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Bonn annif 2011 ...

Yep

time passes and I grow up ... Well, OK, I get older. I have not yet reached a venerable age but I am already in his thirties. Once again, my dear and tender love also known for his blog Papothé , spoiled me again: tea and books!

Nothing less than the bible ornithologist (I am not at all) and another guide on birds, two books which complement each other well and I advise warmly. I will not chronicle here below, but I recommend to the curious nature and birds!
Consider two books
meets sweet names:

- "The Ornithological Guide" by Lars Svensson et al. (published by Oxford University Press)
- "440 Birds Volker Diershke (published by Oxford University Press)

To support this reading, I could drink a delicious Pu Xian ErFo of 2008, home Palace Tea, tasted in my beautiful new cup that goes very well with the teapot received last year for my birthday .

Thanks to her and above all do not hesitate to visit his blog Papothé .

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"Darwinia" by Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson is my favorite author and discovery in 2010, notably through the most excellent " Spin " and" The Chronolithes ". I therefore continued in 2011 the discovery of his work including his "Darwinia" read in shared reading with Lhisbei and Cachou under the Winter Time Challenge.

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March 1912, Europe and parts of England suddenly disappear, replaced by a mainland fauna and flora not land that one does not take long to appoint the Darwin. For the young Guilford Law, this tragedy has nothing of a miracle or divine punishment, rather a mystery that science will one day solve
With this certainty, he will sacrifice everything to be part of the first major exploring expedition intended to sink the heart of the unknown continent, an expedition of violent death in violent death, led him away he could not imagine ... Nominated for the prestigious Hugo Award in 1999, Darwinia is a work of singular ambition, which evokes the glorious era when scientists were also explorers and adventurers

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Since

reading "The Chronolithes" , this is pure pleasure for me to dive into the work of Robert Charles Wilson , with of course the pinnacle reached for "Spin" . Fifth reading of the author so for me, and it is always so pleasant. Of course it is not yet the level reached by the two works above named, but there's already here the seeds of the great art of the author.

This novel has everything from the start of an alternate history. In 1912, that the content of the European continent disappears to make room for something more. It's the same continent but devoid of human presence and cover of vegetation unknown. An ancient land unexplored opens a continent covered with new vegetation strange and unknown animals like from another planet. Strange phenomenon, scary, and even fatal for all the inhabitants of Europe have disappeared. In short we are facing a new territory to reclaim and why Americans competed the game with the English colonies of emigrants returning to the country to rebuild the territory of London and the English crown. But what does all this represent? For some, this is simply a divine punishment or a miracle. For others an incomprehensible phenomenon. Still, a group of U.S. scientists set sail for the continent in order to study the content of this change. Guilford Law is the game, as a photographer, and he goes in this great expedition of exploration in the hope of bringing historic pictures of a continent in rediscovery. Of course, there's a trick that will slip, but Robert Charles Wilson yarn comes to us with this dizzy adventure explorers. I loved all these passages discoveries of the continent and this unnamed city that had all of a temple Lovecraftian. We also find in this text a bunch of references to the great old sci-fi turn of the century (Edgar Rice Burroughs , etc.), and the SF pulp magazines of the time. Too bad there is no more descriptive of the plants and animals Darwin.

Guilford Besides, we follow the lives of his wife by expatriate English requirement on the island, forced s'adaptéer to this new life and faces to the supposed death of her husband. Vision and a woman's life in a community of European settlers. We will also follow the throes of a mind possessed by a god ... An evil being who can take control of his person at all times and also making immortal the same time. So for three, three lives are linked by a few things but three lives that do not really believe. What is certain is that Robert Charles Wilson offers us a fine gallery of endearing characters, especially for Guilford Law.

We feel already there, the beginnings of a romantic way of describing things to Wilson . It takes three different characters and we follow their ways of reacting to an external phenomenon that disrupts everything on earth. We find once again that human way of approaching the world, get an external threat and then acting on it. But there is also ultimately a little something like thriller Wilson knows how to make a good dose of adventure SF background.

