Minotel Le Grand Cerf Douai

... 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..

... 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 ...

... therefore imagine how disturbing it was to see this torture machine in real-life!
Parts of the exhibition were very interesting, and the artist takes inspiration from contemporary society and when explained, some of his works make a lot of sense, but some of them are incredibly strange!

Yesterday I took a trip to Dunkirk with two other English girls, my guide-book says that Dunkirk is the most interesting of Nord-Pas-de-Calais ...

... with animals, we really enjoyed the acrobatics and the incredible diversity of the circus. Acts came from all over the world, including England and Kenya and was well worth the 7€!

My Sundays are now typically spent preparing for school on Monday, after a nice lie-in and a visit to the Sunday morning market, of course!

This week at school I began teaching. However, not many of the teachers remembered this. I arrived for my ...

... 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 ...

... still yet to fully explore! And we spent the rest of the day back in Ikea and exploring our new surroundings.
That evening we explored a little bit of Lille's nightlife and enjoyed a few cocktails just me and Erin and had a night-time walk through Vieux Lille (which was fun until it started raining)!
We spent our first Sunday on a culture trip in the "Muséé des Beaux Arts" which is free on the first Sunday of every month and was a fantastic experience, after which we got a crepe ...

... until Friday as she "enjoys the company"!
On Sunday night we saw Lille by night and ate local food in a lovely restaurant with its own brewery in the cellar!
On Monday and Tuesday morning we did pratical things such as getting French phones sorted out, opening bank accounts and visiting the "foyer des jeunes" where we will be staying together in a studio apartment. Everything seemed very nice and we know that there are a couple of other English assistants staying ...

... We got a room instantly, overlooking the town square - the only problem was that it was on the third floor - again! Looking around the town with all its lovely old style buildings, it was hard to believe that it was totally razed in WWI Click here and rebuilt in the original style in the 1920's. Our battlefield tour was in a minibus with 6 other tourists and a brilliant guide Christine. She was a local resident who had lived in Ypres all her ...

... in French! Audrey's school and staff seem pas trop mal. First lesson on Friday, 2 days at uni in Douai Wed/Thu. Visited 2 houses in the evening but too big, need redecoration, difficult to heat, etc. Mon 01 Sep 2003 -oOo- By chance trip to a bar/tabac, nearly got a house in Arleux (between Cambrai and Douai) but missed out to someone else by 2 hours! The search continues... We'll take the ...