Hostellerie Saint-Vincent Beauvais

... Azincourt and Tramécourt. There they pounded their stakes in again (if the French had attacked at that time things might have turned out very differently). With their defenses in place and set, the English longbowmen, now within range of the French began shooting.<br><br>The French were so numerous in the confined space that their lines were about 40 men deep! The French knights charged, some on horseback and some dismounted (having taken the lesson of Crécy). The field ...

... looked like we might get away with camping near the park as there seemed lots of campers and places to park for the day. We cycled towards the city excited as children, its been fifteen years since I was last in Paris and Sharon has never been, its one of the last major places in western Europe we haven't been to together, for one reason or another we just never made it. So to see the tower for the first time spurred us on, it felt like the end of a marathon the legs were empty ...

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 ...

... dined" us as if we were favorite old friends. They shared 20 year old wine with us! (In the US, we buy wine and drink it that night. The French buy wine and save it for a later date.) I was speechless that they were willing to share such a treasure with us. We enjoyed a very special afternoon with them. Before we left they shared some ...

... train back into town and met Steph. We met up and went to a special wine shop, a cheese shop, and ran to the store to get a couple of baguettes...one of the best meals I had in Paris! Well, except for the fact That I chose to get Munster Cheese (which I love in the U.S., ) but it definitely was NOT the same in Paris. It smelled like rotten eggs and we couldn't even bare to open it so we put it out on the window sill in hopes that one of ...

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>

... the highest one.   We arrived in the sleepy town of Beauvais at around noon, when not a single soul or car was in sight.  We parked and looked around, wondering if we really were alone, half expecting tumbleweed to start rolling by.  The sight of the massive church distracted us from the solitude, and we approached silently ...

... Paul and I were scared to death on a ride that took you up way higher than the trees then plummeted you to the ground, "I want to get off!!!" was repeated several times... We had a really relaxing time and Michelle, Austin and family ensured we had a fantastic start to our trip - Thank you!!!

... made from a military blanket. After the museum we made our way to Giverny. The towns and countryside were different than those in the Loire. The towns were farther apart and they didn't have a distinct town center like those we had driven through earlier. And the cows were mostly brown instead of spotted. We took one wrong turn in Everuex and had to turn around - what we saw of that town didn't look too appealing - glad I changed our original reservation to ...