Kyriad - Beauvais Sud

... boggy and 20,000 horses milling around during the night had turned up the soil even more. On the English side men were praying and confessing, and setting their affairs in order as best they could. Henry told them the nobles would be ransomed if captured, but the commoners would be killed. So most didn&#8217;t think they&#8217;d survive the next day.<br><br>In the morning the English set their line in order, four men deep, about a half a mile from the French, archers ...

... from a great supermarket and cheap French wine was back on the menu, so we just soaked up the sun in the park we were next to and quickly got back into the French grove.<br><br><br>After a couple of nights it was time to make a decision on Pairs, would we go for it or just circle the north west of France for the rest of the holiday? We finally decided to go for it and if it got to much bail out and maybe go to Chartles then head back along the coast to Dunkirk. We didn't get ...

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 ...

... of Auvers-sur-Oise. It was the final home of Vincent van Gogh. Here he painted: The Church at Auvers; Wheat Field with Crows; Daubigny's Garden and Thatched Cottages by a Hill... to mention a few. He stayed in an upper room at the Ravoux Inn... where he died in July of 1890 at age 37. Sad to say... this ended our Adventures in Europe...

... for the day, as I found myself freezing waiting in the 1 1/2 hour line to get a ticket. As soon as I made it thru that I went and got my audioguide and spent a few hours touring around all the parts of the estate that were accessible. It was really elaborate and everything. I then thought it was looking nicer outside so I decided to go out and see the gardens. they were my ABSOLUTE favorite! I could have spent hours and hours just ...

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>

... 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.

... fro a cruise on the Seine, go to the Louvre and see the Mona Lisa, and do the one thing I didn't do last time, which was see the Moulin Rouge all lit up at night. After Paris we headed into the Loire valley where we visited the beautiful castle in Chenonceaux and then headed on a rather uncomfortable and noisy overnight train to Annecy in the Alps, arriving at about 6am.