Auberge Du Bois Des Espeisses Nīmes

... well deserved wash. It took some scrubbing to get 5 weeks worth of dirt off him but he sparkled once we were done :)
Another longish drive got us to Arles where the plan was to stay for 2 nights as it was home to van Gogh and lots of Roman ruins. We got a good park on the Rhone River just outside the city walls but the city itself made us feel a little uneasy and something was not quite right. The place was ...

Hello, I'm french and I come to Palangkaraya January 25 until February
20 with a friend. We are looking to rent a house with 2 rooms and not too far from
downtown.

Halo, saya orang prancis dan saya datang ke
Palangkaraya dari 25 Januari sampai Februari 20 dengan seorang teman. Kami
mencari untuk menyewa rumah tidak jauh dari pusat kota.

Thank you for your help. Terima kasih.

... the old stone replaced like this. But if it wasn’t done, there would be nothing left to see! Also, who’s to say what is ‘original’ and what is not after so long a time. For a building as old as this, I believe a few renovations have taken place over the years!

Just down the street was the Theater Antique, or Classical Theater. A century ...

... was home to Van Gogh’s most famous time of painting from 1888-1890.

Shadows on the hills.
Sketch the trees and daffodils.
Catch the breeze and winter chills.
In colours on the snowy linen land.

I was just thrilled to be in the same place that inspired this painter. To know that I was beneath that same starry starry sky ...

... to crash while focusing on other activities and those that view hostels as a significant part of the destination. There is a huge German group that seems to be mostly hanging out at the hostel with short day trips.

I meet several folks who are travelling solo. A teacher from the UK and an olde3r grad-school student from the US have both been at this hostel for a couple of weeks or so. Just a place to chill. It has camping which is real cheap. Mardi from Carcassonne shows up.

... wouldn't stop coming - very funny though! We were all thoroughly amused by it all - the games to guess the sweet (baring in mind these are designed for little kiddies!), watching the people in the factory boxing & shipping different flavourings & of course the free sweets - of which my mum was the definite champion - her handbag was full to the brim & those hands held more sweets alone than any bag you could buy from the shop - great fun!! So to ...

... schools and this was a "show" for the people. In the morning animals fought humans eg. lions brought from Africa ...but humans always won. At noon most people would leave to go to the market to get something to eat...but for those who stayed they could witness prisoners fighting each other to the death...or some would be tied to a post and animals would eat them...not too pleasant. In the afternoon the gladiators would fight. Gladioators were ...

... the power for the winch. A complex scaffold was erected to support the aqueduct as it was being built. The face of the aqueduct still bears the mark of its construction, in the form of protruding scaffolding supports and ridges on the piers which supported the semicircular wooden frames on which the arches were constructed. It is believed to have taken about three years to build, employing between 800 and 1,000 workers. Now aren't you glad you know that!

... lovely tangerine colored light was shining on the mighty stretch of aqueduct reflecting upon the Gard River. The Pont is built on three levels: the first carries a road or passage used as a bridge and the third is the water conduit which brought water from the springs to the Roman city of Nemausus, modern day Nimes. Uncle Davros said that in the olden days when he first came, one could enjoy a walk in the third level, where the ...

... I was born in a factory, maybe in China, maybe in Forcella (Napoli), I ignore it. I have been living the first months of my life in a box. We were a lot, all shining, but we couldn't know as there was no sun. Then, one day a voice came. It was always a different voice coming from far. This voice used to bring with her one of us. One says that going with that voice meant getting a kind of Nirvana, because, in that occasion we would have reached ...