13. Easter in Amsterdam
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Left Nancy SOOO early in the morning...
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Took the TGV to Basel, Switzeland for my flight. I flew Swiss!
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The buildings in Amsterdam are often very very thin...
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...and crooked!
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Having a beer with Nick! We are so old.
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Asterdam is interesting, haha.
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There are a few little neighborhoods that are hidden in the middle of the city.
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We went to the Rijksmuseum which has a lot of beautiful art, Dutch and otherwise.
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The garden at the Rijksmuseum.
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A real American hot dog stand!
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Nick digging in!
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Auntie Sunta and I got to do some shopping. Looking good in her new coat and my new scarf :)
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This is the inside of a department store! Gorgeous!
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"Eten & drinken". I understand Dutch!
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We spent Easter Sunday with some colleagues/friends of Anthony. They have bunnies!
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And they have three adorable children.
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Nick, as The Count. One, muah-ah-ah-ah. Two, muah-ah-ah-ah...
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Aren't they cute?
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It rained and/or snowed the whole time. We awoke to this surprise before leaving on Monday.
12. Cannes - London
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Pamela has a friend in Cannes, so we crashed at her place for a week! It's like a mini-Hollywood, French style.
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Not quite warm enough to swim, but we hung out at the beach anyway.
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Pamela enjoying the view!
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Pamela, her friend Elizabeth, and I at an Irish bar. We discovered that there are a LOT of English speakers in Cannes.
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A trompe l'oeil-- a giant wall mural with lots of movie characters (Titanic, Charlie Chaplin, Roger Rabbit...)
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A cute street.
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We climbed up a steep hill in the old part of the city-- quite the view!
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I love this one!
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The Palais Stephanie, a casino right on the beach.
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The beach at night.
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This is Antibes, where we took a daytrip. I liked it a lot.
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This didn't work out as well as I thought, but the guy on the left is their friend Adam, another assistant.
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Antibes is gorgeous!
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This is at the top of a huge climb in Antibes, where you can see a lot of the French Mediterranean coast.
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Teehee.
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Another day trip, this time to Nice. We saw these impressive break dancers, and also a riot on the streets!
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A little plaza by the beach in Nice.
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The beach in Nice-- we climbed part of that hill in the background.
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...and this was the view!
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Nice had some amazing things on the street also... what is that?!
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Pamela said hello to his friend!
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We then wandered around a lot of these narrow, busy streets before heading back to Cannes.
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Apparently the Teletubbies have been recruited to help advertise the Eurostar and its new London station...
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ALL the taxis are like this, it's very English.
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Lots of people pose on the lions in Trafalgar Square. These are some of the French students I travelled with.
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China Town.
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In England, "detours" become "diversions". Plus, check out the city buses in the background (I rode one!).
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Everywhere it says to look left or right so you don't die. Very thoughtful.
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Pamela and I with the Tower Bridge in the background.
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These are some of the teachers that went (Simone, Kristen, Brigitte, Martine, and Celine).
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Caroline and Mellisa, two of the French students, hugging a black egg by the Thames.
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The Millennium Bridge, taken by the Tate Modern where we went next.
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We saw this scene on the way to Buckingham Palace...
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...and here it is! Somehow not as huge as I expected.
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I caught the guy blinking! He moved!
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This was an INCREDIBLE waffle! Expensive but delicious!
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Pamela enjoyed her chocolate soaked waffle, as well.
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Kensington Palace and some plants.
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This is a tree with all these elves sculpted into it, at Princess Diana's Memorial Playground.
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A pirate ship in the playground, full of English children in their school uniforms.
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A frightening add on the Tube, for the volunteer police service.
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Then we visited Michael in Brighton for a night, and met some of his work friends. (They were fun.)
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A bunch of us acting like idiots, as usual. It was a late night, and then we took three trains home to Nancy.
11. Grenoble - Paris
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Grenoble is a city in the French Alps.
