Chenal Beauvais

... view, it was not Henry&#8217;s finest hour.<br><br>The French retired. The English army pillaged and stripped the dead, and during the night the French peasants joined in. The chroniclers state that in the morning most of the thousands of dead on the field were completely naked.<br><br>The English moved on to Calais, and the war continued.<br><br>Agincourt was important in English history, a defining moment. A small, outnumbered and weary army prays to God and fights ...

... back in the early evening the pimps and pros were getting ready for the night ahead, I don't think we would have slept to soundly there!<br><br><br>What more can I say, here we were with an amazing spot with the whole of Paris within easy reach on the bikes, we may have only spent a day or two here otherwise but we ended up staying five nights, everyday there was something to do or see its not hard to see why its such a romantic place, art and culture oozes from every corner and ...

Je pouvais partir directement à l'aéroport et m'envoler... mais au lieu de cela j'ai décidé de tester l'accueil des Français! Après un départ en TGV à 12h54 de Vannes, une escale à Paris le temps de changer de gare, mon terminus est à Beauvais en Picardie à 18h33, chez une demoiselle prénommée Anne-Laure. Arrivé à l'heure, mon hôte est là pour m'accueillir à la gare et m'amène chez elle. Elle a un gros chat siamois qui ...

... from Laon by train, you had to go down to Paris and then back up to Beauvais. Beauvais is about the same distance from Paris but west of Laon, so we had to travel in a V to get there. There must be a simpler way, maybe by bus, but we never figured it out. So we arrived in Beauvais around 2:40. We had about 3 hours to kill before we could take the bus to the airport. We checked out the movies theater, which was right next to the train station, but every movie ...

... of Auvers-sur-Oise. It was the final home of Vincent van Gogh. Here he painted: The Church at Auvers; Wheat Field with Crows; Daubigny's Garden and Thatched Cottages by a Hill... to mention a few. He stayed in an upper room at the Ravoux Inn... where he died in July of 1890 at age 37. Sad to say... this ended our Adventures in Europe...

Oh Dear. The information Mary gave me about the buses to Beauvais (Cheap flights, tiny airport---Ryanair InterEurope) was incorrect. Buses were supposed to be available to Beauvais (75 minute trip) every half hour according to the schedule, but that information was obsolete. I had missed the single, early bus (7am) and the next was not until 10:30 am; my flight was scheduled to leave at 9:30 am. So I flagged a taxi and explained that I needed to get to ...

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>

... We walked around the choir where 7 small polygonal chapels were decorated with frescoes and tapestries from the 15th and 17th centuries. The fashionable Gothic Flamboyant style was employed here, consisting of flame-like shapes of the arches and tracery.  Although the walls are many meters thick, the colorful vitreaux make ...

... swallow after the constant sunshine in Nice. After church we braved the rain and cold and headed for Notre Dame. It was beautiful and so incredible!!! It's so hard to fathom that it has been there for almost 900 years!! Absolutely incredible. So interesting to see the different carvings and architecture of the building, the beautiful stained glass, The beautiful depictions of the life of Christ. We walked around the city a little ...

... t get dark here until after 10:00! So, this morning Darin literally pulled me out of bed. I have no idea what I did to my back! Packed up and had a nice breakfast of bread and jam (I can't wait to have a real breakfast when we return!). Chatted with the English couple staying there and with the owner Danielle - very nice. She gave us wonderful directions to the airport and a map. We left for Monet's gardens and walked through in about 30 minutes. There are tons of ...