Istanbul est une des plus incroyable capitale qu’il m’ai été donné de voir. Voici une petite chanson à sa mémoire.
Ensemble avec le peuple iranien
Je suis inquiet pour l’Iran et surtout pour ceux qui combattent pour leur liberté. Et stupéfait par les réaction des gouvernements. les relations économique justifient-elles tout ?
J’ai aujourd’hui un tout autre regards sur l’iran que j’ai traversé il y a un an, et je suis triste !
Les élections en Iran sont passé !
Il y a des millions d’iraniens dans les rues, protestants dans des manifestations non-autorisée. Il y a eu 8 morts cette nuit…. Des millions de gens luttent pour leurs futur, pour leur liberté, ils montre au monde que le gouvernement en place ne représente pas les iraniens. Ils montrent qu’il faut faire la différence entre politique et peuple.
Les iraniens en descendant dans les rues dans des manifestation non-autorisé, en bravant les représailles ont lancer un signal fort à nous autres occidentaux ( qui croyons que tous les iraniens sont méchant, terroriste et extrémiste) et en plus de lutter pour leur futur.
Que pensez de cela ?
C’est une situation difficile. moussavi ne semble pas non plus un saint et c’est surement le meilleur du pire. Il faut trouver un juste milieu entre encourager les manifestation pour la liberté des droits de l’homme et ne pas trop donner de crédit non plus a moussavi. ou donner encore des armes pour lever les foules contres les occidentaux. bref, c’est une situation geopolitic difficile.
Mai je ne suis pas spécialiste de ces question. Juste avec mon cœur, j’aimerai plus de liberté en iran, avec de nouveaux hommes politique et peut-être pourquoi pas un petit changement d’orientation idéologique des guides suprêmes. Et surtout un encouragement au peuple iranien de continuer dans sa quête de liberté, que ce sont des gens ouverts, hospitalier, instruits mais la manipulation et la propagande laisse des traces sur la population. Tout ça est complique, et on ne voit pas tout de l’extérieur.
Et ce n’est pas parce qu’il y a des manifestations violente que l’iran est un pays dangereux. Nous aussi, en France, avons des manifestations violentes. C’est pas pour cela que c’est particulièrement dangereux (pas plus qu’un autre pays) de vivre en France.
Vous pouvez suivre au fur et a mesure les élection sur le fil twitter #iranelection. Lisez aussi en particulier Change for iran ici
Video : Cycling Siberia in winter solo
The 5th of March 2008, I left France to cycle around the world. This is a small documentary about the first leg of my journey.
I start in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey. Then i crossed the iranian desert Dasht-e-kavir in the hottest month of summer with temperature much between 50° and 55° celcius and even more. I arrived in Central asia trough Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyztan and Kazakhztan.
This part shows Siberia and far eatern russia in winter from november to february 2008, with temperatures under -40° celcius, camping in my tent, battling hills in siberia and dirty roads.
Unfortunatly, i couldn’t film the most difficult part of siberia when it was very cold, lonely or the very bad road for exemple…
You can read more on my website http://www.bastiendemange.com
you can read the full report of siberia in winter here
A small update
I can not cycle anymore, some simple moove are painful, and i am looking for a way to recover very quickly and go back on the tracks very soon.
I did not know what to do. There is not good specialist anywhere unless you are very famous here in france. So it is difficult to treat myself. I will not stay long here and will train very hard do make my body stronger. This can not finish like this. This is not where i belong. Anyway, I am working on the small moovie of the first part of the trip, the writing, Photos and presentation.
and more important and much more stupid, i lost my mobile phone in china, wich means that i don’t have anymore the number phone of people i met on the road 
In the meanwhile, here is a nice clip of Katie Melua, 9 millions bicycle in beijing.
Audio recording : Night market – Marché de nuit a beijing
Il est 21heures, je me promène sur les 200 mètres touristiques du marche de nuit près de la place tien an Men a beijing, pekin.
Ps : Si vous n’entendez pas bien, augmentez le volume sonore.
Siberie : richesse du coeur
Anne Brunswic a traversé la Sibérie, ses paysages immenses et ses conditions climatiques extrêmes. Elle y a rencontré des femmes de toute condition qui se sont livrées à mi-voix, racontant à la fois leur parcours professionnel et leur vie familiale, leurs espoirs et leurs difficultés à survivre à la dépression économique, leurs analyses de la vie politique et leur attachement profond à la terre sibérienne.
Voila une citation de Anne Brunswic :
Les gens de ce pays ne sont pas riches mais ils sont généreux et solidaires. C’est comme ça que nous tenons et c’est pour ça que, partout ailleurs, nous nous sentons étrangères.
C’est exactement ce que j’ai ressenti lors de ma traversee de la siberie et de l’extreme orient russe a velo pendant les mois les plus froid de l’hiver 2008/2009
Sibérie, un voyage au pays des femmes par Anne Brunswic aux editions Actes Sud-Papiers 2005
What is a chinese communist now ?
