Lily surfed my couch for a few days late August 2017. We took a small road-trip over the weekend: Black Forrest, Switzerland for a beer, France and back again. We stopped in Belfort for the night and I stayed in the Brit Hotel Belfort Black Forrest Calw Calw Freudenstadt Movelier Quick beer stop in Movelier…
Todays plan – a circle from Douaumont to Reims and Auberive after that over Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus to Sainte-Menehould. Visit a few more cemeteries and see some French country side. Douaumont Ossuary A memorial build within the Verdun battlefields. It contains more than 130.000 fallen soldiers of the French and German side. In front of the memorial…
A few weeks after my short trip to the US I was very happy to go on a short trip to France for a few days. I had no exact plan only a hotel booked towards Bitche. When I saw a war monument from the first world war I had the idea to look a…
“Our” team did win the tournament. They guys where so happy – that was good fun. Since gas is cheap we did stop on the way back from Belgium in Luxembourg. Since it was 6 pm we did also our shopping for the evening. I had the idea that Luxembourg might be cheap in the…
Far out at La Defense – you can see the Arc de Triomphe in the far distance This is the way to go: House Boat! These guys are from The Dutchland and they went a few hundred meters to the left and parked the boat there. Nice way to travel! You need a way bigger…
This time it was from the water of the river up to the little streets on one of the hills in Paris. I love to get lost in a city. You walk here you walk there and you see something that looks interesting so you go there. With the map on the iPhone no problem…
Now the bridge is full – you will have a hard time to find a spot for your lock! Looking for an escape I would too – they did hold that “kiss” for about 30 seconds as the guy that took the pictures was super slow Memorial for the Deported in the 2nd World War….
I killed your child I kill you too I kill you fish Oh Boy!! Yes – i do not understand this piece of art!
What better than walking the streets and luck around? Paris is not like Istanbul but they do have some water in the city. And a few people do have boats in the city. Not a lot left from the old prison – but they did put a golden kid up there!
It does not matter where you are – most of the wide streets have a market one or two times a week. Mostly food but also cloths and household goods are sold. Nice to stroll the stalls and enjoy the smell and the colours of the display. And if you are hungry – plenty of…
Pére Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris. There are so many graves for you to see with some famous ppl there. There are over 1 million bodies buried there, and many more in the columbarium. Wikipedia even talks about way more: Although some sources incorrectly estimate the number of interred…
Never get caught without a ticket in your inbox. Well there was a time when you had these paper tickets. But that is long gone – now that is a eticket! I like that as you can not loose it and do not have to take care of it. So the next trips:May 1st till…