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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By wanderingblerd | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
I am going to admit something, something that I have never told anyone before; I have a nervous tummy and a bladder the size of a teaspoon. In the sense that when I get nervous my tummy wages a battle against the rest of my body like Persia did at battle ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By ayconry | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
I can wile away an entire day walking the streets of a new city, going wherever my mood leads me. It's the best way to find the fun, the locals, the unexpected. Case in point, on a recent trip to Paris I discovered, quite by accident, the 59 Rivoli ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By olga_popova | Views [82] | Scholarship Entry
Paris is always a good idea! Do you agree? I do! And my husband too:) That's why we decided to spend our honeymoon in the capital of France. They say this country, and especially Paris with its architecture, cosy streets, lovely cafes and wickedly good ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By kenzieanntaylor | Views [379] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
I could hear them giggling behind me as I struggled to get my oversized bag situated and my feet planted on the pedals of the recently rented city bike. I hadn’t been on a bike since I was fourteen, and now, six years later, I was perched on one at two ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By livonne | Views [1706] | Comments [14] | Scholarship Entry
It was Jim Morrison's grave and the sunset that caused all the trouble. We would have caught the last bus if I hadn't insisted on waiting to get that perfect shot. The sun setting over Paris, it's muted haze turning the Seine into river of molten gold ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By valentinadant | Views [75] | Scholarship Entry
How many pages have been written about la Ville Lumiere? How many writers have fallen in love with Paris, where the magic comes at night when the street lamps draw flawed line of light on la Seine? Yes, I will be one of them, I fell for that inexplicable ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By wakeupmaggie | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry
Winter vacation in France is probably the two weeks of the year that actual French people pass by their cosy firesides; recovering from January blues, enjoying vin chaud and cheese fondu and not, under any circumstances, engaging in the fool's game that ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By johnt | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
Cold. Below freezing tonight. Somehow it adds to the romance. We are searching for a restaurant in the back streets of the Marais. We take a right and a left off the Rue des Archives and there it is. Le Coude Fou. A classic Parisian bistro. Entering, ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By leecooper | Views [91] | Scholarship Entry
Recently I visited the beautiful city of Paris and whilst I was there I went on a free guided walk around Montmartre, the famous district of Paris located in the 18th arrondissement. It was a wet and grey Wednesday afternoon on the day of my visit, I ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By laurenmcpherson | Views [109] | Scholarship Entry
We had rushed forward and been knocked back more times than we could count. Sound swirled around us, the smell of exhaust and burned rubber so strong it was almost a physical barrier. On the other side of the road, the Place de la Porte Maillot seemed ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By teri-p | Views [113] | Scholarship Entry
I had just arrived in Paris, and that fact alone seemed to energize me. It was the type of energy that released itself slowly and carried me like a great tide despite jet-lag and exhaustion. As the bus cut and chiseled its way through the traffic, I was ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By dsavigni | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
From the Vierville draw, I scanned the long, sandy crescent US soldiers had stormed on June 6, 1944. I tried to imagine the carnage. But the tide was in and it didn’t look at all like the pictures. People played Frisbee right in front of the National ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By bellaeve | Views [205] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
UK Customs don’t like me. I know this because they told me and gave me a special stamp in my passport to prove it. Due to a series of mishaps I was running late. I reached the International platform at Gare du Nord to see the gates close on my train to ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By joolz39 | Views [93] | Scholarship Entry
In another life, I think I’d be a mouse… Cheese has always been my favourite food, not just the tangy, golden cheddar to make those tempting late night toasties, but all the gooey, ripe soft cheeses that dribble across crackers and the smelly blues with ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By pixie | Views [85] | Scholarship Entry
This is not a fairytale, I promise! I wake up that morning before my alarm had rang knowing that we have a day off. I was in a French volunteer camp, and that day we were free to do whatever we want! Since I had been to Paris few times before that, I ... Read more >
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