Besancon, France Travel Blogs

glouk's song!
Oct 18, 2008

just a song from my friend before leaving! (bientot la video / soon the video) Merci Franck et Francis pour ce grand moment!!! Glouk glouk (sur l'air de la pub Alice) Quand j'étais petit je n'étais pas grand Je v'nais d'un village a coté ...

Chateau Roche Pot
Aug 21, 2009

... is 72 metres deep and kept John busy for quite a while dropping stones down it. We then drove through some lovely country to Besancon another citadel town. I had picked the hotel here because it had one of those lovely awnings over the front door!! It was ...

Map pin for Besancon
May 24, 2007

Map pin

On to Alsace and Lorraine
May 27, 2008 (13 photos)

... at home before they left. Wish we had, we seemed to drive around every large town at least twice before finding our way out.   Besancon is an amazing place; it was a huge walled fort, built high up on a cliff on top of an ancient Roman city in the ...

Back to France
Oct 3, 2005

Don't go on Tuesdays, because all the museums are closed, as we discovered when we had to stay an extra day due to our train not running that day, either! We had a great crepe and wine dinner and met owners Stphane and Anna, who have Polish friends in ...

Sat alone in white room all day...
Mar 25, 2009

And looking at the weather roll across the valleys. I went out twice; it was bitterly cold and raining. The puzzle of what to do has been resolved by further procrastination here. I'm staying til Sunday morning when the weather forecast is dry. Its been ...

Idleness and irritation in BescanÇon.
Mar 24, 2009 (4 photos)

One day I will learn the lowercase c. Today has been nice; this hostel is so cozy I really don't feel like moving on. Several minor tasks for today were completed. Details of upcoming campsites, maps etc were obtained from a very condescending lady at ...

Another day, another breakfast time delight;
Mar 27, 2009 (1 photos)

Strangely hungover this morning given that I drank less than two pints. still made it for a huge breakfast. Also I tried to scope out who might be the cycle tourers. The pair of girl's who looked different; one had dreads and both wore outdoor clothes ...

Last Day;
Mar 28, 2009

Its absolutely bucketed down for much of the morning and I was throughly grateful to be inside. So had a bit of debate on VC over the effects of paying for treatment and generally faffed around the net looking up German hostels. It looks a bit expensive ...

Run to the hills.
Mar 23, 2009 (5 photos)

... at Mulhouse would provide hostels as required. Still time to think about this and also for the weather forecast to develop. Besancon looks interesting and apparently has a large student population. I'm soo tired; the misty sunshine did need sun creme ...

Bescanson revives me.
Mar 26, 2009 (5 photos)

... with a dual carriageway forbidden to bikes. Back up the hill I gave up on the quest and meandered around the suburbs. Besancon has done a tremendous amount of flat building in the multi-storey long concrete slab style. Six storeys is entirely normal; I ...

A long complicated HH to Besancon with Iru
Nov 8, 2005 (3 photos)

November 8 It has been a relaxed day in Besancon, walking around town and I got mad cause my father called and ate all my phone credits and I couldnt recharge my phone... I manage to do it later after more than a day but I was stressed out that my phone ...

France! Sunday, July 18
Jul 23, 2009

So, we went up to the citadel and bought our tickets. We decided to get the audio tour so I wouldn't have to translate everything for Ed. And there wasn't much information posted, so this way we had some information about what we were seeing. What we hadn ...

Besanzon
Dec 16, 2007

Besançon

bersancon
Oct 3, 2007

... avons mangé a lausanne dans un resto avec un menu de ... 30 pages!!! c'etait fou!!! alors nous sommes de retour en france, en route vers strasbourgh.. pour ensuite aller a amsterdam et en belgique!! Je mene encore au carte hihihi  39 a 29 ...

Besancon
May 3, 2001

beetje erg vol, dus B bekijken we een andere keer! T kreeg spierpijn van het manouvreren op een overvolle parkeerplaats met bijzonder krappe paadjes....

besancon,first impression
Mar 11, 2007

Besancon is situated in the eastern part of France ,in a region ( region) Franche -Comté near Swiss border,and in departement Doubs It's population is around 130 000,and  there are many interesting museums and other stuff to see and to visit ...

Franche Comte, France
Jul 22, 2005 (7 photos)

I visited my friend Frederic, who show me Franche Comte department (Besancon, Belfort, Sochaux). Thanks :)

Contiki Day 3: Beaujolas Wine Region
Aug 3, 2008

I'm sure if I liked: parties, wine, parties, pools or dancing this would have been an A+ place to stay. But I don't, so y’know, nice view of vineyards and things. The house is like a million years old, and it’s entirely possible that mum ...

My Second Trip to Besancon, Oct. 2006
Jul 28, 2007 (15 photos)

... I was in France...I told them that I was a student and everything and they asked me about how I liked France and Besancon.  According to the couple Besancon also had an international language program like Dijon does as well as a  ...

My first trip to Besancon
Jul 14, 2007 (26 photos)

... ;need to know some French if you visit this city though since it is off the beaten path, but if you plan on visiting Switzerland or plan on traveling to France soon, stop by in little Besancon...it's a gem worth discovering.     

Besancon
Dec 13, 2006 (9 photos)

Here we go, step by step going home ... Wanted to visit my old mate, Fred (not a member still!!). Arrive quite late so went to sleep early ... Next days we walked around the city, met his friends, even some polish and some guys from Djibuti (yeah there is ...