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Le Meilleur des Mondes

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As this hits your screen, I should be somewhere in between Paris and Cairo.

As I leave Paris, I wanted to make a little advertisement.

While I was in Paris, as you might have noticed, it was easy for me to access my emails and update this site. It was all possible thanks to my friends Siegfried and Sharon that provided internet access to me at their internet cafe located close to gare de Lyon. Thanks guys, I should be back in August ;).
I have known Siegfried for almost 14 years now. They are cool people. If you are in Paris around Bastille or Gare de Lyon, come by and ask for them, they will be more than happy to meet you.

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Their cafe is a very nice place, with 11 posts and a very good connection. It is called “Le Meilleur des Mondes” and is located at 4 bis rue Michel Chasles 75012 Paris.

Oh yeah… they offer wi-fi if you have your own computer and they have two computers with QUERTY keyboards if like me you have become AZERTY keyboard disabled.

Focus on your world

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[09/02/2006: Sadly, the UNEP website does not exist anymore so no more links to the pictures! :(]
While I was in transit at London Heathrow, I noticed very cool photos all over the walls.

They are photos of cool landscapes or animals or people. I really like the idea of having all these pictures in an airport… makes you want to travel.

It is actually part of a program called focus on your world sponsored by BAA (British Airport Authority) and HP that presents a selection of photos gathered by the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) in the 90s in the context of competitions named, you guessed it, focus on your world. You can [used to be able to] see all the winning pictures on the UNEP website. A lot of great pictures mixing joy and sadness, hope and despair… I really like some of them.

Some of these pictures are available for purchase in different sizes. Seems like you can get them shipped anywhere in the world.

Congratulations to BAA Heathrow and HP for sponsoring this program.