Hyper-Mega-Giga ocuppe, les mises a jour ont mis le temps! Mais enfin....deux nouvelles galleries photo, le desert du sinai et mes dernieres photos sous marines! j'attends vos commentaires! Sinon : bravo a tout ceux qui font des bebes en France, toutes mes sinceres! de mon cote : "c'est pas encore fait"! ;)

Again, terrorists striked Egypt....today, about an hour or so ago, three bombs blasted in Dahab, 100 km from Sharm El Sheikh....We all have friends living there and really worry for them as the telephon lines are saturated and we can not join them...When will this madness stop.....?

Hi ! I am still alive, but 've been quiet busy (/lazy) the last months so didn't update my website, sorry for the lack of news!more...

You already have been introduced to Abachi, our boat captain, here is now Hussein, one of our Boat crew!

below you can see Edriss, Luba and Larissa, my colleagues here in Sharm El Sheikh, and Phiphou and Laetitia, my boss and his wife.




Photography section has been updated, go and have a look in
/travel/egypt
and /underwater/red sea/ !

I will try to update this blog more often as August seems not to be a busy month!

Cheers

Bonjour a tous,

Juste un petit message pour vous dire que je suis en bonne sante apres les 7 bombes qui ont exploses cette nuit a Sharm El Sheikh.

Bilan provisoire : 74 morts, +200 blesses.

Bises

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello,

Just a few words to let you know that I am doing fine after tonights terrorist attacks in Sharm El Sheikh.

7 blast, 74 dead, +200 wounded.

Cheers.

At least some news!

Internet working fine here, but I didn't really find the time to update my website!
Today, day off, so you will get some picts from Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt!

Still didn't get my underwater photography equipment, so you will have to wait to see the amazing reefs, wrecks and underwater world of the red sea!

This is our boat captain : Meryl "Abachi" Stubbing!
Here is a picture of the dive center "African Divers"
And finally a picture of Anatole and Aya, german and japanese dive instructors I stayed with when I arrived!
I should get internet at home within 2-3 weeks (Inch'Allah!) with an ADSL connection so I will be more often on the web and in front of my webcam!

Come and visit me when you want, I now got spare beds in my appartment!

Cheers.

La date du depart approchant à grands pas, il est maintenant temps de passer par l'étape "paquetage"!

step 1 : mettre en tas toutes les affaires à emporter
step 2 : mettre tout le contenu dans les contenants (sac à dos+trolley laptop)
step 3 : pesée (max 20kg en soute, 5kg en bagage à main), si possible ne pas abuser sur les kilos supplementaires
step 4 : si kg supplementaires > trop cher alors, retour à step 1, sinon, step 5
step 5 : reouverture de tous les sacs pour chercher les billets et le passport qui en regle generale se sont malicieusement dissimulés entre deux chemises au fond du sac!

Si à la vue des photos postées aujourd'hui, demain et mercredi (fermeture DEFINITIVE des sac mercredi 20/04 à 14h GMT), vous pensez que j'ai oublié quelquechose d'indispensable, n'hesitez pas à me le faire savoir, si au contraire, vous pensez que j'emporte quelquechose de totalement inutil, pareil!

As usual, before visiting a new country, shopping for the ad-hoc Lonely Planet guides!

Country guide+local phrasebook (I now own a couple of them : Malay, Hindi+Urdu, Indonesian), and want to stress :"they are really f*****g usefull !" + Diving guide (not really necessary, but I bought it 2 years ago when planning hollidays on the Red Sea!)

Another book to read during the flight (ooops, I have already read it!) : the EXCELLENT "Nitrox & Trimix" by Jacques Vettier, a "must have" for the ones interested in Mix Gases Diving! Or if you want this strange gases we are breathing underwater to be demystified!

So, I soon will start my 10days of Army duty, and next, let's go and blow some bubbles in the red Sea!

YES!

I got the answer for the job in Aegypt! I will move to Sharm El Sheikh around 15th of april!

Back to the water will be good! Still quite a lot of stuff to organize, dive gear still in Indonesia, have to book a flight as well!

Got news from Tatjana and Jens, still working in Nuweiba, it will be good to see them again over there !
So, more news to come soon!

So, here is a picture of the sphinx and Kheops pyramid! I didn't make this picture by myself, but I should soon be able to!

Tomorrow I got an interview in Paris for job as assitant manager/dive instructor in Aegypt!
Diving again, discovering a ew country, a new culture is very exciting to me!
So I am now reading the Lonely Planet Aegypt edition! I got Arabic language courses on my PC!
More info tomorrow evening, when returning from the interview!

If I get the job, I'll be there within 3 weeks-1 month !
So keep visiting my blg to get updates!

As usual, I keep you informed about the new releases of my friends @ dynamic recordings! I love this music, listen to it and let me know your opinion! or best, go and buy the LP from tomorow on !

Stamina 03 : Official release date 14.03.05

It features a smashing new titles from the DYNAMIC ROCKERS and one from TERRY JOHNSON JR.

All tracks are mastered by SIMON DAVEY at The Exchange, London.

"Don't be surprised" by Dynamic Rockers.

"Hold on" by Terry Johnson jr.

Go and visit Dynamic Recordings website to get more samples and infos!

Today's potd is quite special, isn't it!
I got this two pictures from a MSN chat with friends of mine this night! And, well, I decided to open a new gallery for webcam shots!

Just send your webcam shots (320*240), portraits, whatever it isto webcam@vautrin.org with ashort title (12 characters max), and I will put it in the ad hoc gallery where you the will be able to comment it! Have fun and enjoy!

Pour ceux qui rament en anglais, j'expliquqis juste que ces deux photos on été prises durant un chat MSN avec des amis, et que cela m'avait donné l'idée d'ouvrir une nouvelle gallerie d'image, uiquement pour les shots de webca, alors envoyez moi vos photos au format 320*240, orientée porrait, à webcam@vautrin.org, avec un titre de 12 caractères maximum, et je les mettrais en ligne dans la gallerie qui va bien, vous pourrez ensuite les commenter. Have Fun! (j'vais pas traduire ca quand meme!)

She's a girl!

And she is finally born! This is Louise, daughter of Dine & Mixptnwk (see friends gallery) born february, 20th 2005, 4.380Kg - 54.5cm.

Welcome to the real world Louise!

Yes, I know, I've been quite lazy the past two days! that's why they was no potd!

Week end is now over, so let's start work again!

Today, at lunch time, in front of my parent's house, two feasans! It was unusual enough for me to shoot the "event"!

Nice Week End, nice dinner on saturday night by Romain in Corps-Nuds with Romain (of course), Coco, Gaelle and Polo (well done Polo, hope omain will post the pictures of your performance on the forum on monday! Shame on you!)

Well, in Indonesia, people don't only ride "bebeck's" there is as wella very large scooter community.

If you get a chance toget there you will probably be amazed by the crazy custom vespa you'll see in the streets!

This three guys were on their way to a scooter meeting in Senggiggi, Lombok NTB, Indonesia, they have been nice enough to stop for a chat with me! (and we had a chat about.....vespa and beer!).

They even gave me a sticker of the Indonesian Vespa club of Lombok, that I will be proud to stick on my own Vespa, if one day I go to a meeting !

There is as well a huge HD community over there, but they are a little bit harder to approach, as they ride BIG HUGE HD, and consider themselves as Hells Angels!