And then there 's dizzy: "Maybe we're all spirits in a machine" (P304) . After frightening reflection of this novel but finally summarizing the density of vertigo offered by the author. We come here to something more unsettling a novel by Philip K. Dick . It discusses the concept of reality and tangibility, free will, etc.. Or do we live as self-reproducing loops mathematics in a machine galaxy beyond us? Scary! But then, are we really in an alternate history or a novel about parallel worlds? Well both for the good half of this novel is an alternate history, but differs in a while to develop the theme of parallel worlds and reality.

short, rich themes, a novel that reads very well and donned easily. Endearing characters and a certain richness in the book. Nevertheless this is not the best Wilson, and say it is also true master of a novel that displeases many people. Perhaps in these parts too scientific (hard SF?) Too rich vocabulary that is abstruse and easily lose the thread of the narrative and thus the depths of history. Y 'it may be a little something bof on length, it is this struggle between good and evil too limited a story of an angel and demons are not really in fact . A good novel but is still far from the top of Wilson. A novel that will please some and displease probably others. A novel that has potential but can not be worn thoroughly as in "Spin" . Who will want, but it's still a good book.

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Playing with shared common Cachou and Lhisbei . Check out their review!

My reading other posts on Robert Charles Wilson.

Fifth reading so for the Winter Time Travel Challenge, challenge literary theme for the alternate history.

My presentation post
Other Tickets for the Challenge
The RSF's blog post that launched the Challenge
The uchronic what is it? See more at Wikipedia


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• Paperback: 444 pages
• Publisher: Editions Gallimard (October 8, 2003)
• Collection: Folio Science Fiction
• Translation: Michele Charrier
  
• Illustration: Sparth
  

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"From now things are going at the end of a long winter" by Francis Dannemark

First I want to thank Editions Robert Laffont for this partnership realized on the Critical Mass Literary (launched by Babelio ) because this book is really a beautiful book, a real joy, seeing a heart shot.

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"I just need to travel alone and stay silent twenty-four hours to confront the passage of time. In reality, I needed something else. I needed, I believe, share some time with an amiable stolen unknown. "

In the midst of weariness at the heart of the economic crisis, Christopher, a cultural Belgian fifty years on the brink of bankruptcy, wants to slow down and refocus on values more accurate. Because "life points from time to time that the world is very small," he decides to stop and leave. It will be for Portugal, by train. As the sky clouds adds, Christopher crosses on the station platform a stranger, Emma, he will find time to travel between Brussels and Lisbon, during a long and beautiful conversation at once tender, poignant, and always sincere. Dannemark Francis, with all the delicacy and elegance that characterize it, gives us his usual short novel, subtle and delicate, the things of life.

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I had occasion to read a book by Francis Dannemark it few years ago. It was "Man of September" , a book that I remembered as a good time, a short but pleasant moment. Once again I see Francis Dannemark an expert on short distances not the kind you get into a novel where the mileage you get lost on their way through mountains and forests. Not Francis Dannemark likes brevity seems to control it and it pretty well with this novel it. Heavy mere 91 pages, Belgian author offers us a novella really beautiful!

Gifted with a beautiful title and a back cover of the most attractive, " From now things are going at the end of a long winter" had everything to please me. And much to say at the outset, it has reached that expected pleasure and more. This short novel or novella, of Dannemark Francis is a true gem. I am regularly Order this book to read and reread a passage, a sentence or a moment of life, just for the pleasure of eating. Because yes, sometimes, a good book is like a good Belgian chocolate: it is eaten by keeping long finish.

over the rails, while the miles pass beneath their feet, the two characters in the book will meet and appreciate. Untying all the memories of their lives, small and big things, what to expect and what we lost, what life gives and takes. Francis Dannemark crystallizes in this novel a lot of times, small pleasures like great sadness. A book resolutely turned towards the human a text that discusses the pleasure to slow down, take time to enjoy life and the present moment. In the end, you come out with pleasure and happiness of reading a novel that has just one flaw to be too short. But it is so thin it has at least the advantage of being easily re-read. Thank you sir Dannemark for this beautiful moment of reading!


