Digital diet


✋It seems my digital abode has been feasting a bit too heartily on bytes and pixels over the years. Much like a closet that’s seen one too many Black Friday sales, my blog is bursting at the seams. It’s time for a spring clean, a digital declutter, a… byte-sized diet, if you will.

👉The Plan of Action: I am going on a data diet! Older posts will be lovingly archived, ensuring they’re safe in the annals of the internet, never to be forgotten. Pictures, those hefty culprits of space consumption, will be put through a rigorous boot camp, emerging sleeker and more web-friendly.

👉The Reality Check: Let’s be real – Rome wasn’t defragmented in a day. This digital slim-down will take time, patience, and probably a few tears shed over the ‘delete’ button. But fear not! We’re not leaving you blog-less.

👉The Temporary Fix: Introducing my pop-up blog! It’s the trendy food truck version of my gourmet blog restaurant. It’s fresh, it’s new, and it’s got that ‘new blog smell’. We’ve already whipped up a few posts to keep your appetites satiated.

👉The Silver Lining: Think of this as a blog renaissance. Out with the old, in with the new (but still treasuring the old because, let’s face it, nostalgia is a powerful thing). We’re making room for new memories, new laughs, and new content that will hopefully not require another digital diet for a good while.

👉So, join me on this journey of minimalism (well, digital minimalism), and let’s make some room for the future!


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C’est le pied

The temperature dropped a couple of degrees today and the “Tramontane wind picked up as expected.

But it is still pleasant enough to sit outside for a couple of hours. Rain is expected for the next few days as a result of a so-called Mediterranean Episode which is unusual this time of year.

So let us make the most of it

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2CV Dragster

Straight out of my imagination and with a little help from AI

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Nice and sunny ☀️

With temperatures hovering around 25°C for the past few days, enjoying the outdoors is a must. Is there a better place than your local bar, I think not.

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Spring Equinox

Sun Crosses Celestial Equator

The March equinox is the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator—an imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator—from south to north.

In Carcassonne, Aude, France, this will take place on Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 04:06 CET

Only a few hours to go and it will officially be Spring.

(Image above created with AI by J2S i.e me)

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Ratatouille

All the ingredients are available

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Olympic posters

I really like the posters for the forthcoming Olympic Games this coming summer.

👍 I like cartoons and I think these posters are really intelligently done. So much details to discover. All venues are drawn in a clever way.

Loads to be discovered. I shall get hold of the real posters for sure.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, the Land of Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and the Serengeti

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ZANZIBAR

Day 1 Getting there 🛩

Day 2 Stone town

Day 3 Stone Town

Day 4 Stone Town

Day 5 Stone Town & Pongwe

Day 6 Pongwe Bay Resort

Day 7 Pongwe Bay

Day 8 Pongwe Bay

Day 9 Pongwe Bay & Pingwe

Day 10 Pongwe Bay

Day 11 Pongwe Bay

Day 12 Pongwe Bay

Day 13 Pongwe Bay

Day 14 Pongwe Bay

Day 15 Pongwe Bay & Airport

Day 16 France 🇫🇷

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Zanzibar – Day 16

Back in France

Uneventful flight. I do not really enjoy such late departures. The service which normally includes an enjoyable aperitif time followed by a meal is combined into one so that people have a maximum time to rest. That is the theory of course.

I managed my 2 large whisky glasses and a fairly nice dinner. I watched almost 3 films before I could get some sleep. It was not a sound sleep but I did shut my eyes. There was a bit of turbulence here and there but that does not bother me. I would even stay quite on the contrary.

I woke up when passing over Rome

1h30 to go at this point

The rest of the flight goes pretty fast. Breakfast is served, I change into warmer clothes and soon after that we touch down in very thick fog before 8am.

The airport is full of people, fortunately we can use our priority passes to jump a bit of the security queues. The electronic EU passport makes it very easy to go through border control. No need to talk to anyone.

It is quite a long way to our next terminal but we have plenty of time i.e more than 4 hours before our next flight. The Air France lounge in Hall 2F is very welcoming.

Too early in the day for a whisky 🥃 I think

Moved to a quiet and peaceful part of the lounge.

Main menu & Overview

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Zanzibar – Day 15

Going home day

The manager kindly offered us to use room free of charge till 7pm at which time we expect our taxi to turn up to take us to the airport. So we shall be able to enjoy a full day on the beach & pool and by the looks of it, it is going to be a hot one.

In the meantime we are once again the first ones at breakfast.

Nice sunrise

I already had a walk on the beach and a chat with my Masaï friends.

👉 I have asked for my bill 💵 about an hour ago and they are still working on it. Too many bar slips to count I guess.

👉 Last lunch here at the club which was completely empty of customers like the rest of the resort. On the and because I walk barefoot I really suffered on the extremely hot wooden planks going walking the long pontoon.

👉 Back to the pool after lunch for a most welcome and very long dip in the water. It will be a while before I can do that again. It is soon time to get ready for the return journey but more importantly the last apéritif to say goodbye to everyone and of course pay my bill or should I say the few pages of it.

Taxi arrives on time at 7pm and we cross the island to the airport. Many people, long queues but we depart for Dar En Salaam on time

It is an extremely short hop of less than 20 minutes. We have to stay in the plane for 1,5 hours whilst it is cleaned and new passengers board. The flight to Paris can start shortly after midnight.

Main menu & Overview

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