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... is that everything closes for lunch from 12 to 2. They are serious on their lunchtime here, and when its raining and there's not much sightseeing to do in the small towns, well, lets just say we were lucky to have enough wine to get us through it. We also tried a proper french dinner in the town of Beaune, a 4 course meal for 12 Euros. Caity got Rabbit and Tom got Veal, or so we thought. We still aren't sure ...

... operating room, and the pharmacy but my favorite was the courtyard. The most incredible tiled roof ever! It was so colorful. I have never seen anything like that. In a way it makes me think of Germany but its completely French.<br><br>It was an unusually cold day in Beaune so after touring the Hotel we looked for a warm spot to eat lunch. The first place we came to had a 20 minute wait so we looked into option 2. Tracy and I walked around the square where the market had ...

... number of 'across the streets'. She should have said to the left and down the street.<br>Again the next morning I did the same thing, but now line 7 wasnt working so I couldnt get back to the centre so I was going to go down the street and catch line 15 but there was a whole heap of construction work which meant that stop wasn't in service. So I gave up on the buses and used each stop's very dodgy bus route maps to find my way, whereupon I finally arrived at the tourist office.<br>

... bike (500kg ?) on the back of a camper leaving the site. A quick double-take showed the rack (looking just like ours) had a small road wheel centrally placed. I am dubious and need an engineer, chris, to tell me that this is a sensible idea. If so, we may be swapping the Innova for the Bonneville!.<br>More torrential rain, thunder and spectacular sheet lightning during the night.<br><br>26th July 09, Poinchy, Chablis 47.49'21"N 3.46'32"E<br>Our ...

... town in search of dinner. Although the Bungundian cuisine was tempting, the sticker price of 25 Euro was enough to detour us. We instead found a lovely little Pizzeria with a cozy terrace, yummy food, and reasonable prices.<br><br>The next morning, we walked into town to visit the hospital, "Hotel Dieu". It is actually a medieval hospice, but they use the word "hospital" so as not to turn off any skittish ...

The journey from Dunkirk went well. Soon we were on the A25 to Lille and soon enough after on the A26 to Reims; the miles smoothed away. We stopped occasionally at services - which the French do better than anyone else - and came off the motorway for a short while at Chalons en Champagne to fill up more cheaply. This little excursion was made especially interesting by a brief attempt on my part to drive on the left - it ...

... dizaines de reprises, et qui s'interrompt aux Jardins de l'Arquebuse, pour une pause en nature ; après m'être reposé les pieds, je repars en commençant par le Planétarium. L'attraction elle-même n'est pas ouverte au public aujourd'hui, une classe d'écoliers ayant monopolisé la salle, mais je peux assouvir un peu de ma passion pour l'Espace sur la présentation muséale qui se trouve au premier étage. À cet endroit comme à bien d'autres, je profite de l'excellente prédisposition de ...

Petit mot d'encouragement aux camarades qui sont sortis amochées de la grève à l'UQAM, je viens de voir les videos sur youtube, sur TVA... l'étudiant de droite qui passe à la télé, c'est nouveau, comme truc... ici, ils sont entrés (ils: on pense des étudiants de l'UNI, syndicat étudiant sarkozyste, autrefois franchement affilié au FN) dans une AG à Lille avec des barres de fer et des gaz lacrimos, pour vous dire... ça te fout une ambiance, et à entendre ...

... the map all together like I do. Most of what you want to see is in the center of town, but if you want to see like the Atomium, you can always use the metro to get there. I believe that Brussels has a bus system like most cities in Europe, but the metro system is very good, so I recommend it. As for restaurants, I don't remember that much in the way of cheap eatteries in Brussels; as I said, Brussels isn't cheap, but I'm sure they exist. One good thing about ...

Bonjour, I hope everyone at home is doing well. Things are picking up over here, now that classes have started. In general, I have class every morning from 9-12, and a class from 3:30-5ish on Mondays and Tuesday. I'm taking French Civ and also Medieval Architecture. My French Civ class has been VERY boring so far...I won't mention any names, but the prof has been reading out of his ...