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I thank once again the Editions Robert Laffont to read this book as part of the Critical Mass . I also thank Babelio for this action and its renewed confidence in my columns.

From now things are going at the end of a long winter

Francis Dannemark

reviews and information on Babelio.com

Third Reading Challenge for Belgian literature.
Other notes of this challenge by following this link to it.

The Challenge Belgian literature:
- terms and inscriptions
- census articles





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• Paperback: 91 pages
• Publisher: Robert Laffont (January 13, 2011)
• Collection: Roman
  

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"Dew of Fire" by Xavier Mauméjean

First puzzled, then alarmed, I hesitated to buy this book. And yet, once I got it from hands, knowing just what to expect, it was a pleasure from start to finish! A very good book and a great success speaking SF soldiers and suicide bombers to the collapse of the Japanese empire.

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" The officers and men of Imperial Japan are all members of a suicide bomber. "
Information Office of the Government of Japan, 1944.

1944. Faced with the advance of U.S. forces in the Pacific, the high command Imperial Japanese Navy uses a tactic of last resort: its pilots to commit suicide attacks in dragons.
Soon another fire descends from heaven on the Rising Sun. The B-29 Superfortresses miss all the big cities with napalm bombs. Only a few pilots are brave enough or crazy show to confront them on their dragons fight ...
Three destinies are swept by the winds of war. Hideo, a small boy who lives inside the suffering of Japan. Tatsuo, his older brother, a student enrolled in a suicide squadron. Finally Captain Obayashi, master archer who imposes the "strategy of the certain death."


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start with some explanations ... I was initially scared to get into this work, a little cooled by reading "Bloodsilver" where Xavier Mauméjean wrote in collaboration with Johan Heliot under the pseudonym of American Indians Wayne Barrow . You can also find this column in these pages by following this link it . But nevertheless intrigued by the subject and the treatment more widely than historical science fiction. So, I started in this adventure with great interest that was awarded instead.

On the other hand I think some people will not like the side a bit cold, deliberately drained by the author who imposes rules of writing such as Banruku (Japanese puppet theater). The book also speaks Japanese imperialist Japan of a decadent and vindictive, a crumbling empire but who will not give up, who would rather die than surrender. So a war story, dealing with this fall and the lives of these warriors of death, without the glory. A subject and a way of writing that can not please everyone so. By

cons of my side I can confess a certain fascination for Japan and its code warrior, being myself practicing traditional Japanese martial arts. So follow this historical treatment of the end of an empire was very interesting. Xavier Mauméjean discusses patriotism exacerbated by a militarist Japan and vindictive. A Japan where the cult of the Emperor is part of everyday life. A country that sends its children to commit suicide in order not to declare himself the loser. An island that is pounded by the United States, an Empire déliquescent carried by propaganda rather than realism. A country that sees its end very close but denies al.

Xavier Mauméjean cutting his book on playing the elements metal, water, wood fire, and earth, the five elements of Chinese thought. This choice is symbolic because China was a country humiliated by Japanese imperialism, the territory where the Japanese have committed atrocities and that no names Xavier Mauméjean denounces in his novel through Mr. Nagayama, teacher campaign, which find quickly brought to heel by propaganda. Of these five elements, Xavier Mauméjean cut his story, talking to various characters in turn while maintaining consistency. It combines various angles, including Hideo, kid friendly campaigns that undergoes the war from inside the country and who dreams only of his brother became a pilot in aviation empire. The latter, Tatsuo, a student pilot before becoming a dragon for the Imperial Navy and become a suicide bomber. Through this figure we'll live the life of these suicide bombers, their fears, their suffering, their heroism to the extremist, a symbol of a decadent empire near the end and ready for anything. Captain Obayashi is the third character that we follow, and it is one that represents the idélogie Japanese, who will push all to the end rather than accept defeat. Three for and three different angles. Three ways of approaching a turning point in Japanese history: the defeat of the Empire forever.

