Wed, Jul 7, 2021
A nice journey of Philippe Gougler from Zouerate (the magnetic mountains, the iron mine, the railway line, the people moving along the line to find where the train will stop, the blue wagon for the passengers, the talk with the gold digger, the stop of the train-the unique track and the waiting of another-, the transport of iron ore, animals, cars, truck food and passengers) to the walk inn the desert (the water well, the supply of water by a spacial tank train, the meeting with the nomad people, the dromedaries, the walk, the good place for the the animals-grass and bushes-, the eating of bread cooked under warm sand and the night under the tent) passing by Choum and the Passe d'Amogjar (the oasis with the palm trees, the farming of wheat and carrot, the little irrigation canal,. then the village of Toungade on the hill, the arrival of women from another village, the "divorce celebration", the return to the train, the talk with the train conductor,the 2 locomotives and the 126 wagons) and by Chinguetti (the "Sorbonne of the desert", the sand invading the old town, the meeting with Saif and the visit of his library, the old manuscripts and books about religion and also sciences like astronomy).
Thu, Jul 28, 2022
A nice journey of Philippe through the Swedish Lapland from Murjek ( the village with 43 inhabitants, the railway station with its grocery and waiting room, the passengers drinking coffee) to Jukkasjärvi (Nils, Sami reindeers breeder, the feeding of the reindeer, the reindeer sledge tour, the stop at the frozen lake, the "bouillon" and the reindeer meat,the talk about the harmony with the nature) passing by the talk with the young passenger in train about the Swedish people and the nature, by Östersund ( the modified snow scooter with V1 reactor, the great sense of humour of these creative men), by the Inlandsbanen-the omnibus train that everyone cant stop- ( the pleasant talk with the female controller and the train conductor), by Lulea (the frozen sea, the ice fishing and the wooden houses for the people coming to the church) and by the driving on a frozen lake near Jokkmokk.
Thu, Aug 4, 2022
A nice journey of Philippe from Suswa (the meeting with the Maasai breeders, the security control at the railway station and the talk about the Maasai identity) to the Tsavo National Park (the animal rescue center, Edwin and the baby elephants-orphan elephants whose mothers have been killed by poachers-, the intelligence of the elephants and their release when they are adults) passing by Maai Mahiu region (the Maasai team trying to localize the lions and other wild animals and to give the notice to the the cattle breeders,Patrick the goats breeder and his family, the paddock for the protection of the goats, the drinking of milk mixed with bovine blood), by the railway tracks to Magadi lake (the maintenance team, the flamingos in the Rift Valley, the boat tour on the Magadi lake and the sodium carbonate extracted from the lake and sent for exportation), by the train from Nairobi to Mombasa (the pleasant talk with the passengers about the polygamy and the languages in Kenya).
Wed, Aug 11, 2021
A nice journey of Philippe Gougler from Samarkand (the Registan square with the three madrassas-Muslim universities where the students studied theology,but also astronomy and mathematics-, the importance of Samarkand in the Silk Road) to the Aral sea (the meeting with Vladimir, the fisherman and his motorcycle, the sand storm, the thyme as amulet and the picking of the "Artemia" eggs) passing by Tashkent (the meeting with Uzbek men in train , the weight lifter, the "plov" prepared by the men and the comment of an Uzbek woman, the market , the traditional Uzbek cradle, the the women preparing mutton heads and feet) and by the travel in the high speed train to Bukhara (the breakfast with coffee, croissant and "sambusas", the talk and the Uzbek and the Russian languages)
Thu, Aug 18, 2022
A nice journey from Lentvaris (the meeting with the young man driving an armored personnel carrier, the talk in the train with the woman knitting a woolen blanket ) to Trakai , the nice place with the lake and the castle (the cemetery, the meeting with the man visiting tombs-paid mourning- and his wife) passing by Siauliai (the Hill of Crosses, the talk with the guardian of the hill, the talk in the train with a Lithuanian women about the time of the Soviet Union and the importance of the friendship), by Anyksciai (the passengers speaking about the jokes about Lithuanians and Estonians and about the strength of the Lithuanian women), by Klaipeda (the Courland Peninsula with the strange forest and the cormorants) and by Vilnius ( the historical center-Unesco World Heritage site- and the Gediminas Tower).