Blogs from France, Europe - page 1589

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

Hey Everyone! Sorry that I have not written anything in a while, but I was getting used to the city and my university program this passed week, and boy did it take some getting used to! Now I am settled in pretty well and am feeling close to home even if I am 5,000 miles away from Omaha. Classes are interesting even if they are a bit challenging (Contemporary French history and The Representation of Trials in French Literature). My professors are great and very helpful and eager to lend a hand when it comes to odd questions....I guess they are used to it. We had our first excursion to Baux-de-Provence yesterday. It's a little provencal town that sits atop a hill with a beautiful lookout over olive groves, vineyards and lavendar fields from a ruins ... read more

It's actually Paris Day 5 but I just got the Internet working. Day 1 we basically were really really tired after emerging from the chunnel. We struggled with the Metro b/c the billet machines were very unkind and the station was very very busy. My french was beginning to be tested as I had to figure out what metro pass I needed. I got carte d'oranges for Mike and I and we were set for the entire time here. After finding the hotel, right beside the Arc de Triumph, we took naps. After that we headed out to the Champs Elysees to sit at a cafe for dinner. We headed to a bar after that and had some wine and glace (ice cream... chocolate of course). Then went back to sleep. The bulk of the day ... read more

Another update from our French holiday Hi all - I've been getting all my holiday snaps on the computer (finally!) to show you all :) This is just to say that we had a lovely time, very relaxing and the scenery was spectacular. Would highly recommend this type of trip (canal boating) to anyone :) Hope you enjoy! ... read more

Just a quick update on day 10 of our trip, as internet access is slow and expensive up in the Pyrenees. We spent three days on Ile de Re, near La Rochelle - beautiful and quiet at the moment but expensive and going to be rammed in the summer. Then three days on the coast north of Biarritz at a custom-built resort called Vieux Boucau with Amanda's brother Steve, who met us on his motorbike. Lazy days on the beach, except when it poured with rain. Through Biarritz and St Jean de Luz, both swanky resorts but weirdly empty at the moment, then up into the mountains. St Jean Pied-de-Port is at the start of the pilgrim trail to Santiago de Compostela, very pretty old cobbled streets. Then up over windy mountain roads full of mad ... read more