Mister Bed City Hotel Lille

... 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 :)

Attention top chrono : J-23h

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

Joséphine

... in Paris. I really had so much luck with the weather and the city itself was beautiful. The last few days I visited Montmartre, the picturesque artsy part of town on a hill, where I visited the gorgeous Church of Sacree Coeur, as well as the cafe where one of my favorite movies, Amelie, was filmed. I took lots of pictures and arrived there as I listened to it's amazing soundtrack.

I also ...

... well I think, travelling over 1400 miles (or over 2300km) and the car ran faultlessly! Overall it was an awesome holiday, we all had heaps of fun and all said we'd like to do it again. The next one is in early May, and is going to be a motorsport themed event, running through France to Monaco, ending at the Monaco Grand Prix. I'd really like to go on this rally, but won't be able to as I'll be on the Topdeck training trip!

... 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 ...

... 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.

One ...

... 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 ...

... across a courtyard. As you could probably guess, we sketched a lot there as well, while trying to avoid the massive school group of French teenagers. I noticed that their field trips are similar to ones in the US in at least one way: they too have to work on random worksheets while at museums. We’re blasting apart cultural differences here with some of my observations, I know.

After spending time at the Museum, we took a quick walking tour of Lille with ...

... and the atmosphere. It Germany so far it is the speed on the highways (oh so fun) and their crisp engineering. Everything they design from the toilets to the traffic system are so well thought-out. They always seemed to make everything they design to be as simple and "clean" as possible, even though they may not always succeed. When I get Wi-Fi, ill upload some pictures.