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27 juillet 2015

Well, that's unfair.

Comic by The Oatmeal Just before I came back to France from Mayotte, the various news papers and channels had been going on about the canicule, the heatwave that was all over France. Thirty degrees in one area, thirty-five in another, can't sleep, the...

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Tags: ikea, lille, mayotte, autumn, degree, diy, fall, france, furniture, grey, heatwave, leroy merlin, loo, news, north, spring, summer, temperature, toilet, winter

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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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20 juillet 2015

Hot to Cold

I had asked for the Lille area before going to Mayotte, four years ago now. It was right at the top of the list. However, the French National Education points system didn't see fit to send me there at the time, and sent me to the other side of the world...

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Tags: bouygues telecom, cat, conforama, estate agent, flat, gite, ikea, lille, mayotte, notaire, own, paperwork, phone, plane, richebourg, sign, solicitor