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L'Inde en parfums: Emerveillement au marché aux roses de Kodai Road
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Les voyages forment la jeunesse, dit-on. La jeunesse, certes, mais également la sensibilité, la mémoire. C'est pour me nourrir d'odeurs nouvelles et envoûtantes, et aller à la rencontre d'acteurs de la parfumerie, que je décide, en décembre dernier, de prendre mon sac à dos et de partir quelque temps dans le sud de l'Inde. Mon métier de parfumeur m'a guidée au milieu des plantations d'épices, de fleurs, à la découverte d'odeurs et de saveurs exotiques, exaltées par la chaleur environnante. Ce marché, don...
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L'Inde en parfums: Recette des Chapatis
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Les voyages forment la jeunesse, dit-on. La jeunesse, certes, mais également la sensibilité, la mémoire. C'est pour me nourrir d'odeurs nouvelles et envoûtantes, et aller à la rencontre d'acteurs de la parfumerie, que je décide, en décembre dernier, de prendre mon sac à dos et de partir quelque temps dans le sud de l'Inde. Mon métier de parfumeur m'a guidée au milieu des plantations d'épices, de fleurs, à la découverte d'odeurs et de saveurs exotiques, exaltées par la chaleur environnante. 1/2 cc de sel.
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The Silk Road: Impressions of Tibet
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The Silk Road, China. Tuesday, 21 August 2007. Stunning to look at. En route to Everest and on a separate foray to Lake Namtso (north of Lhasa), we had the opportunity to explore some of Tibet in our Landcruiser. The landscape, although at times desolate (the sight of a tree is a rare thing), is extraordinarily picturesque; my burn rate of rolls of film increased dramatically. The following day we decided to take on a day trek and see how high we could climb. Despite the ominous clouds and some rain,...
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L'Inde en parfums: Quelques mots sur les attars
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Les voyages forment la jeunesse, dit-on. La jeunesse, certes, mais également la sensibilité, la mémoire. C'est pour me nourrir d'odeurs nouvelles et envoûtantes, et aller à la rencontre d'acteurs de la parfumerie, que je décide, en décembre dernier, de prendre mon sac à dos et de partir quelque temps dans le sud de l'Inde. Mon métier de parfumeur m'a guidée au milieu des plantations d'épices, de fleurs, à la découverte d'odeurs et de saveurs exotiques, exaltées par la chaleur environnante. En Inde, les a...
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The Silk Road: August 2007
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The Silk Road, China. Thursday, 30 August 2007. If I had to single out a handful of highlights, they would be as follows. 1 Wandering in total silence through the ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria. 2 Exploring beautiful Esfahan and uncovering the intriguing Iranian culture by talking to the friendly and inquisitive people. 3 A walk on a high altitude pasture past a shepherd and his yaks, in the yellow glow of dusk at lake Bulunkul in Tajikistan. I couldn't get it down to five). 5 The torturous 12 hours a...
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The Silk Road: Lhasa - arrival in Tibet
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The Silk Road, China. Wednesday, 15 August 2007. Lhasa - arrival in Tibet. Having spent a few days alone in Xian after Helen headed home, I was very much looking forward to meeting up with Tom and Debs - friends from University who had decided to join me in Tibet for their summer holiday. We arrived more or less at the same time and spent a relaxing few days in Lhasa acclimatising to the altitude. After just a few hours in Tibet, it is hard not to notice some quite different characteristics in the people...
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The Silk Road: Everest
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The Silk Road, China. Monday, 20 August 2007. All we wanted to do was see the north face of Everest from the Tibetan base camp. How hard could it be? Agonisingly difficult, apparently. As well as our difficult-to-obtain-but-completely-ineffectual permit to enter Tibet (no one checked for it subsequently), we needed an "alien" permit to visit the Everest region, a guide and a ticket to the Everest region. Throwing money at the Chinese bureaucracy. Shortly afterwards, we were somewhat surprised to learn th...
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The Silk Road: February 2007
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The Silk Road, China. Monday, 5 February 2007. A number of people have asked this, but I think the route speaks for itself. This trip is an extraordinary opportunity. Somehow I appear to have temporarily extracted myself from my job without terminally damaging my career (I hope), allowing me to put on hold my life in London and embark on the kind of travel that isn't possible while in full time work. Why the Silk Road? Sunday, 4 February 2007. Despite the absence of a clearly defined single route, once y...
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The Silk Road: Walking in the clouds
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The Silk Road, China. Tuesday, 21 August 2007. Walking in the clouds. Before leaving Tibet I was determined to experience some of the its wilderness: Tibet makes up around a tenth of China's land mass but less than 0.5% of its population. The average altitude on the Tibetan plateau is 4500m, and it is the source of the drinking water for c40% of the world's population. In other words, it's very high and very wet. Nothing could diminish the views of the valley below, however, as we walked around the kora ...