Blogs from Rouen, Upper Normandy, France, Europe - page 6

Atleast once a day Flo and I drive to Louviers, a town not far from Le Vaudreuil where I live, either to work out or to go grocery shopping, or to see his mom, etc. For the first week or so it seemed that each day we took a different route to get there, and in fact it almost was true. Though Louviers is only ten minutes away, there are about 5 or 6 different ways we take to get there that vary from day to day. I have learned this about Flo, that he likes to vary his routes whether it is to Rouen, to Bois-Guillaume, or to his mother’s house. The other day we were on our way home, maybe 100 meters from the house, and he turned off onto a different road. ‘Where ... read more

There is a baseball website called ‘Strikeout’, which is an open blog set up specifically as an forum for discussing French baseball. It is really interesting—people are discussing all kinds of topics, from teams in MLB to the teams here in France, to elsewhere in Europe. Most of the discussions center around the activities of the various teams here in france, for instance one blog entry is titled ‘How do we defeat Montigny?’ Montigny being the Elite Champions last season (and the team that Kaunas Lituanica will be playing in Hoofddorp, Holland, in the European Cup in June). Hey, maybe I should read that one…… I first learned about the blog at our game on Sunday when the guys were talking about how apparently the rumor around the league is that Bois-Guillaume is recruiting players ... read more

Another day, another exciting practice. We got there at 2 and began the youth practice with Eric. It went great, we went over base-running technique which I think was very helpful for the youths. It was flo and eric and I, and with three coaches a practice runs smoothly. Immediately following this practice the Bois-Guillaume adult team was to meet, those players who could make it, and work on fixing the batting cage. It turns out that we did not have the materials to do so, so Eric left for the store to buy some hooks, ropes, hinges, etc., while we began putting up the signs and billboards on the fences surrounding the field. We found this task undoable because the fasteners and hooks had all broken on many of the signs. We decided to ... read more

Snapshots of Rouen Europe » France » Normandy » Rouen By ViliusMarch 23rd 2007Will GordonHere are some pictures of Rouen. I spent the afternoon walking around the city with Eric, the Quebecois and history professor. It is an interesting and beautiful (very old) city.... read more

After our practice on Wednesday Florent and I went downtown to Rouen to grab a drink with both Erics from our team. We stopped off at a Kebab restaurant for a bite—4 euros for a huge kebab wrap and a tray piled high with French fries. From there we headed down to a hip bar and tasted some worldly beers (the one I had was called ‘Kwak’—a Belgian brew. Really good one). On our way home (around 12 a.m.) we were flagged down by a group of Gendarmes (cops) who had set up a checkpoint at a traffic circle not far from Flo’s house. Flo was worried because his front left headlight was out, and he had not yet repaired it. The cops asked him to get out of the car and show his papers. He ... read more