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New Orleans

I descend the Mississippi by train because it is (slightly) faster than the boat: 9 am until New Orleans. Finally 12, true, but you get used to delays, especially since they do not care no comfort seats gigantic reclining almost horizontally, the top-and-a-car non-bar prices prohibitive! Tired of all these (mis) adventures and relieved of my faithful image sensor, I decided to set aside tourism and relax a bit to finish. So all who am only a matter of feeling, and nothing else.

I felt to New Orleans a truly unique atmosphere, but I do not really know why. The architecture I think of English style, unusual for me, contrasted with the great French culture (in fact Creole and Cajun-Cajun) in the region. We can count the number of names of streets, shops, and French names, like St. Louis Cathedral, with its statues of Joan of Arc ... Its troubled history explains, but as I had just Dented before arriving, I leave you with good care Wiki.
What is surprising is that from what I saw, houses razed by Katrina are usually reconstructed in an identical, or at least keeping the same style (which is however not very practical with its large rooms impossible to moderate).

Katrina, talk about it. I have seen relatively few direct consequences of the disaster (again, I let myself go and I stubbornly refused to make one of these vile 'towers' tourism): some houses completely destroyed, others brand new. However, some places are still in ruins, and the image of the disaster is indeed present in all minds. Beyond the human and physical blow, the hurricane will have demonstrated the enormous weaknesses of the American system. Management the disaster was pathetic, humiliating limit; New Orleans and the entire world was shocked to discover the legions of homeless who were already living in extreme poverty, no one shows them any attention, clearly, the disaster was caused more by the incompetence of some scientists and the supremacy of corrupt politicians as by the hurricane itself, whose trajectory has been miraculous. In short, we are far from glamorous.

Let the serious to minor, with a common subject: the weather (O, sublime art of the transition). Then in late July, has NO it's hot-hot-, and wet-very wet. It should not be far from the mega-tropical climate ... Moreover, the region is a large wetland, NO is not on the coast is often thought but at the edge of a huge lake, the opportunity to build the longest bridge in the world! Suddenly, you meet very few people outside, so the atmosphere is stifling. The time has clearly slowed in the day.
Only the night after 10 hours, as the air cools. While the city wakes up and goes crazy. A Bourbon Street , tourists are trapped in bars miraculously not too spoiled, or strip clubs particularly glaucous (I am not come, eh? but the fronts were pretty hardcore ). A few steps away, on Frenchmen Street to locate real thing, them. There's no time to empty each of frustration, irritation of a long and tiring day for all discharge among strangers, as it frees itself of a burden, as it catches its breath. The bars feel the sweat, tears and alcohol among others. Groups are invariably true that old Jazz, who moves with the frenzy of despair. People dance on the spot, for lack of space, alone, in couples or groups, grotesque and sublime. They're going to party violently, passionately, all their guts, until total exhaustion and abandonment.


And it ignites on this (not entirely rhetorical) that ends the journey, and the blog with it. I could make a post closing, analysis, what I experienced, what it brought me, what I retain, etc.. Indeed it would be exactly the 100th post go ahead, if you count not believe me - and would make a case conducted smoothly. But precisely for that, I refuse to do: there is no page turns, which eventually experience. I do not claim to advance.
I just want to thank the people who passed through here (there was more than my family, I have stats, and you never imagine which countries bizarre people are connected), and those who were kind enough to leave a mumble. Even though I do not honestly sure why you did ... If anyone goes back there, and would need advice, do not hesitate to write me, I would say the best I think I was a tourist relatively comprehensive in the places visited.
And on this, soon, in Paris!!

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Memphis Nashville

We remain in Tennessee, to join the Mississippi has Memphis. And that is important, since the city has developed grace and with this majestic river, the Nile-American these fools have even built an ugly glass pyramid ... The inhabitants, just revering the river, had the great idea to make a reply to 1/2000th that can be followed and dip his feet. I took great pictures to accompany my paper boat, and had intended to make a long statement on this important river, but my photos have disappeared under circumstances that we will see later. Too bad for you, you just have to translate the blog of Tom Sawyer


