I met a few ONG (or NGO) people, one is a girl who is busy with an organization that sponsor nearly 300 children from Rwanda, the other person is also a girl busy with an organization that also sponsor children but from Madagascar this time, …and by now you have guess that the third person has the same activity. I met all of them last week at different place, I found strange that I met ONG people, these women seem to have a big heart, check out the website http://www.coeuretconscience.org/

It contrasts with the profiteer image I have from some others ONG people; those guys that go in Africa or South Asia to just have fun drive a big SUV and have easy girls.
There is an ugly side to the ONG world that is often hided to the public, heard of the ‘sex for foods’ deal ? that some of ONG guys do.
I have personally nothing against ONG; I personally proudly worked for the red cross in 1999 in a refugee camp and I’m still a donator for the red cross.
I think there are three types of ONG people I met : (more…)

The classic error I made is of course to miss a flight however strangely it didn’t had that much consequence.
During these last six years of travel, I missed the plane two time, one time because I missed the plane I had to buy a ticket for a near by city of my destination I paid an extra 96 euro (not a lot money) and I made my trip it allowed me to visit a city I didn’t know about.
The second time I missed the plane I was reschedule for the next flight one day later at no additional charge (sometime it is cool to travel with big company that don’t charge again when you miss a flight), I enjoyed that additional day in my destination city. (more…)

Any flight that is longer than two hours is a long flight for me and I dont like them, I have been in long flights recently (Brussels-NYC, NYC-Brussels – 8 hours ), (Brussels – Malaga, 3 hours), (Istanbul – Brussels, 4 hours 30).

New York – Brussels and Istanbul – Brussels were particularly painful flights, first going home is always a bit sad, the only case I’m happy to go home is when I don’t like the place that visited, it was the case when I came back from Bucharest (Romania), I was happy to leave that country. Secondly, I m always tired when I take the plane to go home no matter what hour the flight is, it is because my last day of travel is always extremely long, I remember than when I came back from Madrid in February that last day was long, I woke very early in my hotel in Extremedura, then I took the train to Madrid (3 hours and half), I arrived at 12, I managed to walk several hours in the city visiting then I headed to the airport , I had my flight at 8 P.M, an ok flight of two hours 20 minutes, however, the day was so long that I was tired during the flight. (more…)

I’m back home I love so much New York city, that I will go back there in the summer probably in July.
When I was there I could not phone to Europe because I have a dual band cellphone, a very cheap one to phone from USA you need a tri-band or quad-band cellphone, I dont like to buy expensive cellphone. I have no plan to by a tri-band or quad-band in the near future unless I break my old cheap dual band cellphone.
I have little use for a cellphone I dont phone much. I took a subscription with a ISP called Boingo (you can use them at various location in the USA and Canada as you go, I used it in the airport), I paid $7.95 a day for an internet access, I had also a paid Skype account so I finally was able to phone from my laptop to Europe and Africa at a very low price.
However, the problem with Boingo is that it install a huge pile of malware and spyware, I was able to get rid of most of them. I’m not too sure I will continue to use them when I come back to USA I will probably stick with the WI-FI connection available at the hotel.

Enjoy my video slide-show, I put some of pictures I took there, my camera cant make good pictures in low light condition, I hope to have a better camera for the next trip.

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