Balladins Hotel Beauvais

... tired army faced a well-rested, well-armed, supremely confident army up to 10 times as numerous, and bent on revenge for their defeats at Crécy and Poitiers. But the English who had tried to avoid battle, now had no choice but to fight.<br><br>Whether by design or chance the battlefield was very narrow, about 7-800 yards wide between two forests around the villages of Azincourt on one side and Tramécourt on the other. It had rained hard during the night, so the field ...

... Being close to Calais its been on the cross-roads for our journeys into Europe in the past, and is one of the best cities in the North away from the English speaking crowds, and in my opinion has the most impressive cathedral in the world (well the best finished one not including Barcelona!). Even after three visits we had never realised there was a camper stop right in the center, another good advert for the camperstop bible. The weather was getting really hot again, we were two ...

... trop fatigué pour m'aimer, mais c'est pas grave... Anne Laure travaille à l'aéroport et me raconte tout le fonctionnement et les mésaventures que l'on peut rencontrer en temps que voyageur ou encore comme salarié de "Ryanair" (ou presque). Une mine d'informations partagées devant une bonne tartiflette... que du bonheur... surtout que j'ai été reçu comme un roi... une fois encore vive couchsurfing et merci à toi Anne Laure!

... supposed to be leaving in 10 minutes, but there still was no posting where the train was. Merima asked an agent in the train station, and that's when we realized daylight savings time had already taken place, so we were an hour early. We went and got a coffee and could not get over the fact no one told us the time was changing. Oh well, it was better than being an hour late. So we had to get to the airport in a town called Beauvais. In order to get to ...

... dined" us as if we were favorite old friends. They shared 20 year old wine with us! (In the US, we buy wine and drink it that night. The French buy wine and save it for a later date.) I was speechless that they were willing to share such a treasure with us. We enjoyed a very special afternoon with them. Before we left they shared some ...

... took the train to Versailles, which is about 40 minutes southwest of Paris. There was a little town nearby (Versailles) that I went into first because I had read there was a really neat market there on Fridays so I went. It was neat to see all the old people rushng around for their produce. I also went iinto a little shop to buy a smaller umbrella and found one I liked so I then headed to Versailles. I happened to be wearing the wrong ...

I have always been interested in France. Also in the most beautiful villages of France. One of them is Gerberoy. Close (300 km./180 miles) to my home we went to visit it. It was desolated and abandonned until Henri-Eugene le Sidaner decided to reside there. He was a painter and other artists came and restored the village to its beauty it is now.<br>

Dark and beautiful, she shot up from the ground like a shadowy mountain, her spires defensive s*************e.  In the tranquility of the low buildings of this midday town her presence is surreal, as if pertaining to some ancient fantasy world of dark artists and minxes. She is a serious temptress, luring souls in like a siren ...

So we woke up and I asked the receptionist how long does it take/how do you get to Beauvis airport... she said "first you take the RER into Paris then a Bus to the airport, about 3 hrs." Just about the exact time we need if we left now. "Katie, we gotta MOVE ...

... turned up after the the thunderstorm had finished (typical!) and we went back into town and caught the next train to Paris. It's amazing that I have wanted to go to Paris for years and then I go twice in the space of 3 months! Paris was very very hot. The heat was oppressive, especially on the metro. But we managed to climb the Eiffel tower (on foot - very exhausting ...