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When I was 15 years old I discovered the French cinema (les quatre cents coups of François Truffaut, the classical films of Marcel Carné, the films of Jean-Luc Godard), the Czechoslovaquian cinema (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel), the Italian realism (Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, Antonioni) and the young directors of my country: Alain Tanner, Michel Soutter, Claude Goretta and Rolf Lyssy.
I enjoy romantic films, but also dramatic, historical, comic films, crime stories of a lot of countries: United States, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Algeria, Marroco, Mexico, Argentina, Japan , Belgium, Czech Republic Republic, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and France.
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Échappées belles: Week-end à La Rochelle (2020)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion at La Rochelle: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the particularities of La Rochelle (the belonging to the Southwetrs of France, the best sunshine of the French Atlantic Coast, the Stade Rochelais-the local rugby team with a great history, the rugby player Zoe and the proud to play in this team), the sailboats ( Pierre Marie Berard-the boat owner- and Carole and Alexandre who practice sailing on his boat, Olivia Wattinne and the Estrella-lab sailboat, the facilities for handicaped persons to learn sailing), the environmental protection (Angélique Fontainaud and the assoiation Echo-mer, the cleaning of the port, the recycling of the sailclothes, Anne Cigolotti and the people looking for the oysters in the beaches-the importance to protect the fauna-, Guillaume and Mathieu and the investigation about the reproduction of marine species- the seahorse for example-, the Aquarium of La Rochelle with 600 species), the "Lycée maritime et aquacole of La Rochelle ( the professor Jean and the repairing of fishing net, the practices in the fish market or the practics on the training boat-the maintenance of the boat and the rescue of man in the water), the oyster farm of Oléron (Franck Deyres and his oyster farm-the use of natural oysters- ,Evelyne Neron-Morgat and the association of Fort Royer-the restoration of a oyster farmers village and Bruno Gauvain-meilleur ouvrier de France écailler- showing how to open an oyster) and the Island of Aix (Valérie Valade and the horse and carriage tour on the island with her Percheron horses, her duty also as deputy mayor, Pierre Privat, second deputy mayor and member of the local marine escue team, Alison and Franck and the management of the restored Hôtel Napoléon).
I enjoyed the encunters of Jérôme Pitorin with the classic cars collectors Michel Bourdeau and Corinne Chauveau, with the guide Alexandre Caquineau, with the chef Christopher Coutanceau, with the illustrator Christophe Esclafit, with André "Yul" Bronner, with with Marie Dalmon Merlino, with the comedian Bilout, with with the salt producer Amandine Glinche, with the cooks Fabienne and Jean-Philippe Andrez and with the skipper and writer Fabien Clauw; nice encounters with very kind French en and women.
Échappées belles: Irlande (2008)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through Ireland: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this country: the greyhound racing (the race of 6 greyhounds at 80 kilometer/hour, the greyhound breeder Ronnie at Tipperary, the good diet and the training of the dogs, the bookmaker Denis Murphy and the bettings), the Celtic mythology ( the story teller Eddie Lenhinal, the world of the fairies and the elfs, the oral traditional and the recording of old stories), the matchmaking festival of Lisdoonvarna ( the original idea was heping to farmers to fid a spouse,now a great meeting from single persons coming from from Ireland and also from abroad, the matchmaker Willie Daly and the "Matchmaker bar", tthree words "enjoy, dance and try one's luck") , the Irish Gaelic language (the bookstore owner Kenny Desmond of Galway and the importance of publishing book in this language, the Gaelic School at Galway-all the teaching iis Gaelic, Jessika and her father Liam speaking Gaelic) and the Connemara national park ( the park ranger Robert Holloway, the story of the reintroduction of the red deer in the park, 2000 hectars of heath and bogs).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie Jovillard with Mick Langan, with the archaelogist Rose Cleary, with the comedian Noel T. Murphy at Bunratty, with Onya O'Flahorty ,with the equestrian guide Mary Wald and with Laetitia Norel-Killary Kayaking-; nice encounters with very kind Irish men and women.
Échappées belles: La Champagne à vélo (2021)
The beauty of the Champagne countryside.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Champagne: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the Champagne: Reims and the bicycles ( the guide Anne-Marie Bonnouvriere and the bike tour through the town-the cathedral, the colored paved street and the Fort de Mars-, Christian and Véronique Gonzalez and their bike tour along the "Voie Verte"-, the mountain bike coach Simon Rogier and the practice in the Massif de Saint-Thierry, the bicycle collector Jean-Michel Althuzer and the bike tour with old bicycles, the bicycle collection at the abbey of the "Trois Fontaines, the fabricant de vélo Maël Jambou (there are only 10 bicycle frame craftsmen in France), the handyman Eric Joffres and the promotion of bicycles made with recovered bike parts at Saint-Dizier), the cellars of the "Maisons de Champagne" ( the Maison Ruinart and the oldest champagne cellar of France-the discovery of the abandoned chalk quarries-, Moët and Chandon-the bigest champagne cellars-28 kilometers and about 80 millions of champagne bottles, the Maison Mercier with the greatest numberof visitors each year, Patrice Legrand- an independent champagne producer- and the Cave aux Coquillages- the cellar in calcareous rocks with a lot of fossils-), the grape harvest in Champagne ( Thierry Lutz at the Côtes des Blancs, the 20 seasonal harvesters, the harvest work, Stéphane Lutz in charge of the wine press, the banquet at the end of the harvest), the slow and quiet discovery of the Champagne ( Chantal Pinteaux and the tours with two donkeys-the Roman roads and part of the Camino de Santiago-, Ingrid Girault and this equestrian center-the horsebackriding through the vineyards, Emmanuel Lenoir and the hot air ballon flights) and the women riding bicycles in Champagne ( the nurse Emmanuelle using the bicycle for her visit to the patients, the retired teacher Marine going by bicycle to the asociative bike repair workshop-where she learns and practices mechanic, the female cyclists Manion and Krieger and the promotion of the feminine cyclism).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the bike tour organizer Jérôme Noiret, with the sellswoman Stéphanie Dupin of the Maison Fossier at Reims, with the history professor Patrick Demouy, with Nicolas Poitevin-the Barcyclette-, with Marot Laurent, her sister Charlotte and her mother Florence at Épernay, with Monica Dumont, with Gaël Vuille and the cellar master Jean-Michel Boons at Hautvilliers, with the photographer Pascal Bourgignon at the Lac du Der, with the cooper Jérôme Viard and his associate Denis Arroman, with the champagne producer Denis and with Nathalie Meyer and brother-law-Victor at Troyes; nice encounters with very kind Champagne men and women.
