ITALY | Sunday, 20 Jan 2008 | Views [625]
so this is where i am now ... sitting in the hotel and typing up the rest of my blog for some reason hotels are much cheaper than hostels in italy ... we paid the same price for a 4 bedroom hotel room, that we would have paid for a hostel bed ... so ... Read more >
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FRANCE | Saturday, 1 Dec 2007 | Views [368]
another quick note i forgot about before :) in france, universites are 'second tier' ...the people that do the best in their bacalaureat (french VCE exam, sorry i spelt it wrong too) ... go to something called a 'grand ecoles' -- there are none for ... Read more >
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FRANCE | Saturday, 1 Dec 2007 | Views [320] | Comments [1]
some interesting dinner points ... paris is surrounded by a road called the booulevard peripherique -- it goes around paris in a circle; outside this road are the parisian suburbs - or the 'cites' -- all the riots that you hear about take place mainly ... Read more >
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