Citea Avignon

... Joux Valley was suggested, about an hour&#8217;s drive up in the Jura Mountains to the north and west of Trélex. <br><br>(The Jura Mountains are the place wh**e geologists det**mined th**e had been a previously unknown historical p**iod which they named Jurassic (supposed to be from about 200,000,000 to about 140,000,000 years ago if they got that right); the p**iod paleontologist feel was "the age of the reptiles." So in a sense, any public land in ...

... with a French children's rights NGO called Terre des Hommes, one with the Director of the International Peace Bureau, and one that was with a friend and her friend who have started an NGO for street children in Uganda and have done quite a bit of hands on research of Ugandan schools. This week I have three more, one from a child labor specialist at the ILO, one with a graduate professor of children's rights and education, and one ...

... of Geneva are teased about having large elastic smiles &#8211; no joke was given in support.<br><br>Other topics included healthcare reform not only in the US but in Switzerland too, where the cost of government mandated insurance keeps rising to the point of impossibility for some people. This led to a discussion on the respective strong and weak points of capitalism and socialized services, and centralized medical insurance, the world economy and where the ...

... hear from the highway out toward the clearly-visible lake, it was a restful walk. We arrived back in the house around 5:30 and had dinner around 7:00. We talked of many things: school, and jobs and retirement (Mr. Vernaud recently retired), Church history, the B&amp;B, current affairs in our church, the swine flu, international relations and prophecy, to name a few.<br><br>By the time we finished dinner I was quite tired so I retired about 9:00 and am hoping for a good night's sleep.

Uninteresting day, finally escaped Mulhouse thought I would have to stay there forever ha ha. Got the train to Basel again then a coffee I needed the toilet so went off to find it taking only a small amount of swiss francs with me as we did not have many as we had not been in Switzerland. I only had 150 and the toilet was 2 so I spoke to the woman and she would not let ...

... 20 feet from a toilette. They start them off young here!<br>2) Lyon again - We're working our way out of town and notice that we're driving through an area that is not "the nicest part of town". Then, I see a relatively attractive woman standing on the side of the road in a short dress which is low cut. 40-50 feet later, there's another woman on that side of the road. Then several more on the other side. And lots of industrial trucks parked ...

... we dance, we dance. We didn't actually dance on the bridge, but I thought it was pretty useless since it didn't even reach to the other side of the river. The next day we woke up and had breakfast at the hotel and headed to the Palais des Papes. This is the most exciting part of Avignon. When Rome wasn't safe for the pope in the 14th century, he built this Gothic palace in Avignon where he would be safer. This place was huge. We couldn't take pictures ...

So there wont be too much in this one, but mainly a few photos of where we are and the area around. We went for a drive yesterday around part of the Vaucluse area which is an area of Provence with lovely villages everywhere. Narrow cobbled streets and picturesque old houses and buildings - L'Isle sur le Sorgue with it's Sunday market, Fountaine de Vaucluse which is the ...

... biscuits (cookies). Absolutely perfect. After lunch we went into the Popes' palace. We all got an audio tour that took us through each room. I took pictures even though she told me not to but I figured with the flash off, I was was good to go. I felt like this placxe could have been preserved a little better but it was still in good condition considering it's age and size. After the palace, Sheila and ...

... town there was weirdos dressed in all kind of outfits from cows to dudes as ballerinas and they all had a heap of people following them cheering and buying them beers. Another short one but if anyone has been reading Adams sight he keeps a diary of what he terms Hastieisms. Which is just basically stupid things i say i think his is onto his 6th book. But people let me tell u i´m not the only idiot on this tour. Adam looks at me the ...