Demi Tour of the World

Is there something wrong with mankind ?

In France is released an austria movie called We feed the World which says man is producing enough food for 12 millions people, so children dying of hunger are murdered.

Then yesterday listening to the BBC, alcohol companies are complaining they don’t get a share of the indian market. They are blaiming the tax policy. Should we remind these well behaved people that alcohol is considered as a drug and is responsible for numerous death and several health problems. So what is the point to complain about a lower sale of alcohol ?

Today looking for news about aids in Chad here what I learned on http://www.plusnews.org/ : “The World Bank recently suspended all its loans to the impoverished landlocked country because of a decision by President Idriss Deby to tamper with an agreement governing how revenues from its fledgling oil project can be spent.” While two third of the Aids programs were sustained with this money. Ouch !

Which remind me about another trial, Novartis this time which doesn’t want India to help its citizen by producing antiretroviral drugs : medecin sans frontiere (en). The same kind of trial was won by South Africa

People, what’s Wrong ? And it is the same with individuals when a boss thinks his employee owes him everything, or when a guy is ready to lie to get some more quids. Ok in the Northen Hemisphere we live in peace, far from wars but with that much agression within our heart how come it could go on any longer ?

Are we really free citizens or supporting imperialism ?

For some reason I chose demitourworld as a name to describe my next big travel.

As previously explained, a demi tour litterally would be half a tour that’s because I’ll travel from Nepal to Chad. It also means going back. There are different reasons. Usually a travel ends where it started, for my part it gives a bitter taste in the mouth. It was because Chad seen the birth of humankind as an anthropo-archeologist team discovered there the oldest human-like, he was christianized the place he was found : Toumaï. It is a Start on itself.

Historically, man will travel from there to Europe and Asia, creating agriculture, writing, the wheel, the fire, civilisation, philosophy… For all these years spend to love and fight, man made himslef king of the Earth and now is on the edge to destroy it… Demi-tour. I don’t think it is that hopeless.

Sometimes the road to the Oriental World is safe sometimes not. Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, Pierre Loti, Nicolas Bouvier (still alive!). All are great men for diminishing the field of our ignorance and destroying symbolic (or not!) borders. Some how the world is a wheel.

It was the first Idea. To experience a mystical road passing by Byblos, Petra, Jerusalem, Jericho, Varanasi, Kathmandu, Sinaï, Damascus… To walk on this path as a free man, a traveller.

And a mosquisto bite postponed the journey for 6 Month and so has turned the road the other way round. Because in my dream the idealistic way was Chad towards Nepal. Matters effects Dreams but the Meaning on itself can’t change.

Hi, it makes a while now.

time passing quickly and events too.

I’m back in London only for a week. But even then as i’ve planned to travel Big for the end of March. I need ways of subtitution. 4 weeks ago I’ve been to Windsor. Then to France for two weeks, in Amiens from where i learned i need to make my claim against my boss in UK through internet. So easy ! less hassle ! less human relationship… men, if not fighting are tiring each other… Maybe. Then yesterday with Emeline we’ve been to St Albans (where i bought in a charming secondhand bookshop on Holleywell Rd the Travels from Marco Polo). I love this town, like to go back there regularly. So I played the guide for Emeline over the long history and peacefull parks of St Albans, with the help of the Sun.

But when i think of it, the way i’ve best travelled these last weeks was Saturday at the Laban center. Emeline works there and invited me to see a raimund hoghe dance production called Swan Lake, 4acts. It was at the same time a good and big book and a serie of paintings for it was slow, yes it was like reading slowly to give the mind time to read and think of what he’s facing. Raimund Hoghe hasn’t what we can call the body of a dancer, and then ? why should he be on the stage, be the main character ? that’s already two things very different from the modern westernized world we’re living in. And two good reasons to appreciate the production.

I won’t described what i saw, as it has to stay in the surprising meaningful reality level, on the aesthetical point of view of singular beauty and intellect that you need to experienced by your own. Visit the site for an idea of it

Then we stayed for a drink with the member of the troup. Myself joined them quite late, but i was introduced to Brynjar as knowing Romania. Brynjar lives in Bucaresti for 4 years now but he’s from Oslo, the troup manager worked a lot in Romania too. I left Laban with a small group of them, heading to music bar of Greenwich where we had a really nice time together. And through the experience of everybody (Madagascar, Greece, Romania etc.) Nabil is a whole story of his own, dancer in the world, GP in Algeria, nurse in France. A night of enchanting contrasts.

Thanks Guys