http://blog.jeff.liotier.org You too can be a professional beach boy ! Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:02:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since last friday assemblies of metal, rubber and glass appeared on our terrain and started removing trees, rocks and earth. They must be shaping this unwelcoming place to a living area. I must confess we are all (parents, neighbours ,friends and us) very excited to finally see concrete progress. We are ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2009/09/28/terraforming Finally we have it. Our architect did a great job! After quite some troubles to start (finding 1500m2, splitting them, finding the architect, agreeing on a design...), quite a long wait (almost 3 months) and a phone confirmation, we received the official approval on friday the 4th. What a relief and ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2009/08/21/licence-to-build What was our suprise when the phone rang and Aline told me they were in Italy on the way to Biot !?! We really had a fun time with everyone ! Reminds us how much we love our family and how far most of its members are. We really wish we ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2009/08/21/unexpected-bottaros Just a quick post to announce the arrival of Maki the little rabbit. He will share our lives from now on and we're sure everybody will love him at first sight just like us! Already some pictures on the gallery. http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2009/02/25/maki-is-here Almost everyone including Mag thought that we were going to Deauville, but I had secret plans. So here we are in New-York. It's been a while for me and first time for Mag. More news coming... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/12/27/hello-new-york We're back in the biggest city on earth. After a dreamlike week on the beach, we reach our first location and final stay: Tokyo. We started off with Shinjuku and its sky scrappers, Yoyogi garden, Harajuku and Shibuya's fashion shows !! Today, we went to the fish market in Tsukiji, ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/05/24/voyage-de-noces-11-ishigaki-to-tokyo-and-to-la-napoule Finally we managed to go diving Manta Ray Point, the most famous diving spot of all Japan. And as our instructor Satoki-sensei said : we were lucky !!! The average is one or two manta rays and we had more than 8 !!! Mag and I are delighted. Please go ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/05/18/voyage-de-noces-10-manta I am the happiest man on Earth !!! You should have seen the sweetest face of Mag when we were on final approach around the island with it deep blue see, the white foam of the coral reef, the clear blue sea inside and the white sand beaches !! It ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/05/15/voyage-de-noces-09-kobe-to-kabira-ishigaki So here is the end of our Honshu trip. We visited Himeji castle this morning and went to Kobe. Tomorrow morning is our flight for Ishigaki. There rest, snorkling, diving, swimming, padding... awaits us. I don't know if there will be any Internet access. You'll see ;) http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/05/13/voyage-de-noces-08-himeji-to-kobe I really wanted Mag to taste Horshima's okonomiyaki. It's the local specialty and she always wanted to eat what they cook in the mangas with the metal tools. So we went to a weird second floor in which there was at least 20 little restaurant one next to the other, ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/05/12/voyage-de-noces-07-hiroshima-to-himeji We finally got to our guest house in Kyoto. The housekeeper was very nice, helpful and interesting. Thanks for everything Harumi-san. We did most of the main activities, 2 days by bicycle and 2 days by bus (because we were tired ;). I will not cite them all as it tooks ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/05/11/voyage-de-noce-06-kyoto We stayed in a lovely ryokan and went to eat in a Japanese grill, teriyaki place. There we were at the counter and they did not speak English and the carte was almost not even written in roman letters. We still managed to order thanks to a funny (as in ... http://blog.jeff.liotier.org/index.php/2008/05/06/voyage-de-noce-05-matsumoto-to-kyoto