Blogs from Lower Normandy, France, Europe - page 40

We are still in Lille...wish there were more options in the city department in the menus on here. Driving success for sure; we are very proud of ourselves. Carolyn navigated and I drove and we not only found Armentieres and many, many cemeteries but I used roundabouts without getting lost and without hitting any other cars or any pedestrians. In two countries, yet! Bedford House cemetery is easy to find; MapQuest gives good directions. Seeing hundreds upon hundreds of graves of young men, all under 40, the majority under 30, and many under 20 is startling. Cemeteries always have many graves but only war cemeteries have graves almost exclusively for young men, graves filled in the span of 4 years. We found the grave of my dear grandmother's beloved Freddy and I placed on it the ... read more

Hi all, This is Gemma and Colin's online diary for our Round-the-World trip. I thought I would mention it just in case we have set some people up on this link and never told them what it was about. Every time we update this you will all get an e-mail with the link. Pretty cool - and all completely free! We have never put put pictures before on this site so we hope it works. We don't have pictures yet of us in our uniforms, except for me in my Buzzy Bee one (looking ridiculous). We arrived in France safe and sound about 5 weeks ago. We have since been working in Benodet on the campsite Point St Gilles which is in the Brittany region. We thankfully are living in a mobile home and not a ... read more

Friday, May 27, 2005 Today I left London to head to Portsmouth, England where I took a Brittany Ferry to Caen, France. Actually the ferry lands in Ouistreham (wee-stra-ham.) I had initially thought that the ride only took about 4 hours but, it actually took about 6 hours to cross the channel, with the time change it ended up being 7 total hours. That doesn’t seem too bad until you consider that I was on a ferry with about 500 school children ranging in age from 10-13. Kids of those ages are not behaved or very quite. Compounded by the fact that every one of them was French. Six hours of screaming French children is more than any man should have to endure, but I think that it bothered all of the British passengers more than ... read more

PUT YOUR CURSOR ON THE ABOVE MAP, CLICK & HOLD AND YOU CAN MOVE THE MAP AROUND TO BETTER ORIENT YOURSELF. YOU CAN CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE IT, THEN GO BACK TO THE JOURNAL OR GO THROUGH THE PHOTOS (CLICK ON THE NUMBERS AT THE TOP) IN THAT ENLARGED FORMAT. Again, this is part of my attempt to chronicle our five years of living outside the USA (June 2001 - June 2006). I've already done our final year, which was South Africa (click on "Previous Entries" top left of this blog page and you can see other blog entries). Now I'm going back, looking through old journals and photos to put our adventures, one by one, into blog form. FRANCE, SPAIN & PORTUGAL 2004 Originally Written May - June 2004 In May 2004, after ... read more

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