Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Besancon pendant la nuit...

Go Irish!
View from my window...
Vue de Pub de l'Etoile

Des Betises...

Very important that 5cm of the rear tire didn't get rained on...

The smallest & the best coffee I have ever had (Sicilian restaurant)

Plate wider than Heidi


Boys carrying a matress - they just ran through a RED LIGHT!

Bourg-en-Bresse

One of the smaller towns here, known for Bresse Bleu cheese and also their huge chicken markets (and also for expensive postcards :)



Eglise Notre Dame
Fenetre francaise

Brou Monastere Continue...


Inside porch for the monks to excercise



Decorations with educational purposes

Friday, June 6, 2008

Brou Monastere


The Entrance

Tomb of Margarete du Bourbon

The Inside...

Un Petit Garcon...

Ce Que J'ai Appris...

So far I have learned: (list to be modified as I will learn new skills)

1. to eat and intestine filled with something and actually finish the meal.

2. to eat green liver of some unspecified animal

3. to use my laptop as an underwear dryer

4. t0 take pictures with an umbrella in one hand, bag in the second, and camera in the third

5. that not only Washington State can get 14+ days with no sun

6. to drink a small beer in two hours

7. to write the longest e-mails to my friends whom I miss a lot

8. to travel using 6 different lines of Paris metro in one day (intentionally, just in case you wondered :)

9. how to say in French "Can you ride a broomstick?" (Connaisez-vous comment conduir un
manche a balai?)

10. that B-O-T-T-O--------------------M is not a French word

11. that (according to one of the songs) the French strive to free themselves from standing in the
line for the bathroom

12. to eat cow cheeks (yet I could not hide the look in my face - unfortunately)