Saturday, August 1, 2009

An aside

First thing (nothing to do with travel).
I am proud to announce that I've had my 2nd photo published! Once again, someone found one of my pics on flickr, and asked to use it. It's in the Schmap!! guide - a free guide for cities. A photo I took on Lake Harriet was selected:

http://www.schmap.com/minneapolis/activities_outdoors/#p=255636&i=255636_44.jpg

Here's the original on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theycallmecb/3552770698/

BTW - if you're interested, here's the first pic of mine that got used (I got $50 for this photo) :-)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theycallmecb/1157461848/


Ok - back to travel stuff.
Mont St-Michel was nice. I spent the day there, and had a good time. I toured the Abby, went to a couple museums on the island (it's an island when the tide is in, which it wasn't), and walked around. But, one day was enough - definitely not enough stuff to spend more than one day there.

This morning I took the train back to Paris. Hoping to get an overnight train down to Carcassonne - that wasn't in the cards. So, I got a train to Tours France - right in the Loire Valley. I'll spend a day or 2 here, and then head to Carcassonne (trains permitting).

I haven't done anything in Tours yet. As I walked around this evening, I had several moments where I thought something was a sign for a tourism office. Then I realized it was just the town's name: Tours. :-)

2 comments:

  1. HelloooooOoo CB.

    It's me, Quick. Thank you for your postcard, I never get any mail. It smells really good. I promise I won't even chew it up or anything.

    This weekend I met some other dogs when I took some friends camping. I got to wear my tough-looking new harness and smell lots of stuff. I have a newfound liking of charcoal. It's so tasty! I tried to save you some but Jon & ReAnn made me spit it out. How come the only thing they let me eat is dog food and carrots?

    I mostly hung out in Jon's lap because there was this other "puppy" there named Mason. He tried to treat me like I used to treat Trevor (and you know what that means), but I was bigger than him so I only let him for a little bit. J wouldn't let me sit in his lap the whole way back (even though I tried), but he seemed to like me okay. He said he would let me next time, though.. I can't wait to see him again!!

    I am happy you are having a nice trip. I have never been on a train before, is it fun?

    When you get back I will show you this cool trick I can do involving my tail and a headlamp.

    Quick ~(o¥o)~

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  2. A new job in the works?? Great pics!
    Lynn

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