Le Chateau des Ormes Lambersart

... démontés et empaquetés dans des cartons, une remorque, un réchaud et une popotte, des vêtements pour tous les temps, des éléments de rechange pour le vélo, une trousse à pharmacie et une brosse à dent :)

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On vous embrasse tous très très fort.
Vous allez nous manquer quoique....!
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Hasta luego amigos.

Joséphine

I just arrived in Lille just over an hour ago by TGV (in right around an hour from Paris, super fast). I got a bit lost arriving to my new host's house, but here I am, safe and warm. I'll stay here till Friday, when we carpool (two groups in two cars) to a big CS weekend meeting in Rotterdam. There I should be able to meet up with my host in Hague (about 20 or 30 minutes away).

The last few days were ...

After a bit of a hard night, we were all up at about 9am to check out of our hotel and go for a quick wander around Brugge, another UNESCO World Heritage Site. Often described as the 'Venice of the North', there are quite a few canals in Brugge, but as we discovered, there's even more chocolate shops - they're everywhere!
We walked down a stretch of road, only about 1km long, and saw about 7-8 chocolate shops, including ...

... br>Yesterday on my way to work, I was sat next to a couple of respectable looking people until they got off and were replaced by an old wrinkly smelly man on one side and an old smelly woman on the other side. The woman smelt like very very very old cheese, and had a carrier bag that she kept looking into and feeling inside it for something but she never once brought out whatever it was so I never got to find out... perhaps it was the very very very old cheese.

Other ...

... place in this area killing hundreds of people. It was a gruesome and honest look at the horrors of the war. One of the things that shocked me greatly is the difference between WWI and WWII. Air support was a brand new thing and many of the soldiers were untrained and went onto the battlefield without guns and without helmets. In fact Helmets only started being enforced 3 years after the war started. With all this confusion and madness its ...

... towns, but if that's true then they must be ghost towns!
Dunkirk does have a few art museums, but we were told that the closest one didn't have anything interesting at the moment and the others were more expensive. So we took a walk down to the beach, had a stroll along the sea-front and ate "Moules-Frites" in a sea-side brasserie, and wandered around the shops. It was a nice day out and at least I can now say that I have been to Dunkirk!

... lesson, which was with a teacher that I still hadn't met. Fortunately she was very nice, and the students in her first class were interested and motivated.
The next class however was a different story, and frustrated and upset me a lot, perhaps it was due to it being their final class of the day (at 4.30pm), but the students were easily distracted and chatty, they were rude and they were not afraid of causing offence. One of them did get sent ...

... at various buildings. All were very interesting and each professor incorporated their own concepts/ideas with each building. This became a more integrated approach to us learning our architecture. The next day we traveled to Amiens, to look at another Notre Dame Cathedral. A little different then the last, but still very impressive. Amiens was a nice little town, it houses a main university in France so it was awesome to get to see how other students in Europe ...

... and Ed drooled over the Flemish beauties in their swimsuit style uniforms, Lucy and I found a chocolate shop which was sadly closed. We checked into our B&B, the Shell Hole Hotel run by John, an Englishman connoisseur of all things WWI, and Christine, his charming Flemish wife. We decided to go for a couple beers at one of the local bars. Lucy and I enjoyed ice cold Kriek (cherry beer - which I must say was one of the most enjoyable ...

... very very good. We then went to the bar of 107 beers - could not try them all but had a great night - from here - went in search of a good club - found one - 5.00 am home time. Huge night -got up at 8.30 - cause there was lots we wanted to do. We walked around - did a cruise on the canals - then drove back to Calais that night. Highly recommend Brugge to anyone - it is soo beautiful. Luv Elle