The story of Xavier Mauméjean very informative, it feels like much in the way of treating history, close to the historical novel in the way of describing the material and acts of war. I found it enjoyable without falling into the too much, without falling into an endless followed descriptive of acts of war or combat equipment.

Regarding how to deal characters, it would almost be afraid to become attached. Everything is played from the start: we know that Japan will lose the war, then who will die and how? But more precisely, Xavier Mauméjean speaks of his characters without falling into a certain pathos, and its handling of the text is playing great. At the risk of cooling some readers, but there is a tone almost Japanese in the manner of speaking, with just enough detachment and proximity.

Regarding dragons, they are there, as if from prehistory they survived as a special branch of aquatic dinosaurs, dragons yes because its water animals here. The dragon is also a symbolic animal because it is also an important figure in Asian culture, so it was okay to be appropriated without making it the center of the book. The interest lies in the kamikaze and the fall of that empire.

short, "Dew of fire" was my real pleasure, even more surprising that I was not expecting that at all. I was expecting something more rough, more warlike, maybe just a series of heroic battles suicidal magnified ... But interviews and other feedback about this book intrigued me and I did well to buy and read this book. It is a very good book, maybe not the kind of book that everyone will treat as a masterpiece, but a book that has the merit of treating a subject of history with good tone and a certain originality of approach. I say bravo Mr. Mauméjean , you fooled me this time. Keep it up!


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Link to the book "Dew of Fire" published by The Belial
An interview with Xavier Mauméjean around "Dew of fire" on uchronies . com
His opinion was intrigued: Cachou .


Fourth So read on Winter Time Travel Challenge, challenge literary theme for the alternate history.

My presentation post
Other Tickets for the Challenge
's note RSF blog that launched the Challenge
The uchronic what is it? See more at Wikipedia




Fourth reading for History Challenge.

About this Challenge on the blog "In the shade of the cherry"
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• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: The Belial (September 16, 2010)
• Illustration: Manchu
  

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• Trail of the 3 valleys (Couvin)

http://www.pesche-aventures.be/trail

Saturday, February 12, 2011
33.8 km - 480m D +

I take the road at sunrise day to get a little comfortable, 125 km separate the two valleys "Trappist" Orval and Chimay (here we go again ...!). Collection of numbers, it was announced 280 runners on the 3 distances (11-22-33 km), about 90 on the grand tour.
Time is a cool, dry weather looks with some sunny, ideal weather for running.

ready to start the first trail of the year!

9:25. Briefing. Then the mob rushed ... very quietly for a few hundred meters! Re-briefing near a small bridge, it is in fact the passage of the last hundred yards, then it restarts small explanation ... for a few more hundreds of m. Crossing the road, a hedge, a subdivision, consolidation. Re-re-briefing ... final this time, it is indeed the place to start. I did not quite follow .... and apparently I was not alone!
9:40. This time, it is indeed gone. In light side, just to refine heating.
KM 2.5, is parting with the circuit of 11 km. We attack a nice steep slope, small cap, " not push each turn . The atmosphere is friendly ... A little earlier, it still works, I decided to attack and I calmenment exceeds a couple of good competitors. Then follows a succession of small easy paths, trails through the woods, and supplies to 8 th km. Already! But I have not even lust ... Well, I zap and I'll see the following, I have what I need with me.
1:10 to 11 e km, my pace is good and Regular, good feelings, I let off steam in one or the other down and took the opportunity to return each time on my predecessors.
Passage along the dam Ry Rome. The course is hilly with no excess, always pleasant little trail "Russian mountain", one or the other beautiful side not very long, crossing small streams.
Second ravito ^e to 19 miles, I take this opportunity to enjoy a small Coke and a snack.
22 ^e miles, 2:20. I would be so at 33 3:30 ^e , my estimate of departure. I keep my rhythm. After quite a journey
loop in the forest, we go back along the lake dam. Less interesting passage on tarmac, long enough. Then fork right and beautiful climb, followed by a beautiful descent. I save me in the first, to give much in the second. Then along flat trail, you reach the highway about 100m. I'm at 3:05. Right turns, short steep path, false flat and then down to the last bridge. I have about 200m, I draw my last reserves and ends 12 'before I estimate.