Above all, we come to Memphis for the music. Home of the Blues & Birthplace of Rock 'n Roll : BB King Elvis Presley. So I carry my unbearable long exposes on Music. We all know that
Blues lot of cotton fields, and is a black music, if any. Difficult to determine the birth, but WC Handy is widely regarded as the patriarch (circa 1915). In the meantime, Beale Street , right Memphis , is called "The Main Street of America's Negro"-although the shops are run by whites, generally Jews or Italians, who are half segregated, so make good link. The street that will spend the biggest names, WC Handy Duke Ellington, and even give her name BB King (look for the cause will!). Sometimes, the music combines black and white, lives around or Juke Box just appear. But it's the radio that popularized popularize music and send waves to the whole nation. Began in 1925 The Grand Ole Opry , radio show Nashville, representing the genre of Country . In 1948, WDIA was the first black radio and discover the world BB King: One of the 1st DJs ... Meanwhile, WHBQ, competing radio station, sending the Country very white and respectable: Patsy Montana, Minnie Pearl, Blackwood Brothers, and many other legends unknown to us. But the white kids hang less and less, and may turn to the music of savages: we must qqchose.
It's a genius producer (Sam Phillips did not name him) enters the scene with Sun Records, and produced the likes of Carl Perkins (considered the founder of Rock 'n Roll with his Blue Suede Shoes 1955), Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Presley and small, with only half the bottom-of-talent or the class of the above-cited, and would be nothing today without a bunch of dumb in need of who knows what. The sauce takes immediate and Rock 'N Roll is born! All this smacks
racism, has the image of the segregationist society. But the musicians who have always been cool people, transcend the barrier along the born Civil Rights Movement. Thus, Stax Records held by a white, records from 1957 and especially in the 60s the music of whites, blacks, and sometimes both simultaneously. Artists: Otis Redding, David Porter, Albert King (you know all his "Last Night"), Isaac Hayes (composer arranger and magical, and Black Muslim ). Times change and so much the better. Destiny knows no chance, and Memphis has it that April 4, 1968, is assassinated Martin Luther King. In 1972 takes place Wattstax, "Black Woodstock," and as like a Russian chess champion: "Blacks may have already won" (to say with an accent). Since, as we know, music is a mess, nobody imagines himself confined to a particular style, and certainly not determined by skin color. And I end with an anecdote that may illustrate my point: Al Green, Prince of Soul, has now turned to a more gospel music and is, today, pastor Memphis !

With all this history, it is quite clear that Memphis had more soul, and there is no reason he left. So I gave up all night to survey the legendary Beale Street search of ghosts Blues. I'd say I've found, despite the tourists who do not know what will take 1000 times in photo-flash, with no respect or interest in the band playing, despite its groups, competent but are confined to a sort 'Best Of' to satisfy its own tourists who do not listen to them (See the cover of U2), despite the singer has the voice of James Brown, who decide every night as the public launch of cheap necklaces, that the grannies proudly display on their new T-Shirt Graceland, despite the closure of all bars live at midnight (it was Tuesday night, but still), despite the sordid Coyote Ugly Bar and its unique table 6 used, despite the foul brew they serve and they dare to call beer. I wish to tell you these old timers, always present, who stamp their feet, even though all cervical function has stopped, the moist heat of two dancers excited, the smell of bad tobacco yellowing toothless smiles. But no, I must be honest and I have seen this before only Nashville New Orleans and . Memphis is a filthy tourist park, showing off her ugliness and vulgarity.

And then, a 2 am ', my search ended abruptly on a bad encounter. 3 guys were not enough of the sandwich that I offered them, and have decided I probably had more to offer them in my pockets. Taking advantage of my stupidity and my incredible naivety, I am quite violently strip has 3 blocks from Beale Street neon . Redistribution of wealth, perhaps, except that the money likely will end my camera in the hands of any dealer. Suffice to say that after it, the heart was gone, and I let the "soul" has to offer other luckier or more competent than me. Except that
. While the Blues and Rock are born to extreme poverty, pain and violence, then their legitimate heirs are perhaps those homeless, that there are a Memphis tens of thousands (!!!), and are mostly survivors of the impossible, courageous in the extreme. I think it was these two, whom I met, and which are improvised tour guides for the 1000th win my fortune I deigned to grant them (one had spent the 75 years of his life Memphis, and remembers well a certain Elvis when he was still anonymous). I do not know what to think of it. I still am! - Took a slap, stronger than the previous ones, and this time I hope it last!

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No pictures on this post, but I have a good excuse. I try to recover and I would put them after.

Nashville was a shock, almost a revelation - and a second slap for Mr. Duche! I came to listen to Country: the city is called Music City, and it's not for nothing. I will not do a detail of this genre (I'd had a topo Memphis), just know it has its roots directly Blues African-American, has been widely popularized by the radio (so everything has its debut), and are now under a lot of different forms. And contrary to what I said earlier, when it plays well, it rocks. Nashville has made it his specialty, especially with the Opri Mill, and it retains its roots while remaining open to other music, and that's with musicians around-I 've just met- settle here to live their passion.

I do not know what idiocy I expected a western decor, with wooden saloons and other straw bale rolling in the dust. This is not, of course. The city is very large, despite a modest number of inhabitants, in a style American, and even has a small Downtown (topped by his Bat Building, which is pretty class). Yet there is a center-hosted Broadway 24/24, or rustic bar well distill a fat and gross and debit cold beer. This in the morning and to death. The atmosphere is terrific: authentic, festive and liberating. A mixture of hard manliness, and good-natured fun. Nowhere have I felt the force of life. It crosses the regulars, with their inseparable boots, checkered shirts, hats and cowboy screws on the head. Beer in hand, tattooed all over his body (even the girls have tattoos of naked women ...), it roar they have in their guts. They are among those who "plant the nose to the sky, blow their noses in the stars, as I cry and piss on women infidels."

Forcement, culture is not really an appointment. On leaving the bus, I had a conversation that put me directly in the bath:
- Tell me you have an accent, you're Russian?
- No, I'm French
- Ah yes, right next door, what ...
The guy was a youth of about 20 years, with a computer-last-cry-I want the same, but good, probably an exception anyway. The city revels in the fake and nonsense: witness this amazing Opri Mill, or reconstitution of the Parthenon (for no reason, just for fun). Nothing to see-really-but the city is also a strong point of Christianity, will know why. It's called "The Christian Belt Buckle ", and indeed, the 3 / 4 people encounters, all young, were very Christian (usually evangelists). But fun, huh ... I had the chance to attend one of their celebration, hallucinatory, although closer to a pop concert than our traditional Masses. Well we like it or not, the church is full to bursting, young volunteers who find in faith support and guidance, and quite frankly, it works. For this reason or not, I met some amazing people who made me pass unforgettable moments, and magical evenings.
From all this, no photograph can really show it. Too bad for you. But if I come back in the States, I would go back more than anywhere else has NashVegas -it is! - And I urge everybody do the same.

