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7 septembre 2015

Braderie de Lille

This weekend was Braderie weekend. The Braderie is the annual car-boot sale in Lille, it's the biggest sale of its type in Europe. It starts with a semi-marathon around the town, and lasts for 33 hours once the final marathoner has crossed the line. I'd...

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Tags: lille, car, friend, angélique, boot, braderie, chips, food, km, mussels, people, restaurant, rubbish, sale

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31 août 2015

Thinking of an Amsterplan

While looking for transport down to Lyon on a carpooling website, the destination "Amsterdam" flashed up, and someone was offering a carpool to Amsterdam for 19€ (a single train ticket is around 60€ from Lille). I looked up a host on Couchsurfing (a wonderful...

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Tags: car, couchsurf, museum, Amsterdam, carpool, couchsurfing, dutch, english, german, language, begijnhof, beguinage, bicycle, bike, host, red light district, rembrandt, tour guide, van gogh, yari

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17 août 2015

Grenoble

I went off hitchhiking again on Thursday, and came back on Saturday. A full day's hitching each way. It didn't go quite so well this time. Leaving Lille was fairly easy, but everybody was going to work and most were heading for Valenciennes or Brussels....

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Tags: lille, hitchhike, lyon, car, 15, art, august, bank holiday, brussels, friend, grenoble, maurice, motorbike, museum, police, rain, romans, téléférique, téléphérique, valence

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10 août 2015

Lyon

While in Mayotte, my violin and I had had a bit of an accident. A friend of a friend agreed to make me a new one, with six strings instead of the usual four. As he lived and worked in Lyon, down south (this said, everything is down south from Lille),...

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Tags: lille, hitchhike, lyon, six, trip, violin, 44, car, couchsurf, lorry, string

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