This month Emmanuel klein came for a serious treatment. He was struggling since one year with arthrosis. Fed up with corticoïds and pain killers he decided to experiment an ayurvédic treatment. Sceptic at the beginning but as the days passed the pain disapeared and he left as a “New man” he said.
Soon he will give us his story. Looking forward ro read about you Manu.
With Love The Spa’s Staff.
1 Energy-saving lightbulbs last around ten times longer than ordinary lightbulbs- over 10,000 hours.
2 A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. Shade provided by trees can also reduce your air conditioning bill by 10 to 15 per cent.
3 Lawns only need watering once a week, post rain only after two weeks. Do watering early morning for minimal evaporation and water conservation.
4 Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
5 Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
6 Everytime we burn oil, coal and gas to generate electricity and power, we produce the heat trapping gases that cause global warming.
7 Deforestation is one of the main causes of atmospheric carbon dioxide; burning and cutting millions of acres of trees each year, it is responsible for 20-25 per cent of all carbon emissions.
8 Water vapor is the most prevalent and most powerful greenhouse gas on the planet; it holds onto two-thirds of the heat trapped by all the greenhouse gases.
9 Every week about 20 species of plants and animals become extinct!
10 Crawling traffic contributes eight times as much air pollution as traffic moving at regular highway speed.
11 One-third of the water used in most homes is flushed down the toilet.
12 A dripping tap can waste over 20,000 litres of water every year.
13 With accelerated global warming, and the ice covering melting, the earth would be absorbing more sunlight, and is on its way to becoming hotter than before.
14 A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose — and even longer if it’s in the landfill.
15 Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours
16 Ice caps are white, and reflect sunlight, much of which is reflected back into space, in turn cooling Earth; but with the ice caps melting, the only reflector is the ocean. Darker colors absorb sunlight, further warming the Earth.
17 A laptop is more environment friendly than a desktop. It consumes five times less electricity.
18 Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth and soaping your hands. This can save around 16 litres a day. That’s 11,000 litre of water per person per year.
19 Scientists blame global warming for the declining penguin population, as warmer waters and smaller ice floes force the birds to travel further to find food.
20 Tissue paper is a major source of waste. It takes 60,00,000 trees to make 1 year’s worth of tissues for the world.
21 A ton of recycled paper equals or saves 17 trees in paper production.
22 A plant on your desk acts as a natural filter, absorbing airborne pollutants and computer radiation while replenishing oxygen levels.
23 Stressed by cyanide fishing, harbor dredging, coral mining, deforestation, coastal development, agricultural runoff, careless divers, and now global warming, there is a devastating loss of coral across the world.
24 Due to global warming the polar ice cap in the Arctic region is shrinking and rupturing; if this continues, summers in the Arctic would become ice-free by the end of this century.
25 Avoiding just 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year!
26 An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
27 A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water
Sorry for this long, very loooong intermission.
So here is the latest fresh news of “The lost Paradise”
ABOUT OUR PETS:
Neige the labrador is still trying to get a weight record, we call her now: the whale !
Pongo is still the same, fit and pretty.
Nougat got two friends and expecting ducklings very soon….!
Sony and Cher joined the Beatles at the farm.
SONY & CHER
And the cows are still giving us the best milk.
ABOUT THE GARDEN:
A field of Tuberose had been planted next to the beach houses and at dawn you can smell the flowers blooming happily.
Rice fiels are greener.
At the vegetable garden Rucolla (Roquette) salad will enjoy palates.
AROUND THE SWIMING POOL & THE BEACH:
Kids play ground is improved with monkey bars and sand pit.
Two French chef just arrived at the sea food bar : Régis and Xavier.
The sea food bar will start a new menu : a collection of sandwiches with french bread, new salads like scampi salad, quiche, vegetable tart, and a barbecue will be install for december to enjoy grilled sea food at night.
A surprise will be arrange at the beach for Christmas season….
AND CHERRY ON THE PIE : NEW HOUSES….check the page New houses.
The french team from Delhi came to Dune for a short documentary about summer destination.
Arnauld Miguet, Dominique Marotel and Divya Duga spend three days with us. It was a great pleasure to meet them, simple and warm.
As soon as we get the diffusion of the documentary we will let you know!
In the meanwhile you can go to : www.blog.france2.fr/bureau-inde-france2/
Here they are, they arrived last week!
The greatest four…Turkeys!
Did you know that they are the best snake catchers ?
Now you can see them crossing the land always together and singing all the time
IndianArc “The Indian Autorickshaw Race” arrived in Pondichery last week. Hundred rickshaw raced from Katmandou to Pondichery. They decided to make the Party and the finish line at the Dune! The parking was invaded by rickshaws and during three days fun restaurant became the “cantine ” of a bunch of 20 rickshaw runners. 20 men from different nationality (french, german, spanish, dutch, american, english, etc..) relaxing all around was a nice picture…
check their web site : http://rickshawrun.theadventurists.com/index.php http://www.indianarc.com/pondicherry.php
Yes you may wondering who is behind the mysterious symbol of Dune.
A door open to the sea.
It’s him !
NoArt (Arnaud Lucet) came in february 2004 with his beautifull wife and daugther (twins stayed with grand parents) for one month in Dune. He wondered during two weeks what to do on the site. Walking around, thinking and thinking and thinking, watching the sea, the sand, the dune, his friend Jérôme Mesnager who was painting the compound wall all along the beach. And then one morning he arrived in the restaurant with the most beautifull smile and a sketch of a door, an incredible door ! One hour later the work started with a team of our in house carpenters. The day after Murty,our maestry, looked at us badly and said : « this guy is crazy ! ».
The next day Arnaud looked at us and said : « you guys are crazy ! »
Just because he realised that here we are working only by hands and no machine at all, it was a choc of « work culture » !
Finally the door got ready but one major piece was missing : The Hinge.
Arnaud said ironically that : « Anyway the hinge cannot be done in one day by hand, here is the time to think that machine could be usefull ».
Ayanar who was in charge of the Hinge got so upset that he arrived the next morning with the missing piece : done ! Arnaud acknowledge that India is the country of « miracles »…And I will say that Noart work is also a « miracle ». After the Tsunami the only thing who was still standing on the sea shore was his door. It means a lot for us. Thank you to be crazy, thank you to open doors Master Noart
Check : http://www.noart.org/
Laurent Luffroy is just the best movie poster maker in France of the past 20 years.
His work for “Stalingrad”, Jean Jacques Annaud. “Amélie Poulain” de Jean-Pierre Jeunet ,
“Beeing John Malkovitch” de Spike Jonze. “Barton Fink” Coen brothers,
“Dance With The Woolf” Kevin Costner. “American Beauty”, Sam Mendes are amongs the best known.
But the truth is that Laurent is never going to commercial…he is a real Artist !!!
And he is the most sweet long term guest we had so far.
He came, stayed some 2 month at Dune, custom made an
Enfield bullet and went on for a “bike trip” down to Kerala.
After a couple of weeks he came back and said “i’m
gone a make an image for you” Yo!!!!
Days later he showed this surrealistic view of the door
standing straight, alone between earth and sky..on the sand :):)
He suddently left because Luc Besson needed him to launch “Arthur and the Minimoy”
and said “i’m coming back soon….for the bullet”
So long, on the road again.
