http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/ Les 25 derniers commentaires publiés sur le blog "Le blog de romane" fr Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:49:27 +0200 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:49:27 +0200 Over-blog.com RSS 2.0 Engine Copyright 2012 romanecharlet.over-blog.com Voyages http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification/ http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39812551 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:07:57 +0200 5d543895ec20fd1090ee0e32cd023232 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39739639 Je conseille vivement!]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:19:40 +0200 ab3fce418f7db2b6211e52c354260311 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39739383 Vendredi: Debut de soiree a lapart, tranquillement avec les garcons, puis vers 23h avec Caro et Amandine, on part chez le fameux pote de l'esc, que je vois pour la premiere fois au bout de presque 3 mois! Ca fait du bien de revoir un peu de tetes connus, partager ses impressions, et je me rends compte que je ne suis pas la seule a avoir un stage pourri, meme si je remporte quand meme la palme D'OR! Nous partons ensuite vers le Mezz (Oui car les garcons y etaient...) Arrivees au Mezz, personne... (Etonnant?) On se dit dc tampi, allons au Temple Bar, de tte facon j'avais les cles de l'appart, c'etait eux qui allaient etre enmerdes! (Enfin bref, tu les connais...^^) Temple Bar SUPER, on rencontre un groupe de gas super simpa, avec quii on finit la soiree au Supermacs autour d'un bon burger, pour pas changer les bonnes habitudes...
Samedi: Les mecs restent plus longtemps que prevu, toujours pas de place a l'auberge... Petit apero dinatoire, alors que les mecs restent a l'appart (oui oui ils voulaient aller a l'Academic, mais plus tard) Nous partons avec Amandine, direction le Celt... pub bonde, conmme j'ai jamais vu, mais on reussit a rester une ptite heure, la musique est vraiment bien! Direction ensuite l'auberge, avec la rencontre de nouveaux globe trotters! On part ensuite vers le Turks Head pour finir la soiree (je croise les deux colocs)! Super soiree, mais je crois que c'est la premiere fois que je rencontre autant de bolos, je te jure^^ On croise Yoan, un petit MacDo, et direction l'appart... ou nous retrouvons les mecs, qui n'avaient en fait pas bouger^^ Tabut dans le lit de Sylvia^^, Bolos sous al couette que je n'avais pas remarque, Winnie et Thomas sur leur pc^^ (Mais bien raide^^)
Bref Amandine a eu un pti apercu des endroits ou sortir a Dublin, j'ai reussi ma mission!
Et hier soir, dimanche oblige, on s'est matter deux films, avec Adeela (oui oui) et Yoan (que j'ai heberge gentiment le samedi soir car il devait rentrer chez lui a pied a 4h du mat^^)
Les garcons repartis, en laissant l'appart pas trop niquel, mais ca me fait toujour un ptit pincement au coeur (tro gentille mais j'en suis consciente^^)
Et tout ca en se levant a 10h les deux jours pr aller visiter (Amandine est fol^^)
Bref, ce matin tu te doutes que j'ai pas entendu mon reveil, en retard chez Adecco LOL
Bon resume du weekend, Winnie est cence enmenager aujourd'hui, je suis contente! Pas de nouvelles de Baptiste, il doit se terrer chez Alex! Et le retour de Sylvia, ca va piquer^^

Bisous collegue!]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:13:59 +0200 8aaa4266cdf95ca072d6cda9df66a91a http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29496611-6.html#comment39738044 Bisous]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:51:40 +0200 9ab4c54229f20e312ddd30fcbd4d26f1 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29496611-6.html#comment39640930 habituelle dans les pays méditerranéens!...
Et comme nous l'a dit un employé chez Hertz: ce qui comptait maintenant, c'était d'avoir un job et peu importait le type de job!...
... Que l'état irlandais diminue les dépenses, sans doute, qu'il réussisse à baisser les salaires du secteur public semble assez étonnant (même si celui-ci est beaucoup moins développé qu'en France) où l'idée même d'y penser provoquerait la révolution!...
Alain.]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:46:12 +0100 45ade7408e0192fee4701849afd3faa7 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29496611-6.html#comment39572759 Il a été longtemps interdit dans les Six Comtés du Nord, sous souveraineté britannique. Le tricolore est vu par bien des nationalistes comme le drapeau national de toute l'Irlande. Il est donc utilisé (avec controverse) par beaucoup de nationalistes en Irlande du Nord.

