But it's you, Little Bubbles!
ENThis is the glory. I'm recognized all over the world thanks to this blog. I even have fans. Yes, yes... I swear.
Episode One: Derawan
It started in mid-July, in Derawan (Borneo). When I arrived on the island, I left my big bags on the pontoon of the losmen Rezato go and have a look at the guesthouse next door, the Danakan losmen.
As I was discussing the rates, Bernard, salt and pepper beard, a retired schoolteacher, came up. He looks me in the face and says: "But it's you, Little Bubbles!"
A little flabbergasted, I smile stupidly, answer yes... But how did he guess? Actually, he's staying at Reza's, and he saw my name on the tags on my bags. So he came over to check it out. "Your name is Corinne, right? And are you the one who runs the Little Bubbles blog?"
Oh, there, there! Well, yes. That's me.
In fact, he did some research on the internet, to prepare his trip and his stay in Derawan. And as I had talked about the archipelago and my projects in Borneo in a previous postBefore leaving, he came across it. That's how he discovered my Petites Bulles d'Ailleurs...
Episode Two: Togian Islands
During this stay in Derawan, I managed to reach my sister by phone. She is also on vacation in Indonesia. After my fabulous trip to Sulawesi in 2007She wanted to discover the island of Sulawesi in her turn. She has just left the Togian Islands. She loved it and she tells me, bursting with laughter, that she met other French tourists there, very nice people from Toulouse, who were not there by chance...
They too were inspired by my 2007 trip to Sulawesi to prepare their stay. While chatting with my sister, as she keeps telling them about me and the advice I gave her about the Togians (and my sister here, and my sister there...), they finally tell her: "But your sister, your sister... isn't her name Corinne?" But yes, but yes. "She is the one who runs the Petites Bulles d'Ailleurs! We love it! We subscribe!"
So, there... my left foot was already swollen from my stingray sting. The ankles followed.
Episode Three: Saint-Malo
That's the last straw. It's been two or three days. I spent the weekend at the festival The Rock Route, in Saint-Malo. At the foot of the stage, in the middle of the crowd, I meet my sister and friend Carole. She came with friends, a couple, to whom she introduced me. "Corinne ? Oh... the Little Bubbles? We're fans!"
They are divers. They also read my Petites Bulles d'Ailleurs.
No more incognito. From Borneo to Saint-Malo, everyone knows that I make bubbles.
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Merciiiii!
I had no idea, when I started this blog in 2006, that it would be so widely read. I receive more and more e-mails, comments, kind words, encouragements, thanks... So now it's my turn to thank you, all of you who read me, faithfully or through your browsing on the web.
Because if I take so much pleasure in pursuing these chronicles, travelogues and small reports, it is thanks to you. Thanks to the exchanges and conversations started in this blog, on these common passions which are travels, Asia, diving.
Besides, you know what they say among divers? "Small bubbles, no trouble..."
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It's true that we only have to look at the photo you attached to this post to recognize you... 😉
Wait, didn't you see: you've got a whole fan club in Quebec (I'm the self-proclaimed president)!
Seriously, this glory is totally deserved. When you share your passion with such fervor and rigor (not all blogs have both!), you can't help but reap the rewards 🙂 .
The consecration !!!!
Each one of your little bubbles is like a little sunshine in our daily lives 😉
Already projects for 2010?
We want, we want more! Your blog is great! So, BRAVO and still BRAVO for all this work, I will not stop repeating, we love!
Biz, and we are looking forward to the next topic !!!
@ Marie-Julie: With the nice layer you just added, it's okay, my ankles exploded!!! 😀
I adore Quebec and Quebecers, no doubt about it. I'm jealous, I've got lots of friends who've just come from there, who are there or who are going there right now... I'm going to come one of these days, too, you bet! My fan club will easily recognize me, I'll have a diving mask on my face.
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@Denis: [false modesty] Oh! You think? [/ false modesty]
@ Jean-Luc: Oh dear, a little sunshine, that's what it is!... No definite plans for 2010 yet, but I've got lots of ideas running through my head...
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@ Helen: You know very well that your comment can't be objective (but I'm very, very, very flattered)... And if I understand correctly, I'd better get to work on new posts very soon!
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I have to say that with a blog like this, I feel like I'm travelling and diving every day...
it keeps me waiting 😉
In any case, congratulations, because this site is a real pleasure.
La Route du Rock... a little more and I'd run into you too 😆
But I wasn't in Brittany on vacation at the time... Otherwise we'd have been talking bubbles together 8)
I discovered this blog not too long ago, and I'm a fan! The articles are nice, clear, concise and with superb photos of heavenly places! If you add the practical advice, it's all bravo!
@Philippe: Oh, well, that's good: I love the idea that I can (almost) get you all to dive in and travel a little with me, through this blog... In fact, it keeps me going until the next departure!
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@Bizut: See you next year, then, at the Saint-Père fort, stage left...
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@Myriam: Many thanks, Myriam!!! Your compliments mean a lot to me. I have a feeling I'm going to become a fan of your blog too (along with Anthony's, aka ZeSea). As a “bubbler”, I'm sincerely impressed by your prowess as a freediving photographer... Hats off!
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So when can we expect posts on the Route du Rock? 😛
@Anto: Ah, but no. This is a blog about diving and travel, sometimes about the web and a bit of techno, but not about rock concerts... That's not my theme. Besides, if I started writing about the festivals and concerts I went to on my personal blog, I'd feel like I was at work, writing reviews for the paper. So no...
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oui oui surtout continue ce site ❗ , nous sommes plusieurs à adhérer au fan club par chez moi 😉 encore encore!!!
@Laurence: As I write on my presentation page, this blog is really an escape bubble for me. It's a personal writing style, different from my daily journalistic writing. I write about themes that fascinate me, independent of current events, and I'm not constrained by lineage, deadline, angle or treatment...
In short, it's out of the question for me to start writing columns that would come close to the papers I might write as part of my job (even if, on occasion, I have published a few travel, diving and sea-related articles in the “magazine” pages of the canard).
One summer, a few years ago, my editor-in-chief even sent me to report on a series of unusual places on... theAmoco Cadiz! I was lucky enough to have ideal conditions, I loved it. I'll have to find that article again. (That was when I was still a brave girl who wasn't afraid of the cold Breton waters).
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Don't worry, I was talking about diving of course!! the pleasure and nothing but the pleasure of reading and looking at your photos, when's the next trip ❓ 😉
@Laurence: Yes, I understood you were talking about diving... But then I let myself go into a long digression. The next diving trip won't be until March. I'm still hesitating about the destination. Probably the Philippines...
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Hihihi 🙂
Funny, I get the exact same line... “ah but it's you thibinspore!” Often in Singapore, but also in remote places in Asia!
See you soon and keep up this blog, always a pleasure to surf on it 🙂
Thib.
@Thib: You too !!!! 😆
Incredible but true!!!!
Thanks Thib, you too, keep up the good work. Always a great pleasure to browse “Thib in S'pore” too. I often recommend it to people moving to the area.