Mes crazy expériences

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Europe tour Interail 2006 : Sunshine in Praha

En français
We initially wanted to start our travel either in the south (Italy) or in the north (Belgium) but the train prices inside your own country are variating a lot and we soon found out that the easiest/cheapest thing to do was to start in Praha. We had already visited Praha the year before during the first Europe tour, the posts can be found here and here. This time we had the chance to see the city under the sun. We also took the opportunity to visit Zlatá ulička (the Golden lane) where we didn't previously go. This street used to host goldsmiths or alchemists in the 15th century and that's where it has got it name from. It's now hosting museum of armory and textiles from middle age.
Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction
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The number 22 in the Golden line is the house of Franz Kafka.

Friday, September 3, 2010

I won AugNoWriMo : Demon and fairy part 8

I won AugNoWriMo, well I passed the 40000 word line I still need to be officially verified.
That time it was really hard, not that much about the story more about a strange brain pattern. Let me explain because if that happens to me I know that it's happening to others as well and knowing about it will help fight it.

I was late on my word count,with the move to America I couldn't write for few days. Looking at the late words now, that wasn't too much. But the thing was I possible couldn't catch up all at once for sure. So what did I do? I felt bad and I didn't write, so the late words started to add up even more because I couldn't make it all at once was feeling like if I couldn't make it at all. And that was the main problem. Just I didn't need to make it all at once I needed to split it, into pieces, like I did at the beginning of the challenge, 40000/31 = 1291 (above integer).

So I split it and I get back at writing every day. Most of the time I didn't even reached the new word count but I was writing every day I was getting closer and that's the main point, because you can't do it all right now doesn't mean that you can't take a little step in the right direction and that little step was just what I needed to get back to my writing motion.
Of course when the week-end arrived I had just four days left to get my last 15200 and I had the feeling that I wasn't going to make it. But I split it, 5000 Saturday, 5000 Sunday so that I just had about 2500 for the two last days. I wrote 5200 on Saturday, 4500 on Sunday but on Monday I wrote 4100 words so that on the last day I just had to write 1200 words and they came to me really easily. On the two last days I was also splitting the writing time, writing each time I had a moment.
I think that one of the most important thing is the desire to get what I said I would and I made it.

The novel is not yet finished with 2 contests won and a total of 94138 words so you can expect to have more to read in the close future. It is going to be my longest novel so far.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction

En français
If you remember, more than two years ago I posted a series of travel post about two weeks of interail travel in center Europe. The introduction to this series can be found here.
As we really enjoyed our trip, the following year, in 2006, we decided to restart the experiment by doing a complete Europe tour for a full month. By complete I mean that the western point was Rennes in France where we took our first train from, the southern was Salerno in Italy by accident, the eastern was Bucharest in Romania and the top north was Narvik in Norway.
We spend the 2 first week in western and eastern Europe discovering the Slavic countries for the first time (except for Poland which I already visited) and the last 2 in the northern countries, Scandinavian countries and Finland.

My first plan was to make one post a day about this travel for a month but I had been advised by a very wise person to write a post on it every two days to make it last two months. And I think I will follow the advise, not to have posts appearing only every two days but because that way I will be able to post something else in between so that my reader who don't like the travel section don't have to wait for ever before having something to read. I also have a lot of other things to say.
The map below have been taken form Seb travelling, the travel website of my fiancé.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Travel in Republic of Ireland : Connemara, Galway and end

En francais
We saw more of the beautiful Connemara landscape before arriving in Galway which is one of the most famous city in this part of Ireland. To get there we took a road called "the sky road" which offer one of the best scenery in Ireland. We then visited Galway and a castle north of it before starting on our way back stopping in Ashford Castle and to see a waterfall.
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