The powder here is so awesome it is almost worth not being able to breath ( Read more... )

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I am here. Yes, it's going to be a good December.

The journey is almost over. I am now on my way home, currently stuck in Detroit because the plane is delayed. Strange to be in America again. And I am shocked to realize how many fat Americans there are. Especially the airport security, who are the first Americans foreigners see...By the way, It's a good thing I didn't try to smuggle any drugs ( Read more... )

• Paul made the teacher blush
• John Phillipe made the teacher cry
• 20 French teenagers put Paul in the hot seat

When I was in high school they made us learn another language. No, let me rephrase that, they tried to make us learn another language -- and they did not succeed with me. I had the choice between learning French or Spanish. This wasn't a ( Read more... )

Just when traveling around France was wearing me out...Strasbourg came to the rescue. I couldn't have asked for a better place to be for the last weeks of my trip. And in all honesty it is going to be hard to leave ( Read more... )

Went to the cemetery on Friday, the place was dead.


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Last we left, our hero was trapped in Nice. Held hostage by the evil TGV ticket agents. Using his special power of persistency he was able to reserve a train out of Nice...little did he realize it was a TRAP!!!!! They forced our hero to sit in the poison "fumer" seat where he was forced to inhale his only weakness....smoke. Luckily our hero was ( Read more... )

I woke up at reasonable hour, said goodbye to Mom and headed on my way to the train station. The walk was short, and quite lovely. The train station was empty except for the friendly ticket agents waiting to help travelers. I went up to the ticket agent and was greeted by a large French smile. The women spoke very good english was able to get me a ( Read more... )

Nice is nice. And that's about all I can give it. The French Rivera is not what I imagined. There are no beautiful topless sunbathers. There have been no celebrity sightings. And James Bond was not playing roulette at the Monte Carlo Casino. However, there have been some wonderful things about our trip to Nice. First off, our hotel is perched on ( Read more... )