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St Louis

us cross quickly (well lucky for you, me it took me 4 hours by bus) the Illinois (and boring), on the legendary Route 66 (which connects Chicago has Los Angeles), for we find a St. Louis. And the bad image that I had and left seem to be Chicago strongly tempered by the fact that St. Louis is even worse!
It was not me who says it, all its inhabitants. I have not met one person happy to live here. The question, inscrutable mystery, being to know why they do not leave (the bus company Greyhound is perhaps partly responsible, as we shall see) ... Basically the problem in Chicago is that there is nothing to do. But nothing at all, huh ... Suddenly, we drink, we drink a lot, it commonly takes drugs, it inevitably ends by fighting, and rape are common. I'm not kidding, St. Louis is officially the city crime rate the highest in the United States. I had a pretty good overview through couchsurfing : my hostess was unable to offer me something else to do that evening Heavy Drinking (yes, OK, I was not disturbed more than that), her boyfriend took drugs (cool, I met my first dealer!), and they had quite a history of casual sex more or less voluntary to tell, especially with their couchsurfers . I wisely refrained. In all this, I was not perfectly at ease, and indeed a false prophet met in a bar called me an "adventurer frightens" which was surprisingly appropriate. A bit far from my comfortable little world, all that. And a slap for the Duchy, one! That said, somewhere, it feels good.

For the tourist, who came here by chance or by accident, there al ' ark, of course. She is beautiful, then they put it everywhere: in front of City Hall the Cathedral, the Mississippi (which already has a good size and is completely brown). The city boasts a beautiful baseball team ( honored max), and some celebrities, who-surprise-o are seldom has remained St. Louis, and more generally have gained their celebrity outside the State. Among them, Lindbergh (who fled to Paris at once), Josephine Baker (such famous only in France). Of musicos anyway, as Scott Joplin, Chuck Berry or Tina Turner. M'enfin good, real country music, it will be later, with Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans .

I must still be objective: there are good odds in St. Louis, and these are the people who inhabit it. Also palms, they are tired, they are incredibly hospitable, at least for foreigners. I could not get used to people who say hello, as you cross the street, then you've never seen ... We are already starting to feel the legendary Southern culture (or rather Louisiana, 1 meaning of term - revise your geography). Moreover, it better not be racist, otherwise feel quite ill at ease ...
But anyway, it is with a bit of relief that I'm headed for the Tennessee. Even if it cost me over $ 100 and more than 17h!! If you cross me, and that the ball will be part of excitement, I will speak about the staggering incompetence of the bus system (probably a public way) Greyhound, I think it will make you laugh! Advantage, I sympathize with muckers , and would be likely shot in riot in France took place in a roar of laughter ...




I ask my brother Mark, who is also going through this city, to leave no comment. Yes, of course, I exaggerated a bit about me. Otherwise it's not funny, huh ...

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Chicago So, might as well say right away, it's zero. We had often told me (except the people who come from there), but I wanted to see for myself. So here, one more voice added to the anti-Chicago mine.
I think the worst is people. In the morning, the Chicagoan take his car (a big SUV, of course) which he does really think that the horn (which he increases the noise level, since at his age he can not play decently is pissing the furthest), to terrorize pedestrians before being terrorized by his boss (or for a rewarding day of shopping for the lucky (his)). I can not really say what happens in his office, but what is certain is that when it comes out, that weapon of his haughty, sunglasses over his eyes screwed boredom of dull, to run quickly in a conditioned fear of getting burned by the sun. It will benefit to empty everything he can on the highway. The evening before returning home, he will run an hour or two to avoid at all costs to reflect, and retain its beauty capital (money and the body are so only two ways to measure the value of a person in the U.S.). Then he'll eat junk food in front of his giant TV screen, moving away from bars without souls, and also protecting from social life. I swear I'm exaggerating a penalty, and we feel this state of mind was all day long. Moreover, people of Illinois are called by the people of Wisconsin the FIBS or Fucking Illinois Bastards . Cute, right?
It must be said that the city has little to offer. Culture? The city gave birth to Harley Davidson at McDonalds and Playboy, and the pizza was thick paste .. Class ... Art? Nor Fort Town: Art, including modern or underground, is often a derivative kind of pornography. Here's a great evidence of how people are taken for fools, is right or not. Entertainment? Shows some vague derivative Broadway, very few concert halls. By cons, baseball stadiums are always full ... Nightlife? Very disappointing too: few bars outgoing batches, often expensive and deserted. What is he So what?