Very good race on a course attractive and varied. Belle average distance to bring the season and assess his fitness. I am very happy with my first result 2011!

A good shower at the pool next door, little spaghetti .... good Chimay! (Ah, you guessed?)

result 3h18'41 - 44 th / 86 - 13/23 V2

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"The life of a fool" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Ryûnosoke Akutagawa is a renowned author in Japan, there 's so important that even a literary prize bearing his name: the Akutagawa Prize . The texts appear here this be his last before his suicide in 1927.

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A man takes the train to Tokyo. A passenger told her about a ghost in a raincoat. Moments later, he meets someone in a raincoat, too light for the season. In his hotel room, a third coat is placed on the back of his chair ... All indications of the gear that drives the narrator into madness. Two new posthumous author of this great Japanese literature, terrible pages that prepare the staging of its Suicide ...

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At the end of his life Ryunosuke Akutagawa undergoing any hallucinations, and possibly sinking slowly into madness like her mother. This is evident in both texts here, as in the first called "Gears" in the second named "The life of an idiot" two texts published posthumously, two texts on madness.

It starts playing with "Gears" a text destabilizing. In fact I must not be easy with the madness, because the texts that I read in connection with this subject leaves me a funny feeling. And I think it basically comes from that, because the style is beautiful, Akutagawa writes well! The tone is given, the pace is just fine and phrases, but the fact I have not specifically hooked. Maybe because I was expecting something more coherent ... but madness is not consistent. So much for me.

The second text, "The life of an idiot" has more taste of autobiography, more than the first. Besides these two texts have in common, first topic of madness and then some things happening there, as an effect mirror. As if one was a distorted reality, and the other a more distorted image of reality. Cons by the text is brief, concise, see too I think, which makes it somewhat incomprehensible substance. But having them together is a good idea I think.

Ultimately, it will not stay a memorable reading. In fact I even have trouble remembering what really happened inside. But I'll try reading "Rashomon" should perhaps please me more about the content, because closer to a Japanese legend, in form as stated above: it is very well written.


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Other links:
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• Paperback: 98 pages
• Publisher: Editions Gallimard (January 5, 2011)
• Collection: Folio 2 €
• Translator: Edwin de Chavanes
  

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The challenge of a Thousand! Marathon bookish ...

Well, yes I'm crazy. Another challenge more. But as I am not completely at the picks, I agree on a challenge for a book that I'm already busy reading! Because, well, sign up for a challenge is one thing, but committing to a brick over 1000 pages is another matter. But since then I "The Lord of the Rings" JRR Tolkien of for replay, what is more beautiful in compact editions by Christian Bourgeois editor, better not go without a challenge. Certainly this is not really a real challenge, but it kick my behind to finish in the year.

And who knows, if I find the courage, I go into reading "War and Peace Leo Tolstoy of . That will be the real challenge! The ticket

presentation of the challenge is on blog Fattorius .

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"Jazz" by Philippe Hucher

If you want to tickle know more about jazz and expand without too you without investing too much, here is the perfect book! A counselor!

