Post subject: Fr-Fr-Fr-Franceee and België and Nederland
Posted: July 31st, 2010, 11:20 pm
Joined: January 28th, 2006, 12:22 pm Posts: 4453 Location: ONTARIbrO
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Lol hi this was like 7 days of my March Break:
Paris
Notre Dame Cathedral
Inside
Louvre
Crazy mother **** round-a-bout around the Arc de Triumphe
Napoleon
Versailles gardens
Arc de Triumphe
Eiffel Tour
St Malo/Juno Beach/Dieppe
Mont St Michel
Juno beach
Juno beach bunker
Hogwarts (not really, church in the town where the Bayeux Tapestry is)
A Canadian cemetery (with some other Commonwealth)
In Dieppe
Dieppe. There is a vertical thing to this with the maple leaf cut out, and on August 19th the sun shines through the cut out and lands directly on this... The shadow of the vertical thing creating a shadow around it.
Dieppe beach.
Somme/Beaumont-Hamel/Vimy
Memorial to those missing in the battle of the Somme
Beaumont-Hamel trench
Vimy Ridge
Craters at Vimy from the memorial
Preserved trench at Vimy
Vimy memorial
And this is the other 3 or 4 days: (Belgium and Netherlands)
Belgium
Ypres
Ypres
St. Julien Memorial
St. Julien Memorial
Langemarck German WWI cemetery
Tyne Cot British with some other commonwealth (a number of Canadian) cemetery
Battle of Waterloo (Napoleon vs Duke of Wellington)
Netherlands
Madurodam miniature Netherland city
Amsterdam
Amsterdam flag that wouldn't pick up with the wind for me (outside hotel)
Rembrant Museum
Canals
Streets
Darth Vadar in Dam Square
I went to Anne Frank's house but no photos permitted/it was night time so none outside.
Post subject: Re: Fr-Fr-Fr-Franceee and België and Nederland
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 6:10 pm
Joined: January 28th, 2006, 12:22 pm Posts: 4453 Location: ONTARIbrO
RS Name:Skype Jay RS Status: F2P
Sorry, as a Canadian I had to do the trip in March. I may catch a disease if I am exposed to June weather. We could have formed a moped gang in Paris. And a bicycle gang in Amsterdam. That would be more fitting.
I don't know if the cemeteries are attractions for tourists, but this was on a trip with the school, primarily for Canadian battlefields and some other historical aspects. Plus I guess reading about the losses of the wars has less impact than visiting the cemeteries. Pay respects and stuff too, I guess. We actually went to a few more than just Canadian one, Tyne Cot, and Langemarck. XD Just commonwealth, german, and french, though. No American ones despite that they did everything in the wars. Another reason I guess was to look for your last name and speculate whether or not you were related. Although, I didn't find any names of any relations to me. I found a variation of my name on a wall at the German cemetery, though.
Not counting Montréal airport, the trip was very fun. I thought Zürich airport was pretty cool though. Funny too because the metal detector went off on me in Montréal before they decided an extensive search of me was necessary. Wearing the exact same thing, went through the metal detector in Zürich fine. Amsterdam airport on the way back the metal detector went off again but after a brief pat down I was fine. Wearing the same thing through the metal detector at Zürich on the way back, went through the metal detector fine.
Oh, we had to take a train thingy in Zürich Airport. Crazy stuff happens in that tunnel:
I want to go back to Europe not that I wanted to leave. lol! And to go to Switzerland so I can legitimize saying that I've been there when in reality I only spent 5 hours in Zürich airport. The stores there accepted CAD and euroes and I guess other currencies, but gave you the change is Swiss Francs. So I have already started collecting swiss currency for when I go @@
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