Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Fires of Anatolia and Dum Tek Tek

Paul loves to danse and did quite a show with 2 local musics:
  • Dum Tek Tek, THE popular song in Turkey. This song represented Turkey at the Eurovision and finish 5th, I believe (much better than the French). For those who don't know Eurovision, it is a singing contest on TV where each European contry is represented by 1 singer and the jury is composed of 1 member per country.

I hope you will appreciate and get a little feeling of Turkey. We do like the song. Ok it's not Radiohead but it's part of here and give a boost for the day... It's an interesting mix of music influences.

Paul's performance (try to picture him with the Dum Tek Tek in background).

  • The other fashion and popular dansing team is Fire of Anatolia. It's a kind of Cirque du Soleil but with local influence and mainly based on danse. We haven't seen the original but Paul and his friends' performance was I believe already a good sample
He spent a lot of time repeating the show in class.
The D day he was ready!!!

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Paul's Graduation party






Paul did 3 very nice shows for his graduation, one in english, one in german and one in Turkish. He has been a boxer, Peter Pan and a danser. What a challenge for a 6 years old boy!!!
But he seems very happy and really enjoys being on the stage despite the stress.
And... the conclusion of the show was of course, his graduation!!!
Now, he can appreciate his vacacions.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Isparta Roses

Isparta is famous for its roses and their essences.
Bruno had the opportunity to visit a plant where they extract all kinds of essantials oils for the perfume industry in Grace (nutmeg, lavender, pepper, roses, ...)
The plant really looks like a rum distillery, famous place where Sabine had been working while we were in Martinique.

In order to make 1 liter of rose essantial oils, you need 300 KG of petals (harvested by hand !!!).

You can imagine now why there are 30,000 Ha of roses in the surrounding areas of Isparta.


The roses are specific types. There are bush plants and only use for distilation (not possible to use them for ornamentation).
It was quite a nice tour. We bring back various samples of these essantials oils. But, we didn't get the expected effects, women were not interested at all in these smells (too concentrated). If you know a 'nez', please let us know how to transform these highly concentrated oils into wonderful perfume. Then Bruno's present will be a hit :-)
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Happy Summer Holiday !!

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Lunch time




In order to celebrate the summer, we had lunch with friends at our favorite restaurant, Yoma. It's a wonderful place and food is excellent. I'm sure by looking at these pictures you will understand why we like that place.
The great thing in Turkey is that people knows how to enjoy a good meal. In Antalya, there are tons of wonderful and magical places like that.
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SandLand


Every year in Antalya there is a Sandland. The topic of the year was as you can imagine legends and heros. It's amazing what people can do, we forgot it was sand. It was nice to think of all of you around the world with all these figures. For the kids it's a great learning moment.
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