133. Some summer flowers

The "Marguerite" is a well known flower here. It can grow overalle and become very quick a large extension in the garden. Espeacially in the good earth of the North of France (Photo taken in my garden).

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• Sailing North on my virtual ship I'm coming to a beach lying just southly from Los Angeles. It is Long Beach. We are looking now at the Long Beach Daily Photo of Jonathan Bullock.
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132. The theater of Fourmies (Detail).

• Here we are looking at the theater of Fourmies and you can see all names of famous theatre authors or composers which are written on the front part of it. This theater was built in the first half of the 20th century.
• 1) Victor Hugo is the french writer of the 19th century.
• 2) Rameau is a french composer of the 17 the century.
• 3) Molière is a french theater writer of the 17 th century.
• 4) Massenet is a french composer of the beginning of the 20th century.
• 5) Wagner is a german composer of the middle of the 19th century.
• 6) Ibsen is a norvegian theater writer.
• (Link on the german translation - Link auf die deutsche Fassung)
• (Link on the french translation - Lien vers la traduction française).

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Now we are sailing with our virtula ship to Aliso viejo, a town which lays southly from Los Angeles, and we are looking at the other blog of Rodney : Aliso Viejo Daily Photo.

The second adress of Aliso Viejo Daily Photo is here.
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131. The trees are becoming green !

The trees of the Cité Notre-Dame in Pont-sur-Sambre which were cut very short in autumn and whose hairless heads we saw during the whole winter, are now becoming green getting short green hairs. I hope they shall not cut them again this autumn !

• Other photos of the Cité Notre-Dame in winter : 1, 2 (the links will be made later).

Traduction française, translation into french.

Deutsche Übersetzung, Traduction en allemand.

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From San Diego, we are sailing with our virtual ship a little northwards on the coast of California to find the Orange County southly from Los Angeles, where we are looking at the picture of Rodney in the Orange County Daily Photo.

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130. Reflection in the Sambre in the town district of Quartes.

In Pont-sur-Sambre, there is a town district whose name is Quartes. It is in the district where is the church, with a good separation of the town center with town-hall and town tower one one side. This is a symbol of the french law of the Séparation de l'église et de l'état, or separation between the Church and the State.

• Here you can find the town district of Quartes on the map of Pont-sur-Sambre (link to come later) and here another view of the late winter taken at the same place (link to come later). This view is taken at the beginning of a summer evening.

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Now, we are going through the mountains of Guatemala until the Pacific Coast and taking the virtual ship to sail along the coast to California. Just after the border of the country of Mexico, we find the City of San Diego in California and there we read and look at the blog San Diego Daily Photo of Felicia.

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129. The church of Pont in the evening.

Another sunset. the view on the church of Pont-sur-Sambre is here taken from the back. The church has a very large back, but an elegant and fine side. The trees on the left are those through which I made this view in winter. But you cannot do the same view in summer, because there are leaves on the trees, what is however a good thing.

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We are sailing with our virtual ship along the Atlantic Coast of South America. When we are coming in Central America, we make a pause in Guatemala. We are going a little though the mountains to go to Antigua and look at the photos of Rudi Giron on his Antigua Daily Photo Blog.

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126. The Sambre at the bridge of Quartes (summer picture)

Here is a photo of the Pont de Quartes which I took on the same place as an ancient post card which you can find on the official site of Pont-sur-Sambre (the link was on the side-bar). So you can see the difference between to-day (I made the picture on Friday evening) and then. The Pont-de-Quartes is the one on the right on the sign-board with the map of Pont-sur-Sambre I already publlished a few days ago. The old bridge was destroyed in the first World War and rebuilt with the blue barreers.

They are high grasses at the edge of the river in cause of the summer, but it's better than 15 years ago where you had to go with material to cut branches when you went at the edge of the Sambre.

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Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/25/2006 09:53:00 AM

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The virtual travel of Perle de Rosée :I am sailing with my virtual ship along the coast of Brasil, and I stop my ship in a harbour of Rio de Janeiro to look at two beautiful photos of Line. She doesn't make anymore photos because she finds that her camera is not enough good. But what schould I say about my little camera with films ? And the fact that I must scan my photos before I send them. to my blog.

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127. Roses in my wild garden.

Some roses of my wild garden. This summer photo was taken at the same place like here and here (I do again the second link later) in winter in my garden. It is the same rose bush.



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Now from Sao Sabastiao to Sao Paolo is not a long way. We have to sail along the beautiful coasts and beaches to find 200 km unto the North, one of the biggest town of the world Sao Paulo, with its metropole of 20 millions of inhabitants. There we are looking at the blog of Marcos, Ione and Beth Sao Paulo Daily Photo.
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126. The railway station of Aulnoye-Aymeries.

