Archive for Nord
11 hours in Lille
Posted in Books, Travel, Wines with tags beer, bellfry, Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie, Citadel, conurbation, day trip, ferret, Flanders, Gare du Nord, Lille, Louis XIV, Nord, street view, TGV, Vauban, Vieille Bourse, waffles, War of Spanish Succession on July 19, 2025 by xi'an
eurostar static
Posted in Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags child abuse, Eurostar, Gare du Nord, métro static, Nord, Paris, train travel on December 10, 2022 by xi'an
It was most refreshing to hear the (very quiet) conversation of an Australian family sitting in the Eurostar to Paris across me, after being submitted, while waiting to board the train, to an horrid phone conversation of a father (?!) with his teenage child trying to be excused from a math test the same afternoon. (The level of the insults launched at the child would have qualified as child abuse. And cannot be printed here!)
[After entering the very first tunnel, a few minutes after departure] Are we entering France now?
[While still in England] Are we going to see the sea?
[Once in Northern France, crossing the wheat fields of Le Nord] This is very green, but where is the cattle?
Þe Nord Pass [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags architecture, Þe Norse face, Belgium, Brussels, gallery, jatp, Nord, passage on October 16, 2022 by xi'an