architecture remains, and this is clearly the highlight of Chicago (hence the pictures of this post, which clearly have nothing to do with the text). After the great fire of 1871 which ravaged the city, it was necessary to rebuild. And the fire is pretty good fall, it was discovered shortly after the benefits of steel framing, which would revolutionize the construction industry. Since then, the city remained a flagship location of buildings a little crazy, competing more or less open with New York. Bulk: Union Station (which film buffs should appreciate inside ) Sears Tower for 30 years the tallest building in the world with its 442 meters, the cute El Train, metro air built for the Universal Exhibition, and the whimsical Public Library ; Manhattan Building, the oldest building steel structure (1890), a strange penitentiary, the Flemish red Calder; banks, still pompous, the Rookery Building cute al 'interior as al' outside ; Marquette Building , named after the famous explorer; First National Bank (the curvature is not due to wide angle, the building is concave); works of art chelou , whose fans will find the carefree artist (c'mon, even a packet of Cahuet to win!) the concert hall cracking, my heart blow to reflections crazy ; of the twenty-first century buildings architects relatively austere ; The Wrigley Building, the architect Jester said that the place would also famous as the Concorde ; Tribune Tower the name of the newspaper (I always look for the girl that I photograph in the photo), a water tower tearing; a mall no less impressive, with a staircase super-cool ; John Hancock Building Observatory , massive but impressive, from its height of 344 m small (who does not clear the 3rd tallest building in the world, as affirms the infamous Backpacker .
Sailing Sailing was a long read, not interesting, but it allows me to place my photos (I remind you this blog is anything but altruistic). The pictures are not beautiful (the time there really was not), but you can see the happiness in person and the softness of an evening. But I digress ...

That, in short I was very disappointed by this city. The Backpacker in vain to do what he can and get excited about little things, nothing helped. Chicago remained sad for me, gray, soulless. It's not for nothing that the nickname "Windy City" (in fact, historically, it is because politicians brewed air by announcing so rave Universal Exposition celebrating the Quadricentennial Discovery of the Americas by Columbus, and has finally been opened only a year late ...) But Chicago has its history, and during Prohibition, it was probably the class! But no, that time is long gone. I still find my paradise: windswept, people of fireflies and some nice couples, who presses back to the riders to enjoy the Lake Michigan as big as an ocean, and city in the distance sinking into the night. Paradise is everywhere around us. But Chicago has , we must seek it.

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I went to Wisconsin after two years of praise from David, so it was pretty clear I was going somewhere a little disillusioned. What was supposed to be a kind of garden of paradise - wonderful scenery, girls nude, food falling directly from the trees - has been a bit more complex, and happily. Basically there are 3 modes of life in Wisconsin .

First you can live a Madison. It is an old university town (founded 1850) of average size. Surprisingly one of the spearheads of all civic movements (blacks, women, homosexuals, etc.). It's such students Madison that take The Onion newspaper false information is totally misplaced, unique example of American humor than the first degree, and apparently free every week in all major U.S. cities. I've also seen a bookstore that specializes in feminism, not like what I said bullshit. The atmosphere is released, artistic, a bit alternative. I do not find too many French equivalent, so I'd say it's Freiburg Baden-Württemberg . What you going well.

Second possibility, living in the big industrial city (Which would then Stuttgart): Milwaukee. Milwaukee has the distinction of having exceptional American elected 3 Socialist mayors (whether it was a city of heavy industry). She legitimately undergoes a difficult economic crisis, it is fairly soft (the crime remains very strong). The city is very multi-cultural (founded by the French, as the entire region, then inhabited by Germans, it also has large communities of African-Americans (one in the state), Polish, Irish and Italian. The summer, each community organizes its feasts, and it does not stop drinking beer. Similarly, Milwaukee hosts the annual SummerFest , proudly billed as the largest festival in the world (which is not a quarter the size of the Sziget , but it is not to push the Charlot). Bon festival-child family limit, which presents American music, then sterilized and standardized (SPIL is not that contradict me). Back in France, I would put excerpts here. This is especially true in the region, mainly listening to country music, but nice kind that never revolutionized anything whatsoever.

Finally, if we refuse these two cities, you may live elsewhere (as has Beloit -pronounce 'Beloillte'-, or David's parents live) and have a good overview of the Deep America. The scenery is really beautiful: it was here the cultivation of land (the state is the largest producer of cheese, and everything you get with a cow-most of the fast food chains start in this corner, the meat is so cheap. Grosse production but also). Flags , watered nice patriotism, grow everywhere, like weeds. We are dealing here have big guys, full of testosterone, specialists in threading beer (a $ 5 pitcher of 2 Liter ...) in bars dirty and smoky, while listening to country music. When they do not hunt (everyone has a gun), with basically the same ingredients, plus orange clothes, because after 2 liters of beer a human is easily confused with a deer. By removing my bad sarcasm can be especially noted that the hospitality here is not an empty word. It has values that remain. and make this land a true host, at least for people passing through.

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Youhou is left for the trip to the Secrets of History!

- The Faneuil Hall is a gift from the wealthy French immigrant Peter Faneuil (his name was unpronounceable to English speakers so that on his tomb is inscrint P. FUNAL). The principle: a walk on the ground floor and a room for the political stage. The city was reluctant reluctantly accepts this gift, but will catch up later much later (circa 1960) by adding long extensions to the building to form one of the most profitable U.S. market. The building has seen him pass a lot of goods but also the most diverse meetings, the first reactions against English taxes, then the defense of slavery (even those who built the building ...), women up at JFK's last speech before his election. We knew that history had finally turned a page, when the site has hosted the award ceremony was the tax official who had collected the most taxes ...

