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Send it to your girlfriend

May be you do not speak Russian, but still, the video is funny. Look here
Put a name in the first field, and click on the button.
Enjoy !

Введи свое имя, жми на кнопку и держись!

Music to listen to !

2 people I met in another life. They keep going on their way, following their passion : Music !

Le larron and Litwin !

I like what they do, it's fresh, nice, and they deserve a lot.
Hope you'll like it.

Happy Birthday Little Patagoniac

Happy Birthday !

What do you eat ?

Seen on Tippie, a post about what people eat per week in the world and how much it costs.
It's taken from the book Hungry Planet

Quite interesting idea, and disturbing results ...

The haunted Ipod

Strange strange strange.
My ipod is weird. It behaves as if it's haunted.
It selects the play list it wants and launches it, without asking me anything.
So as a result :
2 days ago I went to the gym with it and the battery was out because it was turned on, without I did anything (it was locked, so couldn't be a false move from me).
Last night, as it was on its docking station, it began to sing without my permission, and woke me up at 3h00 AM.

I am always surprised by the technology and how it behaves when getting old ...

Does anyone else has such a problem with an Ipod ?

No name for this one

I like this
I am currently reading that
I hope to watch this in the next days.
I like what Manu did with his longboard skate  : See it here

I wish I were there or there.

And last but not least, I find this funny.

Milky milky way

Drink milk, eat milk, milk, milk milk ...
Funny. A lot of TV ads in France about the milk, and the dairy products. And in the news, a piece of info, mentioning that Danone, Lactalis will increase their prices due to the higher costs of production ...

Do you know that milk is not that good for our health ? You want to loose weight, begin to reduce eating/drinking milk, dairy products and you'll see results, for sure.
I'm just fed up by these bullshits from big companies, lobbies, for money, without taking into account our health.
Go have a look at http://nomilk.com/ for interesting links.

And believe it or not, but a friend of mine lost 7 kgs without changing anything in his life, but reducing milk in his everyday food, and in 2 months.

Ete Indien and reading books

Currently reading 2 books (see in the right column) :
Surfeuses : about our dear ladies going surfing
Very interesting, with some funny details (when you're a man), like : Guess when it is not recommended for a woman to go surfing in a shark area  ?  Hum ? Guess :-) (blood, sharks, ... you see now ? ).

Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam : Amelie Nothomb last book about her lover in Japan. I like Amelie's book. Easy to read, and have the ability to make me disconnect from the real life (may be because she is using so many words I do not know). Sometimes I am wondering if she does not create these words).

Ete Indien : Not a book, but just what it looks like in Moscow since last Monday. Sunny days, sunny people. A week-end like in Summer.  Very nice finally.

Jet lag

2 hours. Only 2 hours of jet lag between Moscow and Paris.
If you come here for a week-end, moreover, in Summer time, you'll appreciate these 2 hours of jet lag, because you can enjoy nice sunny warm evenings.
But, when you come here for several days, to work, then these 2 hours are awfull. Imagine, go to bed at 23h every day, and get up at 07h, then one day, change it and try to go to bed at 21h and get up at 05h00. Honestly, it's very hard. And the more I keep coming here, the more awful it is.
The only way I found to solve this is to practise sports in order to get tired physically and try to sleep before midnight.
Only 2 hours ! It's worse than 6 hours I think. A detail, but details make life what it is ...

First impressions in the air

She looked fragile, very nice, the kind of woman you help to carry her luggage. She was wearing birkenstocks with tights (strange in summer).
Then, she sat on the 9a, just one seat from me. She asked the steward why her seat was lower than the others. In fact, the 9 seats are in the emergency line and so, there is more place for the legs, and the 9a seat is a little bit different to open the door easier.
The plane was taking off and I saw her totally stressed. Due to the weather the plane was a little bit shake in the air, and she began to cry. She looked like the kind of girl you want to protect, so fragile.
Then she took 3 pills of Xanax, and slept 2 hours. When the steward came for lunch time, she asked for a special menu, and of course there was not any special menu for her. The real face of the maniac appeared ! From a nice fragile girl, she turned into a bothering usual unhappy customer, a maniac, obsessed by her food, the plane, and she began to stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down. The funny thing is that the woman who was sitting just near me had the same feeling than me. Strange how 2 people only can put one woman in the side of the crazy people.