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This is part of the Bastille that sits at the top of a huge hill, where I got the magnificent views.
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A crazy art exhibit at the Bastille (the artist was American!).
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The Isere River that cuts through Grenoble.
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You can descend and walk along the banks of the river.
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One of the bridges...
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...and another view.
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A square downtown.
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This is Villard-de-Lans, a small ski-resort town an hour bus-ride away.
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It's like a tiny village! It reminded me of Lake Placid, actually.
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I didn't ski, but I did go ice skating! And I saw my first hockey game in France. I really didn't think they played!
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BACK IN PARIS: Mike and his girlfriend were visiting Paris, so I met them there. This is the Chateau of Versailles!
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The land around it is quite extensive, but it was a bit too cold to explore that day :(
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Another view of the monstrous building.
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A view down the Seine at night.
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This is the famous Pont Neuf, with some pretty amazing sculpted heads.
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The Centre Pompidou-- I thought it was an old building, I was shocked! Instead it's some elaborate modern architecture.
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Notre Dame again, but it wasn't raining this time! We waited in line to walk up the tower, and got some crepes, mmm...
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The view from the top!
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One of the famous gargoyles, they are so awesome to see up close like that!
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We went to the top of the Eiffel Tower! Pretty but freaking expensive.
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It makes a beautiful picture, too-- look at that scenery in the background! Still a nice photo, though.
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This is just a cute street I found wandering around Montmartre the next morning.
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They have chickens on a rotisserie in the street! Very quaint (for Paris).
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I just loved this gate! I want it if I ever have a country villa.
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The Louvre all lit up at night. Friday nights are free for under 26-ers, so I figured I couldn't avoid it this time...
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The famous ancient Greek statue, The Venus de Milo. All the sculptures are amazing to see up close!
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Another ancient Greek statue, "The Winged Victory of Samothrace".
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This one is called "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss", by Antonio Canova (from the 1790s).
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This is the crowd around Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. See it? All my closer pictures came out awful. It is TINY.
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A painting called "The Young Martyr" by Delaroche.
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One of the galleries... the building itself is gorgeous.
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They have a recreation of Napoleon's apartments inside, very luxurious as you would imagine.
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The morning before I left, I took a trip to the Musee Rodin. It's dedicated to the work by the famous sculptor!
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The building here was pretty cool too, though MUCH smaller than the Louvre!
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"The Kiss". This one is impressive from every angle. It seems complicated to do where they're so intertwined.
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"The Cathedral".
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The Thinker.
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This one is "Despair", I really liked it.
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"The Danaid".
10. My life in Nancy
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My apartment building was converted from an old hotel, and still has the sign!
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The view down our hallway (we are at the end).
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My room as it looked with electricity, but no overhead lights.
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The rest of my room with normal lighting!
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The other side of the room, and a view of my balcony.
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In France there are typically two rooms for our bathroom: a toilet and a shower room.
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Here is "la salle de bains", the bathing room.
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The view inside the shower with candles outside, hahaha it was fun without lights. But very pretty!
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Our kitchen/living room area.
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The view from the other side.
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I don't think the others quite captured the craziness of our dining table (keep in mind we didn't pick it out!).
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Brady's room (shhhh he has no idea)
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This is our street. Not the best, but not the worst.
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Now we skip to the teachers' room at my school, with Pamela pretending to be a teacher there.
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The other side.
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...and again!
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Finally, a picture of my students on strike against rising university prices two weeks ago. They blocked all the doors!
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About every month, the other 8 girls in the basement (where I used to live) organized a group dinner.
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Here is an idea of the spread... that's Gesine from Germany setting things up.
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Left to right: Jana (Frankfurt, Germany), Christina (Spain), and Sonya (Spain). They are all assistants, too.
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A little less serious...
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Autumn, Pamela, and Jana posing as always!
