France : Rostrenen

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After the  conference in Belfast, I went back to France to visit my family for a week. During the market day I took the time to go take some picture of my home town. I'm used to have people asking me if I come from Paris as generally that's the only French city they know. So here is the answer, no, I'm not coming from Paris, I come from a very small town in the center of Brittany. You won't be able to pronounce the name of it and you will have forgotten it by tomorrow but here is what it looks like.
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Ireland : Irish dance

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At the conference diner there was a representation of Irish dances before we actually start to dance ourselves. Irish dance involve a very high level of practice as the body remain straight when the feet and legs makes you turn and jump. Despite doing more sport recently, Irish dancing was making me very hot and sweaty but it was also a lot of fun. I hope you'll enjoy watching the following video of our professional dancers of the evening.
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Ireland : Beaghmore stones circles

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After the American folk park, we went to Beaghmore to see the celtic stones circles. It's really strange to see that so many years after the construction, the circles of stones are still there and that they are hiding so many secrets about human history. The celtic culture and especially the celtic constructions such as megaliths or stones circles remain unexplained by science until now. Who knows how many years will be necessary to unravel such mysteries and understand what happened so long ago? What was the purpose of those constructions?
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Ireland : American folk park

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On Sunday we went to the American folk park. The American folk park is a open air museum which tell the story of the immigration from Ireland to America. The immigration was mainly due to the famine that touched Ireland with the potato decease. A lot of poor people died in the period of Irish history and a lot of others saved money to pay the transport by boat to Pennsylvania. In the American side of the park, houses from Pennsylvania have been imported to complete the museum.
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