Body desintoxication !

Some of you may have noticed that I am a chocomaniac. Chocolate is a fantastic aliment. A lot of Magnesium inside of it, so it is very good for the body, it gives a lot of energy for runners, and I remember some articles in special running articles, something about chocolate and the role of it for Ultra trails.
It's a very good anti-depression medicine.
So, it's good for you ...
But, when you eat more than 500g per day, it becomes to be a real addiction.
So I decided to try to reduce my chocolate consumption. I was smiling at smokers who tried to stop. I never understood people who told me it's really hard to quit an addiction.
It's been 4 days now that I tried to stop chocolate. It's really hard ! Really !
So, I concentrate my cooking and food on flowers, vegetables, fruits, and fresh sunny vitamins.
And at least, it makes me discover that you can eat a lot of flowers  ...

Books and universal conscious !

Strange feeling this morning that life is made of several feelings which, despite the deep impression that each people experience their own feelings, are exactly the same for everybody. Books tend to be the link showing that behind each story, different and unique for everybody, the life experience, love, hate, smile, courage, ... notions are  universal and universally shared.
To be honest, till few years I used to read "useful" books, that is to say, books in which you learn about a subject (politics, economy, surf ...). Very few romans.
Now, I take time to read pure useless books :-) and what stroke me is how parts of our life can be so well described in stories which look, at first, very far away from our daily life.

Real good news !

Thanks to Manu for this info :
NUTELLA EXISTS NOW IN 1KG FORMAT.

You all know (I hope, if not, please never come back again on this blog :-)),that till then, there were small formats (250 g ...) for taking with you for a 2 hours walk,normal format with the 750 g for 2 days of breakfast and tea time, and the 3 kg format for Christmas.
But know, with the 1kg format, the revolution is on ! One pot, one week !

Thanks Nutella !

Shit happens

A good example of Murphy's law :
- Bad connection at the office
- Working troubles
- Misunderstandings

and
and
NO WATER TO TAKE A SHOWER AFTER ONE HOUR OF SPORTS !!!

Shit happens !

New Photo Album : Water drops

A new Photo Album here
It's been raining a lot in France these days.
A lot of water drops, as if you were surfing inside nice clear barrels ...
Crazy seasons and weather.

The world is upside down !

Look at the weather forecasts in Moscow !
More than 30 degrees in May. This winter was particularly warm in Russia.
In France, at the same time, the temperatures will drop under 20 degrees in Paris ...
A friend in Bali told me that a huge wave hit the coast line.
Jacques Chirac mentionned that "our house is burning".
Looking at all these uncommon weather changes, I hope that it is not too late to take action.
Switch of your lights, computers, electronic devices when not in use. Take your bike or walk if you are not going far away.
Save our planet ! Be responsible !

Running in Ismaylovo Park

- Seen a lot of people in bathing suit, catching the sun in funny positions
- Seen a lot of women wearing thongs
- It's the beginning of the "pukh" season (a sort of white stuff like goose down, everywhere). Hard to run and breathe with clouds of "pukh".
- Seen in the middle of nowhere, a scene with dancers, singers, a lot of decibels, and flashy colors, to entertain people who happen to be there
- Seen 7 runners, including one girl
- Seen one grandmother and her granddaughter. The grandmother had a green tree leaf on her nose to protect it from the sun.
- Seen a girl, white as the cold winter snow of Siberia, trying to get tanned. I thought she was the snow girl of the Russian fairy tales. I think that at this time, she is just a water drop. She will re-appear in November
- Thought that 160 km this summer in the mountains is crazy, when I see how hard it is to run 25 km when it's 30 degrees outside.
- Wondering why some  Russian girls and boys wear clothes as if they were going to a night club, but they are going to a park ?

Funny and crazy country.

Papeete in Moscow

Moscow, today, some peaks at 28 degres and more.
Evening rain.
Same weather than in Papeete ...

It was nice to go running around the small park near home.
Nice to see these colors of summer, green, grey, gold.
Nice to admire the sunset.

Finally, sometimes, the paradise can be found everywhere. It's just a question of weather finally ...

