Who's back home from the nicest sea under the sun ?

... G@ttoGiallo of course !
and back to PPG with this...























Monte Nai
























Capo Ferrato
(also published by "A Photo a Day from Planet Earth").
























Just clear water at Cala Pira























Feraxi beach

Nice places, isn't it ?
Maybe you'd like to go there and see by yourselves next summer, uh ?









Cheerio !
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Early 2009/Update > The Capo Ferrato's picture has been stolen
by a guy named Moses Francis - together with other authors' pics
for an illegal use on his site Flickrville.
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Happy Holidays to Bloggers

BigNose's ready to take off...
but G@tto will fly back to you in one month !

PPG loves Sloths !

A baby sloth and his favorite environment,
from a tv reportage.

















Unable to survive outside the tropical rainforests of South and Central America,
within that environment sloths are outstandingly successful creatures:
they can account for as much as half the total energy consumption
and two-thirds of the total terrestrial mammalian biomass in some areas.
Of the six living species, only one, the Maned Three-toed Sloth
(Bradypus torquatus), has a classification of "endangered" at present.
The ongoing destruction of South America's forests, however, may soon
prove a threat to other sloth species.

















(Sloths on Wikipedia)

A Good Foamy Coffee Anywhere !

Imagine you are here, in the middle of an african river...
and suddenly you need a coffe !
I mean you harshly want a coffee...






















Now imagine - why not ? - that G@tto is sitting in the boat just behind you...
You can hear him rummaging in his backpack,
but you don't pay attention.
All of a sudden, the celestial, delicious, well known smell
you were dreaming about, caresses your nostrils
and G@tto lends you a regular espresso coffee !

















Your espresso in 4 motions :
- put the pressure
- pour hot water
- charge coffe pod
- press power

[Video]

And now, don't leave without saying something nice for G@tto's Birthday !

Lisbon Treaty : Who's Afraid of People Voice ?

Ireland asks France to organize new presidential elections !

... alas, this strong headline of the M'PEP (fr), a French political movement, is just a joke
to underline the absurdity of Sarkozy's request for a second Irish referendum in order
to ratify the Lisbon treaty... already massively rejected by France and Holland in 2005.

Sinn Fein eurodeputy Mary Lou McDonald pointed out that while speaking a lot about
democracy, European governments act as they were afraid of people voice.




















(source)

- 13 Dec. 2007 : EU heads of state and government signed the Treaty of Lisbon.
- 20 Feb. 2008 : Parliament approved treaty with 525-115 majority.
- 12 June 2008 : Treaty of Lisbon rejected by popular vote in Ireland.
- 19-20 June 2008 : European Council discussed the aftermath of the Irish referendum.
The Irish Government's request for time to analyse the situation was accepted.
- Oct. 2008 : Ireland expected to make proposals at Council summit.