mes voyages - my travels

On this blog, I'll mostly post pictures taken during my travels. Occasionally, I will post notes on one of my passions: books. Sur ce blog, il y a surtout des photos prises au cours de mes voyages. A l'occasion, j'y parlerai aussi d'une de mes passions: les livres.

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Arnaud, Belgrade, August 2012

"Les voyages" (extrait d'une chanson de Barbara)

Ah ! Les voyages.
Comme vous fûtes sages
De nous donner ces images
Car les voyages,
C'est la vie que l'on fait,
Le destin qu'on refait.
Que c'est beau, les voyages
Et le monde nouveau
Qui s'ouvre à nos cerveaux,
Nous fait voir autrement
Et nous chante comment
La vie vaut bien le coup
Malgré tout !

English translation at the end of the frame. Complete song lyrics (in French) here.

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Favorite web sites

  • B92
  • babelMed
  • Balkanology
  • BBC News
  • BIRN Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
  • Bosnie.org Voyages et reportages dans les Balkans
  • Bturn - Music, Culture and Style of the New Balkans
  • France Culture
  • Le Courier des Balkans
  • Le Monde.fr
  • plural-magazine (Romania)
  • presseurop
  • radio france internationale (RFI)
  • Regard sur l'Est
  • Routard.com
  • Spirit of Bosnia - Duh Bosne
  • The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
  • thenewfederalist.eu (Webzine of the Young European Federalists)
  • Têtu.com

Favorite sites about books

  • Biblio Monde
  • BiblioTrutt
  • Bibliothèque Francophone Multimédia de Limoges
  • Ecrivains-voyageurs
  • Gaïa Editions
  • Geopoetika
  • Idlewild Books
  • Un Infini Cercle Bleu (culture serbe dans le monde francophone)
  • Words Without Borders

Reference sites, city guides, etc.

  • La-conjugaison.fr
  • The High Line
  • Enter Serbia
  • Kulturni Centar Beograda
  • belgraded.com
  • Hudson Valley Seed Library
  • Leksikon Yu-mitologije
  • nycgo
  • FranceGuide
  • Time Out London Film Reviews
  • oasisNYC.net
  • ville de Reims
  • The New York Public Library
  • The New York Academy of Sciences
  • The Kustupedia - the online encyclopedia on the universe of Emir Kusturica
  • French Culture - Official Website of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
  • Librarian's Index Internet

Favorite film directors

  • Ang Lee, Fatih Akim, Christophe Honoré, Goran Paskaljevic, Emir Kusturica, Jacques Rivette, Aki Kaurismaki, Lucas Belvaux, Ingmar Bergman, the Dardennes brothers, Stephen Frears, François Ozon, Eric Rohmer, John Sayles

Great films I've seen...