Échappées belles: La Loire des jardins (2018)
A very interesting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Loire Valley: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the gardens of the Loire valley (Jean-Louis Sureau-manager of the Château d'Amboise- speaking about the quietness and the security after the Hundred Years War and about the the creation of great gardens next to the castles, Marie-Sylvie and her garden at Rochecorbon-the collaboration of the jardiniste conseil Stéphane, the festival international des jardins at Chaumont-sur-Loire, the gargen as an "ouvre-d'art vivante) the Château de Rivau and its rose garden ( the perfumer Nicolas de Barry smelling the roses, the reconstitution of old perfumes), the picking of wild plants and the cooking ( Emilie Boillot and her botanical walks in the forests with the chefs Gaëtan and Elisa, the elderry and the wild garlic, the restaurant "L'Evidence" at Montbazon, the chef Gaëtan preparing young pigeon meat with peas and herbs), the Parc oriental de Maulévrier ( the greatest Japanese garden of Europe- 24 hectares and about 400 plants, the head gardener Didier and the pruning of the yew trees-the shape of clouds-, Hervé Raimbault speaking about the story of the Japanese garden, the taiko music in the park, in the night the lights and the gongs), the Loire Sauvage (the photographerNicolas Lenartowski, the great biodiversity of the Loire Valley, the picture of the cormorants on the sandbank,the pictures taken from a helicopter), the guide Joris Leclercq and the canoeing in the wilderness of the Loire river), Camille Peschard and the equestrian trails along the river ( the draft horses, the cultural visits-the Fleury Abbey at Saint-Benoît and the Château de Chamerolles-, the participation in the Fêtes de Jeanne d'Arc at Orleans-the knight with armour) and the underground galleries along the Loire river ( in the market of Saumur Selim Salim and his mushrooms growed in an underground gallery, the stonecutter Jean-Claude Gazeau and athe story of the abandoned "tuffeau" quarries, the mayor Sylvie Taugourdeau and the troglodytic hamlet of Bourg-Neuf-Dompierre-sur-Loire-,the cve transformed into a guesthouse).
I enjoyed the encounters of Raphaël de Casabianca with the owner of the Villandry castle Henri Carvallo, with the head gardener Laurent Portuguez and the gardeners Oswald and Véronique, with the gilder Della Louis-Durandet and the tower owner Axel Fontaine in Blois, with the chef Christophe Hay and the fishermen Patrice and Sylvain, with the boatman Clément Sirgue and with the former mayor of Chédigny Pierre Louault; nice encounters with very kind men and women.
Échappées belles: La presqu'île du Cotentin (2020)
A very nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Cotentin peninsula: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the Cap de la Hague and the Raz Blanchard ( the photographer Jérôme and his paramotor flight over the coast, the lighthouse and the Nez de Jobourg, the hiking guides of the Association "A la découverte de la Hague" Jean-Claude and Yves-the Nez de Jobourg, the cliffs and the caveof the contrabandists-, the fisherman Cédric and the fishing of the "homard bleu du Cotentin near the Raz Blanchard), the Cherbourg umbrellas ( the umbrellas factory, the choir singing songs of the film "Lesparapluies de Cherbourg, the film locations and the people remembering the making of the film), the castle of Carneville (the Association des amis du château de Carneville-350 members- , Guillaume Garbe and the restoration of the castle and of the French formal gardens, the beekeeper Paul and his beehive, the flea market in the park of the castle), the D-Day commemoration ( the reconstructed Arizona camp, the Utah beach and the 31.000 US soldiers, the "reconstitueurs" Jean and Baptiste and the life of the German garrison, the ball of the 13th June at Carentan-the 98 years old parachutist Tom Wright), the Lycée maritime de and the Ecole des Mousses at Cherbourg ( the professors Christian and Christophe, the learning of navigation, fishing and naval security, the Commanderr Emmac and the surviving training of the sailors), the Défi des ports de pêche (the regatta between teams of mariners-fishermen navigating on sailboats).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie Jovillard with the schooner captain Françoise Lefevre, with Vincent Mabire, with Charles Yvon at the umbrellas shop, with the gardener Stéphane Marie, with David Lemarchand and the jockey Bryan oppns at Jullouville, with the sherpherdess Stéphanie Maube, with Alexandra and Marion at the shop "Laine à l'ouest", with Eric Pellerin, Guillaume de Lestrange and Bruno Paysaut at Vauville, with the oyster farmer Stéphanie Lefevre, with the members of the Cub Vosgien at Tatihou island and with Bruno Vanier d Saint-Aunay at the "Jeux Normands"; nice encounterswith very kind Normandy men and women.