- Then we enter the city's most interesting to Boston: North End . It formed originally a peninsula, inhabited by merchants. Then the sailors have made the area a reputation as a place of debauchery, or the police dared not venture. Between 1845 and 1855, immigration strengthens the Irish side slums'. Then the Jews will replace the Irish, Italians and Jews. The cycle of success continues with a constant peoples: North End remain notorious. Today, the neighborhood is clearly Italian, more and more Italian tourist. Not for long, since the yuppies took over the neighborhood, and at once destroy its soul.

- But North End is also the headquarters of Paul Revere (the photo is his home, as he has never known since was renovated as it was in 1680, it achieved only 90 years later). Well, the AC is 15 times that I bowl with that man, I feel that I'll have to tell her story. Paul Revere was the son of a French Huguenot. Goldsmith more or less acknowledged, he gathers all trades with implementation and success (including reproduction, with 16 offspring ...), and after the Revolution was the prototype of industrial America. But his role in the largest and most well-known was on during the troubled times of anti-British. Great actor and all the propaganda rallies, despite its relatively poor background, he went all services could, and in particular those of Messenger Express. For example, after balancing tea outside of a ship, he raced to Philadelphia that night to warn the revolutionaries.
But his most famous race, at least across the Atlantic, took place April 18, 1775: the glorious Midnight Ride . After having a few days the movements of British troops, we deduce that they march to Lexington arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington, is 13 miles away. Neither one nor two, Revere mounted his horse and crossed the enemy lines without detection to prevent thieves. Then he goes to Concord, 7 miles, or ammunition are found (this was in fact the objective of the English). Stopped on the way, then miraculously liberated, he retraces his steps on foot (his horse was captured) to inform Hancock and Adams. The latter, the strength of this information will take the necessary decisions, and it will the Battle of Lexington and Concord first battle of the revolutionary struggle, defeat and great English. And that's all. Not enough to become all-crazy, and Revere did not gain any merit (or reward) of his lifetime. It was not until 1860 that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , passionate poet, wrote a poem that made him famous.

- Old North Church has also had its role in the famous Midnight Ride : Revere had to ask friends to make a signal lantern from the top of this church, Bostonians to prevent movement of British troops: One if By Land, Two If by Sea and . It is the oldest church still standing in Boston, and has all the bells first imported from Europe. The adjacent cemetery contains the remains including Prince Hall, the black leader, a former slave, creator of the first black school, and founder of the first African Masonic Lodge in the world!
The photo shows a kind of parade: an Italian brass band accompanied a virgin Mary kitchounette well, I do not know on what occasion. The area is culturally Italian, yes!

- The next step brings us two decades later. The fledgling nation decides to build an army capable of competing with the Europeans and especially on the seas. 6 ships in 6 different ports will be commissioned by President Washington, and Boston built the USS Constitution , which will be launched October 21, 1797. And this ship will never be defeated, despite memorable fights, including one against the British ship Guerriere . Supremacy Englishmen on the seas is immediately challenged, and it hurt enough to the Crown. She tried in vain to avenge the affront, and USS Constitution always emerge victorious (especially because it is built with a rare wood, very resistant, as found in the corner), and his enemies called him the "hull of steel ", as the bullets bounced off its hull. Of course, Americans revere the ship as a national pride.
Just next door, USS Cassin Young , survived WWII and was a kamikaze attack. Undefeated .

- Last Judgement Bunker Hill Or held the first major and decisive battle of the Revolution. Defeat of the patriots, but the British troops lost over 1000 men. Here and nowhere else that was pronounced one of the most famous command "Do not fire 'til you see The Whites of Their Eyes", by William Prescott . In order not to waste ammunition, obviously. This works perfectly, as the English, who have always been a bit stupid, have lead to the Patriots without pulling either, wondering if their enemies were going to get frightened. They are well-taken on a big burst devastating.
Of course, the Americans could not but raise a monument. So they erected a obelisk as Washington Monument in DC, Egyptian Revival style in a very ridiculous.


That concludes the tour. I had not lied, the history of this city is not trivial ... But that still does all of this in 2008?
Arriving in Boston, we're not too homesick. We find good markers of cities on the East Coast, and condition of the peninsula makes perfectly comparable to NYC (especially as half the current area has been gained gradually over the sea). Smaller, of course ... It was the right has a small Chinatown , small Downtown , small Central Park, a small Met , small Grand Central Terminal, and even a small Capitol and Washington Monument small ! There is much that the historic district that is not a small replica of qqchose existing elsewhere.
Yet the mood in Boston is unique, far more an American English (it's not me who says it is the guides). The atmosphere could not be more relaxed. Do not be shaking a Chinatown on a Saturday afternoon, there's Boston ... The inhabitants cultivate a spirit of holiday village, sometimes touching ridiculous. The quiet atmosphere can sometimes be scary, like the atmosphere " ghost town " the magnificent Beacon Hill (to be honest, I must say that I'm going on a Sunday was 8am). To a surreal atmosphere, as this monument forgotten men, but not animals. The fact that I was going in, so with most students left, is surely something to do with what I felt.
Then, the city has been completely preserved, at the time of destruction, and even time of massive constructions. No boom, no bust. The city has always developed gradually, has its own rhythm. The city therefore offers beautiful architectural surprises and that enough of old stones. But the best buildings are the age and architecture is completely different succeed, face each , interact.
Finally, Boston is, and has long been a university town. MIT, Harvard is here. Harvard University is the oldest of America (founded in 1636). That in 1638 she takes his name in his honor a major donor who bequeathed half of his fortune on his deathbed: he did not really link with the University! Promotions are passes of 9 students has more than 18000, but the spirit ultra selective, elitist, haughty and a bit, did not change (for example, it was not until 1999 that women graduating with brand 'Harvard' on it). Even more so than Boston, the campus looks nice and has a superb holiday village, or students, has been free from difficulty, can play in peace and enjoy the pleasures of life. And why should they interfere?

