Tour St-Georges Tournai

... 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

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Hasta luego amigos.

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..

... 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!

... the morning and finding a seat is a tough job, but I think I've learnt how to push my way through the crowd! I often end up sitting next to the really smelly person though or the drunk guy or in the same carriage as a beggar and his son. To get to work I have to go 24 stations, which takes half an hour or so, and gives me a good chance to do a fair bit of people watching!
It's fairly easy to spot the British people on the metro, they're the people that sit there staring at ...

... The museum was a in depth look at life during WWI for the soldiers on both sides and for the people who lived in the town. One of the things they discussed the most was the Christmas agreement between the Germans and the allies that stopped the fighting for over a week and allowed both sides to talk and exchange gifts. It was amazing to see that these people could go from killing one another to sharing a smoke and a drink and then back to ...

... that I have been dying to do in Lille is to climb to the top of the Belfry in the Hotel de Ville and see the view of the city. I have made two attempts to do this now, both at times when it was closed!

I took my parents to a market on the first day they were here, which was a lovely little French Sunday market in the old part of town, it was much nicer than the big "famous" market in Wazemmes, which is slightly out of the centre. I went ...

... we stumbled upon a circus tent and after enquiring, bought tickets for the next showing. The Citadelle also holds the city's zoo, which is huge and also free, so while waiting to go to the circus we took a wander through the zoo. While cooing over all of the animals we stopped to sing "compare the meerkat . com" to the meerkats, before realising that a British couple were standing next to us!

The circus was incredible, despite some cruel ...

... place there, and provides for one pf the most beautiful war memorials I have ever seen. The statues are skilfully carved and gracefully guard the memorial within; a lone figure of shrouded marble gazes over the fields, with her back towards the pillars, seemingly pausing to remember the atrocities they saw and encouraging the visitor to do the same. Having admired the memorial, we decided we were all keen to view the trenches maintained ...

... From the looks of it from outside, it was the biggest yet. As we walked from the car park to the museum, speakers along the path echoed the voice of a young girl reading out the names of the fallen soldiers. Once inside the museum we were awe struck by the items in the glass casings: putrid leather gas masks, photographs, torn flags, medals, jackets, telegrams notifying families of their son's deaths and ...

... a way since it will knock my expectations down a peg when I am applying for real jobs in the future so that I am not as upset if I do not get exactly what I want. Other than that, I am still struggling with my French but more and more is coming back to me. I am beginning to be able to converse like a one or two year old ... as opposed to be completely deaf and dumb a couple of days ago. I have decided to enroll in the one credit ...