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  • Paisleys Abroad435 World Tour
    Day19

    Animals...

    September 16 in France

    Hi. It’s Dale and Mama. We are writing about some of the animals we’ve seen in France. In Paris, we saw a lot of pigeons. If a random lady puts food on your head near Notre Dame cathedral, you will have a pigeon chapeau! In Strasbourg, we went to Parc de l’Orangerie where there was a little zoo. We saw flamingos, spider monkeys, parrots, wallabies, and white Alsatian storks (les cigognes) with really big nests that are native to Strasbourg. In Cormatin, which is a little village near Cluny where we stayed for 3 days, we saw lots of cute cats and kittens, and we saw three beautiful horses playing and jumping with each other and with their owner, Celeste. It was really neat to watch and I got to ride Assia, the white one, with no saddle! Finally, I met Java the sheep dog, and his sheep friends at the Acro-Bath, where we went climbing in the trees. Java had one white and blue eye, and the other was brown and black! That’s all for now. Bye!Read more

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  • Paisleys Abroad435 World Tour
    Day44

    Montpellier aquarium

    October 11 in France

    Have you ever been to an aquarium? Have you ever seen who’s hiding under the water? Well I have. Because today we biked to the Montpellier aquarium and it was AWESOME! We did a project in school about the aquarium and we each chose two different animals to learn about and find in the aquarium.we found Chloe’s arawana and arapaima my cape penguin and the tail of my pyjama shark and Malcolm’s zebra shark but his other one the nautilus wasn’t there anymore. We saw lots of cool and colourful fish. we also saw jellyfish and sea horses but my favourite part was the cape penguins.If you were there you could probably tell it was my favourite part because I stood there and watched them for a loooooooong time.
    - Dale    Read more

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  • Paisleys Abroad435 World Tour
    Day37

    Weather in Montpellier

    October 4 in France

    We haven’t had a drop of rain since we arrived... I fear it is coming, especially when we biked under this last night on our way through La Comedie. Montpellier is ready!
    (Actually, they are part of fundraising event for breast cancer research - I learned this when we walked by them today).

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  • Paisleys Abroad435 World Tour
    Day34

    The Olympic Pool

    October 1 in France

    Today me and Geoff went to a french olympic pool and it was huge! First you have to remove your shoes and put them in a small basket, next you go into a changing stall and change into your bathing suit (speedo) then you go through the opposite side of the changing stall to get to the locker rooms. When you put your stuff in the locker you go to a shower room and shower then you put your swim cap on and go to a hallway and when you walk through the hallway showers turn on and wash you again. Finally you get to the olympic pool but, if you go up one floor you get to a place where you can go on a large waterslide or relax in a not so very hot tub. If you go up two floors you get to a workout gym with treadmills and weights. If you go down one floor you get to a basketball court. When you are done you have to go back through the whole process and then you can leave. We live only a 15 minute walk away from the pool and it is right beside a huge library!
    Talk to you all soon,
    Cheers Malcolm    Read more

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  • Paisleys Abroad435 World Tour
    Day73

    L'art partagé et l'art singulier

    November 9 in France

    Dale and Lara finally got to a gallery walk on their last rainy Friday in Montpellier. We saw Yann Dumoget and his “peinture partagée” - Dale loved how you could recognize different places in his artwork (like the sea, a volcano, the desert), and then see how members of the public graffitied them. Then we went to the Musée d’art brut et d’art singulier (raw and outsider art) - it was filled with wondrous and creative paintings and sculpture - many of the artists were institutionalized with mental health issues, and were not initially recognized as artists for this reason. Dale noticed lots of cats, Lara loved the powerful colours and (sometimes playful, sometimes disquieting) creativity. We are posting a few photos here to “educate” (sorry, copyright reference...). Thank you in advance to the artists!Read more

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  • Paisleys Abroad435 World Tour
    Day33

    "Welcome to France..."

    September 30 in France

    I heard this (spoken sympathetically) three times last week, from locals... here’s why - Our first travel SIM card finally ran out. We had picked it up in the Reykjavík airport, so this time, Geoff figured the train station would be a place to start... this was followed by many subsequent visits to the provider “Bouygues” where we were told “this is not our product” (despite the company name on the card). After having to activate (by phone), then register our identity (by phone), then switch providers, find a new card, show our passport and register our identity, then dial more phone numbers in a confusion sequence... we finally, several days lasted, have a French phone number and data plan... in contrast, check out what we had to do with Vodaphone in Iceland!Read more

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  • Paisleys Abroad435 World Tour
    Day46

    Montpellier Handball

    October 13 in France

    What a night. Me and Geoff went to a European handball game between the French league champions and the Hungarian national champs. European Handball is a mixture of ultimate, basketball and soccer. The point of the game is to score the most points in one hour by throwing the ball into the opponents net.
    See more rules in this video link.
    https://youtu.be/L0Y8qFFVPXw

    The two teams exchanged the lead multiple times and the final score was...(see pictures).

    After the game finished my bike got a flat tire so we walked to the tram station to find out that the ticket machine wouldn’t take Geoff’s credit cards and he had no cash. We only had six minutes until the next tram came so we went to a close-by bank and discovered that it had just closed for the night. We still had no tickets so we missed the tram. We were about to start walking a 1 hour 30 walk back to the apartment when Geoff had a brilliant idea. We crossed the street to the other ticket machine and luckily it worked! Sadly we had another 15 minute wait till the next tram came. We heaved our bikes onto the tram and rode the tram back to the apartment.
    Cheers Malcolm 😜    Read more

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  • Marc HartleyBackpack around France
    Day51

    Montpellier : récap'

    November 29 in France

    Je suis resté à Montpellier 6 jours. Pourquoi pas plus d'infos sur le blog? Tout simplement parce que chaque jour était similaire au précédent : "Les jours se suivent, mais... mais si, se ressemblent"
    J'ai toujours dormi au même endroit, je n'ai jamais été chassé. J'ai fait la manche au même endroit. J'ai mangé le soir dans des associations (Restos du Cœur, Croix-Rouge, etc...)
    La question est : quelle différence entre avec et sans routine?
    Savoir où dormir, ne pas être inquiet de manger, c'est un luxe. C'est déstressant, on commence à voir apparaître la "vie normale" : lorsque je suis sur le chemin du retour, j'ai l'impression de rentrer chez moi. J'ai même des horaires de "travail" définis par les heures d'ouverture des associations.
    La vie n'est pas encore facile, mais elle l'est déjà plus que de ne pas avoir de routine.    Read more

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  • Marc HartleyBackpack around France
    Day48

    L'amie des pigeons

    November 26 in France

    Samedi, j'avais passé un bout de soirée avec une femme très sympathique. En se quittant je lui ait laissé mon numéro pour une séance de Slack Line. Finalement ça ne s'est pas fait, mais elle m'a présenté ses pigeons adoptifs (en photo : Caramel)
    C'était franchement amusant de voir cette femme siffler dans la rue et voir apparaitre une dizaine d'oiseaux venus de nulle part pour manger dans sa main!
    Ça m'a fait prenser à une scène de Blanche-Neige, chantant avec les oiseaux    Read more

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You might also know this place by the following names:

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