Hostellerie Des Trois Mousquetaires Aire-sur-la-Lys

Hé hé !

L'Amérique latine, nous voici nous voilà très très bientôt !!!
Plus que quelques heures avant le décollage...
L'excitation et l'appréhension sont 2 émotions qui se battent en duel en ce moment.

Le départ est prévu à 20h ce lundi 7 décembre de Paris CDG et l'atterrisage le mardi 8 décembre à Buenos Aires.
Nous en avons rêvé et ce projet va enfin devenir réalité.

Nous partons tout équipés : les 2 v ...

... in Paris. I really had so much luck with the weather and the city itself was beautiful. The last few days I visited Montmartre, the picturesque artsy part of town on a hill, where I visited the gorgeous Church of Sacree Coeur, as well as the cafe where one of my favorite movies, Amelie, was filmed. I took lots of pictures and arrived there as I listened to it's amazing soundtrack.

I also ...

... well I think, travelling over 1400 miles (or over 2300km) and the car ran faultlessly! Overall it was an awesome holiday, we all had heaps of fun and all said we'd like to do it again. The next one is in early May, and is going to be a motorsport themed event, running through France to Monaco, ending at the Monaco Grand Prix. I'd really like to go on this rally, but won't be able to as I'll be on the Topdeck training trip!

... br>Yesterday on my way to work, I was sat next to a couple of respectable looking people until they got off and were replaced by an old wrinkly smelly man on one side and an old smelly woman on the other side. The woman smelt like very very very old cheese, and had a carrier bag that she kept looking into and feeling inside it for something but she never once brought out whatever it was so I never got to find out... perhaps it was the very very very old cheese.

Other ...

... The museum was a in depth look at life during WWI for the soldiers on both sides and for the people who lived in the town. One of the things they discussed the most was the Christmas agreement between the Germans and the allies that stopped the fighting for over a week and allowed both sides to talk and exchange gifts. It was amazing to see that these people could go from killing one another to sharing a smoke and a drink and then back to ...

This week I have had the chance to finally be a tourist and explore my city! I planned to travel and explore France during this holiday but as it turned out I couldn't afford to do that, and there was a lot of Lille that I had yet to see (and that is still true!).

The Musée de la Piscine in Roubaix, just north of Lille on the metro, is a fantastic museum which I took my parents to. It goes by two names: La Piscine and Musée d'Art et ...

... of the class eventually but I can tell it's going to be an adventure working with them!

Tuesday and Wednesday were mine and Erin's days off so we chilled out, got some things done, such as trips to the bank and supermarket, went to the cinema and went out for a drink with Annabelle, and before we knew it, it felt like Monday morning all over again!

Thursday and Friday were much better days than Monday, although of course some ...

With the time difference we arrived in Boulonge at 2:30 and headed south to the village of Montreuil-Sur-Mer. Sur Mer means on the sea, but deceptively this place is more than 15 miles inland. That's ok though I had been here each year while in London on a boys booze cruise ...

... the history of what those soldiers did to get there, I think the visitors can manage to deal with it. The site itself is amazing. There are fields preserved from the battle full of craters made from the unimaginable amount of bombs dropped on the site. You can imagine at least a good glimpse of the hell that they went through. Canada suffered about 11,000 casualties of which about 3,600 died in just a few days. They managed to do something that no other nation could do ...

... komt de wind, opnieuw Noord, dus bakstagwind. Eerst weer even wennen aan de rollers. Ik heb er misschien wat meer last van door de biertjes van de vorige avond. Opnieuw maken we een gemiddelde van 6.5 knopen met de stroom mee. Toch wordt Oostende te ver, omdat we meer dan 6 uur moeten varen. Na deze 6 uur gaat de stroom tegen staan en dan maken we mogelijk nog geen 3 knopen. We besluiten daarom naar de ingang van de Oosterschelde te gaan. Het ...