Échappées belles: Lyon gourmand (2015)
A very nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in Lyon: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the gastronomie lyonnaise (the story of the "Mères lyonnaises", the bouchons lyonnais, Jacotte Brazier-the granddaughter of Eugénie Brazier, the three Michelin stars chef-, the Assocation "Eugénie Brazier" and the training of young female chefs, Isabelle and Laura and their "Bouchon des filles"), The Saône river and Lyon Confluence ( the blessing of the boats by a Catholic priest-"le pardon des mariniers", the Confrérie des Avalants navieurs, the restored neighborhood, the vegetable gardens and the practice of the water joust), the Paul Bocuse Institute (high school for the cuisine and the hotellerie, the students from all the world, the training in all aspects of a restaurant and of a hotel) , the writer Walid Nazim and the mysteries of Lyon (the knowledge of the churches, streets, traboules, the underground galleries of the Balme Sainte-Claire discovered in 1959, the mysterious disappearance of humain bones), the Parc de la Tête d'Or (created in 1857, 117 hectares, the gardeners and the biological pest control, the zoo with 450 animals) and the "Boule lyonnaise (also called sport-boules or bocce volo,the coach Bernard and the players Tristan and Ambre,the tournament with the participation of 6000 players-103 years of existence-).
I enjoyed the encunters of Sophie Jovillard with Grégory Cuilleron, with Colette Sibilia, with the story teller Jean-Luc Chavent, with the fromager-affineur Christian Janier, with the rose growers Matthias Meilland and Robert Laperrie, with the milliner Isabelle Grange and the "formier" Didier Laforest, with Stéphanie Plaza and her family, with the baker Philippe and with her sister Sylvie Jovillard at Légny; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Des trains pas comme les autres: Portugal (2018)
A very nice journey.
I enjoyed very much this Journey of Philippe Gougler through Portugal.
A lot of nice encounters: the jumpers Victor Hugo and Rafael at the Dom Luís Bridge of Porto- the visitors giving 10 Euros to see their jump into the Douro river, the fishmonger Fatima who sells fishes in the streets, the walk along the banks of the Dourou river with her bastket on her head, the public washouse, the songs and the dances of the women, the public clothesline , the lady in the Alfa pendular and the talk about the saudade, the manager of the bacalhau shop in Lisbon- the most popular dish in Portugal- and the female farmer in the region of Tras o Montes, the plowing of the field with the female donkey, the riding on the donkey to the village, the veterinary Mario taking care of a female donkey with teeth problems; very nice encounters with Portuguese men and women.
Échappées belles: La Côte fleurie (2015)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Côte fleurie: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: Trouville et Deauville (Trouville was the first seaside resort on the Normandy Coast-the "médecins hygiénistes" and the virtues of sea water, so the Parisian aristocracy arrive at Trouville-,Karl Laurent and the Montebello musum, then comes Deauville with its casino, hotels and villas along the seaside, Martine Dassault and the Villa Roxelane, the memories of the history of the seaside resort), the nature park of the estuary of the Seine River ( the park ranger and ornithologist Faustine Simon, the islet of the Ratier, the monitoring of the European spoonbills and the storks), the apple producer Etienne Blondel ( the apple farm "Les Vergers de la Grande Mare", the market at Sainte-Opportune-La-Mare, the visitors tasting apples, Huguette and the making of apple beignets, the press and the fresh apple juice for the visitores), the fossils of the Falaises noires ( the paleontologist Laurent Picot showing some fossils-ammonites are the most common-, the Musée Paléospace-Lucie and Aurélie making an inventory of the fossils-many ammonites and a dinosaur vertebra-, thedinosaur skeletons in an exhibition hall), the Biscuiterie Jeannette (the biscuit factory founded in 1850 at Caen, the growth and decline of the factory, the rescue of factory by Georges Viana and the new life of the factory) and the Centre d'études et de reproduction zoologique Augeron-CERZA- ( the Parc animalier of 60 hectares, the protection of endangered animal, the veterinary Dorothée Ordonneau showing the Malayan tapirs and the rhinoceros, the protection program en Africa and Asia).
I enjoyed the encounters of Raphaël de Casabianca with the ferry captain Emmanuel Guilet, with Sébastien Blouin at Deauville beach, with the traveling distiller Jean-Baptiste Olivier, with the apple cider producer Annie Alleaumem, with the spa manager Denis Truel, with the.beautician Susie Normand, with the skipper Yves capard at Honfleur, with Sabine and gilbert Houlet and their daughters Charlotte, Marie and Anne at Douville-en-Auge, with the master glazier Corinne Lecourt, with the horse breeders Jean-Luc Bara and Olivia Saelens and with Christian Ferrier at the viaduct de la Souleuvre; nice encounters with very kind Normandy men and women.
