Blogs from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe - page 215

Salut à vous... Je me réadapte petit à petit au Sud, mais l'arrivée du soleil depuis hier commence à m'y aider. En effet, depuis mon arrivée, il n'y avait eu qu'1 jour de soleil, et j'en avais profité le matin pour aller au marché = c'est à dire en ville ;o) L'après-midi, je suis alle voir Ziggy (le cochon d'Inde), que j'avais enterré il y a quelques années, dans la colline, en haut d'une falaise, au pied d'un vieux pin solitaire et majestueusement dressé devant le gouffre. Il y est toujours !!! Je veux dire que la tombe est toujours à la même place, mais que dorénavant, Ziggy n'est plus seul puisque 2 autres tombes sont venues garnir le pied de ce pin !!! C'est rigolo, non ? Des balladeurs ont du se promener par là, ... read more

So today was a lot of fun. I really really like Brugge. After breakfust we walked to the Chocolate Museum and took the tour. We got a small piece of chocolate at the beginning and it smelled so good in there :) At the end of the tour there was a chocolate-making demonstration and afterwards we got a truffle from the demonstration. VERY yummy. We walked to the lace shops and bought our mom's lace hankerchiefs. WE also bought a waffle with chocolate sauce from a vendor. It was good -- more like a cake than a waffle. We took a canal ride - which I thought was a lot of fun! :) And we bought ourselves two truffles from a chocolate shop - a grand marnier and a caramel. mmmm!! It's so expensive though, but ... read more

hi everyone, this is going to be really quick coz very busy. having a great time on contiki. lots of great people. got lots of friends now. been to paris and beaujolais wine region. now in nice. very nice!!! went to mote carlo last night - their prince died. but was still good. will write more when i have more time. off to italy tomorrow. love you all xxoo... read more

For those of you who were betting on when our first fight would be, the winner is 03/15/05. The good news is that we're over it now and despite it all we had a wonderful time in Avignon. The first night we were there we met two French boys Hassane and Kasim who took us out for coffee. One spoke French and German, the other French and Spanish. Both spoke Arabic and neither spoke English which made it quite the linguistic adventure! On Wednesday we went to Cannes. We saw the theater where the film festival is held and baked on the beach. On the way home we met David, an environmentalist freelance journalist whose opening line to Andrea was, "here, read the article I wrote on Darryl Hannah for High Times". He had an assortment ... read more

Traveled from Paris, Gar du Nord train station, to Lille France, and then on to Brugge, Belgium. Spent three or four days in and around Brugge (Bruges for some). The town was pickled in time by a set of economic catastrophes. The river silted up, sheep’s wool couldn’t be moved to the market, and the bankers left town. Not much modern about this town. The days were so cold and I spent a good deal of time out of doors (8 to 10 hours per day), I built up an immunity to the cold, so you may now better understand why I’ll never complain about a Chicago winter (or summer for that matter). The town was dead so I was happy to be moving on to Calais, France to catch the ferry to Dover (see last ... read more