Comments on: Paris, 114 km

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:02:54 +0000

@Damien – was writing the post in MS Word… clearly breeds of cows were not in the spell check! Now corrected!

By: Damien Hall

Damien Hall — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:09:22 +0000

I agree with Steph, above. I loved this post. It paints a picture of the France I love (particularly the rural-idyll part). Thanks! Incidentally, it’s ‘charolaiS’.

By: Steph Gray

Steph Gray — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:53:10 +0000

Lovely post. As someone with a foot in both camps, it’s interesting to see just how diverse the France of 2010 really is. You picked two contrasting scenes: there are many more, even within urban areas, of course.

The idea of Britain being excellent at both modern train engineering and the rural idyll seems far-fetched, oddly.

By: Eurosocialiste

Eurosocialiste — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:22:21 +0000

C’est ça la France !
It’s a beautiful scenery. I used to take that line often, and used to call that part of the journey “le pays des vâches” (Burgundy actually). There are just everywhere. A true “image d’Epinal” as we say.