For those who want more, photos of Boston and card.

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That which closes the top of Boston, and with it the entire East Coast. I'm leaving shortly to lands o how hard and wild, the MidWest . I hope to pry deeper into the culture of the indigenous and come out alive (I'll remove my badge TFW 'I Got a Crush on Obama'...) Not knowing if they have new technology, I do not know when I'm able to repost here ...

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Boston is first and foremost historic city of the United States. If Philadelphia was the birth of the young nation, the Boston roots go back even further glimpse ...
all began in 1620, when the Mayflower , to the warm Carolina, Plymouth has landed its 102 occupants. The settlers will base Boston in 1630, and this is the beginning of a long series of "first U.S.", the newspaper of the School, through the hanging (the city will long religious values intolerant Puritans who founded, where the history of the Salem witch , or hanging Mary Dyer ). The city is growing rapidly thanks to its port, a hub of transportation of goods of the British crown. She would later play a central role during the Revolution by setting fire to the powder (the Boston Tea Party ...), and being the place of memorable fights (you know the ride of Paul Revere ?) and deserves its nickname of "Cradle of Liberty". The city continues to grow quietly, dominated by a few families of WASP. But worms from 1840, there was a large immigration of Irish, then Italians, forming a large Catholic community. And coincidence or not, the economic situation is complicated, and Boston becomes progressively unsavory: the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti was the Boston Strangler. Yet the city has always been an intellectual home of the first plane (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow are proud representatives), and renewal will come from investments in universities (Harvard and MIT) and research (second pole Silicon Valley after ). And it is immensely wealthy Bostonian who will be the first Catholic president of the United States: JFK!

With its impressive passes, the beloved city and its history would have it, offering its visitors a huge museum outdoors: the Freedom Trail . Simple, just follow the red line (or has a bad default plan). So leave aside the chronological order to follow the geographical order, and enter a little further in American history.

- It begins at Boston Common , a park or place was installed in 1622 the first European in this corner: William Blackstone, who lived as a hermit with his library until the Puritan settlers arrived in 1930. He has naturally invited to join him, for which the colonists thank him graciously leaving 50 acres of his land ... They resell 2 years later for 30 pounds and will go elsewhere if people are nicer. The story ends in fine style by returning to the fold 25 years later, riding a white bull, to marry an Bostonians.

- The New State House strongly resembles the Capitol, the same architect who built the two and he had little imagination. That Samuel Adams (who did not just beer), then governor, who commanded, and Paul Revere (who did more than the horse) who led the work. Opposite the first positive portrayal of blacks by a white .

- Park Street Church , built in 1809, is famous for having made his steps echoing on the first anti-slavery speech (July 4, 1829, there will be a job ...), and the anthem "America" for the first time. Its cemetery contains the remains parents of Benjamin Franklin of Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams and victims of the Boston Massacre (which sparked the revolution). Besides Mary Goose, nursery rhymes that . Rien que ça ! So it's a tourist attraction, where people have no respect. I saw people lying on the vaults! I approach, and I hear them speak French ... Hatred of my compatriots here takes on gigantic proportions. That said, people have always been built, and the eighteenth, a local baker steals a gravestone to make it the foundation of its bread oven. He was caught by police who recognized the funerary inscription engraved in their loaf ...

- King's Chapel is a fine example of the political spirit which prevailed in the days of 1st settlers. In 1680, King James II of England orders the construction of an Anglican church in Boston. It does not work very well at the Bostonians, who have settled here precisely to escape religious intolerance. Given the impossibility to find common ground, the governor of the time (always on the side of the crown) allocates the site of a small church with its cemetery. Not to disturb the service, the new church will be built around the first, then the first released piece by piece through the window ... In the famous cemetery adjoining graves are found, much less famous but far more beautiful , including Mary Chilton, the very first settler to have set foot in America!

- We pass quickly first public school in the world and former Book Store, who was the Boston Montmartre, to regain control of buildings actors and events that have cost England the United States.

- Old South Meeting House as the tallest building in the city, hosted the meetings of stormy Bostniens angered by laws and taxes ordered by the new King George III a bit dumb (Stamp Act in 1765, Townshen Act in 1767, Tea Act in 1773). This last act was the straw that broke the camel's back, negotiations with Governor Hutchinson held in the building above quote for the Dartmouth , ship moored just full of tea, left without clear his goods. Negotiations fail, as always-and Samuel Adams finally said "Gentlemen, this meeting can-do nothing more to save the country". This is not a resignation, but the signal for a hundred Bostonians disguised as Indians, followed in 2000 spectators flock to the port to clear the Dartmouth its cargo. A loss of 9659 pounds, a million euros today ... It is well on the episode of the Boston Tea Party .

