Greetings from the coastal city of Le Havre. We arrived here a couple of days ago from Amsterdam...I must admit we were happy to leave the cold rainy weather and come into hot sunny weather...We met our new hosts Abi and Alex. They are our age and they are both social workers. Both of them have been wonderful hosts. They took us to Etretat a little seaside town with a killer view off white cli

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Perhaps it's time to put a story to the pictures. Finally. Which by the way have been added to Just check our Photo Gallery .So our life in Verneuil a town small enough that everyone might know each other even if they might choose not to just to keep things interesting consists of three things piano food and sleep. No it's not as mundane as that. It's actually quite the opposite we r

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And commentsGo check it out httppicasaweb.google.frmichelross We should get to bed soon. Our fourth and last lesson of the week is tomorrow morning at 10 Oh la la What's more everyday M.Sevilla gives us a new piece to learn for the following day's lesson ... and we've barely had time to practice after our lessons this afternoonThe pictures will give you a good idea of the vibe here in V

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The evening of our second day in charming VerneuilSurAvre a tiny town about an hour by train west of Paris and we're fully convinced of the benefits of life in la campagne . We arrived yesterday greeted at the train station by our maitre JeanPaul Sevilla and some of the other students we're studying alongside for the next three weeks two lovely ladies from Australia. Immediately hustle

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July 11 2008We began our tour of Normandy at 0830 meeting our English guide Dale at the Battlebus 9 passenger van which would take us around the DDay sites. Dale enlisted in the British infantry at 17 and while he was too young to have served in WWII he spent most of his time in Northern Ireland he was a student of military history with an encyclopedic knowledge of everything about t

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