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These are my chorus students, on their way to our Christmas Concert at the American Library downtown!
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Jonathan is the teacher from England I work with (on the left), with Maxime, Zowair, and I.
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The girls from the chorus looking very festive!
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Maxime, Zowair, Aurelie, and I singing our part.
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Me with Gesine, who sings and also plays piano for us!
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This is the room at school where we rehearse.
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Gesine, Johnathan, and I.
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Working hard at the Star Spangled Banner, I believe.
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Aren't they sweet?
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The whole gang (albeit missing most of them that day!).
09. Brussels
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Godiva!
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This was in their main square, I think. We just passed through...
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There was a parade for St. Nicholas Day, tons of people! You can see a cool mural of Tin Tin, a famous Belgian cartoon.
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St. Nicholas Day is officially Dec. 6, celebrated in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and France's Alsace & Lorraine!
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I just love all the different flags...
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This is the famous Manneken Pis fountain, with a little boy peeing. They often dress him up, like St. Nick here.
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Some statue, and the flowers are from a charity/activist organization for the handicapped. It just looked so beautiful!
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This is just behind the courthouse (?), I think...
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Just a really awesome looking building!
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This is the Royal Church, and behind you can see blue skies giving way to storm clouds. Happens frequently in Brussels!
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Cool outdoor artwork/exhibit that was like mushrooms made of sticks.
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Downtown! Christmas lights!
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Hahaha, and you thought the window displays were finished... they have them in Belgium too! Creepy...
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Pamela & I with our gracious hosts for the weekend, Max and Sasha. They're Americans studying there this semester.
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Artwork inside one of the subway stations.
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The sign shows you in lights where the other trains are... genius!
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The Atomium: built for an exhibition in 1958. Not at all about science, all about the 1950s. Still pretty cool.
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The view from inside...
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Pamela on one of many many escalators inside.
08. Holidays!
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Autumn, myself, and Pamela at the American Library for their Thanksgiving evening.
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This is Kamilla, one of my students who really loooves America, who I have been taking out.
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Aurelie, on the left, is a first-year teacher I work with.
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Autumn modeling her "Indian headdress" with her boyfriend, Kevin, who was visiting for two weeks.
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We passed it around... Pamela is too cute!
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Thanksgiving dinner at Brigitte's house. These were the pre-dinner finger foods...
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The first course of appetizers. Raw veggies and yes, that is guacamole at the far end of the table.
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The main course was pretty much on target, mmm...
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Some of the teachers I work with, from the left: Simone (my supervisor), Catherine, Aurelie, and Manu.
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Some more of them: Marie-Christine, Laurence, me, and Brigitte (she cooked everything by herself!)
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Nancy now has a Christmas market set up downtown, selling little gift stuff, food, and hot wine and cider!
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Pamela and I shared a seasonally appropriate afternoon snack.
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The lights are all up in the streets!
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Very very blurry, but you get the idea!
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07. Out and About!
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This is Autumn (Delaware), Sylvina (Argentina), Christina (Spain), and I. There are 9 assistants in my "dorm".
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Here we have Pamela from Ohio, and Brady from Arizona in back. She is the one from my Quebec trip!
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That night we met some other Americans on the street, who were really drunk and obnoxious!
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Pamela waiting at the bus stop.
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A group of us at a bar downtown one night: Me, Katie from Scotland, Eliany from Bolivia, and Pamela.
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Katie, Charlie (one of the guys from England), and I.
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Once, we tried karaoke and they made me sing in French! It was embarrassing but fun. Plus, the bar looked like a cave.
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Brady pointing out the amazing Asian/French guy that sang a million Elvis songs that night. It was pretty awesome!
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Autumn killing Charlie at air hockey!
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Pamela with another one of the Brits, Tony. I can't really understand a word he says, but somehow it works...
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Eliany, Pamela and I, and in the back is Angela, who is also from Massachusetts!
