Picardie

Les villes de Picardie et leurs monuments. Cities in Picardie and their monuments.

... amp;B only this time it was France and we weren't too sure what to look for. Finally we arrived in a little town called Poix de Picardie and decided to stop for the night at the local hotel, Le Cardinal. It was a bit more expensive than we'd like and the ...

When I was in university, I spent a semester abroad in Amiens, the capital of the Picardie region of northern France. This is an area that got soundly steamrolled in both World Wars, so much of the urban architecture is drably post-war and concrete. There ...

Une heure de marche a la sortie de la gare et la un van de hippies allemands d'ou sort une jolie jeune fille nous fait signe en nous demandant sion va dans la direction de la Belgique ?! ...

I'm at the moment in Ault, a sweet little village along the French coast next to Le Treport and La Somme. One of the most amazing feature is the presence of all these big white chalk cliffs where the most highest point of them is here in Ault. But the ...

... trotskiste, traverse timidement la réunion pour aller aux toilettes. Et évidement toute journée à Paris 8 ne peut se finir qu'au Picardie, brasserie crade la plus proche où la bière n'est pas chère. Au fur et à mesure, certains de ces ...

... of cheese on baguettes earlier in the day. We’ve truly embraced the French way of living. This blog was mostly written sitting under the stars of Picardie, on a warm French summer night. Next blog: Belgium and Holland, the adventure continues. ...

... to eat moules in Belgium, France and Holland and I have avoided them until now, but I succumb today and have Moules Picardie, which is with shallots, champignons, cream and wine, and of course frites. Everywhere in the area there are signs that the ...