Few day ago, we were talking about comunism in china. I asked carrie, a 20 years-old chinese girl to tell me more about what is comunism in china nowadays. I was interested to know what young people think about it.
Here is her answer :
I have been thinking about this question for a few days, and would like to tell something in my mind about chinese communists around me.
My parents are communist. But none of them believe in communism. I have told you that my dad is working for government. It is impossible that you are not a communist but a government official.Actually few people who are communist at my dad’s age believe in communism. Most of them are forced to be. If you are working for other field like companies, things will be much more easier but you are going to lose many chances on promotions, salary compensation and so on. You know everythings here in China are controled by the government except people’s mind deep inside. As what you said, everyone has to survive. So its understandable, they sufferd a lot from the history,and had to make a compromise.
Young people nowadays treat « communist» as a honour. Our history book never mention the real history. So young people doesnt know how many terrible things communists have done. There are two ways for being a communist in university. One is you are good student who have passed all of the exams.The other is you have a very good relationship with your tutor. I think thats why young people treat communists special–they have to be good students. And few of them, I mean young communists, believe in communism. It has nothing to do with religion. Anyway, none of them are forced to be. Actually you have to be in competition with many other students for this honour.
Ok, thats all. I think you should know that why I wont marry or even date a communist.
Well, I hope you can learn more about our culture now.
It is Very interesting answer. I did not expect this at all ! Thanks Xueqing Zhong
Roxana Saberi and iranian governement
I cross iran last summer during 2 month. I found this an incredible country due to the people and the hospitality.
But i am not fool, i knew that the governement there is quite terrible. Freedom is not in the dictionary yet. And even less for woman. The scarf is compulsory and police do not care taking girls in the police car because some girls let few hairs outside.
Roxana saberi, an americano- iran journalist, just got put in jail for 8 years for spying for american. Reporters sans frontières try to do it best to mobilize organization.
2 others journalist of current.tv are also in big trouble there.
Freedom of press and people is more important than money or good relation and we have to do everything to make this stop. people in iran are scared by the governement and don’t want to react too much. the cultural revolution let some big marks there, and people are not ready to fight again yet.
I join everybody to support Roxana, Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
update : roxana got relaxed today monday 11 may. she is free but not disculped. she will go soon to USA and be safe there
Recovering in Sanya, China and times for decision
I am still in sanya, near the beach trying to recover from my back problem. Going to the beach is quite nice here. Lots of russian people and chinese tourist.
Chinese tourist really feels in hollydays if they wear those crazy hawaii-chinese shirts and shorts. Lots of fun. You see groups of people wearing exactly the same clothes, same color. But, they look happy, and that is the important things. and i have lots of fun watching them. take this for arrogance if you want but, it is funny.
I am thinking about china. I don’t feel this country incredibly hospitable, the culture is disapearing as fast as the building goes up in every city. The food, the tai chi is still there. i don’t know more about china… I hear a lot of hello, and asking about my nationality but it does stop here. There is not much interaction with people, because they or we don’t want to make the effort to try to comunicate.
They do engage the conversation but you feel alone anyway.
they : « Hello»
Me : « ni Hao»
they : « something nali» (where do you come from ?)
me : « fagua» (france)
On this they start to talk to you in chinese… So :
me » wo bu mingbai» « tim be do»
After that. They take a pen and a paper and write what they ask on a paper… i have no clue about chinese…
But no problem for them, they write something else like if you would understand the second word… ahahha
One time in the supermarket, i was looking for a product. They told me to write it in a paper.. funny. I wrote in french(english would have been the same anyway) and they had no clue about our latin characters. funny…
Maybe my back injuries make me feeling this not on purpose. maybe i have a bad mood those days i don’t know. but it is what i feel when i travel by bicycle.
But what is it true, is that they really enjoy to see a foreigner. they stop walking, sometimes working to look at me and say hello. They sometimes just saw foreigner on television. So i always try to smile and say hello, but it is sometimes difficult. they seems happy to see a foreigner.
Anyway, everything is not bad about china. I like this country, people are realy nice, smiling a lot and enjoying the life even if it is difficut. it is just this lack of conversation… And i love chinese food.
Anyway, i have to take a decision soon where to go. My plan was going to arrive in los angeles very soon and cross south america via mexico. ehhh ! looking to the situation there and the virus, maybe i have to wait a little bit and see what happend there in few days. we, cyclist, go to very isolated places, and it is difficult to be carreful all the times.
I am here
I arrived yesterday in sanya, China. It is the paradise for chinese, russian and others sorts of tourists… And me of course 
It is very hot here, and i am very happy to be there and rest for the next 2 weeks.
It took me 1 year and 2 month to reach my first beach.
There is so much russian people that the majorty of the sign are in russian, I have the impression to be back in russia months ago but with at least 70-80 degrees celcius of difference
