Luckily the strange heavy rain fall down on Saturday, we really had the weather support for this year’s “fete de la Musique”.

Didn’t get time to check where Jack Lang chooses to go, I decided to go to the Elysée Palace just to see whether could get any image of the President together [...]

Financial crises, AF330 accident, plus cold whether and heavy rain, the opening day was really not very exciting…

But still, once every two year, it is still worthy of visiting, better go by the helicopter shuttle, if you do not want to be blocked for two years only for going there.

Simone Veil finally received a « legion d’Honneur », at the age of 81.

“You are a woman of character, a free woman (…) that I admire so much and for whom I have great affection,” said Sarkozy in the ceremony.

“The day that I die, it is the Holocaust that I think and all my friends [...]

Bernard Kouchner meets Mahmoud Abbas today. As usual, a lunch meeting followed by a press conference. There are much more journalists today than in Elysée yesterday.

Most of the French journalists came not, or at least not only for the subject of “Israel-Palestinian” conflict, but for Bernard Kouchner himself.

Because of the book of [...]

All the appointments in this city for the 1st Dec. Had been cancelled.

Thanks to GD for sharing this year’s 8th December with me, which is also the anniversary of my first trip to this city many years ago J

I finally made the trip on my way to Alpes right before Christmas !
Paul Bocuse was the [...]

this Friday, the 12th September 2008, S. Apolinaire.
Mr & Mme Sarkozy will have the honor of welcoming him home.
150 000- 200 000 people are expected for the mass in the Invalides Saturday morning.
As for Lourdes, that must be a great moment.

Fortunately I didn’t go to Evian for the EU-Ukraine forum, the announcement of the change from Evian to Paris arrived the same day of the forum so all the journalists who were already there had to run to Paris. And the journalists who followed President Sarkozy and Barroso had traveled over night, because of the [...]

I have to say, it was such a great two-week time passing with the French sportive.
They are full of energy and passion; you feel the sunshine and the simplicity on them. Comparing to Chinese sportive, they give me the feeling of going to the Olympic Games only for the sport, and their passion, nothing else. [...]