SO I have been back in France for five days, and they have been anything but boring. The night I arrived back in Vichy, I got an invite and headed out to Clermont-Ferrand. Clermont-Fd is the largest city in my area, and is nestled in the volcanic mountains that make the quarried stone black, strong and light. Clermont is also the home of Michelin (the tire manufacturer). Well, I figured I would work off my jetlagged by hitting the town as a tourist. I visited the Notre Dame Cathedral, an impressive dark two-spire church set on the top of a hill in the center of town. It seems all the 15th and 16th century roads surrounding it twist and wind their way up and the church is impossible to avoid. Across the Place Jaude, and a
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