Échappées belles: Côtes d'Armor: pays de la mer (2012)
Beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Côtes d'Armor: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some intereting aspects about this region: the fishing of the great scallops ( the fishermn Richard Gaudu and his "Arc-en-Ciel" boat, the fishing restricted to 2 days a week and 45 minutes each days, the squad of the "Affaires maritimes" is in charge of oversee the practices), theorganic farming in the Côtes d'Armor ( the farmer Serge using horses for the harrowing of his vegetables field, the change from an industrial pig breeding to an organic breeding, the cattle breeder Jean-Marc produces organic milk and Michel, the administrator of of the "Groupement des agriculturs biologiques d'Armor is giving advices about organic farming), the mariners and the religious fervor ( Jacques Legars and the Association des amis de la chappelle Saint-Michel, , his friend Paul speaking about the faith of the mariners, the stone crosses, the statues, churches and chapels in the countryside, the modelboats in the church, the historian Pierre Floury speaking of the dangerous life of the mariners who went fishing to Island and Newfoundland), the restoring of old fishing boats (the shipwright Gilles Conrath and the making of the "Cabillaud"-afishing boat for his friend Yves Chapin-, Pascal Jeusset and the restoration of the "Marie Georgette" and the salingboat tours for the visitors), the slates of the Côtes d'Armor (the exploitation of the slates since the 14th century, Jean-Yves and his colleague Daniel-the last slate producers-, all the work is made by hand), the Centre d'études et de valorisation des algus at Pen Lan ( the multiple uses of the seaweeds in food, cosmétics, pharmacy and chemistry, Tristan Le Goff and the studies about the reproduction of te seaweed, Oliver and the seaweed farming and the laboratory of research of new cosmetic products).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the naturalist Jeremy Allain, wit Hubert Hinault and Micheline Ecot at Lamballe, with Céline, Jean-Paul and Jeanne at Plélo, with Ludovic Lorre at Binic, with Pierre-Yves andd Nelly Dauphin at Paimpol, with Nicolas Shouten(the sailboat tour), with Yves Neumager and Laurent Blasco at the Bréhat island, with the photographer Yannick Cherel, ith the musician Thomas Lotout and Liza Georgelin at Bulkat-Pestivien; nice encounters with very kind Breton men and women.
Échappées belles: En Alsace (2006)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed this excursion through Alsace: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the restoration of Alsatian houses (the "Ecomusée d'Alsace at Ungersheim-about 70 restored houses and buildings coming from other parts of Alsace, the volunteers of te Association "Maisons paysannes d'Alsace"-, the carpenter Franck and the restoration of old houses) and the hiking in Alsace ( the "Club vosgien with its 34.000 membres, the marking and maintenance of 18.500 kilometers of hiking paths, the stop at the restaurant "Au Wasigenstein-the chef Christophe speaking about the success of this restaurant-).
I enjoyed the encounters of Stéphane Bouillaud with Mme Laterrade (Noëel en Alsace", with the wine maker Seppi Landmann at Soulzmatt, with the chefJacky Merius at Riquewihr and the aeronaut Luc; nice encounters with very kind Alsatian men and women.
Échappées belles: Lyon, la gourmandise en héritage (2019)
A very interesting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in Lyon: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the gastronomie lyonnaise ( Pauline Ronzy and her food tours, the chef Joël Salzi speaking about the cooking in Lyon, the "bouchons lyonnais", Eugénie Brazier-the first female chef with three Michelin stars,Paul Bocuse was her apprentice-, the chef Mathieu Viannay and the restaurant "La Mère Brazier"), the Tsuji cooking school (the founder Shizuo Tsuji, the help of Paul Bocuse for the school, the 5 months training for the Japanese cooks, the discovery of new flavours, the social life-the soccer match with the villagers-, the chef Tsuyoshi Arai and his Japanese restaurant in Lyon), the jam maker Philippe Bruneton ( his meeting with the farmer Dominique Bissardon , the strawberries field, Marie-Françoise Bruneton and her aromatic plants garden, th making of jams and the chef Philippe Girardon using an apricot jam for the duck meat), the Dombes area ( 12.000 hectares of wetland, the "land with the 1000 ponds", the fish farmer Pascal and the fishing of carps, the wildlife inspector Maurice and the monitoring of the birds in the Etang du Grand Birieux-the tufted duck, the mallards and the coots-), the medieval village of Oingt (the "pierres dorées", the painter Didier, Daniel and the care for the abandoned quarry, the wine maker Alexandre and the vineyard of this area-Chardonnay and Gamay grape varieties-the wine tasting with the visitors) and some culinary novelties in Lyon ( Quentin Clerc and the making of bread by hand-using organic flours-, the bread delivery by bicycle, Juliette and her neighbors cooking together-Les Petites Cantines- and La Commune (Charlotte and the cooking of meal with insect flour).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the cook and writer Sonia Ezgulian, with the farmer Louis-Pierre Perraud, with the photographer Emmanuel Auger, with the culinary photographer Jonathan Thevenet, , with the cheesemonger Renée Richard, with the puppeteer Emma Utges at the Guignol theater, with the chef Olivier Canal, with the jouster Alexis Blanc, with the climbing guide Eric Chaxel, with the goat breeder Claude Boucher, the wine maker Xavier Gerard and the Confrérie du vin et de la rigotte at Condrieu, with the designer Alain Vavro and his wife Dominique Vavro, with Vincent Le Roux and Gilles Reinhardt at the Auberge du Pont de Collonges and with the beekeeper Frédéric Reynaud; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Une nuit à Londres (2013)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in London: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of London: the vintage fashion (the blogger Lena, the return to the past, the Marilyn Monroe styling, Jennifer and her friends, the pleasure to dance with a partner, also the "Années Folles", the prohibition time-drinking whisky in a tea cup-, the charleston dance), the Billingsgate market (the fish market working all over the year, the fish merchant Roger Barton), the cosmopolitan cooking in London (the culinary bloggers Alastair and Kevin visiting a Vietnamese restaurant and a Bangladesh restaurant), the London nights ( West End and the musical comedies, the radio presenter and disk jockey Frank Kevin and Dan, the club nights), the Hackney Wick neighborhood ( the urban art, the street artist Zabou, the painter Ola, the famous artist Banksy) and the early morning in London ( the milkman Kevin Read-the milk delivery beginning at 2 am, the taxi driver Robert Lordan describing how London awakes, the watchmaker Paul Roberson at Big Ben, the winding of the clocks, the sound of Big Ben at the BBC).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the musician Mtthieu Chedid, with the event organizer Jules Barraud, with the captain Marc Wilson and his wife Sarah, with Rebecca carter (the supper club), with the singer Delan Bennett at the Phoenix Theatre, with the skaters Ceejay Jepson and Jason Johnson and with the DJ Dan Iusowitz; nice encounters with very kind London men and women.
