Hotel de Paris Besançon

... count! In Besancon, we visited the Musee du Temps (museum of time) which houses many time pieces through the centuries. We saw the "world's most complicated watch" . Additionally, we saw the Astronomical Clock that has 30,000 parts which run 70 dials giving 122 different indices. Amazing! Besancon is surrounded by a Citadelle /Fortress, which ...

Finally got to a chateau today, but not the sort I had anticipated. I had been expecting something more grand with lots of fine furnishings, gillt etc.. and while this chateau was grand it was a bit more medieval. It had been an important line of defense in the many wars that have featured in France's history. After the Revolution the revolutionaries ordered it and many chateaux to be destroyed because of what they represented, so this magnificent ...

... interesting local fish.I told Ed he was not allowed to fish there. :) It also had a pool of large goldfish outside that you could pet. They tried to eat Ed's fingers. We checked out the "Insectarium" as well, where they had tanks of different insects from different places. Hopefully it is still there, since the room was primarily made of wood and we saw a lot of termites escaping their exhibit when we walked through. We walked along the tops of ...

An early start as the road noise at 6am was incredible; interspersed with regular trains and their sirens its one of noisiest sites I've been on. Are there any campsites away from railway lines? Feeling a bit miserable this morning turning over the persistant failures in various area's of my life to date. But got on the path. Which turned out to be alongside the previously mentioned busy road. Then the path ended and I was mixing it with ...

... daughters had taken up residence. They all spoke in whispers in a language I didn't recognise and seemed to make some effort to avoid eye contact. But with this many people going to bed the progress through the bathroom took time. I.t was all very proper and rather like being on the tube. Dad snored from the word go and one of the daughters had the gene. The room also got fairly hot but with the windows open options were limited. Later I realised I had sunburn too. So it was ...

Last night I wondered over to the paddlers fire and they invited me to share some wine. It turned out that the tent was quite hard to locate. But in the end it turned out good. They were just out for the weekend, sleeping under a tarp and cooking over a fire. Although they did have to shuffle cars. There is something magic about a campfire and I must do it at some point. In the tree's I slept reasonably apart from being too warm! If fact it was much ...

... other and at the end between them is a tiny stage rammed in between breakfast bar type tables. A band is already playing, they're trying to do country inspired rock but simply wearing a cowboy hat is not enough. They're a small band but don't seem to make much effort. They do a track where they get a bunch of people up on stage and split them into boys and girls around a microphone each. Then don't use them; they seem to have aspirations without bothering to try. The bar now has a ...

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... boutique in Dijon so much that the staff knew me by name, or at least the fact that I was the American foreign exchange student from Florida.) Finally the weekend came and I left early Saturday morning to arrive in Besancon. An hour and a half later the train arrived at my destination and I got off and began to do some sight seeing. I walked from the station into centre ville, using the same streets that I had during my first trip there. I had ...

... at a map of France and I saw this city, and I decided that I would eventually go there if the chance was provided since it was so close. Sure enough, there was a train for Besancon that Sunday in an hour, so I figured that this was my chance to go. I hopped on the train and arrived in Besancon an hour later. After arriving in Besancon, I walked to the centre ville or downtown from the train station, which was quite a walk and since the ...