Smell it

The perfume of this rose is awesome. It's really hard to buy and find beautiful roses which smell good especially when you know that your roses were stored in cold place to be transported from one place to another.
Having a garden, even secret and small, is a privilege. But it's a real pleasure and a reward when you are able to get such beautiful smelly roses in it. It takes time, it's hard, and sometimes it fails. But, one year, when the rain is good, when the sun is there, you get what you deserve, and you smile, because the real pleasures are simple and so close.

From Hawaii with Love

The weather in France is very pleasant these last days. Like summer time. Sun, warm, and a little bit of rain for those who like to get fresh while running.
It's always interesting to see how the weather plays a role on the people. When it looks like summer time, people take time to go shopping, to eat on the terrace of the french cafes and restaurants. So, life looks more pleasant. And people who went to Polynesia, Hawaii, ... always mention that the people over there are very kind (ok, if you avoid the black shorts on the North Shore and the white short in Madagascar ... but here it's localism).
It's true also, that people coming to Russia always find that people are not smiling, not very kind etc.
Well, it's partly true if you look on the surface, and easy to understand in fact. First of all, people, everywhere, are more or less kind, once you get to know them, and Russians are very kind to you if you spend time with them and speak with them. Secondly, I would like to see how all the people on earth would behave with the weather you have in Russia. It has a clear impact on how you see life, time, and pleasures. I am not a specialist in sociology, but I have always thought that the geography, the weather are playing a big role in the people's way of life and behavior. Hey, just try to live in Russia with more than 6 months of cold, hard weather (snow, rain, low temperatures ...).
So, when you travel, spend time understanding the geography of the country and its climate, and be sure it'll give you some keys to understand the population's way of life.

(photo : Detail of an Hawaiian shirt, available at www.bananajack.com)

Reminiscence

Function: noun
1 : apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence
2 a : recall to mind of a long-forgotten experience or fact
b : the process or practice of thinking or telling about past experiences
3 a : a remembered experience
b : an account of a memorable experience -- often used in plural
4 : something so like another as to be regarded as an unconscious repetition, imitation, or survival

Exactly the situation today.
Time to go back to some past experiences and feel there the strength to keep climbing the slopes, keep walking till the end of the race.
Time to go look deep inside the ice what is burning.
Time to get high.
Time to feel adrenaline and be happy to be alive at the end of the day.
Time to feel alive.

Meteorits

Since last week I am flying among a huge meteorit cloud, and looks like I am not a good pilot, because each day I crash on a meteorit. I received 2 big ones on the head last friday, and one very big yesterday evening.
MC, I hope that now you can travel around as you want, trek and ski everywhere, eat some nice chocolate,  and keep your lovely smile.
I miss you.

It s******* !

update at 18h46 GMT +3 : I'm still stuck in the cloud and took 2 big ones today ! I definitely need to take driving lessons for life ! F#### !

Weather ...

Get up at 07h30, look outside, and see ... SNOW FLAKES !
The first one who tells me that the planet is geting warmer, I'll slap him directly :-))
23rd of April and Snow in Moscow, while it's 25 degrees in France !
In fact, the planet is going crazy, exactly like me ...

:-)

And also, just want to add :
On the cleanest line there is a post about "Next Generation Patagoniac". And on the same subject on this blog, I made 2 posts about our next generation ...
The first one here and the second one there.
I definitely love to see kids surfing, climbing, learning how to behave in the nature, learning how to build a simple game on the beach with rocks, sand, water.
We hold our future in their hands !

We all live ...

... in a yellow submarine !

Fields of transat

While running in Hyde park in London, I saw that London Citizens are able to crop transats.
Really, you can see a lot of transats, chairs, everywhere on the beautiful english grass.
It's very convenient when the weather is like it was monday and tuesday in London.

Fatality

For those who like funny albums, funny music (sorry for non french speaking readers ...), I strongly recommend the Fatals Picards !!!
Of course, a good silly friend of mine made me discover this :-) and it will guarantee you good funny moments ...
I strongly recommend their videoblog for those who want to get a good idea of the band.
Enjoy !
(by the way, no wave, once again ! F#### murphy's law !)

Patagonia WetSuits in action

Check there, and also here, to see the Patagonia Wetsuits in action.
Since I have posted some documents about the Wetsuits, and since the unofficial patagoniawetsuit site has been created by Ali, it looks like many people are coming to this website and this blog to find information.
So, I keep on posting information about the wetsuit, each time I'll get some, and also keep on checking the Patagonia website and blog, to check if there is anything new.

