After reading one of Sarah’s tweets, I recently came across a 30-minute web documentary extremely (euphemism) well made. The project Happy World: Burma, the culture of the absurd, carried out by both Gaël Bordier and Tristan Mendès France, takes us to a corrupted country whose laws are contradictory.

Let’s discover the documentary right away!

Besides its almost perfect production, the documentary shares a fascinating and captivating story which is, above all, committed and full of passion. All the ingredients are there: dynamism, infiltration, narration, in-depth study. Because of that, I take my hat off to these two field reporters. As I was impressed, I contacted them right away and asked them a few questions.

A huge thanks to them for taking the time to answer my questions even if they were (I guess) really busy!

(La suite…)

The title of the following post is deliberately extreme, as it is meant to describe some situations you can face when you are traveling and do not have a bed to spend the night. In that case, safety is your most important concern.

I thought of writing this article after spending another night at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport. After 11:00pm, it is hard to find something in this airport to entertain yourself (especially compared to the amazing hubs they have in Bangkok or Hong-Kong) and you have to make do.

When traveling, you can be stuck for the night in a train station, an airport or even in the street.

In that situation, you should take precautions to avoid being attacked and/or waking up without your personal belongings. Today, I would like to share some easy safety tips.

While traveling, I ended up sleeping in airports and train stations several times and spent the night in the street (only) 4 times (twice on the beach). In terms of difficulty (freezing cold, danger), I will keep in mind two major events: one night spent in Chicago (USA) with a homeless guy, and one night spent wandering in Yekaterinburg train station (Russia) and the city center, which almost ended very badly.

(La suite…)