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I needed to go spend two months in America for work. So I have been in Kansas for a bit more than a month now. I work on the Kansas State University campus and here are some pictures of the place. I didn't really explore the all campus so that's just the places I'm seeing walking to work from my apartment. Travel table of content
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We needed to take several trains to go from Pula to České Budějovice, we missed our train in Salzburg as one in the previous train was late. We arrived in České Budějovice in the afternoon. It is the largest city of the south Bohemian region in Czech Republic but it is still a quiet place. The houses are all very colorful which makes the city particular, it is also well know for its beer brewed since the 13th century. The city also present different type of architecture form Baroque, Gothic, Renaissance and 19th century period, and all that around the main place.
There are the ruins of a castle some 30 km south in the city of Český Krumlov but the interail pass only allows us to go to places accessible by train so we couldn't see them. That can probably be added to the long list of future destinations.
We take the train to our next destination at 1am, being alone in it allow us to get some well deserved sleep. Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction Travel table of content
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We took our train to Pula at 7.00 am and arrived at the end of the morning. Pula is the largest city in Istria, a region of Croatia which was known by the Romans as the Terra Magica. It's name comes from the Histri an Illyrian tribe that the Romans as pirates. There are several caves near Pula, Lim fjord, Šandalja and Roumald's with archaeological remains from stone age, we didn't have a chance to visit them so we will have to go back in the future.
The first thing we saw in the city was the Pula amphitheater that looks a bit like the Colosseo. We really wanted to go to the sea so I used my Croatian to get direction. That was kinda fun, I just don't speak Croatian so I had trouble understand the answers. We walk to the sea, that was pretty far and took a bath there. Sebastian got stuck by urchin, he probably stepped on them. We started to go back and were almost sure to be late for the train but fortunately the hitch-hacking worked and an someone from Lugano took us back to the city center. We have the time to enjoy ourselves and have a drink before taking the next trains. Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction Travel table of content
カードキャプターさくら is a anime from Shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Clamp which appear on the screens in 1998. Clamp is a group of people writing mangas who are often adapted into anime. The particularity is that the main characters appear in several series with different life. I really like Clamp's style and I'll try to watch more of their anime and post about them. カードキャプターさくら series contains 70 episodes, divided in 3 seasons.
When she is alone at home, little Sakura hears some noise in her father's library. She decides to go have a look and open the wrong book letting the Clow cards being released in the world, and causing trouble. She becomes a cards hunter to find them all back. Of course she has friends to help her :
Tomoyo, her best friend who always wanted to film her, recording all her adventure with the capture of the cards and providing different outfit. I like the fact that the characters in this anime are changing outfits, in a lot of anime I have seen so far that wasn't the case. Xiaolan, the chinese transfered student who is also capturing cards.
Kerochan (real name Cerberus) kind of Sakura's pet who appeared when the Clow card got released. (I also have my Kerochan) Kerochan has his own section during the first episodes to explain about Sakura's outfit of the day.
Some more helpers appear during the episodes. Cinema, Manga, Animation Content
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Going away from Roma was just a little more comfortable than going there. We arrived in Ljubljana in the morning after changing train in Venezia. Ljubljana is the main city of Slovenia. It's a very nice city with interesting construction showing the medieval history.
Ljubljanski grad the castle of Ljubljana was built in the 12th century but we can notice the architectural evolution in time. It has a defensive function and has continuously been inhabited.
Ljubljana also has several nice bridges : Zmajski most, the Dragon bridge with statues of dragons, Tromostovje, the three bridge is a bridge build in three parts, Čevljarski most, the shoemaker bridge.
We spend a part of the night in front of the train station waiting for the train to our next adventures. Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction Travel table of content
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With things progressing on different levels for my writing projects, I felt the necessity to get make an update or calendar to check on my progression. This is what I want to share with you today.
Demon Soul is my first novel ever completed. It tells the story of a girl, Brownie who will do everything to get the soul of her demon boy friend back, but as with magic unexpected things happen, Sahel will appear in her life and she has to protect him.
Few days ago as some of you might know already, I sent it back to Create space, the web site I use for self publication and the manuscript with the black and white illustration have been accepted. I should receive the proof print in few days. Hopefully this time, the book will be good enough in my eyes for allowing me to have it on sell on amazon. If not I will review it once more. I tend to be perfectionist on some project and my first novel is one of these projects.
Attic Mirror is the second novel I wrote, the story is not really related to Demon Soul even though Brownie and Sahel appear in the story and the house where most of the action takes place is the same. This is the story of a girl, Hitomi who find a magic mirror showing an other world in the attic. She will try to cross the barrier between the world to find love. At the moment the first draft is completed. I need to edit it and to draw some more illustrations. I'm hoping to be able to have a final version of the text and all the hand made illustration by the end of October.
Demon and fairy
"Demon and fairy" is my last started novel. Of course I have little pieces for other novel here and there but I spend already two sucessful contests on "Demon and fairy" and it is still not finished. It tells the story of a demon boy with a special power who fall in love with a fairy who is engaged to the prince of fairies. They will need to cross worlds to be together. It can be considered as a kind of sequel to Demon Soul as it started exactly at the end of it. We just follow Seti instead of following Sahel. Sahel is also an important character in this story.
My first plan was to get the first draft done by the end of the week but with the submission of Demon Soul going on, that seems now impossible. At the same time I already have more than 94000 words for this story and the more I think about it, the more I think that I will need a lot more than a couple of thousand to be able to finish it. This will make it my longest story written so far. I'm still hoping to reach the end by the end of the month. It will also need illustrations but they are not my priority for the moment.
Vampire Heart
This is probably the only thing new for my usual readers. You have already met Viorel in Demon Soul and Attic Mirror. He is my very first vampire character and he is a very special vampire as he can do things normal vampires in the legend can't do for very particular reasons. This story is the one I will be working on during the next NaNoWriMo next November. I already have some kind of a plot for it and a beginning that need to be rewritten on Novel form. As this story is kind of an initiation travel through space (for the moment only an European part is planed) and through time as the story starts some 600 years ago. I am currently investigation history to make sure to have some kind of realistic setting around Viorel's story. More coming in November, stay tune.
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After our crazy adventures of the previous day, we finally got the time to visit Roma the next day. We first started with checking the next train we needed to take before walking around in the city. One week in Roma is not enough to see everything, you could spend a life time there I'm not sure it would be enough either but we did the best we could with the day we had. We started to go to the Colosseo, that's the little things you have to go see when you are somewhere, the most famous one. Then the Foro Romano. I love ruins, and history and archeology. Historical monuments are everywhere so we where stopping frequently during our visit. I believe that I will have to dig more deeply in the city history some days. We throw our coin in the Fontana di Trevi, to be sure that we were going to come back to Roma. It worked for me the first time. Then we headed to the Vaticano city to visit the Basilica and Piazza San Pietro. We then finally got an Italian pizza before taking the train to other adventures. Europe tour Interail 2006 : Introduction Travel table of content
