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 Post subject: Fr-Fr-Fr-Franceee and België and Nederland
PostPosted: July 31st, 2010, 11:20 pm 
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Lol hi this was like 7 days of my March Break:

Paris

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Notre Dame Cathedral

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Inside

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Louvre

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Crazy mother **** round-a-bout around the Arc de Triumphe

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Napoleon

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Versailles gardens

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Arc de Triumphe

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Eiffel Tour


St Malo/Juno Beach/Dieppe

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Mont St Michel

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Juno beach

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Juno beach bunker

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Hogwarts (not really, church in the town where the Bayeux Tapestry is)

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A Canadian cemetery (with some other Commonwealth)

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In Dieppe

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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.

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Dieppe beach.


Somme/Beaumont-Hamel/Vimy

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Memorial to those missing in the battle of the Somme

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Beaumont-Hamel trench

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Vimy Ridge

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Craters at Vimy from the memorial

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Preserved trench at Vimy

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Vimy memorial


And this is the other 3 or 4 days: (Belgium and Netherlands)

Belgium

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Ypres

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Ypres

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St. Julien Memorial

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St. Julien Memorial

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Langemarck German WWI cemetery

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Tyne Cot British with some other commonwealth (a number of Canadian) cemetery

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Battle of Waterloo (Napoleon vs Duke of Wellington)


Netherlands

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Madurodam miniature Netherland city

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Amsterdam

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Amsterdam flag that wouldn't pick up with the wind for me (outside hotel)

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Rembrant Museum

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Canals

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Streets

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Darth Vadar in Dam Square

I went to Anne Frank's house but no photos permitted/it was night time so none outside.


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PostPosted: July 31st, 2010, 11:20 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Fr-Fr-Fr-Franceee and België and Nederland
PostPosted: August 1st, 2010, 12:06 am 
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Why did you go to the graveyards? XD

Is that actually a tourist attraction? o.0 or was there another reason?

Anywho you should of done this trip a month ago. You went the exact same route i did. We could of made a biker gang. Without the bikes.

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 Post subject: Re: Fr-Fr-Fr-Franceee and België and Nederland
PostPosted: August 1st, 2010, 2:08 am 
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That looks like a really fun trip. I'm really into history and would love to check all those places out. Really cool and funny pictures, too.

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 Post subject: Re: Fr-Fr-Fr-Franceee and België and Nederland
PostPosted: August 1st, 2010, 5:59 am 
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Very nice pictures, thanks for sharing them. Looks like you had lots of fun!

I'd like to go visit some of those places. I don't even have a passport yet though. :P


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PostPosted: August 1st, 2010, 9:35 am 
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it's okay mike, you and shane can come to san francisco. i'll take you guys out and get some pizza and let shane meet some interesting people :D

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 Post subject: Re: Fr-Fr-Fr-Franceee and België and Nederland
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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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