Waiting for our landlord

Moving to Lille

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June 1st 2009
We got an earlier start today packing and cleaning up the apartment. At 10:45 the father of the apartment owner showed up and we gave him the keys. We were taking the metro again to the train station, but fortunately it was not too busy on account of today's holiday (the French seem to have a ton of holidays). Despite our attempts to plan this route today, the metro stations seem to have few e ... read more

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