemporary Art in Toulouse part 1

Do you like contemporary art? Do you live in Toulouse? Of course you know about Les Abattoirs but do you know about Art Contemporain? 4 times per year they produce a pamphlet about all the local galleries and their contemporary art offerings in Toulouse. The main trouble I have is that some galleries do not [...]

I received my new carte de sejour!

I received my new carte de sejour!

I am once again legal to live and work in France for another year. I am set until December of 2009. This time around I worried a bit because I was changing my statute. It was quite easy and painless. This time there were no special circumstances and I could provide all the things they [...]

Le Zimbabwe refuse un visa à Koffi Annan

L’ancien secrétaire-général de l’ONU, Kofi Annan a dû annuler une visite à Harare.