Because of Air France strike, we were forced to leave one day earlier and stay in Paris at some friends for the night. Thanks again to QL*, G* and his sister J* for welcoming us in Paris and for the evening in Paris. It was really nice: great meal at Darosa and nice ice creams at Grom!

It all started days before the actual trip. We knew for some time that kayak trips in Musandam were organised by a French travel adventure company. We didn't have the time up to now to go for it, but this year was the one! About the travel adventure companies The holidays described in the next posts are actually organised by Oman Nature a spin-off of Svalbard Nature. Svalbard Nature was founded by Pierre Fijalkowski who discovered Oman when he was in charge of ...

L'organisation de ce séjour commença en fait bien avant le 29 octobre. Depuis plusieurs années, on connaissait l'existence de séjours en kayak au Sultanat d'Oman. Jusqu'à présent nous n'avions pas pu prendre le temps d'y aller, mais cette année fut la bonne ! À propos des agences de voyages d'aventure Le séjour décrit dans les posts suivants (en anglais) est à l'origine conçu et organisé par Oman ...

2 weeks after the end of our awesome trip in Japan, the story on this blog in not completely over ! A few videos should arrive soon, but more importantly, a selection of sounds recorded in Japan by O. should be online pretty soon. Everything will be added in the original messages already posted for chronological consistency. Come and check it out ;-)

The connection in London Heathrow was long enough (5 hours) for us to wander (again) in the gigantic mall. We finally took a seat close to gate A15, right below the BA Lounge. Why sit here ? Because we could connect to the free wireless network provided by BA Lounge without being allowed to enter it ;-) Suddenly, coming from nowhere, we have been surrounded by many noisy french speakers... Such a weird experience after a month in the sweet "japanese music" !...