  • "A separation" (Asghar Farhadi), "Mysteries of Lisbon" (Raul Ruiz), "Weekend" (Andrew Haigh), "Beyond the Hills" (Christian Mungiu), "Amour" (Michael Haneke), "Camille redouble" (Noemie Lvovsky), "Les amours imaginaires" (Xavier Dolan), "la fille du puisatier (the well-digger's daughter)" (Daniel Auteuil), "Les neiges du Kilimandjaro" (Robert Guédiguian), "Police, Adjective" (Corneliu Porumboiu), "Le Havre" (Aki Kaurismäki), "Tamo i ovde" (Here and there) by Darko Lungulov, "Saša" (Sasha) by Dennis Todorovic, "Cinema Komunisto" (Mila Turajlic), "Europa" (Lars von Trier), "Potiche" (Ozon), "Les femmes du 6ème étage" (Philippe le Guay), "I fidanzati (The Fiances)" (Ermanno Olmi), "Kaos" (Taviani brothers), "Séraphine" (Martin Provost), "Dialogue avec mon jardinier" (Jean Becker), "First of all, Felicia" (Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf), "Francesca" (Bobby Paunescu), "The Ghost Writer" (Roman Polanski), "Avatar" (James Cameron), "The Hurt Locker" (Kathryn Bigelow), "Summer Hours" (L'heure d’été, Olivier Assayas), "Un Conte de Noël" (A Christmas Tale, Arnaud Desplechin), "Des hommes et des dieux" (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), "Tuesday, after christmas" (Radu Muntean), "The National Parks - America's Best Idea" (Ken Burns), "Lust, Caution" (Ang Lee), "Honeymoons" (Goran Paskaljevic), "The Black Balloon" (Elissa Down), "Milk" (Gus Van Sant), "Le refuge" (François Ozon), "Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante" (Claude Miller, Nathan Miller), "Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser (Making plans for Lena)" (Christophe Honoré), "Rapt" (Lucas Belvaux), "Eyes wide open (Eynayim Pekuhot)" (Haim Tabakman), "Mary and Max" (Adam Elliot), "Im Juli (In July)" (Fatih Akim), "Vicky Christina Barcelona" (Woody Allen), "Gran Torino" (Clint Eastwood), "Un Conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale" (Arnaud Desplechin), "Up" (Pixar), "The Wrestler" (Darren Aronofski), "The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Andrew Dominik), "La siciliana ribelle (the sicilian girl)" (Marco Amenta), "Walz with Bashir" (Ari Folman), "Sur mes levres (Read my Lips)" (Jacques Audiard), "Still Walking" (Hirokazu Kore-eda), "Un héro très discret (A self-made hero)" (Jacques Audiard), "Le voyage du ballon rouge" (Hsiao-Hsien Hou), "La haine" (Mathieu Kassovitz), "Les plages d'Agnès" (Agnès Varda), "Conte d'été - A summer's tale" (Eric Rohmer), "Adam's apples" (Danish film by Anders Thomas Jensen), "The edukators" (Hans Weingartner), "L'enfant" (Dardenne brothers) "Les chansons d'amour" ("Love Songs'" Christophe Honoré), "La duchesse de Langeais" (Rivette), "Optimisti," "The dog who loved trains" (Goran Paskaljevic), "Do you remember Dolly Bell" (Emir Kusturica), "Lights in the dusk" (Aki Kaurismaki), "The edge of heaven" (Fatih Akim), "La vie en rose - la môme" (Olivier Dahan), "Brokeback mountain" (Ang Lee), “The Queen” (Stephen Frears), “Indigènes” (“Days of glory,” Rachid Bouchareb), “The history boys” (Nicholas Hytner), “Cavale” “Après la vie” “Un couple épatant” (Lucas Belvaux’s trilogy), "Four months, three weeks and two days" (Christian Mungiu), "The death of Mr. Lazarescu" (Christi Puiu).

Favorite writers - Ecrivains préférés

  • Abdellah Taïa
  • Alexandar Hemon
  • Colm Toibin
  • Doris Grumbach
  • Ivo Andrić
  • Jean Rolin
  • Leïla Sebbar
  • Luan Starova
  • Marguerite Duras
  • Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Mesa Selimović
  • Nadia Khouri-Dagher
  • Nicolas Bouvier
  • Saša Stanišić
  • Svetlana Velmar-Janković

Great books I've read...

  • "Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe," by Simon Winder
  • "Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950," by Mark Mazower
  • "The Orientalist" by Tom Reiss
  • "Fun Home - A Family Tragicomic" by Alison Bechdel
  • "In Europe - Travels through the twentieth Century" by Geert Mak"
  • "Travels in Siberia" by Ian Frazier
  • "Open City" by Teju Cole
  • "Sous un ciel qui s' écaille" by Goran Petrović
  • "Chronicle in Stone" by Ismail Kadare
  • "On the Shores of the Mediterranean" by Eric Newby
  • "The Houses of Belgrade" by Borislav Pekić
  • "Fifty Days of Solitude" by Doris Grumbach
  • "Les livres de mon père," "Le temps des chèvres," "Le chemin des anguilles," de Luan Starova (traduit du macédonien)
  • "Balkans-Transit," de François Maspéro, photographies de Klavdij Sluban
  • "L'usage du monde" by Nicolas Bouvier
  • "Dans le noir" ("Lagum") by Svetlana Velmar-Janković
  • "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "call me by your name" by André Aciman
  • "La clôture" by Jean Rolin
  • "Homecoming" by Natasha Radojcic-Kane
  • "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone" by Saša Stanišić
  • "The Limits of Power: The End of Americam Exceptionalism" by Andrew Bacevich

Favorite music (singers, musicians, bands, etc.)