Échappées belles: Larzac, la terre en partage (2021)
An interesting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Larzac: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the Millau area (the Millau viaduct-a cable-stayed bridge-, the maintenance technician Franck, the hiking guide Solveig and the visitors looking at the viaduct from a mountain, the medieval village of La Couvertoirade and the restoration of the houses by the "soixante-huitards", Montpellier-le-Vieux and the Cité des Pierres), the collective spirit in the Larzac (the fight against the extension of the military camp of the Larzac, the historian Pierre-Marie Terral telling the story of the building of the sheephold of the Blaquière,the Société Civile des Terres du Larzac, the new farmers Marion and Romain and the growing of aromatic plants, the "Boutique des paysans"-the local products of 15 producers-, Justine and the musician Stefano and their cultural place), the sheep in the Larzac ( the sheep breeder Etienne, the herding dogs training, the sheep shearing, the designer and weaver Delphine), the sports in the Plateau du Larzac (Pierre,Léo and Raymond and the paragliding, François-Xavier and Maxime and the trail bike (or gravel bike) tours, the reforestation area "Les Arbres de la Liberté", 500 kilometers of bike paths in the Larzac, Vivien and th slack line, the meeting of high liners at the Grotto of Dargilan), the medias ( the journalist Lola and her podcasts and the cinema director Josette- the women in the Larzac-, Julien and Manuel looking for film locations in the Larzac) and the resourcing in the Larzac (the Buddhist temple Lérab Ling at Roqueredonde-Sophie and the meditation with people looking for internal peace, the permaculture farm of Yann and Virginie, the wwoofers Lucie and Mathieu, the great moments of friendliness).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie Jovillard with the boatman Frédéric Janneau, with Florine Hamelin, Camille Dal Pra, Claire Barre and Julien Bernard at the GAEC of the Truels, with the trail runner Virginie Govignon at Nant, with Jean-Pul Austruy at Sainte-Eulalie de Cernon, with Sabine and Yvan Bouat at the holiday camp Roc Nantais, with Michel, Philippe, Olivier, Marie, Mikaël and Monique "Moune" Arnal at the Gaillac estate; nice encounters with very kind Larzac men and women.
Échappées belles: Lorraine, du grand spectacle (2013)
A great diversity of landscapes.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Lorraine: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the blast furnace of Uckange (the association Mecilor, the blast furnace classified historical monumment, the guided tours, the cultural animation), the "Manufacture Royale de Bains-les-Bins (the tinplate factory, François Cornevaux explaining the story of the factory, open to the public since 2005,the guesthouse and apartments) , the know-how of the glassware in Lorraine (the "Yann and the Centre d'Art Verrier de Meisenthal-the collaboraration of craftsmen and artists, the Museum of the Crystalat Saint-Louis, the young glass blower Guillaume et Sandrine, the Daum company in Nancy), the battle of Verdun (the collector Jean-Claude de Vries and all the objects of the fighters, the little German cemetery,the American cemetery of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon), the Parc nimalier de Sainte-Croix, the founder Gérald Singer and the manager Laurent Singer, the cabin near the wolves den, theroar of the deer stags), the "Théatre du Peuple" at Bussang-Vosges- ( amateur and professional comedians, the revival of the village), the Vally of the Moselotte (the Vaxelaire family, the "vaches vosgiennes", the making of muenster cheese, tomme and.yogurts, the direct sell ot the consumers, the inn and the typical cooking of the Vosges-bacon and potatoes-).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the the snowboarders Antonin Maunit and Pierre Wachowiak at the SnowWordl, with Hervé Santerre at the zoo of Amnéville, with the chef Alexandre Neveu at Metz, with the student Maime Baschirotto and Quentin at Verdun, with Mélanie Demange at Marieulles, ith the photographer Nicolas Bram at Nancy, withe the musher Jean-Louis Kuhn , with the accompagnateur en montagne Matthieu Dischinger, with the lumberjack Alain Simonin and with Laurent Mouchel; nice encounters with very kind French menand women.
Échappées belles: Lorraine, région de coeur (2019)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Lorraine: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters,
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the water canals and lakes of Lorraine ( 700 kilometers of water canals, the canal de la Marne au Rhin-Gino Müller and his family traveling in this canal, the boat elevator-, the lockkeeper house N2- now guinguette managed by Valérie Philipot-, the lake of Madine-the navigator Jean-Phillipe and the photographer Fabrice, the looking at the birds-), the Association of the Tranchée de Chattancourt (David and the rebuilding of the trench, the nurse of the trench Marlène, the objcts found in the fields by the farmer Roamin, the investigation with the history student Ophélie in the archives), the chef Hervé Cune (the walk through the forests, Yannick and his pigeon farm, the restaurant-pigeon meat with asparagus and morilles-), the young entrepreneurs of Lorraine ( David Dao and his sewing workshop at at Nancy-the jeans made from linen-, the beekeeper Damien andis associate Maxime-the beehives, the honey beer making-, Aurèle Charlet-the walk through the forest, the beech trees, the wooden glasses-), the Massif des Vosges ( Denis Maire and the paragliding, Eric and his connection with the trees, Jean-Marie and the mountain bike tour at the Hohneck), the blast furnaces of Lorraine ( the industrial wasteland, the U4 high furnace of Ucknge, the "Snowworld" at Amnéville-the ski slope with 90 meters heigh difference open during all the year-).
