布鲁日100年前 – 100 Years ago – “In Bruges”

Today we are visiting Bruges to explore this beautiful town of cobble stone streets and canals lined with medieval architecture – and now, including throngs of tourists. We first went through the Beguinage community,  formerly a loosely religious order of women who lived there without taking vows but was originally inhabited by nuns of the Order of St. Benedict dating to the 12th century.

今天我俩去布鲁日,去探索这个有着鹅卵石的街道和依运河而建的中世纪建筑的美丽城市,现在这里充满了游客。我俩先到了贝居安会院, 这个地方最初是一些修女居住的地方,后来变成一些有宗教信仰但是没有宣誓的女人们居住的地方。

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吃在巴黎 (Eating in Paris)

7月3日 星期二 Tuesday, July 3

离开了巴黎,现在已经达到了比利时根特的民宿住处,简单的总结一下在巴黎的吃。

We’ve left Paris and have now reached the B&B residence in Ghent, Belgium. I had planned to simply sum up the food in Paris. Turns out, it is easier said than done 🙂

我想问~~是谁~~给了“法国大餐”那么高的名声的? 我已经尽力给法国菜一个公正的接受品尝的机会了,可是为什么我俩的感觉是没~有~味~道~??  PJG和我尝试了两次正宗的而且总是坐满了人的法国饭店的晚餐,两次的经验都是 “为什么菜没有什么味道?” 甚至似乎连盐都缺失? 总之,或许是因为我们没找到好的餐厅,或许是我俩已经被重庆火锅和味道超级丰富的泰国菜给毁掉了,我对“法国大餐”失去了兴趣 😂  PJG似乎也没有很享受他的法国餐,但是他还是不会放弃法国大餐的。

I want to ask this~ ~ Who is the one ~ ~ that gave the “French” such a high reputation for cooking? Granted, we never ate at a high end French restaurant nor even real “French Food” but I have tried my best to give French food a chance to accept the taste, but why do we feel that there is … no taste there!? We tried two supposedly authentic dinners at French restaurants that were always full of people. The experience twice was, “Why doesn’t the food have any taste?” It even seems to be missing salt! In short, perhaps because we didn’t find a good restaurant and maybe we have been forever ruined by awesome Chongqing hot pot and super-rich Thai food but I’ve lost all interest in the “French feast”. PJG didn’t seem to enjoy it either (nb but he tried his best to pretend), but he still won’t give up on the French myth.

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塞纳河游船和巴黎街景 (Boat tour & Paris streets views)

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7月2日,星期一 July 2, Monday

今天是在巴黎的最后一天,我俩决定去坐那个站点停靠间随上随下的塞纳河游船。今天上午天气多云,又下了些小雨,所以意外的气候宜人,我俩便下船上船又有机会看了卢浮宫周边的景色和一些没去过的街区。意外的发现了一片儿有很多日本饭店,非常思念亚洲菜的我俩就在那里解决了午餐。傍晚时分,我俩又在一个咖啡馆来了两杯这里流行的超浓咖啡,坐在那里欣赏过往人群。晚上,又去了蒙马特高地,欣赏了一下红磨坊的夜颜 😁😁 话说这里太阳下山的真晚,快到11点了才有些夜晚的感觉。今天没有进行什么大项目,所以贴一些大街小巷的照片以作纪念。

Today is our last day in Paris and we decided to use the Hop-on-Hop off Seine River cruise. It was cloudy and drizzled a little this morning so the weather was pleasant and we had a chance to stroll around the scenery near the Louvre and some neighborhoods that we had not been. One area we were surprised to find was a large asian restaurant area. There were many Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese restaurants and I very much was missing Asian food so we decided to have lunch there.

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巴黎歌剧院,万神殿葬礼 (Opéra de Paris, Pantheon Burial)

7月1日,星期日 – Sunday, July 1

今天记录的顺序有些颠倒,其实是万神殿葬礼在上午发生,参观巴黎歌剧院在下午发生的。

Today the order of this post is reversed. Visiting Pantheon Burial took place in the morning and visiting the Opéra de Paris was in the afternoon.

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Driving through Cathedrals towns North of Paris

One of my goals on this trip is to recreate some of the paths that my father took on his trip to Europe in 1949. On Thursday we rented a car in Paris and set off on a day long journey that would take us to Soissons, Laon, Peronne, Amiens and Beauvais. I ended up cutting out visits to Coucy-le-Château and Château de Chantilly to save time, but the Cathedrals we saw were all worth it!

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Our 400km route through northern cathedral towns
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这次旅行中见到的独特的地方 – Unique things we’ve seen in each country

We’ll update and re-up this post as we find new stuff … this post will include both English and Chinese …

我们会时时更新这个帖子用来记录在各个地方看到过的新鲜独特的东西。这个帖子包含中英文。

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