Istanbul

The last trip of a series in the month of may with Mc. We flew from Paris down to Istanbul for a few days. We staid in the old Istanbul between the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sofia. We had a great little terasse with view on the Bosphore for breakfast. Then visited the palaces, the mosques, the orient express train station, a cruise on the Bosphore, shoped at the markets and then on the last day went to Asia crossing the Marmara sea to Yelova. Trip with amazing historic and cultural acquired knowledge.

Istanbul

Ari Gold baby

Saw this little montage of Ari's amazing quotes and rage from Entourage.

"Let's Hug it out bitch"

Basque Country

When Mc got to France a month ago, we left for a little road trip to les Pyrénées-Atlantiques. We booked a sweet little hotel in Bayonne while Ben crashed at a friend of his, owner of la Bogetta Chez Gilles.

So we met many of Ben's entourage back in the day's when he was spending summers and holidays opening oysters in Biarritz. We visited Biarritz, Bayonne, Anglet, St-Jean-de-Luz on the France side and Handaye and San Sebastian on the Spanish side. We surfed in Anglet and climbed la Rhune with a great view on the Spain/France border. Great week-end that ended with dinner in Tour in the Loire department.

Basque Country

Hectic times since the end of march

Haven't been home in Paris much lately and when I was, I had some visitors, so I haven't found the time to post much. Quick stop in Montreal and to the tour de force in Tremblant, then a week-end in Bourges for ''les prinptemps de Bourges', followed by a road trip to the beach in Normandy, a week-end surfing to les Pyrenees Atlantique in France and Spain, a squash tourney in Antibes on la Cote D'Azur to then move on for a 5 day trip to Istanbul mixed with work and party, I haven't slept much lately but now I'll have a little time to chill and write a few posts.

I'll start here with a link to pictures taken during my road trip in Normandy with my Mom and our guide Mr. Pinna, the first warm and sunny week-end in April 2008 here in the North of France.

Road Trip Normandie

A day with GSP

Sweet little video of a day training with GSP a great national ambassador for Quebec, keep it up boy

Blind kid skating with Tony Hawk

Bodega chez Gilles Bayonne

If you are looking for a good address to eat in Bayonne you should look out http://www.bodegachezgilles.com/

Crest Of Honor @ Metropolis April 29th

El cousin Sébas will perform @ good old Metropolis. Would of been sweet to attend, but I cant make it back to Montreal for a few months. Link to Crest Of Honor MySpace

La Plagne - WE Blue Connection

Small 3 day trip in the Alpes after a good week of snow, sweeet ...

La Plagne - IBM Blue Connection

Tout est Parfait

J'avais découvert Guillaume Vigneault avec ces 2 premiers livres que j'ai adoré.

• Carnets de naufrage
  
• Chercher le vent
  

Il a dernièrement écrit le scénario de Tout est Parfait, film que j'ai pu voir a Montréal traitant du suicide et des personnes qui doivent vivre avec les conséquences de cet acte. Excellent film fort en émotion, coeur sensibles s'abstenir.

Cat Power - Maybe Not

De la trame sonore de Tout est parfait par Guillaume Vigneault

pou rocks

COMMUNIQUE

COMMUNIQUE DU MINISTERE DE LA SANTE

N'avalez pas vos Chewing-gum

Chateaux Loire Valley

A few weeks ago, I did a little road trip with Math, Ben and Olga to the Loire Valley to check out a few castles. Memorable day with good mates.

A few of these shots were taken by math, see his blog on moonerboy.com

Chateaux Loire Valley

Z Austrian Riding Experience

So the trip went exatly as planed in the previous post

TUX was surreal, great montain with large backcountry where you can let go your imagination to hit the craziest lines. St. Anton was very disappointing.

Great trip with Benny and JR.

Z Austrian Riding Experience

Autriche: Planning des prochains jours

DAY 0: (Jeudi 6.03)
vol pour Munich

DAY 1: (Vendredi 7.03)
Déjeuner chez ben dans la suite Munichoise

départ en Audi pour l'Autriche

Ski Welt Söll: http://www.bergfex.at/soell/

Nuit à l'hotel Sonnenhof à Innsbruck: http://www.sonnenhof-igls.at/english/index.html

DAY 2: (Samedi 8.03)
Déjeuner à l'hotel.

St-Anton in Arlberg: http://www.bergfex.at/stanton-stchristoph/

Nuit à l'hotel Sonnenhof à Innsbruck

DAY 3: (Dimanche 9.03)
Déjeuner à l'hotel.

HinterTux Glacier: http://www.bergfex.at/hintertux/

Retour à Munich

DAY 4: (Lundi 10.03)
Repos à Munich
Sauna Prinzregenten: http://www.swm.de/dokumente/swm/pdf/baeder/sauna-guide.pdf

Chinese steroid-laced chicken

With China's phenomenal growth arise many important issues that will need to be addressed in the incoming years. I encountered a revealing
article from the NY Times this morning.

“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive.”

Austria: Ramsau or St-Anton?

In a few days I'll be flying to Munich to meet up with my Buddy Ben from Canada. We'l l crash at his place the first night and then we'll be heading towards Austria for a few days of riding powder, looking at the forecasts, with 50 cm of fresh powder on a 4 meter base, we are looking at a fantastic experience. Anyone has an opinion on witch mountain is better, I know the resort and nightlife is better in St-Anton but I'm looking riding wise, were are the best lines?

8 days Snowboarding the Alpes

Max was defending his PHD thesis in Antibes on Feb 5th and then we organized a little celebration week, 8 days riding the Alpes.

Sylvain has a house in Uriage, 30 minutes from Grenoble and 1 hour away from half a dozain world known resorts in the Rhone-Alpes region.

So me and Ben left Paris by car to join the crew, making a few stops along the way. We first stopped in Dijon to buy mustard and eat fresh oysters with a good bottle of white Burgundy wine. We then followed our path driving 'la route des vins de Bourgogne". We did a little detour to Switzerland to visit Geneva for a few hours before driving back to France. We spent the night in Lyon at Ben's cousins. Next morning we picked up Brezina who was bringing me my new macbook pro from Montreal @ the airport in St-Exupery. We came back to Lyon to spend the afternoon and eat "un ptit bouchon Lyonais" before heading towards Grenoble. We finally got to destination, the weeks headquarters, a sweet little house in Uriage-les-Bains. During the week we rode 5 mountains, les Septs Laux, Les 2 Alpes, l'Alpe d'Huez, l'Alpe du Grand Cerf and Chamrousse.
All mountains were impressive, but the backountry riding on the glacier aux 2 Alpes and on the South face of l'Alpe du Grand Cerf were the best. Great sunny chilling week, with some adrenalizing moments, not even shadowed by a stomach flu epidemic, an electric box fire, electricity shortcut ... and much more. Next riding destination, Austria in 2 weeks.

PHD celebration riding the french alpes

Sabourin with another win in Montreal tonight?

Lets go big!