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Published: February 13th 2010
Ok! It wasn't quite exactly like June 6th, 1944, or any other great battles that happened in theses seas, but it was an invasion on my own. I got here by boat and even if it was a pretty luxurious ferry, I would rather have crossed the Channel in an old 17th century conqueror vessel with sabres in my hands and a knive between my teeth... Anyway I was ready to explore new lands and sack new cities. La Bretagne et la Normandie ont vraiment ete un vent de fraicheur. Meme si la temperature ressemblait pas mal a ce que j'avais vecu jusqu'a maintenant, tout le reste etait different. C'est incroyable de constater la difference qu'il peut y avoir apres seulement quelques heures de ferry. Le monde est relaxe et sympathique, les automobilistes n'accelerent pas pour te happer, la bouffe est tout simplement agreable et il fait bon de vivre.
Saint-Malo and Bayeux were charmaing little towns, Mont Saint-Michel was a must and didn't dissapoint me and it felt strange to walk on the the D-Day beaches (in a glorious way). Then, on my way to Paris, I stopped one day in Rouen, the millenium old Norman capital : a lot to see but a dirty place. And finally Paris!! Oh Paris, Paris! What to say about this great city that has not been said. I know some of you have already been here and this is nothing new. But my impression is that this place really felt like a country Capital : shinning luxurious buildings, incredibly long multi lanes and rectiline streets and boulevards, huge roundabouts, great parks and plazas, and so on. Everything here is grand!!
C'est un des rares endroits dans le monde que je me promets de revenir pour finir ce que j'ai commencer. Il y a trop de choses que je n'ai pas eu le temps de voire ou de visiter completement. Aussi, quand je disais que les musees a Londres etaient les plus impressionants que j'avais jamais vu, oubliez-ca! Le musee d'Orsay et le Louvres les mangent tout cru. Le Louvres!! C'est n'importe quoi, ca prendrait des annees tout voire et la qualite des chefs d'oeuvres et du decor sont incontestables.
Two days ago I visited Chartres Cathedral and Versailles. Now I see why Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette got their heads chopped off. Living is such luxury while the population is starving. And when I say luxury, you have to see it to believe it. And for the ones who didn't know, Marie-Antoinette once said about the starving population when it was asking for bread :"Why don't they eat cake instead?".
And finally yesterday on way my here (Strasbourg), I stopped an hour or two in Luxembourg. The only thing that came to my mind when I reached downtown Luxembourg City was : "Oh well, this is Luxembourg." (A little bit like in Wayne's World when they are in Delaware). Strasbourg on the other hand, is a beautiful city that I still have to visit. Things look more German here ...
And I forgot to mention, since Paris it's colder than in Canada.
Germany tomorrow!! YEAH!
Love you all! ALL I said!
Nikolas
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Tants de merveilles, est-ce possible, profites-en Nikolas, et comme toujours prends bien soin de toi. Je t'embrasse fort, fort. Mom xxxx