Picture : Keith Malloy. Chile. Photo: Branden Aroyan.

10 years ago

10 years ago :
- I was in a "Goulag" with a friend of mine. Diving deep in a real antidemocratic country. Seeing the results of years of totalitarism on people. Experiencing the privacy of liberty.
- I received a gift. May be the most beautiful gift I've ever received. A japanese saber, given by a Hiro Hito to a man, who gave it to another man, who gave it to me. They are all dead, I am alive. I'll transfer it with the same spirit when it'll be time. This Japanese saber is a pure symbole of perfection, balance, strength, beauty.
- I received a gift, for sure the most beautiful one a man can get. Incredible. I'm still impressed by its evolution. And I'm sure, the next years will see this gift growing more and more beautiful.
- 10 years ago I was expecting the spring offshore winds to go surfing in a 3/2 wetsuits. Still expecting the same thing 10 years after.
- I was running the 10 km in less than 36 minutes. Not today ... but why running fast :-)
10 years ago, already. Time goes fast.

Ipod, surf, pleasure

Got an Ipod video ? Then go on surfhistory.com, download some movies and surf stuff on your Ipod. Go to your nearest apple store (online or other), buy an Ipod AV cable.
Connect your Ipod to your TV and enjoy hours of surf movie !
You can even travel with your Ipod and your cable, and wherever you find a TV, you can watch your best surf movies to wait for your next surf session.
When I see how fast technology goes, I can't imagine what will be our future. I also keep in mind that millions of people in the world, wether in Asia, in Africa, in South America, have never seen a phone !
Well, while waiting for the next surfsession, and after a good saturday run, I stay quiet, eating tons of Nutella, watching surf movies. And thanks to who I know who knows for the movies.

PS : Sprout is a great surf movie.
PS' : I also bought an Igroove Ipod speaker to listen to the Ipod ... Today is another day for my neighboors :-))

Sandgames

Looking at the stats of my blog, I saw that the Kidibi album is "popular". When I say popular, it means that there was more than 1 visit in the last 10 years. I was wondering why. And, thanks to the stats system, keywords, etc, I saw that the keyword "sandgames" is responsible for that. I gave this name to one picture of the album .

So, being curious, I looked at the "sandgames" results in google, and found that this is the title of a book : "Sandgames"

And I read here:

SANDGAMES                                         
Poems by MICHELE VASSAL
Winner of the Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Prize 2000. In her first collection, Sandgames, Michele Vassal explores the duality of exile through the fading negatives of memory, exposing them to a light of sexual and religious metaphor. With an artist's sense of contrast and perspective, she chronicles a sensual and cruel reality where displacement and belonging coalesce into an intricate but singular vision.

About the Author                   
In the late seventies, Michele Vassal left her hometown of  Barcelonnette, in the Alpes de Haute-Provence and moved to Dublin. She is now living and writing in Kenmare, County Kerry, with her family and their five cats. Though French is her first language, she prefers writing in English. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in Ireland and in the U.S. She received first prize at the 1999 Listowel Writers' Week for this collection of poetry.

The author is from Barcelonnette, a very nice place where I spent several months, skiing, climbing, running, years ago. She is French but she prefers writing in English, and I dare say "like me for this blog" :-)

I just find some coincidences, it's amazing, funny. I think I know what will be my next book, after "samedi" and "une gourmandise" (see "currently reading" on the right column).

Chocorun therapy !

What makes life interesting is that each day is different from the previous one.
Today, like yesterday, very nice weather.
But today, unlike yesterday, bad news, problems to solve, misunderstanding, uncontrolled situations, too much work, hard words, hard negotiations.
Nevermind, I'll go running before the night comes, and I'll work harder after.
Nevermind, I'll eat tons of chocolate, without taking care of my weight.
Nevermind, past is the past, need to look forward.
Nevermind...