Ces trois couleurs symbolisent respectivement :

* Vert : couleur emblématique de mouvement catholique de libération nationale,
* Blanc symbole de paix entre les deux communautés.
* Orange : commémore pour les protestants, la victoire décisive du roi d'Angleterre Guillaume III (issu de la Maison d'Orange-Nassau) que celui-ci remporta le 30 juillet 1690 à la Boyne sur les partisans catholiques de Jacques II.]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:03:36 +0100 14ba30c0a9524a682c6732e14076b162 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29496611-6.html#comment39566117 A noter que le budget prévisionnel initial était de 3.4 milliards de livres et qu'il est actuellement de 9.3 milliards de livres !!!!! D'autre part, la Livre a perdu 30 % de sa valeur depuis 2007.
Pour tous ceux qui ont connu la Livre à l'époque du Franc - et la parité entre les 2 monnaies : 1 Livre = 10 Fr - la livre serait aujourd'hui à 7 francs.... Il va être temps d'aller faire des balades dans les highlands !!!!!!!]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:11:52 +0100 370fde10afcad6f9399d990400423240 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29496611-6.html#comment39557593 ]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:54:47 +0100 0cc4795b38cece7d658e2015853834eb http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29496611-6.html#comment39555593 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:10:24 +0100 91d72a8fdf81e3f55dd9c19c48f67422 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39512749 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:05:13 +0100 ef593cfe321689004464fde5abec7f21 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39485359 Article paru dans le "Irish Independent". L'Irlande sera-t'elle le point de rupture de la Zone Euro..... :

Sunday March 01 2009

THEY can barely let the words pass their lips, but some of the EU's most important policymakers were forced last week to discuss what was once unthinkable: that at least one of the 16 eurozone countries might be on the brink of ditching the single currency.

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, admitted that the 10-year-old eurozone was under "extreme strain", with weaker countries struggling to keep their economies afloat in the face of the devaluation of other currencies, such as sterling and the dollar.

Joschka Fischer, Germany's former foreign minister, darkly suggested that we would soon find out whether the eurozone would turn out to be "a disaster", while the German Finance Ministry is vacillating on whether it would bail out insolvent states.

The current thinking is that Germany and France, as the strongest economies in the zone and "lenders of last resort", would have to bail out failing states: the prospect of the eurozone breaking up would bring the future of the EU into question.

But the most startling fact to emerge during the week is that the EU country which is seen as the most vulnerable, and therefore the most likely to ditch the euro, is not Slovenia, or Cyprus, or Greece, but Ireland.

Until a year ago, the Celtic Tiger economy, which attracted such blue-chip companies as Dell, Microsoft and Intel, seemed unstoppable. In a decade, the Irish economy grew by almost 90 per cent, catapulting it from one of the poorest countries in Europe to the fourth-richest per capita.

Government advisers from as far afield as Chile and Israel made pilgrimages to marvel at a model that they were desperate to emulate.

Not any more. All of a sudden, Ireland's debt-fuelled economy, built largely on a construction boom, has collapsed in a more spectacular manner than almost any other in Europe. Irish government bonds are rated as the riskiest in the EU, and there has been panicky talk of Ireland as "the next Iceland".

On the streets, there is a whiff of revolution, with 120,000 people staging Dublin's biggest mass rally in 30 years last weekend to protest at the government's handling of the economy and its decision to impose what amounted to a pay cut on public sector workers.

The unions have now threatened a "Doomsday" strike next month if the prime minister, Brian Cowen, does not think again. As David McWilliams put it: "The entire Irish episode will be studied internationally in years to come as an example of how not to do things."

So how did it all go so wrong?

Visiting Dublin this week, I took a stroll down the south bank of the River Liffey, to the site where Ireland's tallest building, the U2 Tower, should by now have been rising out of the ground as the ultimate symbol of the Celtic Tiger's "economic miracle". Designed by Norman Foster, the 60-storey glass skyscraper was to have housed dozens of one-million euro apartments, topped by a penthouse recording studio for Ireland's most successful band.