- Old State House has seen the first speeches advocating independence, by James Otis in 1761, 15 years before the declaration. The speech touched everyone, but Otis has still lost his trial, since the Governor Hutchinson was both judge, jury and prosecutor ... Also in front of this building was held the Boston Massacre, a skirmish that was put down by British soldiers by the subtle technique of the shooting. March 5, 1770, 5 dead. In itself, Not Such a Big Deal, but revolutionary, including Paul Revere, made an example of propaganda, and the fire was already in powder. It was hatching a few years anyway. And it is from the balcony of the Old State House that was read, July 18, 1776, the Declaration of Independence, freshly arrived from Philadelphia with bonfires force has the key.


That concludes today's visit to the unfortunate who reached this will be pleased to learn that this is generally only half ...
The rest of the adventure tomorrow, if you wish. Otherwise, the photos are .

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Boston Weather

And yes, even time is different on this side of America! They are certainly very crazy ...
First, despite its position facing the sea, it is far from the ocean climate. It is cold in winter, very cold. It snows every winter for several weeks, and sometimes with real storm! That said it's nothing, look back a little inland (Upstate New York, as they say), the winter lasts six months. Well yes, Canada is not far! But it is the wind, always present, that penetrate through the clothes and gives the impression of being a pile on the ice. Although
-on, summer, all reversed (spring and fall, at least this year, lasted roughly 3 1 / 2 days). One can easily reach 100 degrees (Fahrenheit, but still). Moist heat, sticky. Heat is known to be downright unbearable in July and August. Therefore the AC (air conditioning) are almost all windows (except for my room), and thoroughly in all stores, offices, subways. A prime example of wasted energy boggles the mind: it has quail inside, which means that many New Yorkers ever prevail with them a sweater, even during the worst heat, to avoid temperature differences really tiring. Myself, the office, I always wore a sweater or jacket, as I pulled out conscientiously eat or at the end of the day.

Even the rain has its particular behavior. If the winter offered endless periods of rain, sometimes several weeks without stopping, the summer is specialized in large Drach. The atmosphere becomes increasingly cumbersome and moist until it cracks violently. Then we have the right to a real storm, big warm drops that you dip in less than 5 minutes. And always a strong wind, which rushes into the long aisles of buildings to surprise you at every intersection. Umbrellas, useless, break or fly off and the girls run in heels, or they can seek refuge under the mocking gaze of those who did not hesitate to wear boots quite nasty mimi. Because it is doing here without shame.
short, for the average New Yorker who lives in his windowless office or in his room without a view, the only way to know how to dress is to check the weather online. And I am able to announce, for having often tested, the short-term weather forecasts are damn reliable. Weather France did not really need my services ...

Sailing Sailing, I said everything was what I thought. When you start talking about the weather, generally, is that we have much left to say. Luckily, I soon left NYC for new adventures. First Boston on a weekend, then a road trip in the Midwest and along the Mississippi. So by this sad post that ends the epic New York. Soon other news, another culture.

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Neighborhoods: The End

's it, I think I was fairly comprehensive to tell the neighborhoods of New York (Manhattan at least: it lacks the minimum Astoria Queens , Williamsburg Brooklyn on, but unfortunately I do not have much time for me to walk) . It has been my great pleasure, from random cravings, eyes wide open, and sometimes the camera in hand, to feel the different atmospheres that make up the city.
I hope that I could sometimes pass a little of these colors, but I doubt strong. I hope at least that I would at least make you want to see, or even the Greenwich Village Jazz the evenings Lower East Side , the madness of East Village, the buildings and impressive super Midtown and Financial District , the quiet Chelsea and West Village , the popular animation of Harlem and tourism Union Square, the disorientation of Chinatown, etc..
I told all this cliche of a blow, without any subtlety, it will be for anyone to take what he wants. What is certain is that New York is a city that offers plenty of things away from the cold, sophisticated city that we sometimes think. History is everywhere (she has not a thousand years as in Europe, but as the city has never been destroyed, there are many more buildings that have 100 years of recent, and it is superb). The atmosphere is incredibly changeable, but (almost) always friendly and popular. Easy-going, what ... I love being a tourist here for 5 months, and I am not bored for a second.
I live with a frenzied Parisian who told me that Paris is even better than that. I would see, but I fear that the bar has really been very high.

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Neighborhood: Upper East Side

The Upper East Side (UES) along Central Park over its eastern part. Let us not mince words, the wealthy neighborhood of Manhattan . Moreover, since it lies just below English Harlem , the city's most deprived, the situation is not without interest. So, he creates a buffer zone which makes a diagonal 110th Str @ 5th Ave to 96th Str @ York Ave. The atmosphere is very nice, very reminiscent of the Upper West Side , but good as it should be aimed at is not very practical. Advantage: natural environment, since zero tourists. Also, in the one coming up from underground this side of the park, you can see at first glance the people who stop in the SIU (there are few, they prefer taxis, or limos), those who ascend to English Harlem or Bronx.

