Campanile - Beauvais

... on the flanks and infantry mostly in the center. Each English longbowman had a large pointed stake which was pounded into the ground at an angle to prevent horses from charging among them. The French also waited. Both armies waited in place for several hours. During the wait Henry attended 3 masses. Finally Henry felt further delay would be to his disadvantage, so he ordered the archers to pull up their stakes and the whole army to advance to a line approximately between ...

... early that morning, it was getting really hot and the excitement of driving to Paris and the hot night had kept us awake. But we needn't have worried driving into Paris with the sat nav was fairly easy and our plan was to do our usual trick of parking on the outskirts and cycling into the city.<br><br><br>We parked on the west edge of the city near the massive Boulogne park, we had checked out a campsite to use as a base nearby but it was rammed full and didn't look much fun, but ...

... 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 ...

Vincent was waiting for us outside the Louvre and we were off to his home west of Paris. It is easy to understand Vincent's love for his home of Auvers-sur-Oise. Clean, quiet, and picturesque... As we arrived in Auvers-sur-Oise, we saw the SCJ building where he works. From there, it was on to his home for lunch. Vincent and Rose "wined ...

... around the perfectly manicured lawns and flowers...it was great!!Well, except for the fact that it started to rain, which really sucked...because as soon as I opened the new umbrella I had bought, it broke. Figures, just my luck!! AFter I had spent awhile outside, I decided to go back into town real quick to return the umbrella, and somehow managed to get it thru to the ladies there who only spoke french to give me my money back! I took ...

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>

... of headaches and problems, and is still an unfinished masterpiece.  It's no accident she was built in France, the cradle of Gothic architecture. Work begun in the 13th century, a time where the growing burgs of France competed against each other for the most beautiful and daring cathedral.  The city of Beauvais simply ...

Spent a lovely few days in Laversines with Michelle, Austin, Bethany, Eleonore, Samuel and Joshua. The weather was absolutely gorgeous and we spent time visiting Beauvais 'Beach', the market and we went to an amusement park called Parc St Paul and Buffalo Grill to celebrate Samuel's Birthday ...

... movie) and there were some interesting photos. Two were from Paris - they showed two monuments - The Obelisk at Place de Concorde and a statue on Pont Neuf - covered in sandbags to try to keep them from being destroyed. Also saw a chilling picture of women wearing gas masks and carrying babies also in a gas mask kind of sack. There were also examples of women's fashions created from surplus war supplies - blouses and a wedding dress made from nylon parachutes and a ...