Mercure Atria Arras Centre 3m

Or at least, the Lille metro.<br><br>Lille's metro system was the first one in the world without a driver, which is pretty clever really. It does make the journeys interesting, however!<br>As there is no driver, sitting right at the front of the train you can look at the tracks straight ahead of you, which is quite good fun really and reminds me of being on a rollercoaster! Of course I don't sit there screaming and shouting. At least not all the time.<br>Getting on the metro early ...

... The museum is, of course, in a old swimming pool, and sculptures decorate the sides of the basin which is still in tact, the shower cubicles and changing rooms hold other works such as textiles and painting, and the rest of the building is dedicated to incredible art. Every so often sounds of children enjoying a swimming pool are played, which is actually a bit creepy! I enjoyed it much more than the Musée des Beaux Artes in Lille.<br><br>One ...

... important language for them to have, as most of them don't ever plan on going to an English speaking country, and so their level of English is really not very good. They really do try, which I see and I appreciate it, but it can be really difficult when trying to get my point across. During the observation period the only contact I had with students was the asking and answering of questions, which was quite simple and easy for them and gave me a ...

... had a sketching guest teacher for the weekend who was an amazing sketcher/artist/architect. The first place we went was an old fortified palace up on a hilltop. It was mostly remains, but very beautiful in its own way. The next place we went was the village of Laon, a little bit more hoppin' then the last because there ere more than 2000 citizens. There was a very elaborate Notre Dame Cathedral here which we toured and sketched.<br>After we visited these two places ...

... a street stall and took a walk around Vieux Lille up to the Catédral Notre Dame de la Treille which is an incredible building. It was built during two different centuries and the modern front of the building has only been finished for ten years, having been completed in 1999.<br>Monday eventually arrived and it was back to work for both of us; I was up at seven to catch the metro and eight to be at school by nine. This week I have only been observing classes, however not only English ...

Met up with Danielle, finally had someone to ***** to about how heavy my pack is! My own fault... i know..<br>Camping at the festival meant sleeping in the local rugby field (apparently these guys are alright over here).<br><br>First night - Ting Tings and Coldplay, Coldplay were amazing! In between a thunderstorm he came out and played in the middle on piano... right in front of us. <br>Got ...

... to the Swiss border - so he had a chart out and explained the layout; the countries affected, differing railway and supply lines behind the various lines etc. Very informative. We also checked out a German trench, German Trench Mortar; barbed wire and some other bits and pieces so the children could understand some of the terminology to by used and see for themselves what Steve and I would be talking about. This cemetery ...

... shell, explaining why they are called Coquilles St Jacques in French.<br>There are various stories about St James, including one that after Jesus&#8217; death, he walked until he came to Fisterra (ie as far as he could go without falling off the edge of the world), to spread the gospel. In the end his bones were believed to have been miraculously brought back to Galicia and in the eleventh century the cathedral was built over his grave in Santiago de la Compostela ...

... ferry crew, however Chris in his wisdom decided it wasn't tight enough so proceeded to rachet on a few more pulls, a loud snap and the webbing had come loose, fine I thought giving him a hand to try and get it on again, alas to no avail and we had to look a pair of tools calling the lad back to fix it. Bikes safely bolted down were off for a coffee. We navigated our way to the B&amp;B without a problem and did ...