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That is Autumn's boyfriend, Kevin, hidden behind her head.
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They made me try a TGV, like the high speed train. Only tequila, gin, and vodka.
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I made Pamela try it too!
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06. Brighton - Dover
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Mike's house is on New England Street, in Brighton. Very appropriate!
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The living room of Mike's house, which he shares with three roommates.
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The dining room.
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Their little balcony on the roof, with a great view. I stayed in the room on the other side of those windows.
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Brighton is so cute and colorful!
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The whole city has streets full of little independent shops with clothes, music, vegetarian restaurants... everything!
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On Brighton Pier, which has arcades amusement rides, and fried food.
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Brighton Beach
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Sounds delicious!
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Mike and I took a day trip to Dover, on the east coast. These are the famous White Cliffs!
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Dover from higher ground.
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We went to see Dover Castle, which was a military fort most notably during the Napoleonic Wars, and again during WWII.
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Mike walking towards the military chapel on the site.
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Inside the chapel.
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This is a lighthouse dating back to Roman times.
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The church and lighthouse again, fro the top of one of the towers.
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Signs in Europe are absolutely the best!
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Inside the castle (there were a few massive rooms that we saw, not furnished very well).
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A view of the ledge on the other side of the wall.
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From below, you can see the doors and windows at the end of the castle's tunnels, way up in the cliff wall.
05. Two Days in London
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Piccadilly Circus
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The first day I walked around the West End, where there are over 40 theatres! Here is "Cabaret" at the Lyric Theatre.
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This is Soho Square, where I ate lunch on a bench.
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A view of Greek Street in Soho, I love the buildings!
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Spamalot at the Palace Theatre.
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The National Galleries at Trafalgar Square.
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The obelisk and fountains of Trafalgar Square.
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This is Covent Garden-- doesn't it remind you of Quincy Market? It even had a guy on stilts!
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This building right across from the last one has all little shops and food places, too.
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The Houses of Parliament
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Westminster Abbey, where there are tombs of all sorts of Kings and Queens and famous people.
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Another view of the Abbey
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I really like this one, it has so much in it!
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The Tower Bridge, which everyone mistakenly thinks is called London Bridge.
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A closer view...
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This is the original engine room of the Tower Bridge, which used steam-powered hydraulics to lift the bridge bascules.
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One of two gigantic accumulators that stored all the power to lift the bridge. Huge! And very impressive for 1894.
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A view of part of the London skyline from the top of the bridge.
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The River Thames!
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This is the Tower of London, as seen from the Tower Bridge.
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My friend Mike & I then explored the grounds of the Tower of London for about three hours.
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This is inside one of the 20 towers there.
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We got someone to take our picture at the tower. I really like this one, actually!
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre! It is a reproduction completed in 1997.
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Inside the theare, looking up at the audience seating. Sadly, because of the open roof, the season was already over.
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The stage area, complete with trap doors.
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Part of our tour group, and our bald tour guide with a messed up accent who turned out to be Canadian!
04. Two Days in Paris
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This is Place d'Italie (like Italy), which was less than five minutes from my hostel.
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Place d'Italy is actually the center of a rotary, or "roundabout" for those of you outside Boston.
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I forget, but it's pretty.
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A typical French breakfast.
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This is the entrance to the catacombs under the streets of Paris!
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"Thus everything passes on the earth... Such is an ephemeral flower that blows over in the slightest wind."
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The bones are arranged so that the skulls make patterns. There are so many bones!
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Seriously! This is not a place anyone should go alone, I thought I was going to throw up.
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The Jardins des Tuileries near the Louvre. Sadly there were a bunch of empty flower beds, but it was still beautiful.
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The Louvre in the background.
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A statue of Cesar.
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Some scary guards outside the Louvre. You see them in the metro stations as well. They're everywhere!
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The Louvre and the pyramid!
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A beautiful fountain at Place de la Concorde, at the opposite end of the gardens.
