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The vehicle carrier Arabian Sea in the channel, sailing from Antwerp to Lomé, Togo

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The Battle of Good and Evil in Metz

The railway staff at Nancy station have been kind and helpful with my queries over the past couple of days, helping me to change a ticket to Paris and with some other things. Yesterday a woman with blond hair and an oversized SNCF coat helped me. The railway workers have smart uniforms here in France.…

Bon Weekend

The train from Reims to Nancy moves in a dream-like state through the French countryside. Waves of hills and hedgerows, yellow fields of rape crop, clusters of trees on the horizon, deep greens of ripening wheat and barley. There are low lying clouds and as the train hits them at speed they burst and fill…

Rue de Mars, Reims

Reims has an atmosphere of wealth and understated power; the old power of landed aristocracy. These may just be ideas rattling around in my head, but these ideas have power over us. It is curious how the immediate impressions we have of an unfamiliar place can form. These things should be studied closely. For atmosphere…