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yeoeleven


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Some may remember that I met up with a French girl travelling north to Cairns for the first time and we met at Stott's River Nature Reserve near Tweed Heads. I spent some hours with her telling her of some of the best free camps that I had stayed at and staged them out with suitable driving distances.

We met up again at Boulder Creek and had a great time cooking over the open fire and swimming in the creek, later we met up again by chance at Babinda and during these meet ups Laure had said that she was preparing an article for the Huffington Post and kept asking me questions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/laure-giraud/jeunesse-eternelle-en-aus_b_3850909.html

This is the end result and of course it is written in French but I was able to copy the website address into Google Translator and come up with an understandable copy. Because it concentrates on my nomadic lifestyle I thought some GN's may be interested it compares our elder citizens lifestyles with those from France who apparently don't go off independently touring Europe.

John



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Well what do you know , John, ,,,,  bugger ,,,,,U making a impression ever where,,,,,,,,,,Billeeeeeee

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Yes I remember the photo John of her underwear strung from you vehicle. wink biggrin

Are you able to scan a copy of your translation and post it on here please,

Thanks

Vic             PS:  Nice shot of you.



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Duh wrote:

Yes I remember the photo John of her underwear strung from you vehicle. wink biggrin

Are you able to scan a copy of your translation and post it on here please,

Thanks

Vic             PS:  Nice shot of you.

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Congrats John. You are famous. I was able to understand one word other than the reference to you and links. That was television.

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Yep, Great John but I didn't take enough notice in French lessons. Good on ya mate.

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I noticed she said that the Camps book was our "Bible" John.  Wish I could remember more French.  Would be great to see an English translation.

Chers,

Sheba.



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I'd love to be able to read it too.

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translate.google.com/translate

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dorian wrote:

translate.google.com/translate

 Thank you dorian, just click on the link dorian provided and an approximate translation will open. John



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Yes, thanks Dorian, it is great to see you getting some recognition in your travels John!biggrin



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Thanks for the translation Dorian - having met Laure, I can imagine her speaking the words - her and Audrey were lovely girls! John loves his backpackers!!!!



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Thanks from me too Dorian.

Cheers,

Sheba.



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Thanks Dorian. It makes good reading.

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Well arn't you just the superstar, there will be french girlies coming over by the boat load now chasing your wisdom :p



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No mention of John's jaffles? Interesting article though, and a feather in the cap for our intrepid traveller.

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Great story John.

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