Hotel du Cygne Beauvais

... trop fatigué pour m'aimer, mais c'est pas grave... Anne Laure travaille à l'aéroport et me raconte tout le fonctionnement et les mésaventures que l'on peut rencontrer en temps que voyageur ou encore comme salarié de "Ryanair" (ou presque). Une mine d'informations partagées devant une bonne tartiflette... que du bonheur... surtout que j'ai été reçu comme un roi... une fois encore vive couchsurfing et merci à toi Anne Laure!

... the apartment and crashed. Sunny has a huge apartment, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, living room, and a balcony, from which you can see a tiny bit of the Mediterranean. She gets to stay there by herself because all the other girls in the program chose to live with host families. So we all had our own room, which I was not expecting. So overall it was a long long day of traveling, but it was good to be in Spain. Read the continuation in the next entry.....

Vincent was waiting for us outside the Louvre and we were off to his home west of Paris. It is easy to understand Vincent's love for his home of Auvers-sur-Oise. Clean, quiet, and picturesque... As we arrived in Auvers-sur-Oise, we saw the SCJ building where he works. From there, it was on to his home for lunch. Vincent and Rose "wined ...

... around the perfectly manicured lawns and flowers...it was great!!Well, except for the fact that it started to rain, which really sucked...because as soon as I opened the new umbrella I had bought, it broke. Figures, just my luck!! AFter I had spent awhile outside, I decided to go back into town real quick to return the umbrella, and somehow managed to get it thru to the ladies there who only spoke french to give me my money back! I took ...

How about spending your entire Saturday going through chateaus and hearing all of the interesting facts about them? Ha...I would have had a better time if I weren't sick...Yes it's that time of the trip, shortly after arriving and settling in, that I get sick, how lovely! Don't you just love it when you change locations and your body is still trying to get used to the new environment, therefore, your body is technically susceptible to incoming colds? It's normal...new places, new ...

... understood the mimed bit. We drove on and spent sometime driving through the beautiful ancient town of Senlis: The walled town centre is all cobbled streets and beautiful old shuttered homes and Cathedrals. There are some parts of it surviving from when the Romans were there. We continued this theme the next day with a visit to Clariere d'Armistice where the Armistice Treaty was signed at the end of WW1, followed by a look around ...

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.

... finished: it only consists of a transept and choir with an apse.  This basically means that only about 40% of the cathedral was built, and even so, the vaulting collapsed a couple times in the 13th century and then again in the 16th century.  Either way, it is large enough to hold a decently populated congregation during mass ...

... experience. Let's just say the man who runs the establishment is now referred to as the Pizza Nazi. :) The next day Amber and I set out early for church. We found our way to the centre Pompidou and began our search for the "tiny street just off the Notre Dame end" We made it just in time for sacrament meeting. The rest of our group showed up a little while later. (It took Amber and I a while to get there....we may have ...

... movie) and there were some interesting photos. Two were from Paris - they showed two monuments - The Obelisk at Place de Concorde and a statue on Pont Neuf - covered in sandbags to try to keep them from being destroyed. Also saw a chilling picture of women wearing gas masks and carrying babies also in a gas mask kind of sack. There were also examples of women's fashions created from surplus war supplies - blouses and a wedding dress made from nylon parachutes and a ...