Ville de Troyes

Continuing on from the previous post about Troyes, here's the lake we went to after leaving Nigloland.

Lac d'Orient (click to see larger version)

I don't have that many good photos of the lake...most are about the same. Most of the others played ball in the water...they are in the panoramic view if you can find them :P

That night we stayed up quite late playing a game where each person was supposed to count up (the first person says "one", the second says "two", ...), and the one who reaches twenty-one has to drink. Seems quite straightforward...except that if you saw two numbers in a row (instead of only one), that reverses the direction of play, and if you say three numbers, it skips the next person's turn. And if you say something wrong, you drink and the round starts again.

And...to make it even more interesting, the person who reaches twenty-one replaces a number of his choice by another word and/or gesture, and the future rounds take this into account. Which means that in the end, there were hardly any numbers left...

I had played about the same kind of game when we did that gathering in Rouen, but I think there were only three numbers which we repeated over and over (one, two, three, one, two, three...) and I don't think there was any drinking. Though I can't remember whether there was any "punishment" for getting the number wrong. I remember that we replaced the numbers by names...I remember especially that Adrian chose Alvin's name :P

We didn't all play in Troyes...some people joined in the middle, and some, like me, just watched and exploded in laughter at how they mixed up the words :P

And after playing, we went out to walk around a bit in town...so as to make noise in the streets instead of making noise in Julien's place and disturb his neighbours :P

the bridge above the train tracks (the train station is on the right)
We have to cross this bridge to get from Julien's place to the town centre.

a small square (I'm not sure whether it's actually considered a square)
I took a photo just because there were coloured lights.

slanted buildings...I didn't notice it then, but later on Julien pointed out several other slanted buildings to us...it seems to be a speciality of Troyes

a don't-know-what tower

in front of that tower

Camille taking over as photographer
I like this photo...the heads make a nice "curve"! Haha...

the town hall

opposite the town hall

After that we went back...it was about 4am, I think. The next day we woke up around 11am or noon and went out after lunch to visit the rest of the town (what we could before leaving).

I like this view ^_^

zoom on the fountain

We saw Popeye's driving school. Hey...I didn't know Popeye could drive :P

something in town...

just a street

See how the buildings slant?

a church

the church's name :P

Group photo!
Sitting, from left: Alex, Sabrina, Marion, Antoine, yours truly, Wenxiang, Yi, Camille
The two Egyptians (or Egyptian-wannabes :P ), from left: Damien and Julien
Photographer: Julie

a nice house with flowers

another one...it's summer, after all

the cathedral (under construction, as usual...)

another street

some building

After walking around town, we went to the train station to see off Antoine and Wenxiang...and then Camille and those of us who came from Lyon left by car. Damien and Julie stayed on a bit...but as for what they did I can no longer say because I wasn't there :P

All in all, a nice but tiring weekend..the heat didn't help! But it didn't rain, which was lucky for us, otherwise we would have had to find other plans...