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The first few days...
I'm here after weeks and weeks of counting down and worrying and dreaming of what it will be like and making lists of what I should bring and what I shouldn’t bring. I finally made it safe and sound. Thankfully, my flights went smoothly and I arrived on the 6th of January in Paris and immediately found my professor who was there to pick me up …
Parc Naturel Des Vosges
... current. Madame, who is wearing a pair of wellies, cries blue murder as she slips and slides inelegantly to the opposite bank. Moi, I'm having a whale of a time.
Unfortunately, our problems do not finish there. The chateaux is protected comme La Louvre and we are on the inside. Pointed wrought iron fencing 3 metres high on one boundary, with the fleuve de Doller forming the other. We head, keeping as much out of sight as possible, for the gates. Sacre Bleu, they ...
Resistance
... enough town, on the Doubs River, but hardly top ten material. A citadel on top of the hill overlooking the town was the only significant attraction. It has been utilised as a series of museums, and as a zoo, which is quite clever. The best exposition is that of the French Resistance, an extensive series of displays explaining the rise of Nazism, and the efforts to resist the occupation of France.
We did our best to walk Besancon and look interested, but we failed miserably.
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Tourists
... Interestingly, growing secularity in the French population and dis-satisfaction with the extent of Papal power was another major factor contributing to "La Revolution". The old-City is overlooked by the Citadel which has the robust functionality and utilitarian look typical of military buildings.
At the turn of the 20th Century, an enterprising Swiss watch-maker came ...
Evans Wigged Out
... to Boussiere to find a café adjacent to the course. As we walked, famous rider after famous rider went past – O'Grady, Sagan, Cancellara, Vinokourov, Voekler, and the list goes on.
We arrived in Boussieres a short while later, and found the perfect situation – a bar, with a TV, right on the course, with people spilling out on to the road. We met a local named Chris, who works as a bartender in Paris, but was back home for the ...
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