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By Jackercrackie
November 3rd 2008

No Fat Chicks

Europe » France » Île-de-France » Paris

Aaaaah Paree. I feel so comfortable here, like I already spent ten days exploring this city from end to end two months ago. Two months!!! It wouldn't be Paris without losing my way. At least this time I wasn't dragging my bags to and fro. The hotel I'm staying at is in St. Germain de Pres, which is adjacent to the arrondissment that I lived in when I first arrived. Therefore, I really do know this area pretty well, and I knew exactly what I was looking for. I only have a day and a half here, so I have to [View Full Entry]

By SimonPoulinMarkle
November 2nd 2008

Biaritz

Europe » France » Aquitaine » Biarritz

Biaritz la nuit

Salut tous le monde voici dautre photo pour vous rendre bien jaloux de nous!!!! alors bon a Biaritz station balenaire par excellence de la cote basque, jai pris une lecon de surf. Pour ma lecon de surf nous (moi et des inconnu) avons ete a hendaye, une ville une peux plus au sud de Biaritz. Donc linstructeur, asser sympa mexplique comment prendre une vague et ensuite comment lever sur la planche, je mexecute sur de petite vague et je reussi a finir deux vague (soupir de fierte). je men allais prendre une derniere vague quand de titanesque nuages gris nous encercle [View Full Entry]

By SimonPoulinMarkle
November 2nd 2008

Lourdes

Europe » France » Midi-Pyrénées » Lourdes

le chateau fort de lourdes

La ville de lourdes, elle est lourde, notre premiere impression cetait une ville un peux mal famé mais bon sava. alors je vous expliquede koi il sagit comme vous le savez tous a longeuil il y a une ecole secondaire privée qui etait anciennement que pour les filles du nom de "NDL" soit " NOus devenons lesbienne" ou alors la version plus sobre de Notre Dame de Lourde, est cette dame de lourdes, cest Sainte Bernadette qui a trouver une source car la Sainte Vierge lui etait apparu 18 fois (cest nimportekoi) donc leveché du coin a fait constuire unb sanctuare [View Full Entry]

le sanctiaire de bernadette deuxieme etage

By riiiiiii
November 2nd 2008

Now I love doors.

Europe » France » Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur » Aix-en-Provence

Japanese rust was my beloved muse for a year; now it’s French doors. They take my breath away. The peeling paint, the worn wood near the bottom where thousands of feet have bumped them, the centrally-placed ornate doorknobs, the wrought iron occasionally serving as the appetizer to the main dish, the graffiti so often decorating them… The symbolism of both my international muses is not lost on me either, in case you were wondering. And what a shame that I cannot photograph them. Almost on par with the fact that I’ve been here one month, and I have not been able [View Full Entry]

By SimonPoulinMarkle
November 2nd 2008

Cauterets

Europe » France » Midi-Pyrénées » Cauterets

la vue de notre hotel

eih oui cauterets, notre chambre dhotel 2 etoile (gros luxe) avec vu sur les montagne ensoilleyer et enneiger. a cauteret, cetait lhalloween et nous avons feter en regardant la televison et en inventant chancun une histoire dhorreur. NOus avons aussi ete au pont despagne qui malheuresement nest pas en espagne et ny mene pas mais bon. mais cetait quand meme tres bien. (jai mal dormi pcq myriam prenait toute la place) Simon Je ne suis plus en forme!!!! j ai eu une grande difficulté a monté une montagne relativement facile et simon devait toujours m attendre j étais pas tres fier [View Full Entry]

By Carine en France
November 2nd 2008

Vacation : Avignon

Europe » France » Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur » Avignon

On the train
Kristi, me, and Vince on our way to Avignon!

It has been a very long time since I've written and I've been dreading this...there's so much to write about the All Saint's Vacation! To start, I'll tell you about two of the most HORRIBLE days I've had since I got here - the Thursday and Friday before I left for vacation. On Thursday I was supposed to leave for the metro at 6:50 a.m. and was instead woken up by my "French mother" at 7 a.m. asking if I was supposed to have left already. I got ready in 10 minutes and ran to the metro and then all the [View Full Entry]

By Meglocks
November 1st 2008

Vienna or bust

Europe » France » Île-de-France » Paris

Hello hello! it is just about 8am in the morning here on the first of November. This past week has been pretty busy, like they all have been. We had a 5 page paper due for our writing class, a trip to a tiny museum on the other side of Paris for art history, and an almost 12 hour day for another class. The twelve hour day, this past thursday, turned out to be amazing. Starting off with normal classes, and then we left the Center to go to the Cinematheque francaise (a huge builing-designed by frank gehry-dedicated to displaying, preserving, [View Full Entry]

By carterface
November 1st 2008

Grenoble

Europe » France » Rhône-Alpes » Grenoble

Grenoble

I had my second couchsurfing experience with a 40 year old man named Joel. It wasn't planned though, see I thought the farmers would let me arrive on Saturday, but on Thursday they told me "no." So I went on the emergency couch search and posted a help message. And Joel responded. He picked me up at the train station and took me to his village, just ten kilometers away. He had a private room for me and the first thing I did was sleep. Like I've said, traveling takes everything out of me. It turned out that Joel is going [View Full Entry]

By OneForTheRoad
November 1st 2008

Nose Bleeds and Lemon Wedges

Europe » France » Poitou-Charentes » La Rochelle

Chris and Sarah
in alphabetical order

Yes finally finally finally, a week later, I am taking time out from my 2,000 word Shakespeare paper to tell you all about my trip to La Rochelle. First of all, the basic outcome of this trip is that I am in love with France. If I spoke better French, that is where I would live. At first, the entire city, well the entire country, made me nervous. I knew that I would have to do all of the communication and that scared me more than you might think. I always freeze up when people speak French to me and my [View Full Entry]

By Jackercrackie
October 31st 2008

She's Not Like Ozzer Americains

Europe » France » Nord-Pas de Calais » Lille

Lille's River de la Deule

After a day, I’m not sure four days here will be too long. The people have been amazing so far. There’s a huge language barrier, I didn’t realize Gaspard wasn’t fluent in English. We went to hang out with some of his friends last night who thought it would be fun to speak English all night, mostly for my benefit, but I think people like to show off their multi-linguality. Today I wandered around myself, and went to Vieux Lille. I passed a friterie, which, if you know my favorite food, you know how excited I was. Gaspard tells me that [View Full Entry]

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