Blogs from Brittany , France, Europe - page 26

Hey Guys, Its summer time again which must mean its time to go wandering with my bike. I’m with my brother this year and we’re travelling round France...hope you enjoy! After a very comfortable night sleep on the floor of the ferry we docked at Saint Malo at 8.30 French time and it was time for Chris’ baptism of fire in the morning traffic of Saint Malo. With no real street map but a good ‘general idea’ of where we were going we set off . Next was a town called Dinan where we found breakfast and some supplies for the day (although we did cycle past the supermarket on the first attempt giving us two chances of riding up the same hill). After this we had several hours of cycling along fast relativley empty french ... read more

Rennes: Rennes was an interesting place. It was a reasonably sized settlement where, it seemed, the students had a grasp of the streets. Graffiti everywhere, but not the usual commonly found French graffiti, here it was street art. That and the dirty, stone, medieval buildings gave it a slight Gothic but definitely grungy feel. I had not heard from Mr 'T' since I had contacted him a few days before leaving home. The arrangements were vague and general, “not sure which day but I’ll call before I arrive”. I had tried to call but I hadn’t received an answer. We were nearing the outskirts of Rennes, when he finally got in touch. We arranged to meet in the town square. The square was alight with atmosphere. There was a collective of bars and restaurants many with ... read more

Bonjour tout le monde! It's hard to believe that 5 days have already passed since the journey began with this group of students. It was a wild beginning to the trip, with a 3 hour delay at the St. Louis airport and BARELY making the flight from Chicago to Paris (the airline held the plane for us for about 25 mins because we were such a large group). But it gave us an early insight into how our students would deal with and adapt to unexpected changes; all were amazingly good sports with zero complaining! Some students played cards, a small group did a couple of "laps" around the terminal, others read or listened to iPods, some chatted with us, and all adapted well to the unexpected delays. It bode well for the trip as a ... read more

the flight to paris was three and a half hours late, so we had prepared ourselves for the long haul at the waiting lounge, using our favorite tool to kill time, anupama and me think on same wavelength on this issue. started with ice cream and moved on to tea and chips when we the heard the boarding call just half an hour after the scheduled time. the announcer was not so sure and would stop in the middle, so we ignored the first few announcements as a mistake. but after the third one they could not be ignored further and the flight did actually start just after an hours delay. looks like we are going by road, anupama commented sleepily as the plane taxied for almost an hour before taking off. the delay in the ... read more

Ireland was incredible, Scotland was a divine revelation and England was ... ok? Even If I had a blast in London, England in general is totally outmatched by its two neighbors ... from a traveller point of view. I'm glad to be on the continent now, especially for the food ... and a few other things. After a once in a lifetime experience in Scotland, my stay in York and Oxford was a bit of a disappointment. York c'est un peu comme la ville de Quebec : Super beau, meme cute, tres propre ... pi c'est ca! Pour ce qui est de Oxford, c'est probablement mieux y etudier que la visiter. But London on the other hand, was great! In my opinion, it is a bit like New York City : I wouldn't live here but ... read more