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Post by whatagain on May 18, 2021 18:45:47 GMT
Quite a nice report, as usual. However it looks so much like northern France or even Belgium that it holds no apoeal for me. Old nice boulding. Some ugly ones from the 60's. A museum quite 'ringard' (boring, and outdated), it reminds me if my childhood. I know it too well. And rainy of course. I could have lived there. Maybe i lived there... I think - think - we even stopped once there on the way home. The highway now is nearly complete from Charleroi to Reims and goes by.
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Post by tod2 on May 20, 2021 8:58:01 GMT
I enjoyed this photo essay very much. I would go there just to see the puppets...even though I did not understand a word. I am always pleased when you go off track and explore what may seem very interesting ahead.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2024 2:56:35 GMT
Well, an annoying surprise turned into a very pleasant surprise.
I logged onto anyport & discovered that a guest had left some droppings here in the form of spam on this thread.
That got whisked away, but the good surprise was this excellent thread of which I have no recollection. Heaven knows what I was doing in May of 2021, but it is something different & interesting to enjoy these pictures and the text almost three years later.
And apologies for using the lazy word "interesting" again, but it fits when a thread shows how visiting a potentially unpromising place pays off in charm and the unexpected.
I did get a kick out of how Charleville-Mézières understandably milks the association with Rimbaud. I come from "Audubon's Happy Land" -- West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. A friend there once quipped, "Geeeez. If they build a crematorium here, it will be named 'Audubon'."
Kerouac, you got some excellent rainy day pictures & brought the mired-in-the-pandemic town to life for us.
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