Instead, there was nothing to see but dead grass, crushed beer cans and a rusting skip inhabited by 3ft weeds. Two months ago, the developers postponed the project indefinitely. This scruffy patch of former dockland represents the end of the dream for Ireland, whose "economic miracle" was largely based on a crazy construction bubble, fuelled by tax incentives, which, when it finally (and inevitably) burst, created a black hole that threatens to suck in the rest of the failing economy.

In 2006, Ireland (population 4.2 million) built 88,000 houses, compared with 150,000 in the UK (population 60 million). At one point, a fifth of the workforce, swelled by tens of thousands of immigrants, worked in construction.

Irish families cashed in their pensions or borrowed heavily to buy second, third or even fourth properties, believing they could rent them out to the migrant workers who had caused net immigration for the first time in Ireland's history. They could borrow from banks that enjoyed one of the loosest regulatory regimes in Europe, and which shipped in money from abroad to stoke up the boom.

Ireland now has up to 350,000 empty homes -- more than its entire private rental market -- many of them simply abandoned as builders went bust. House prices are expected to fall by 80 per cent.

Ireland might have been able to withstand Europe's most savage property collapse had not its export trade been shredded by currency devaluation in its two key markets -- Britain and America.

The relative rise in the value of the euro against sterling and the dollar has made Irish goods -- and wages -- prohibitively expensive.

Businesses near the border are on their knees because competitors in Northern Ireland are undercutting them by as much as half.

In an ominous sign of things to come, the computer firm Dell has announced nearly 2,000 redundancies at its plant in Limerick, confirming that it intends to create thousands of new jobs in Poland.

The slump in the Irish job market means that the country's youth, who for years now have been able to find jobs at home, are once again having to look abroad for employment, so that the Republic may soon return to its traditional pattern of net outward migration. Already, large numbers of Irish workers are moving to Britain seeking work.

Crucially, the Irish government is powerless to act because, as a member of the eurozone, it has no control over interest rates or currency devaluation.

While the Bank of England could cut interest rates to one per cent and plans to devalue sterling with "quantitative easing", the Irish have had to resort to desperate measures to reduce their budget deficit, such as the public sector wage cuts which led to the mass demonstrations.

Evidence of the effect on Ireland's real economy, as unemployment heads towards 10 per cent, is everywhere.

In Dublin's docklands, once expected to become a sort of European Dubai, row upon row of kitchen suppliers, interior design and furniture shops have closed since my last visit nine months ago, their windows covered in a thick layer of grime.

Catherine Claffey, whose family have sold flowers at the same pitch in Grafton Street, a few yards from Chanel and Louis Vuitton, for 85 years, told me business was down 60 per cent on last year.

"I've only been able to keep going because I've never taken out any big loans," she said. "But I have friends earning very modest salaries in the public sector who have been told their wages are going to be cut by €500 a month. How are they going to survive?"

A hundred yards down the road, a group of taxi drivers was staging a noisy protest over the government's failure to manage taxi numbers. Thousands of workers who have lost their jobs in other sectors have been allowed to set up as cabbies, meaning that Dublin now has 16,000 licensed taxis. New York, with a population 17 times as large, has 13,000.

Andy Doyle, a cabbie for 20 years, said: "There are so many taxis now that you can be waiting two-and-a-half hours on a rank before you pick up a fare. Yesterday I waited an hour and three quarters for a €6.20 fare.

"You just can't live on that. But the government is happy to let it go on because it keeps the unemployment figures down. It's madness."

The resounding "No" vote in last year's referendum on the European Constitution suggested that Ireland has finally fallen out of love with Europe. But will it now take the ultimate step and ditch the euro? Sean Murphy, director of policy at Chambers Ireland, believes not.

"Everything positive in the Irish economy for the past 30 years has been driven by our membership of the EU," he said. "In the long term it will continue to benefit us. We have a small, flexible economy, which means we will be able to turn it round much quicker than a bigger economy like the UK's.

"It's become clear that we need a more balanced, diverse economy, with more jobs in things like alternative energy and information technology. I believe our EU membership can only help with that."