I enjoyed the encounters of Ismaël with the pilot Patrick Cancelli, with the history professor Hélène Jehannin and her sister at Verdun, with the guide Robert Iacuzzo in Metz, with the queen of the Quiche Lorraine Mauricette Vonner, with Fabien Calvi at the castle of Hattonchâtel, with the fshermen of the Etang de Lachaussée, with Coralie Diard and her colleagues at the Parc Animalier de Sainte-Croix, with the tree-maker Hervé Mayon, with the pastry chef Nicolas Genot and with Jessica Peth-the Miss Pin Up France contest-; nice encounters with very kind men and women.
Des trains pas comme les autres: Mauritanie (2021)
A very nice journey.
I enjoyed very much this journey through Mauritania: beautiful landscapes (the mountains near Zouerat,the railway track seen from above, the oasis, the village on the hill and of course the desert) and nice encounters.
A lot of pleasant and nice encounters: with the passengers looking for the place where the train will stop, with the passengers of the blue wagon- traveling by train is cheaper than traveling by car or bus, the gold digger, the waiting at the crossing place-, with the farmer in the oasis-the irrigation system, the crops in the oasis, with the visitors who spend a moment of freshness in the oasis, with the women of the village of Toungade-the celebration of the divorce, the mother of the divorced woman singing, dancing and showing the papers of the divorce, the drums, the reasons of the divorce,her husband has broken the marriage contract-, with Saif at Chinguetti-the old key for the doors of his library, the old books and manuscripts about religion and sciences, the conservation of these books and manuscripts- and with the dromaderies shepherds- the animals drinking water at the water wee, the walk through the desert, the traditional scarf, the question of the shepherd to Philippe if he has a dromedary, the quietness and the beauty of the desert, the stop at the place where there is grass and bushes for the dromedaries, the campfire and the eating of the bread baked under the warm sand, the night under the tent-; very nice encounters with verykind Mauritanian men and women.
Échappées belles: Paris (2007)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through Paris: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of Paris: the tourism in Paris ( the classic guided tours in buses-about 4 hours, the most important places-the American tourists-, the Asian tourists looking for the luxury stores, the end of the guided tour at the Eiffel tower, the Swedish tourists Gitta and Conrad discovering Paris by their own way-some clichés about the Parisian people-), Montmartre ( the village spirit, the Place du Tertre full of tourist in the summer and empty in the winter, the band "Les Tambours des Poulbots,the vineyard and the first harvest in 1934), the return of the rural life ( the educational farm-La Ferme de Paris, 5 hectares in the Bois de Vincennes-, the beekeeper Henri Meynadier and his beehives-the Parisian honey-, the community vegetable gardens near the Porte of Clignancourt), and the touch Africa and Asia in Paris ( the neighborhood of Châteaurouge with its Antillean and African inhabitants, the Parisian Chinatown in the 13th arrondissement-the guide and writer Michel Benasset-, the covered passage Brady with the inhabitants coming from Inda, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie Jovillard with Rémi Brunot (capitainerie de l'Arsenal), with Lucio Urtubia (Espace Louise Michel at Ménilmontant), with Dominique Falwecker (Jardin du Palais Royal), with the guides Aurélien and Florent (4 roues sous un parapluie), with the pastor Alain Joly (Cloître des Billettes) and with the artist Miss. Tic (Buttt-aux-Cailles); nice encounters with very kind Parisia men and women.
Échappées belles: Picardie, au fil de la Somme (2024)
A very nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Picardie; beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
THere are some interestings aspects of the Picardie: the Somme River (Johann and the kayaking tours, the "Marais des Cavins", the "Larris"-calcareous hills-, the naturalist Vianney and the botanical tours-the edible flowers like the dandelion-, Tibo and his ecolodge- the.cooking of endives with orange and almonds-), the farming in the Somme ( Etienne and Marie-Astrid d'Hautefeuille, the fields of.rapeseed, barley , maize and potaoes, the whisky distillery, the guesthouse, the wine maker Maximilien at Terramesnil-the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir varieties-, the chef Sébastien Porquet and the tasting of Pinot Noir wine), the Cosserat velvet factory ( the industrial wasteland, the brewery managed by Nicolas Prudhomme, the historian Louis Tessey speaking about the story of the Cosserat velvet factory), the flea market of Amiens (the antique shop owner Anthony, the former antique shop owner Bertrand looking for old objects for Nicolas Prudhomme), the history of the Somme ( the medieval castle of Eaucourt and the workshop for young people about castle building and crossbows, the reconstitution of the robbery of the Banque de France by the partisans, the abbey of Valloires-the organist Benoït Devos and the beautiful sounds of the organ-) and the Picard language ( the "Chés Cabotans" puppet theater of Amiens, the pupeteer Tristan speaking about the characters of Lafleur et Tchot Blaise, Sophie Lefort speaking about the Picard language, the comedian Françoise Desmarest and her "Tchot suppers, the singers Jean-Marie and Jean singing in Picard language an Irish song).