Returning to SIU. the neighborhood, very clearly, do not present a major interest (outside the Museum Mile we have already seen). We see the beautiful mansions , buildings, churches . Nothing is really historically significant. It is a very nice area to hike there, and surely offers outstanding comfort to its inhabitants. But for fear of being bored to die, let the rich neighborhood for young couples (whose wife, while her husband bump, will walk their child or absence of Mojitos drink or will shop at Bloomingdale's ), diplomats (all embassies, consulates are there. As the French school, very popular), and Woody Allen (you can listen to the feel of clarinet, if you really do have it).

Instead, take the cable car friendly brings us (with a view to passing not trivial) to a forgotten corner of guides: Roosevelt Island. Look at a map, a small island, all in length, in the middle of East River . Friends live there and say it's heaven: quiet, low rents, views ... Specifically, it is a city of old, or it nothing happens (a mere 2 and 1 retaus Starbucks, take delivery is not possible here: one small bridge, to Brooklyn !), And it is very dependent on the single subway station and the cable to enter / leave the island. Paradise is earned!

On the tip of the island is a mini park, disused kind, I'm falling in love. There is nobody, you are allowed a great view of Manhattan, and the hospital in ruins (which resembles more a fairytale castle than anything else) gives a charm to the place. Two weeks before my departure, I am still discovering magical places, and that is happiness.

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Jazz in the City

George Gershwin, Billy Joel, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Waller, Count Basie and many others. All these big names have one thing in common: they come from New York (Queens often ). There was a time when we wanted to do jazz, it was here, and the city is often considered the city of jazz, and there is much that New Orleans that can compete with them. The question arises: now that the Jazz is really the avant-garde, which revolutionizes our ears, what is it?

Well New York is unquestionably one of the places or play, play, learn jazz. Institutions remained. The legendary concert halls are always, sometimes as old as Apollo Theater , sometimes in full form as the Carnegie Hall or Radio City Music Hall, and big names ever occur there (the list is too long but I had the chance to listen to Aretha Franklin and Georgio Mendes). The Jazz Bar concept was still running full speed, not only for and tourists: the legendary names like Blue Note or Jazz at Lincoln Center, but also a multitude of small bars, announcing the Live every night, and where we can have a chance example of listen KJ Denhert, a beer in hand, with 40 spectators. Jazz schools abound, and many artists who come here a few years, building their sound, learn as much as possible, meet people, then they can (have not fallen in love with the city) leave with their luggage in a more accessible location. Yes, definitely New York remains a city of jazz.
the summer, it takes on gigantic proportions. The JVC Jazz Festival program allows Billy Taylor, Maceo Parker, Jill Scott, Joao Gilberto, Brad Mehldau, Herbie Hancock, Al Green, Gil Scott-Heron ... among others! In addition to regular concerts like Gilberto Gil and Stevie Wonder.
But it's not just the Jazz in life, and the city is open to all music. Prospect Park organizes free concerts, and I could see Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna ( of photos zero, two videos and sound !). The Central Park Summer Stage is not bad either. Rockefeller also hosts free concerts on Friday at 7am in the mornin 'with Alanis Morissette, Donna Summer, Rihanna, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow among others. Anecdotally, the festival of Music franchouille crosses the ocean to gradually settle in New York (and probably only), including a Williamsburg.
Yes, I am crazy about this city and all it has to offer. For all tastes, all budgets, NYC is unquestionably one of the great cities of Music.

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Neighborhood: Lower East Side

Lower East Side or THE for intimate THE neighborhood is hype to get out. 3-4 small blocks filled with trendy bars, bohemian, concept. The all New Yorkers found there every night to go to his bar. Because neighborhood is a neighborhood geek. Far from the neon lights, the entries are hidden, to be sure to be among the initiated. I've spend my early evenings, accompanied by local strangers. I wanted to go back then, impossible to find places. It took me over 3 months to find cool places ...
the extreme: the Backroom . No ads, web site, or flyers. On site, no sign recognizable, and the obligatory bouncer (for checker IDs - whether you are over 21 years) to cover only arise if you do enter mine. After the dark corridor, a courtyard with a door at the bottom, which finally opens on the bar. Ambiance Prohibition ... And if we know the tenant, we can discover the back room, or have already seen entering Penn, Pacino, Pesci and DeNiro. Together. Impossible to find, then, but everybody knows. Ask a random person, it will indicate the overall direction, adding that she herself is never gone. A magical place, which is deserved.
But more simply, and can always find her favorite bar, to the plush sofa, which spends 50 years old movies on TV the same age, beer $ 2, etc.. And here as elsewhere, the mood artist to discover new things, including the free jazz. Some examples below, by clicking on the pictures!


I want to clarify that they do not have their instruments in the last video, it's really their music. And if you absolutely have to see the photos closely, and recognize William Parker , they are the .

EDIT 01/07/08 (nobody will): The LES is too, as one leaves a bit of a few blocks hyper-branches, or the district have settled the first Jewish state United in 1680. Despite the years, and the development of increasingly intrusive the nearby Chinatown , there are some poignant relics : cemetery, synagogue , Yiddish newspaper ... Backpacking in there, you meet a strange mix of people: Jews, Chinese, Puerto Ricans . Cultures, religions, lifestyles completely different mingle without ever sacrificing melting pot which fortunately never works. I discovered here late, what it meant truly cosmopolitan.