Mercure Lille Aeroport 3m Lesquin

... 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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Joséphine

... the amazing Louvre, with the Mona Lisa and thousands of other pieces of art, as well as the Chateau de Versailles. Anyways, Paris was amazing, and now I'll be in Lille for a couple of days..

My European trip is coming to an end in about 2 weeks or so, when I leave from Dusseldorf on the 8th of December to Fort Myers Florida. But before that I still have a bit of Netherlands and Belgium to enjoy..

... soldier'. Again, it was pretty sobering, seeing all these graves.

We managed to all get completely soaked today, and it was freezing cold and windy as well, so it wasn't particularly comfortable. After that, it was back to Calais, stopping at one more of the massive French hypermarkets for a few souvenir pieces of food, then back onto the ferry back to Dover.

So, that was the Crumball Rally over! We did ...

... else trying to find out if they're British as well (hey, that's me!), and look quite defensive when somebody else sits next to them (hey, that's me as well!). They then get out an English book and try to look very superior because they speak another language. (I do that sometimes.)
A lot of French people, particularly early in the morning, sit down and close their eyes and somehow magically wake up when it's their stop and run off the train. I don't know how they can do that ...

... towns had 20 names while others had hundreds. In Ypres there was a large arch that led the way into the center of town. Upon closer inspection this arch is covered in all the names of all the soldiers who fought to keep Ypres free from the Germans occupation. It was November 8th so when we went to the arch there were already many poppy wreaths for the upcoming Remembrance Day.

The town of Ypres is small but its town square is looked ...

... art" exhibition with Annabelle, the teacher in charge of me at school and a good friend. We went to see an exhibition by Peter Klasen, a German artist called "Retrospective". This was by far the most bizarre "art" I have ever seen in my life, ranging from photo collages to toilets with ultraviolet lights to a mock-up of "The Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka, a short story which I read last year for University and found most disturbing! I'm sure you ...

... had forgotten that I was coming, or in one case, did not turn up themselves! I taught a lesson on Saturday jobs on Friday morning which was very difficult, the text was very challenging for the students and I'm not sure how much they took in. In the afternoon Annabelle and I taught a lesson together and we used the song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette which was excellent and we both really enjoyed the class, hopefully the students did too!

Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France emmajogibson

... 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 ...

was mom's phrase of the day. This morning, we planned to go see the Vimy Ridge monument. We waited in line at the train station for over 20 minutes to get our train tickets to Arras, and just made our 11:20 a.m. train. Once we arrived in Arras, which is a really beautiful city, we went to the tourist office. We had planned to take a taxi out to the monument, and we were expecting to ...

... here, was also one of Jim's favorites. At the recommendation of one of Jim's Baltimore friends, we had a very special dinner at a lovely French restaurant, Christophe's. The service was wonderful - very special for Amsterdam where service is typically mediocre at best. The atmosphere was beautiful and the food was delicious. In addition to the Ann Frank house and other well-known museums, they visited the ...