Ploumanach - La Plage de Granite Rosé

It's not exactly the best time of the year to go to the beach, its still a bit cold outside. But dammit, this is sort of my spring break and in the states we go to the beach for spring break...

yeah, ok, I think I've actually gone to the beach once for it. :-/

This is about an hour and a half from Plouédern, Flo's hometown. This is one of the few places that actually has pink rocks on the beach. It was very nice, especially since the grass is always green here (because it rains all the time).

And as usual, France is covered with Castles... this one is owned by some artist who probably visits it two times a year. Lucky bastard.


























I was ordered to stand next to this thing so pictures could be taken of me. :-)




This is Flo's dad, Gilbert (pronounced jilbear).

He was nice enough to buy us crêpes after our stroll on the beach. I think this is part of Flo's neverending quest to make me fat... it's working so far... soon none of my jeans will fit me any more.




I'm sure something like this has been taken a million times.




Flo likes to mess up my pictures.






























Their usage of the natural landscape is quite interesting, I think.

It's been awhile...

I recently received a complaint that I had not updated my blog recently enough.

My apologies to the few of you who actually make the effort of checking my blog on a fairly regular basis, I have not updated this blog in a month. Too long, I know. The fault is mine as I clearly cannot blame this on any one else.

My main excuse for the delay is that I haven't had any pictures to post. As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, most of you don't actually read the blog... you just want to look at the pictures. I can't really blame you for this since the pictures are just so nice. Anyway, I haven't had any pictures either because I keep forgetting my camera OR my camera screwed up and all the files on my camera were corrupted, as was the case when I went to Luxembourg.

So yes, I recently went to Luxembourg City, Luxembourg and then to Trier, Germany. I have to say that Luxembourg was a wonderfully charming city. It's main landmark or attraction are the many bridges around this city. I understand that that doesn't sound very flattering, you might even find the idea funny... but I assure you, it was beautiful... if you plan on coming to Europe, I highly recommend going to Luxembourg for at least one day.

This picture does Luxembourg no justice. I might even argue it's a disgrace to the city.

After walking around Luxembourg, we decided it would be funny to drive to Germany to have dinner and that we did. Not knowing really where to go, we followed the signs to the unknown city of Trier. Little did we know that we were driving to the oldest city in Germany. It dates back 2000 years. I believe it was established by the Romans and had Roman ruins scattered about the city. As if that isn't interesting enough, it is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. I only got to spend a couple hours there, we ate currywurst, took a bus tour, and then headed back home. I would really like to go back and spend a little more time there.

As for school, things seem be going well. I complain because the classes don't seem challenging enough and because of that, I complain that I have too much free time. I'm not used to this. I'm looking for a job or some sort of volunteer work.

I am meeting some people, but most of you should know that this is usually a fairly slow process for me. Another slow process is my ability to learn French, I haven't excelled in this as much as I would like.

So that's it for now, I hope to have some pictures for you soon and I do appologize for making you read so much. :-)

And in case you forgot what we looked like...