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Tourcoing | Paris | Monaco | Marseille | Savoie | Paris again | Toulouse | le Fossat

Tourcoing

We arrived in France on Wednesday July, 7th. We reached just few kilometres from Belgium to the French side of the border until the train went out of order. After waiting for a couple of hours we came to the city of Tourcoing where we took a TGV train to Paris.

Tourcoing
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Street view
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Railway station
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More photos from Tourcoing.

Paris

Paris was the first place in our voyage where we spent several nights. We stayed at Hotel Formule 1 in nearby town of Vitry-sur-Seine. The closest metro station was Villejuif about one kilometre from the hotel.

Mari in the northern railway station (Gare du Nord) of Paris
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In Vitry they like cutting their trees into cubes
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More photos from Vitry-sur-Seine.

A house on Rue de Thiais (in Villejuif) between our hotel and the metro station
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More photos from Villejuif.

Paintings on the walls of Abbesses metro station at Montmartre
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Moulin Rouge
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Funiculaire elevator takes people up to Montmartre
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Mari and Sacre-Coeur
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View over the city of Paris
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Place du Tertre in Montmartre
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More photos from Montmartre.

Place Sartre-Beauvoir
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Café de Flore in the corner of Sartre-Beauvoir Square
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A church in the other corner of the square
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Montparnasse tower
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Eiffel tower as seen from Montparnasse
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Skyscrapers in Beaugrenelle with the Liberty Statue in the foreground
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Under the Eiffel tower
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More photos from Paris.

Monaco

From Paris we took a night train to Monaco as it was far enough to have a decent sleep. We arrived there on Sunday morning of July, 11th.

Photo taken from the train before arriving in Monaco
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More photos taken from the train.

Monaco
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La Condamine
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More photos from Monaco.

Marseille

We left Monaco already in the same evening for Marseille. My camera was stolen there at the Central Railway Station and I lost a lot photos from Paris and Monaco. Fortunately Mari had taken some photos, too, with her camera. Nevertheless, we decided to go to the beach and enjoy the sun and sea.

Also in Marseille we stayed at Hotel Formule 1
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Port of Marseille
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Ruins of Massilia
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Mari on the beach
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More photos from Marseille.

Savoie

From Marseille we went to visit Christiane, a friend of mine from Guadeloupe, and Alain in the town of Villefontaine near Lyon. With them we made a day trip to Aiguebelette lake in Savoie.

Picnic site by the lake
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Mari, Alain, Christiane and two colleagues of Alain and Christiane
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Lac d'Aiguebelette
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Paris again

In the morning of July 14th, the French national day, we took TGV train from Lyon to Paris. Most of the festivities were already over, however. In the evening we headed again to the south - this time by night train to Toulouse.

Champs Elysées with the tricolors
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The Liberty Statue on an island in the middle of river Seine
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Allée des Cygnes on the same island and Eiffel tower
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More photos from Paris.

Toulouse

Toulouse was already one of my favourite cities in France as I had visited it once earlier. We stayed there one day before going to a village called le Fossat near the city of Pamiers.

Toulouse
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River Garonne
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One of the canals of Garonne
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Statue of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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More photos from Toulouse.

le Fossat

In le Fossat we stayed two night at the home of Gernidos family (Christiane's mother and sisters).

Village square
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Houses by the main street
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Having dinner: I, Danielle, Sarah, Edwina, Daniella and Eden
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Eden (Christiane's daughter)
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Eden doing my hair
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More photos from le Fossat and the Gernidos family.

On Saturday morning Danielle and Edwina took us to nearby city of Muret where we took train for the Basque Country.

Mari, Danielle and Edwina at the Muret railway station
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Photographers

NL = Niko Lipsanen
MT = Mari T.