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From Slavery to racial segregation, jazz history is intimately intertwined with the struggle for civil rights led by African Americans. It is a vibration that shakes the blues people, America at war against itself, the former black slaves who haunt the story white. It's a rhythm that accents its balance swing or bebop, which inhabits the body forever. It is a breath sensual plant roots and branches its painful its thousand branches, to adapt again and again. Songs of slaves to free jazz, jazz Philippe Hucher penetrates and gives us the history of this protean and timeless music.


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It is true that I will not touch a jazz standard, however, is a musical genre that interests me more. Musically it is a style ultra-rich, much richer is exploratory than is most of the music. Jazz is also a universe of claims, exploration and release music as human.

In my musical past, my life is mostly made around the sphere independent hardcore punk, the funds cellar, one which saw his musical life alone, that self-manages and rebels, which s' expresses and rages. Evidenced by my former label activity , distributor, organizer of concerts and the creation of the website Shoot Me Again . In jazz I found something similar, sometimes more sedate, sometimes more free, more often subtle and necessarily different from what I knew. Nevertheless, the beb-bop, hard bop and free jazz are creative currents, innovative and liberating as it was not found in other music before. Although currently some gentrified part of jazz, is repeated, the same jazz was learned in high school music in clubs rather than obscure, the style remains a bubble of music that has not finished interested .

Reading this little book, I was finally able to put labels on music names, from swing to free-jazz, bebop and big band. It Hits for almost every taste. Presented in an essentially historical, the book provides us with a beautiful and changing currents, the remaining short while letting a real passion for this music, the author gives us really want to dig a little more kind. Especially John Coltrane it seems to be on an equal pedestal. Besides the "My favorite things" of Coltrane is a beautiful song I think ... As "Kind of Blue" of Miles Davis ... Well let's stop there.

short, it is with pleasure that I will go through the discography left by the author and I will consult my notes to find me some other artists of the genre.

A very nice little book. Why not offer a good jazz album?


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• Paperback: 75 pages
• Publisher: Librio (May 23, 2007)
• Collection: Librio

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"Seven Thieves" Chauvel and Lereculey

A good entertainment without great pretensions. Entertaining but nothing more.

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Two thieves without scale, surviving as best they could of their thefts, are covered by two dwarfs. They wish to use their talents in the framework of a risky but lucrative: seize the fabulous treasure of their people. To carry out this expedition, they need the two men but also a colossus capable of carrying the loot and two ferocious orcs ...!

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the turning radius of my comics local library, I came across this book. So as I am in full replay "Lord of the Rings" and relaunched in a role playing session, I thought it was the right time of BD.

On a quick reading and easy, unfortunately you fall into a simple scenario worthy of a good session Dugeon & Dragons. A group of heroes, sorted on the component and do not really like each other but have the common goal to make lots of money. Unwinding a bit linear for my taste without much real twists or so too phoned. For cons the characters are well drawn and it is nice for that side. But hey, this is not easy to fit a scenario of contrasting characters and 7 in 62 pages.

level designs I liked. The cover is well done and I find the board extracted found below is quite successful I must say. The colors, they are dynamic, even if sometimes it is not always successful in my taste the effect is nonetheless.

In the end, even repeat myself: A good entertainment without great pretensions. Entertaining but nothing more.


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• Album:
• 62 pages Publisher: Delcourt (September 6, 2007)
• Screenplay: David Chauvel
  
• Drawing: Jerome Lereculey

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Scorpio Flirting Signs

• Karim'HOC, raid guidance forest two days



http://www. karrimhoc.be /

Saturday 29 and Sunday, January 30, 2011

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My second involvement in the raid forest, again with Isabelle. Back in this beautiful region of Chimay (hey .... another Trappist beer, it pursues us ..), after Couvin last year, this time the visit takes place in Rance.
The weather is cold (but not too much) and dry, the ground is frozen and we'd be struggling not only in molasses (it's not worse).
Like last year, we entered the long course (17 km) and runners (33 teams).
We find some knowledge and a delegation from our beautiful "BABA club," a dozen!

