Kyriad - Beauvais Sud

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 ...

Valencia, Spain October 27th through November 3rd Day 1, Monday October 27th Today I flew to Spain. I left apartment at 10:00 in the morning and finally arrived in Spain at 11:00 in the evening. I went with Merima, another American girl in Laon, who is from Minnesota. We were going to meet up with Anne, who took the train, and stay with Sunny, a friend who is doing a study abroad there. When I met Merima at the train station, we got a little worried. Our train ...

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 ...

... that we went on a walk to the Louvre, and went and saw the Palais Royal, which was a really beautiful garden right next to the Louvre that my program director had reccommended I go and see. WE then went to the Eiffel Tower. WE got there right at 5:45, and I was the last one in line before they cut it off, in other words I was the last one to walk up the Eiffel Tower on Sat. Oct 4th! Pretty cool! Anyways, we walked up the 700 stairs to ...

... paintings in France (after the Louvre), with a library stocked with rare and precious books and manuscripts...to pop this little bubble, unfortunately a lot of them are copies, while the originals lay in the Louvre, or well hidden and preserved in one of France's prestigious libraries. I wasn't too impressed with all of the statues of dogs (the Orleans family was big into hunting), but the chapel was amazing...unfortunately I had to run in and run out of the chapel because my tour ...

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.

... a sailor; guardian of earth, watcher of Heaven.  The Cathedral of Beauvais can be seen from the next town, and the town before that, and it looks as majestic as anything you've ever seen.    Truth is she is the highest Gothic cathedral ever built.  Ambition alone was the fuel to construct this colossal which took close to 400 ...

... I double checked the time we're supposed to leave (i though 13h30) and it was an hour earlier. No way we can take the long route... We're taking a Cab. The Cabbie then took us to the airport and we barely made it. Good by cold FRANCE, here we come hot SPAIN.

... I think we have too much luggage. Right now I'm back on the train, six of us packed like sardines into these little sleepers again. Everyone is in such a great mood :) I think I am going to try to get some sleep. We have to be up by 5am to catch the next train. I'm just thankful we decided on a cruise for our 10-day break. I give all those people credit who are traveling like this for the next ten days.

... bottom of the tower. Eiffel statues, flying birds, roses - they swarm around the people coming off the elevators and practically throw the stuff at you. Needless to say I was glad to have my moneybelt. Also crossed the river and watched some skateboard competition. Good view of the Eiffel Tower from there but everywhere is kind of yucky. Lots of trash and graffiti. Since it was a nice night we decided to go up the tower. Made it all the way to the top around sunset ...