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Got a glimpse of Paris (about 3 hours) and then travelled south to Madiere for my nephew's christening. Besides the horrible service at the airport, and pretty mean people in the heart of Paris, south France is gorgeous and people are much different there. I'm looking forward to visiting them again! The Pyrennes are amazing!

Omer was our guest for about one week and will be our guest for another week in a few days...He's Turkish, but born in Morez, France. So he has a typical french accent in speaking, loves eating Baguette - French in all his behaviour ;-))He came to Achern about 6 months before cause he was writing his master thesis there about twin town relationships. Morez is the twin town of Achern and that s why he came here.He had a flat for these 6 months but he needed 3 more weeks and so he had to f...

Our winter vacation this year, going south, looking for warmth and sun. More photos are available on http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonicwalker/

Celine and Luke are travelling through France, Spain, Switzerland + Morocco.

So I'm all ready to leave, and I get back from the last day of classes at the CLA, only to find that no one from my host family is home.  Which is fantastic, because I was planning on paying them that day, and I had taken out 700 euros to do so.  To make it even better, for some reason, the Grandpa, who happens to live about 1 hour away in the country, and who met less than a week ago just so happens to be at the house.  The great news is I can't understand him and he has troub...

The Corb tour continues . . .The day before, we had stopped at the train station to figure out our trip to Ronchamp to see the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut. One option was to take a train at 6am, but we decided we would sleep in a little bit, stop at the Coop for some snacks, and head to Ronchamp mid-morning. We arrived at the sleepy little town of Ronchamp after three train changes . . . it was like this place was in the middle of no where! The train "station" was basically a little hut on t...