I enjoyed the encounters of Ismaël Khelifa with the dugout driver Mui Ollier, with Delphine Desbiendras, with Lucie Bouville, with the ornithologist Philippe Carruette, with the sophrologist Ingrid, with Florent Prudhommes,with the chocolatier Jean-Alexandre and Jean-Baptiste Trogneux ,with the boatman Jean-François Houriez, the truck farmer Anaïs Auguste, with the pilot Dominique Cavelier, with the Canadian guide Frédérique Turcott and the animal caretaker Gwendoline Michelon; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: La Loire des châteaux (2015)
Very nice landscapes.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Loire Valley: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the castles of the Loire Valley ( the "Parc des mini-châteaux of Amboise-44 replicas of the most famous castles-, Suzanne Cros and the Renaissance gardens of Villandry-her guesthouse and the beautiful panorama of the gardens-,the balloonist Federico Miceli and the hot air balloon flight -the Chenonceau Castle-), the Venetian ball at the castle of Cheverny (the choreographer Nadine and the rehearsal of of the minuet dances, the spectacle in the night), the medieval spectacle at Amboise (the reconstitution of the battle of Marignan, Michael and the Medieval jousts, the comedian Geoffroy as the King Francis), the canoeing through the natural reserve of the Loire Valley ( the nature guide Yvan Thibaud, the beavers), the underground inhabited spaces (the "troglophyle" Patrick Edgar Rosa, the troglodyte hotel at Rocheminier, the Bioparc of Doué-la-Fontaine- the ornithologist Sylvanie and the birds in the cave spaces) and the life at the castle of Chambord ( the arrival of the cleaning lady Nathalie at 6.30 am., the opening of the castle at 9.00 am., the private visit of 200 antique cars collectors, the steward Frédéric and the management of private and public visits, the guide Lisa Marie and the discovery of the hidden places of the castle).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the marchioness Constance de Vibraye, with her son Maxilien and withe marquis Charles-Antoine de Vibraye, with Laurent Chevallier (the pack of hounds), with the plastic artist Michel Gressier at Amboise, with Patrick Fournier at Tours, with the captain Robin Delaporte, with the ceramist Karin Chopin-Lollierou and Christophe and Jacky Roulleau, with the esquire Pauline Van Landeghem at the Cadre Noir de Saumur, with the cinematographer Laurent Charbonnier at Chambord and with the fishermen Alex Fagat and Gilles Mechin at La Possonnière; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Les Cévennes, un retour aux sources (2021)
A very nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Cévennes: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the Cévennes: the newcomers ( Magali, Simon and their daughters Manon and Margot, the "mas" in the Cévennes gardoises, their new life near the nature, the racka sheep, the La Flèche hens, Marie and Philippè from Monaco, the restoration of the hamlet,the guesthouse), the hiking in the Cévennes ( Clarence et Sylvain walking on the G. R. 70-also called the "chemin de Stevenson"- , about 6.000 hikers each year, Robert Louis Stevenson and his travel through the Cévennes with a donkey-the "Auberge des Cévennes at Le Pont-de-Montvert-, the illustrator Juliette Lévéjac and her book about this famous travel), the local radio and television of Florac ( the volunteer reporter Cléo Esteban and the radio BARTAS-the 20 volunteer reporters-, the local television "Télédraille" and the director Pierrette Lacombe-the Occitan language-, the KWZ TV Lozère with 25 volunteer reporters), the local products ( the cattle breeder Christian at La Brousse near the Mont Lozère, the goat cheese called "pelardon", Manon Fabre and the Boutique "Cévennes in the box", the local products of 50 farmers-truffles, saffron, chesnuts-, the Atelier Tuffery, Julien Tuffery and the making of jeans, the sheep breeder Pierre Valentin and the sheep shearing-the wool for the jeans-), the fauna in the National Park ( the wildlife photographer Alain Fournier and the pictures of the bighorn sheeep in the Massif de l'Aigoual, the park ranger Hervé and the monitoring of the griffon vulture, the veterinary Marie-Pierre and the animal rescue center of La Roque, the care for the injured birds and their release) and the lonesome newcomers in the Cévennes ( the writer Prospérine living in a house without electric power-her daily walk in the forest-, the cutler and smith Yves in the hamlet of the Vialasse, his collaboration with the CNRS-the climate data of the area-).
I enjoyed the encounters of Ismaël Khelifa with Cannelle Labaume (the bike tour and the travel with a donkey), with the guesthouse owner Philippe Durand, with the cliff climber Cédric Baume, with Monique and Daniel at Hyelzas, with the miller Thierry , with the boatman Clément and with the Orthodox brothers Jean and Joseph; nice encounters with very kind men and women.
Échappées belles: Normandie gourmande (2019)
A very nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in Normandy: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the clichés about Normandy ( the cartoonist Sylvain Guichard- his drawings and wordplays about the climate, the cows or the the rivalry between Bretons and Normands, Laurence Guilleux alias Yvette Flac-the comic travel through Normandy), the oysters of the Chausey islands (the journalist Dominique Hutin and the oyster farmer Alban, the oyester farm, the moment of tasting cooked oysters with friends), the cheeses of Normandy ( the Camembert created in 1791 in the village of Camembert, Patrick Mercier and his organic farm in Champsecret, the unique bio Camembert, Cassandre Michel and the making of the tomme de Grandouet, the chef Alain Depoix and the "plateau de 32 fromages" at the Logis dr Brionne and the meeting of the "tyrosémiophiles"-cheese labels collector), the Abbey of Saint Wandrille ( the benectine monks and their new economic activity-the brewery-), the cider and calvados production (Constance Hyest and the making of apple cider brandy, the traveling distiller Vincent Dick and the use of new aromas in the apple cider brandy, the cattle breeder François-Xavier Craquelin and the use of apple cider-the example of the Kobe beefmeat-, the mixologistMargot LeCarpentier and the renewal of the caldavos in the cocktail making)and the flax of Normandy (the flax producer Antoine Vandecandelaere-the showing of the flax fields and the flax workshop-, Doudeville-the capital of the flax-, the fasion show with flax dresses and the cooking recipes with linseed-the risotto with flax seed or the pork filled with flax seeds).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme Pitorin with the bike tour organizer Hugo Guillochin, with the baker Jean-François Ottier, with the snails producer Victor Perrin and his wife Stéphanie, with the chef Johan Thyriot, with the ceramist Dominique Kay-Mouat, with the ceramist Gaëtan, with the cooper Valéry Desfrieches and his father Léon, with the Father Pascal Marie, the fisherman Alexis Langin and his son Raphaël at Honfleur; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Week-end sur la Côte d'Emeraude (2018)