Miscellaneous

- How many people wrote I love you on the Eiffel Tower and in how many languages ? (Free dinner/lunch in Moscow or Paris for the woman who finds the number, and 2 times the 25 bosses in Fontainebleau with me if it's a man who finds the right answer :-))).
- Sun everyday in Moscow till Friday. Clouds and rain for the week-end. Murphy's law
- An Estonian taxi driver, who wanted to go to New York 14 years ago, but finally went to Moscow. Now, as he says, he is "the director of his car" and proud of it.
- Receiving an astro newsletter from a website for women, twice. Received apologies from this website saying it's a mistake : Spam ? New viral marketing ? Real error ?
- Jarhead - Overthere - Black Hawk Down - Movies to watch to realize what war looks like nowadays.
- Golf : it's for sissy ! :-) Take that B. !!!
- Good luck FX, you do this for bad reasons, but who cares.
- Good movie, a little bit disturbing, ... but very good : Alpha Dog

And Good night everybody !

PS : New photo album on the right.

The end weekend ...

This week-end marked the end of many things :
- I said goodbye to my old good car. This car was made for carrying longboards, shortboards, mountain bikes, friends, kids, sand, stones, wood, shoes, food ... An old good car. Too old for me, brand new for someone else. First time I drove this car to Biarritz it was in September 2001, just before 11/9.
- I said goodbye to 2 pair of shoes. My old Salomon XA Pro 3D XCR, and my Puma trailfox. So many kilometers with them, and the Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix race with the Salomon. The puma were specials too, because I bought them without thinking I would use this model so much. And finally I was attached to it.
Nostalgy, renewal, souvenirs, ... The end of something but not the beginning of something else, only the continuation, the next step.
Writing this, I just realize that effectively, yes, it's spring time, new flowers, sun shinning, and days longer, and without being conscious of this, I did like many animals, trees : I keep going on to the next steps, looking at the past with a smile.

Ultra philosophy : Chi Running

In the latest issue of UFO there is an article about the so-called "Chi Running". A parallel between martial art and ultra running. trying to find the common elements.
I already mentionned in a post, the strong links between surfing and martial arts. Finding the right balance, the right timing. I was first a little bit surprised when I saw the title "chi running", and the parallel with Tai Chi Chuan. After reading the article, it became obvious. At a certain level of difficulty, the body and the spirit are strongly linked, the physical engagement requires a clear understanding of the mental and psychological weaknesses. Because when you are tired, when it hurts, when the natural elements around you become hostile, then, you can count only on your mind, your brain, your mental strength. Your body will always follow your brain, but it requires that your brain knows your body perfectly.
Sports is more than sports, look and feel, having a nice body on the beach. Sport is a philosophy, helping you to reach your limits and know better what is inside of you.
Some are afraid of practising sports hardly, mainly, I think, because they are afraid of what they may find inside. This is not only for extreme sports, and for professionals, it is true for everybody, at every level. Wether you are a kid running a 2 km race, or a squash player playing your weekly game, or a surfer, or a runner.
Sweat and the drops will reflect your deep interior ...

Naturally

No chrono, no heart monitor, no foot pod, ...
The road, the woods, the squirrels, the cold, the rain.
All natural. Only listenning to your body.
Feeling that you go faster than usual, with no limits, no milestones, no plan. 10, 13, 15 km, nevermind. 40 min, 1 hour.
Measure your effort only with your breath, your sweat, your muscles burning.

Feel alive ! All natural !

Happy Birthday !

Theo - Barnabe - Happy birthday !

(Memory  : 4 years ago, on the 20th of March, US troops invaded Irak. The sun was shinning in the early morning, and new eyes were looking at our world.)

Slippery when wet !

While I was in Moscow last week, all my friends in France said that it was spring, the weather was great, etc etc
This week I am in France, and it's winter time ! Cold, wind, snow, rain ! Never mind, I'll keep training, whatever the weather is.
Saturday I managed to convince a friend to go running the "25 bosses" .
So, she picked me up sunday morning at 08h00, and we went to a departure point for the run. After one hour running, walking, climbing, the rain appeared. She was still motivated, but the tracks became tricky because of the rain. Many times it goes up and down on the boulders, and the rocks are slippery when wet.
Never mind, my runmate  kept smiling, despite a hard fall on the rocks, and we finally managed to run more than 12 hills. We came back to the car, and that was a 2h30 run. That's a real pleasure to run with someone smiling, and not complaining about the rain, the boulders, and all that. Moreover, when your runmate usually goes slower than you, it forces you to run at low heart rate, and it's good for long run training, plus, you help your friend doing something she would never achieved alone.
That was the first time since many months since I've been running the "25 bosses", and even with rain, it's always a great pleasure to run in these woods.
The good news also, is that the new knee I bought in duty free friday was working well on the hills, up and down ...
Conclusion of this run :
- I need to buy new trail shoes (mine are getting too old ...). From my point of view, the Salomon's are the best (grip, long lasting shoes, etc etc)
- The Patagonia wind tracker is fine for this kind of weather and for a 3 hours run (but now you may try the nine trails jacket)
- Energy bar are not as tasty as natural bananas, apples, and a good home made chocolate cake :-)
- The endurance pack is fine for the 25 bosses. But I think that for the UTMB, I'll keep the salomon one I used last year, as he is bigger and lighter for a 48 hours race.

