This is my new journey. I leave Melbourne tomorrow, Saturday 8 May 2010 at 2250 and fly via an impossible route (who invented frequent flyers?) and eventually get to Paris on Sunday evening. I then begin a two week intensive French course including homestay where there is more French! Hopefully this will bring me across a threshold that has eluded me in two years of studying this beautiful but frustrating language.
After the two weeks I will head north by train to Lille. As I understand, Lille is a rejuvenated old industrial town with a strong Flemish architectural style. After two days in Lille I will again take a train to Le Touquet, which is south of Calais on the Channel Coast. I meet Denis there and go to Nancy/Heillecourt by car with him. I will be attending the wedding of Sarah and Nicholas. Sarah is the daughter of Denis and Farida. Denis is my long time friend from Stanford days.
After the wedding, I will leave Heillecourt (pronounced "ei-coor") and the Maillets with my newly purchased bike. I will catch the train to Nevers at the foothills of the Massif Centrale. The bike ride begins: firstly south and up to Vichy, then Clermont-Ferrand then west into The Dordogne and north to Limousin. If I have time I will cycle all the way north across the Loire Valley and on to the fringes of Paris. I hope this little diary can be entertaining and interesting for you and me.
Oh, for those like me, computer illiterates, the map below is a linked Google Map which you can move around and zoom in and out and go to a satellite image. I had thought to edit it along the way but maybe I will and maybe I won't. Ah, the whims of the traveller and the joy of an unconstrained world.
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Bonne chance, Papa!
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