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Check out the fish!
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Arc de Triomphe!
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The details are amazing....
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C'est moi! That's the arc in the background, though you can't really see it.
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Signs in Europe are awesome. They always illustrate the consequences for you... these doors could hurt children! Haha!
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This is Place des Etats-Unis (the USA). The statue and inscription thank American soldiers for their help in WWI.
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The Seine.
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Another view of the Seine near Notre Dame Cathedral.
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And.... Notre Dame!
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Inside the cathedral.
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I lit some candles for Oma and Joanne's mom. Wish I could be there for everyone... I'm thinking of all of you.
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The gargoyles!
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Moulin Rouge, which is in the area called Montmartre.
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Climbing up the ridiculous hill...
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...to the cathedral of Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart).
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And a beautiful view of Paris!
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The Eiffel Tower actually sparkles for a few minutes every night.
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The charming streets of Montmartre.
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03. Randomness
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I guess people in wheelchairs roll in the opposite direction in France!
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An electrical outlet and a my light switch.
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This controls my window blinds, which are on the outside of the glass.
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No one knows what this is. Shoe rack? Step stool? Magazine rack? I've been using it as a nightstand, personally.
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Huge square pillows! It's either this or one of those tootsie-roll ones.
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Ha ha, all five of my shirts, most of which I bought here in Nancy.
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My backpack, in France! I never thought I'd see it again, what a relief! (It only took them 11 days...)
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No giraffes on the bus!
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We came to find this at our bus stop one day. The week before, there was a pile of burned rubber in the street, too!
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And here we are revisiting the very site where I walked into a mailbox and bruised my cheekbone! Didn't even see it...
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The window displays here are amazing, and often ridiculous. Here we have an ostrich, for instance. (It gets better!)
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We actually spent a whole night walking around taking pictures of windows... this one particularly scares me!
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This one was just outside some restaurant, I have no idea what language the book was written in.
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Okay, this was a wooden rooster down a hallway, but I was laughing too hard to take the picture. hahaha, sorry!
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Pamela has a steadier hand than I do, apparently!
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"Supergrave!" Best movie ever, and I really want to see it in French now.
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Hahaha, all male mannequins are over-exaggerated here if you know what I mean, but the miniature guy kills me!
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And finally, this guy was in a pharmacy window with some nicotine patches. Simply amazing...
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These are just scary!
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This one's from the Christmas market. I think he could use some help...
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The monkey looks exactly like the one I've had since I was born! Sadly they didn't have any for sale :(
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A lot of mannequins here are very expressive!
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This was in a restaurant in Strasbourg. I'm not sure how this save spaces, if that was the goal.
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Isn't this the best knife-holder ever?!
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This metal sculpture is right at our main bus station in Nancy. It's a gigantic stack of hearts.
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Cannes: These dolls are strung up by their NECKS! So disturbing!
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Also in Cannes: "Pollution forbidden. Decreed March 1, 1978." Just in case someone claims they didn't know.
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This dog, I don't even know what to say...
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Where is the rest of their heads?
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Che is now modelling hats next to the faceless people in Cannes, apparently.
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This one was by the ocean wall in Antibes!
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In England, yet another language difference: speed bumps are called "humps". Brilliant.
02. Downtown Nancy
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This is by the main bus station, where it looks a bit more modern.
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And this is in the old part of the city.
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In the park, Parc de la Pepiniere, they have a mini zoo! With goats!
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And monkeys! They are mesmerizing.
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Can you see the little baby one? I almost cried it was so cute.
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A pretty courtyard inside the Musee Lorraine.
01. The Voyage
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This is Keflavic Airport in Iceland! I love how different it is!
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The airport again.
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And again!
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This is the hostel room where I stayed in Paris for one night.
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The window in the room...
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...and the view to the street below!
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This is the view that was just down the street, in the 13th arrondissement.
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A Parisian street
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A park across the street!