Here is the run profile (using Polar Perfomance Software + AXN 500 watch) :

Private Joke

A funny picture from Leroy Grannis in his book (Leroy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s).
And also a private joke ...
(hum, j'me comprends)
:-)

Surprise !

You can wait a long time for others to offer you some surprises, but you can also create yourself your own surprises. That's exactly what I did, and not on purpose ... The right components to organize a surprise for yourself were in this case : Leaving home for more than one week. Order something you really wanted since months. Be sure you have a lot of work so you'll forget about the non-working things you've done in the past 48 hours.

How to proceed :
Just when you arrive in your temporary destination, jump on any of your prefered online shop.
Buy online your items.
Forget about it, and do not track the mails to confirm the order.
Work hard.
Go back home (or in one of your homes ...).

Then finally it gives a welcome back home with Leroy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s, and with "Une Gourmandise" - Muriel Barbery.

The Leroy Grannis book is great, beautiful, a true trip in the past, in the 60's and the 70's. I have not ended yet to look at all the pictures, I prefer looking a little bit everyday, reading some of the texts, feeling the water in the board and on the Katin trunks ... I have not ordered the Leroy Grannis $2,000 edition, I prefer buying 2 boards for this price ... But the $ 26 edition looks fine, believe me. 

For "Une Gourmandise" - Muriel Barbery, I need first to end the current book I am reading, but, given my past reading of  "L'elegance du herisson" - Muriel Barbery, I think this will be a good moment to spend with a very good author.

Sometimes it s...!

Some events some days are totally unexpected ... Delayed meetings, postponed decisions, clouds instead of sun, dinner cancelled, etc. The funny thing is to note when it begins, and count, wait for the next unexpected surprise (I know, a surprise is always unexpected, so imagine an unexpected one ...)
Today was this kind of day.
So, in order to clean this, I went running. Not a long run, because it was already 21h00. The kind of "empty head run", concentrated only on breathing, speed, feelings ... These kind of runs have very little efficiency for training for a trail like the UTMB. Too short, too fast, too unstructured. But that's a headache remedy :-)
So stop nurofen, paracetamol, and go running !

Springonite !

I am ill. I have a springonite !
I see spring signs everywhere.
Flowers, ray of sun, short dresses, longer days...
I track every little moments of spring, in every face, every eyes.
I am haunted by spring swell, off-shore winds, spring suit, thiner, souple.
Still, there are some cold and grey days, but, in everyday, there is spring moment.

Running dreams

Get up early morning (again !!!)
Jump into a car for a 200 km trip away from Moscow.
Looking at the landscapes. 1 hour away from Moscow and you see wide, savage, natural places.
Travelling from city to country, from the crazy 21st century to the quiet 19th century.
Looking at the woods, and dreaming at exploring them, with a small bag on the back, running during hours. Nobody there, except some animals (bears ?), and the possibility of breathing some clear fresh air.
Wake up, it is not for today ...

Kaliformouscation !

Get up early morning, before the clock rings the bell.
Nice sunrise, blue sky.
Not so cold.
Wait only 10 seconds for a nice cab.
No traffic jams.
Californication playing.

Could have been a nice morning in northern California. But the ocean is faraway, and not so close ...

Smell it

Women, I love you !

8th of March. International women's day !
I would like to offer these virtual flowers to all the women I love. Women I know, all over the world, women I meet every day, or only once every 10 years.
In Russia, this day is a holiday, and it's one of the most important day of the year. Among the main important resources of the country, many people are saying that women are the most valuable one.
We see also in China that the country sees the importance of having girls and not only boys to ensure the future of the country.
So this post is for you, this blog today belongs to you.
Happy women's day !