But if the Irish economy, and that of other struggling EU states, continues to nosedive, the cohesion of the eurozone is likely to be tested to breaking point.]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:36:27 +0100 913368c8de724279a81e85b89b36faba http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39471354 Bien evidemment ils existent toujours, je suis d'ailleurs allé au fameux Guinness store mais au mois de juin. Quant aux musées je dois avouer ne pas vraiment les apprécier, par contre j'aurais aimé allé au théâtre mais ça ne s'est pas fait, ce sera pour une prochaine fois...
Et pour finir ce soir je vais voir un petit concert au Mezz dont je fais référence dans cet article!
Donc tout va bien... ]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:54:45 +0100 b2a2ffab4d57edd3a79d048e14f95ef9 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-28836124-6.html#comment39470962 Quant aux débordements je ne les ai pas remarqué, je me suis assez vite éloigné de la foule. En tout cas c'est bien dommage que ça se soit fini comme ça, ce n'était pas le but de la journée et j'ai tout de même l'impression que les Irlandais sont plutôt tolérants et ouverts d'esprit. Il ne s'agit surment que de quelques marginalistes... ]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:48:29 +0100 e052550d76800ad3f3caafe3d77c95bd http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39470844 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:45:28 +0100 8fa9e2d220e0f0b74c4607b33f84893e http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-28836124-6.html#comment39470442 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:37:51 +0100 6093c5786d614616f55ef4971601f1ef http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39467046 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:38:38 +0100 29350f11c4dd94aae07e215ea3cffcb3 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39458727 Bisous]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:06:30 +0100 add1e4c88acc5f705ed8490e9dffa1ab http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-28836124-6.html#comment39440400 Selon mon Manager, la Liffey est trop sale pour qu`on puisse la colorer, et d`ailleurs sa couleur naturelle est assez proche du vert. Mais moi aussi j`etais decue, ca devait etre l`attraction de la journee, accompagnee par la parade evidemment... ]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:10:47 +0100 86d78f8b63ff895f85bcb0e159dc0d20 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-28836124-6.html#comment39435455 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:27:14 +0100 28c83cc0d71523409ad012c40c6be08d http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-27328623-6.html#comment39404273 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:38:05 +0100 505be5b46bfd9ed172f8079000118bc8 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-27328623-6.html#comment39403506 Sur le marché aux fruits et légumes (la rue perpendiculaire à Parnell street), les 8 belles oranges étaient sur tous les stands à 2 €, de belles pommes étaient à 2 € le kilo...
Alors à dublin, il faut acheter les fruits sur le marché!
Anne]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:25:37 +0100 32cac6cb95c89e02ee08d0154dbc4e94 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39370101 Je te fais confiance pour continuer a me faire honneur apres mon depart!
Merci pour ces petis details croustillants, que j`ai ose oublier...

]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:05:56 +0100 5371800b2a7e3b35e0b7ffb551c215d7 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39368601 Au Burleys il vous sera possible faire des arts du cirque en marchant debout sur une table ronde, ou bien encore si vous avez le vertige, n'hesitez pas a mettre votre tete dedans, l'ambiance a l'interieur y est tres agreable!
Au 21, ne manquez surtout pas le phenomene Adeel, present H24 dans la discotheque (il dort sous le bar au milieu des cannettes), il vous fera une petite demo de danse wouuuuuu, un soir mode rnb, l'autre mode cheveux rouge endiable il fait craquer les jeunes demoiselles! mdr
Au Temple Bar, de droles d'Irlandais un peu emeches vous offrirons une belle pinte guinness qu'il vienne d'acheter au magasin d'a cote, a leur plus grand regret le lendemain matin...
Et d'autres souvenirs dans tous ces autres bars, que l'on connait maintenant tres bien, ou on a passait de supers moments! T'inquietes poulette, je commemorerai ton depart chaque soir! CHEERS!]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:39:24 +0100 786b3652af3df1c2c8df1398629829db http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39151796 Oui c'est sûr, ce fut un séjour très agréable, je ne regrette pas cette destination, Dublin est une ville super! J'ai tout de même hate de rentrer pour revoir tout le monde et en finir avec ce stage. A bientôt

]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:56:33 +0100 43ecb1c35d0735e8b7bc007fcb15bf15 http://romanecharlet.over-blog.com/article-29191404-6.html#comment39147485 plus ue quelques jours avant le grand retour..
a voir cet article, tu as du passer des bons moments quand même..
plein de bisous et de courage pour les derniers jours de ton stage..]]> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:33:35 +0100 aa8661e9dc75b6b93d482bb3dc53da13