Saturday.
This time, no panic to find the departure station more than 1 km from the room, we follow the others to be safe! General grouping, latest briefing (prohibited areas and meadows shaded) and go into mass start with a small ten minutes behind the planned program (11am). Okay, we have before us 6am to complete.
few hundred meters to warm-up, then the map B & W is given to us. We need to transcribe the posts to find on color map, without error. At this game, Isa is quicker than me, I can not help but check 2 times each score to be sure of my shot. We point 10 of the 18 tags in a first step, and go hunting! Some more pros, start directly with the map B & W ...

Okay, so .... we are here, and we must go .... there!

First, second, OK. The third asks us (already ...) problem. We turn around, because some of being in the right place. We decide away somewhat from each other for "raking" wider, and what should not happened: we lose sight! In searching my partner, I bang on about ... Tag No. 3 sought. I call, I whistle, no answer. Finally, the cell phone that will connect us. We fix an appointment at the point of a place visited before. Finally, we find ourselves, are pointing the 3. Result: At least 45 'Lost! Well, it repositions itself to focus and go again. The following do not ask us big problems, identifying specific positions is far away.
Once the 10 found, we point on the map the remaining positions, break ravito (fast, otherwise it cools quickly and we lose our concentration). For the following, we provide via the main roads or landmarks clearly visible and just one last little bearing to the station. It linked together rather well, noytre pace until the 15th. The 16 we again raises complications. Checking up the road, the border, it sticks "more or less", then control the terrain, and we can reposition ourselves just, diving toward the small stream, the path, facing the valley, and after the beacon ! Even the precious time lost. Anyway, without scoring, more racing! We touch on goal, 17, 18, and passing under the banner at the foot of Lac du Val Joly (France).
All posts found in 5:02:55 (25th), we are relatively happy with our first day. Just
recovery towards housing in the holiday village nearby (it was this transfer, on foot, which was the most "boring", in the bitter cold and exhaustion after the race). Potluck in the right mood and atmosphere of a good evening "Bibit" Trappist. The "CO Liège" and "Baba" together, it is relatively dangerous for the bar .... But this is part of the atmosphere "Karrim'HOC.

Sunday
After a good night on recovery (hm hm, for some, it seems that gives Chimay a headache ...), breakfast and preparations for the second day. If the first start from 8:30 to hunt according to their ranking from the previous day, we leave in "Mass" at 09:30. The weather looks similar to the previous day.
Even running on the cards, but we must point to a different color from the beacons of the night before. Small concern indelible pen (which fades over time ...).
Do not repeat the mistake of the day, concentrate, concentrate! And it was paying the first 10 pointed in the 2hr, it looks pretty good. We are pointing on the map the rest of the posts (fortunately, a black pen found me out in the woods ...). And it goes again.
was not counting on the traditional tag recalcitrant, in this case by the "11", which we will lose at least 1:30 ... "finally does not find it! After several inspections of the land (profile, vegetation, road, compass ...) we are certain to be the right place. We cast the net wide (way back, forward), back to the previous tags, back there, nothing happens, not found for us. Then we must resign ourselves and leave the station without the point, which means putting disqualified! Is death in the soul and moral sneakers as we continue our journey, are pointing to the passage 12, 13 for fun. We pass then a member of the HOC that .... débalise! Already? ! Well, it only serves to no longer continue, we go live via the road, still enjoying this beautiful sunny afternoon and a nice walk in the woods.
Upon our arrival, our president BABA, Iwan, solicits our explanations. And yet it was well that this "11", as others have found.
Too bad. This will be our first raid CO not entirely closed. Ok, one last Chimay and go home ....

result Team 20: Rongvaux B - MICHALAK I (Mixed) - Saturday 5:02:55 (25th) - Sunday (5:02:59) P11, 14 - (10:05:54) - not Several podiums classified
reward the efforts of Baba Club!

But never mind, I will come back, because the organization hosting the course and the atmosphere is quality!