A very interesting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Côte d'Émeraude: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects ofthis region: the seaside at low tide ( the guide Julien Avril and the crossing of the Bay of Mount Saint-Michel with the visitors-walking barefoot on the beaches-, Gilles and his children at the seashore-the looking for crabs and lobsters-), Saint-Malo and its maritime life ( the story of Jacques Cartier, Jean-Claude Varrin and the sailboat "Le Renard", the sailing school, the discovery of the oceans), the chef Fumio-Raphaël Kudaka at Cancale ( the looking for herbs at the seashore, the Paris-Cancale-Tokio restaurant, the "rillettes" his favorite food, the seaweed and the buckwhea-common points of Japan and Brittany), the Island of Jersey ( the cliff climbers John and Craig, the swimmer Sally and her friends swimming in very cold water, the fishmonger Vicky speaking about fishing-the oysters sent to New York and Tokio, the whels sent to South Korea and the lobsters-, the autonomy of Jersey and the traditional relationship with France, the exile of Victor Hugo in Jersey) and the Brocéliande forest ( the 7000 hectares of forest, the paradise for hikers-100.000 visitors each year-, the painter Séverine, the story teller Marie, the therapist Caroline and the musician Christelle).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôm with the guide Julien Avril, with the administrator of the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel Xavier Bailly, with the cartoonist Marie Ladame, with the butter producer Jean-Yves Bordier, with the sailingboat captainYann Perraud, with the restaurant manager Franck Meslier, with the hiker Gaëtan Ory, with the "animateur nature" Gaël Gautier, with the owner of the "malouinière" Le Puits sauvage Jean Gauttier, with Yves-Marie Gilbert and the Quic en Groigne dance group,with the windsurfer Stéphane Lefebvre and his sons in Dinard and with the owner of theFort La Latte Isabelle Joüon des Longrais; nice encounters with very kind Breton men and women.
Échappées belles: Week-end à Collioure (2017)
An interesting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Pyrénées-Orientales: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: Port-Vendres ( the cruisers coming from America, the American,Candian and Australian tourists visiting for a day this town, the painter Marc Doury, the "oenotourisme"-the wine maker Benoït Briu, the diversity of grapes varieties,the tasting of Grenache wine-,the photographer Saïd Aouad and the old pictures of the port), the Saint-Vincent celebration at Collioure ( the sardana , the church of Notre-Dame des Anges, the procession with the relics of Saint-Vincent,the comic boat race in the bay of Collioure), the waters of the region (the promotion of the thermal resorts by Eugénie de Montijo, the resort of Vernet-les-Bains, the gold digging in the rivers), the sports in the mountains ( Stéphane Roucal and the canyoning-the abseiling of a waterfall-, the discovery of a cave with the speleologist Jean-François Vermotte- the 40 meters abseiling-), Argelès-sur-Mer ( the 55 camping sites, Manuel Bey and the camping site of Les Galets,the mobile homes and also tents, the family ambiance), and the border betwen France and Spain (the train station of Cerbère-the standard gauge track and the Iberian gauge track-, the Spanish enclave of Llívia, -Albert and Mélina and the restaurant "Ambassade de Llívia", the bilingual education-French and Catalan languages).
I enjoyed the encounters of Raphaël de Casabianca with Manée Pous (the Hôtel des Templiers), with Jean-Claude Ducatte (Fort Saint-Elme) , with Florent and Guy Roque, with the fishmonger Nicolas Badie, with the chef Masashi Ijima, with the diver and rugby player Alan Brazo, with the ceramist Claire Baudy, with the journalist Cyrille Maniere, with the mountain biker Florian Pouches, with the shipwright Jérémy Thiele, with the boat restorer Martin Luc Bonnardot, with Benjamin (Tour de Batère) and with the "accompagnatrice en montagne" Estelle Catala and the mountain climber Thomas Dulac at the Mount Canigou; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Le chapeau de Mitterrand (2016)
The magic hat.
After a strong talk withhis chief Daniel Mercier goes to a restaurant where the President Mitterand was eating and picks up the hat of the pressident .Then Daniel Mercier has the courage to return to the office and to speak with the executive borad and is promoted to a new position. But he lost the hat the hat in atrain and and the young woman Fanny finds the hat and she decided to change her life-a long relationship with a married man without future-. Later Fannyloses the hat and Pierre Alan, a former perfume creator and depressive man finds the hat and his life changes. Then the businessman Bernard Lavallière beocome owner of the hat the hat: Bernard, a businee with a factory, agrees with the strike and accepts the.claims of the workers. A thief on a scooter steals the hat, but Daniel Mercier manages to recover the hat.
A pleasant comedy with the good performances Frédéric Diefenthal, Frédérique Bel, Roland Giraud, Michel Leeb. Gaëlle Bona, Marie-Armlle Deguy and and Anne Jacquemin.
Changement de cap (1998)
A common comedy.
Two main characters: Marilyn, the wife of the knife-thrower Tino and Dora, the owner of a perfime company. After the spectacle of knife throwing Marilyn sees her husband Tino kissing a girl: that's enough for her and she is so desperate: Dora stops her suicide attempt and enters in the life of Marilyn. Suddenly Marilyn encounters the stowaway Zina and decides to help her. On her side Dora is under pressure to sell her perfume company to the Coralys company. There is a moment of misunderstanding between Dora and Marilyn,but soon they will be friends again.
I enjoyed the performances of Mimie Mthy, Claude Gensac, Denis Bracchini, Yves Jacques and Saïda Jawad.