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Reunion Island

Reunion Island

10 Jun 2008 - posted in : chronicles -travel stories

Reunion Island, rebel island, often on the newspaper for disasters, Chikungugna, volcano eruptions, cyclones, sharks, giant waves… here is how we can see this island for an ordinary French metropolitan, a rock lost between Madagascar and Mauritius. [chronicle-photo number="1" ] We know finally few things about this French overseas department, and some are quite satisfied [...]

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe

1 Jan 2008 - posted in : chronicles -travel stories

Hung on my keyboard with one hand, while chasing away the mosquitoes with the other one, I finally manage to connect myself to a multitude of weather forecast websites and quickly, without really controlling me, I let my joy exploded, all the people in the hall of the hotel looked at me strangely. 5-day weather [...]

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Chile

Chile

3 Oct 2007 - posted in : chronicles -travel stories

The plane turns, the captain take his microphone and announced: “On the left of the aircraft you can admire the highest peak in South America” …. I try to open the window but i’m super slow as my eyes are sore from 14 hours of sleeping. My pupils dilate, dazzled by the light, I thought [...]

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Australia, Gnaraloo

Australia, Gnaraloo

22 Feb 2007 - posted in : blog -travel

I’m back on track after having spent 10 days in the Australian desert. We rented a van, and hit the road through the west Australien, on more than 1200 km by avoiding the Kangaroos, Gnaraloo, one of the best spots of the world, but also one of the most difficult spots of access. The last [...]

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France, Brittany, Melano’ch

France, Brittany,...

18 Dec 2006 - posted in : chronicles -travel stories

Slab in Brittany! 13th December, i’m back from Maui, Hawaii, a bit tired from the jet lag and hours in the plane. At Home, first thing i do is to check Windguru (the weather forecast bible), just in Case of…. A big storm was coming to Brittany, few phone call and i was already packing [...]

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Teahupoo, Tahiti

Teahupoo, Tahiti

14 Sep 2006 - posted in : chronicles -travel stories

Unique !! Power, Sound, Shape, Speed, Size … it haunts surfers ready to face it. Teahupoo is above all a pilgrimage for surfers of course, but also for non-surfers who saw the incredible image of surfer riding mountains of water. The location is primarily magical, lost deep in Tahiti, at the end of the road, [...]

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New Caledonia

New Caledonia

10 Jun 2006 - posted in : chronicles -travel stories

Palm trees, white sand, blue lagoon … idyllic image of New Caledonia, this could be the Maldives or Tahiti … it’s all the same. Think again, I made the mistake to come from Tahiti with my boardshort, my tee shirts, and flip flop, the sun in my eyes, and white sand between the toes. PNC [...]

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Last days in Japan

Last days in Japan

13 Apr 2006 - posted in : blog -events

Last day in Japan. We did some lifestyle photo shoot in Tokyo, for the Japanese mag. We went to the world famous “Fish Market” and to some temple. But it was already time to go, little bit on the rush…i packed my boardbag in front of the counter.Thanks again Hashi, domo arigato gosaimasu, taihen osewa [...]

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Rodrigues

Rodrigues

1 Aug 2005 - posted in : chronicles -travel stories

On the South of the the Indian Ocean, on the one of the most rough places of the world, between swell, wind, currents.. there is a paradise called: “Rodrigues”. [chronicle-photo number="1" ] This island, discovered in 1528 by Diogo Rodrigues, was successively dutch, french…The island is difficult to approach. Lots of european boats ran ashore [...]

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