  • Brigitte Fontaine, Thomas Dutronc, Sveti (Jazz), Barb Jungr, Juliette Gréco, Saban Bajramovic, Goran Bregovic, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Barbara, Bénabar, Brina (slovenian band), Joni Mitchell, Morcheeba, Leonard Cohen, Feist

Favorite blogs

  • 14-18 Chroniques du centenaire
  • Abstract City
  • Bohemian Traveler
  • Climate Progress
  • Coriolistic Anachronisms
  • Design Notes (DWR)
  • Dot Earth - Nine billion people. One planet.
  • Frugal Traveler
  • Globe - le blog de Panète Terre
  • Green
  • Kosovo 2.0
  • L'ÉCO BUISSONNIÈRE
  • Langue sauce piquante
  • Le Blog de Pierre Rabhi
  • Mais où est donc passé Jack Kerouac?
  • Martha Borst
  • Mr. Money Mustache
  • Passeur de sciences
  • Solution Focused Change | Doing What Works
  • Sur les routes d'Asie centrale
  • The Shooting Star
  • Transnets
  • Une année en France
  • Venise - Mer Noire
  • Western Balkans
  • comeandcheck.it (pogledaj.to)
  • ne govorim dobro bosnanski
  • stuff white people like
  • éco(lo)
  • “Françaises, français…”

Blogs de mes homonymes - Blogs of other Arnauds

  • Le Voyage d’une Saucisse de Toulouse au pays des Kangourous

Favorite photo sites

  • Sladjana Stankovic
  • A Man That Looks On Glass - Balkan Stories
  • Belgrade Raw
  • Klavdij Sluban
  • Magnum - Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Miroslav Tichy
  • sashy
  • Travel Photography by Alan Grant
  • Voyages au coeur des BALKANS
  • dino_ju's photos
  • Lens (Photoblog New York Times)
  • BBC - Viewfinder

A few remarkable people

  • Svetlana Alexievich
  • Dimitrije Tucović
  • Melody Gardot
  • Srđan Aleksić
  • Emir Suljagić
  • Alan Turing
  • Ben Cohen
  • Boris Tadić
  • Jane Fonda
  • Anton Hysen
  • Jovanka Broz
  • Bertrand Delanoë
  • Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Aida Ćorović
  • Barack Obama
  • Dan Savage
  • Barb Jungr
  • jane birkin
  • Greg Mortenson
  • Thomas Friedman
  • Brad Pitt
  • John Kelly
  • L'humanitaire dans tous ses états
  • Irshad Manji
  • Svetlana Broz

Web sites/blogs of friends and family - sites webs ou blogues d'amis

  • Anna Vivante
  • Mark Kuebel, L.Ac.
  • appetite nyc
  • marianne pascal
  • poutine au paprikas
  • three little halves
  • théophile kollmann

Favorite cultural institutions in and around New York

  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Romanian Cultural Institute New York
  • Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • The Morgan Library and Museum
  • Merchants' House Museum

"Travels" (Excerpt of song by the French singer Barbara)

Ah ! Travels.
How wise you were
To give us these images
Because travels
Are the life one makes
The destinity one remakes.
How beautiful, travels...
And the new world
Which opens to our minds
Makes us see differently
And sings to us how
Life is worth it
After all !

About Me

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arnaud jacquin
I am a French expat, and also an American citizen, who has been living in the US since 1986. I grew up in France, near Reims. I currently work as a Senior R&D Engineer for a medical instrumentation start-up company called BrainScope. I have been living with my Serbian-American partner Vladimir (Vlada) in New York City since 1993. I love to travel and this blog is a repository for impressions and images taken during trips abroad or in the US, for work, fun and/or to visit family and friends.
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  • couchsurfing
  • Mémorial de la Déportation Homosexuelle
  • Gej Strejt Alijansa (Serbia)
  • Labris (Serbia)
  • Lgbt Forum Progres (Montenegro)
  • Le Refuge
  • Race for Hope - DC
  • The Trevor Project
  • Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
  • Save the Children UK
  • Centar za integraciju mladih (Beograd)
  • Helping Infants Worldwide
  • dobro (charitable organization in BiH)
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