We’re back on the train again, this time for the five-hour trip from Copenhagen to Stockholm onboard the fabulous first-class car of one of Sweden’s high-speed trains. The ticket includes free Internet for the whole trip, and if I can figure out how to get it to work, I might post this before we arrive. But back in time:
So at Dijon after reevaluating the amount of time before our next planned stop (which by the way is the one I’m on the train to now) we decided to take a swing through Switzerland. It’s a country I’d more or less ignored in the planning stages of our trip, but that was because I had somehow managed to entirely forget that the Alps exist. When our guidebook reminded me of that fact, I figured we should go have a look.
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Click the “See Where They’ve Been” link under “Where are Seth and Sophie.” I bet you can figure out what it does without me telling you.
So after Paris we decided we needed a break and opted for the somewhat chichi beach town of La Baule on the west coast (technically Loire, but everyone there considers it Brittany). There we did very little except, as intended, sit around.
After a couple of days, we shot back across the country to Dijon, where we discovered there is not, in fact, a mustard museum. There is though a creepy, yet mustardless, art museum and a generally charming air.
All our pictures from France are finally on flickr.
Here’s my first local music discovery of the trip: Admiral Freebee from Belgium, whom I heard on the stereo in a pub in Ghent. In truth, I doubt any of the kids are listening to this, but one bartender in his late thirties who selected every track that went over the sound system himself, one at a time, is. (For those who wish to judge his taste, other tracks he played included Dinosaur Jr., Radiohead, and that one good song from The Division Bell.)
Anyway, Admiral Freebee’s number “Living for the Weekend” caught my ear, and I’ve liked the further stuff I tracked down on the Internet last night. Click the album cover to go to his MySpace page. ”Living for the Weekend” is the second track in the player.
We’re back on the train again, this time for the five-hour trip from Copenhagen to Stockholm onboard the fabulous first-class car of one of Sweden’s high-speed trains. The ticket includes free Internet for the whole trip, and if I can figure out how to get it to work, I might post this before we arrive. But back in time:
