17-April-2011
Rome to Paris by train.
It's always such an experience to go to sleep on a train in one country and wake in a different one.
Last night we left Roma and travelled through Florence ,Milan and Switzerland and woke in France on our way to Paris. In doing that we have left behind rocky rugged volcanic countryside with what appeared to be random plantings of citrus everywere including alongside the railway tracks, grapevines and market garden plots in rich black volcanic soil in the middle of the city and we have arrived in the French countryside.
We are currently travelling through fields of green and gold canola, neatly planted and villages geometrically set out with neat french homes on garden plots with red soil. The sky seems a paler blue and in general the colour less intense. It is a different beauty. More ordered and pretty. Winter seems more recent as we travel through the countryside. Trees with fresh green leaves appearing but still some frost in the air in the early morning.
What a wonderful trip this is. Today we arrive in Paris and head straight to Belgium. By tonight we will be attending the Menin Gate ceremony and one of our boys will lay a wreath at the war memorial. We will have seen some WW1 cemetaries and travelled across France from South to North.
More later.
Rome to Paris by train.
It's always such an experience to go to sleep on a train in one country and wake in a different one.
Last night we left Roma and travelled through Florence ,Milan and Switzerland and woke in France on our way to Paris. In doing that we have left behind rocky rugged volcanic countryside with what appeared to be random plantings of citrus everywere including alongside the railway tracks, grapevines and market garden plots in rich black volcanic soil in the middle of the city and we have arrived in the French countryside.
We are currently travelling through fields of green and gold canola, neatly planted and villages geometrically set out with neat french homes on garden plots with red soil. The sky seems a paler blue and in general the colour less intense. It is a different beauty. More ordered and pretty. Winter seems more recent as we travel through the countryside. Trees with fresh green leaves appearing but still some frost in the air in the early morning.
What a wonderful trip this is. Today we arrive in Paris and head straight to Belgium. By tonight we will be attending the Menin Gate ceremony and one of our boys will lay a wreath at the war memorial. We will have seen some WW1 cemetaries and travelled across France from South to North.
More later.
beats working at the Logies wish I was there with you, what beauty you are seeing. post some pictures.
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