• Here is the first time I send to you a picture of Aulnoye-Aymeries.
• In Pont-sur-Sambre there were in the past a railway station, but it desappeared because the lines had not enough traffic.
• To-day, here in the Sambre-Avesnois there are only two lines, one from Lille to Hirson, department Aisne, and one from Jeumont (Belgian Border) to Paris
• All the small lines desappeared.
• In Aulnoye-Aymeries is the junction between the two lines, but in the past time one could go further away with the two lines, from Paris to Moscow with the one, from London to Milano with the second (this second important line was also called Calais-Bâle). Aulnoye-Aymeries WAS also a BIG RAILWAY KNOT when the TGV to Brussel did not go over Lille, but went over Aulnoye-Aymeries.
• If my husband and I, we decided 1978, then to settle near this town, it was at a time when we had no car and it was easy from here to go to Germany, with the Calais-Bâle to the South or South-West of Germany and with the Paris-Köln over Belgium or North-Rhineland.
• Nowadays, when you want to travel to Basel, you have to take another train in Hirson (department Aisne) and when you want to go to Köln you must change of train in Lille and in Brussel, at this time, ten years ago, the trein to Köln was direct. The train to Germany and Brussel is more expansive, because you have to pay much money for
• 1) the regional TER to Lille,
• 2) the Eurostar from Lille to Brussels,
• 3) the Thalys from Brussels to Köln.
• Three trains when before you had to take only one !
• And with the wait time it is much longer !
• At the time when there were these direct lines and trains, it was much easier to go with pupils with the train to Germany.
• I worked some time in Aulnoye-Aymeries between 1977 and 1982, and many parents of the children worked on the railway and had free tickets for the train so that the children did not have to pay the train for school travels.
• In the college of Aulnoye-Aymeries where I teached the greatest employers of the parents were
• 1) the railway (SNCF),
• 2) the national electricity, with the workers of the electricity production factory of Pont-sur-Sambre (EDF),
• 3) the mettalurgic work Vallourec of Aulnoye-Aymeries.
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1. This little complement is written in two languages, french and english.
2. French : Remontons la côte Est de l'Amérique du Sud vers le Nord et après être passé devant l'Uruguay sans rencontrer de City Daily Photo, nous faisons escale avec notre bâteau virtuel à 200km avant Sao Paulo sur la côte qu'entoure Sao Sebastiao où nous regardons le blog Areia Clara de Luis Felipe.
3. English : We are going on the East Coast of South America to the North and after having our way until the coast of Uruguay where we found no City Daily Photo, we are stopping our virtual ship 200 km southly from Sao Paulo in Brasil, on the coast around Sao Sebastiao where we are looking at the blog "Areia Clara" of Luis Felipe.
4. Posted by Perle de Rosée at 6h10 PM, 23 June 2006.

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125. The super-market of Pont-sur-Sambre.

• Here is the only supermarket of Pont-sur-Sambre, it is name Proxi because Proximité significates you can find this shop nearby your home (at least not far away). Here you can buy all what you need for eating and housekeeping, also some paper wares for schools or to write letters, postcards and films for photos, but there is not a great choice. It is the typically village supermarket.
• On the right you can see the gas bottles for the people who don't have current gas at home. But in the little town itself is natural current gas out of Holland or other gazoducs which came from Russia. In all villages where no all houses especcially in the lonely houses in the countryland do not have current gas (also called "natural gas" or "town gas"), you can see these bottles staying on the outside of supermarkets or in tank stations for cars. They stay outdoor because it would be dangerous for buildings. In my town district there is current gas.
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Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/22/2006 02:32:00 PM

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• We stay to-day in Buenos Aires to visit the blogs of Karine, a french woman in Buenos Aires. click here to find Buenos Aires Daily Photo and here was the second daily photo blog of Karine in Buenos Aires (it is technically impossible to do here this link again, I do not know whyclick on the word "there" on the first blog of Karine ).

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124. Rhodondendron near the theater.

• Rhodendendron near the theater of Fourmies.
• Other view of the Theater of Fourmies 1,
• Perle de Rosée send at 7.22 AM on June, 21th, 2006.

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It's a long way that I have to travel now on my virtual ship. There is no CITY DAILY PHOTO more, neither in the South Pacific, neither on the West Coast of South America (perhaps they will be some day one CITY DAILY PHOTO there), so that I have to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and along the east coast of Argentina (Ah! Ushuïa the name of a well known french TV broadcasting about the world knowledge, nature, traditions, people, of Nicolas Hulot). Then I come to Buenos Aires. There, two sympathic girls show us our photos, Cynthia and Karine. At first Cynthia with her blog : TO-DAY IN BUENOS AIRES.

Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/21/2006 06:31:00 AM

123. Church of Féron

This is the church of Féron, a town near Fourmies. It is a church which has a defensive church tower (like a fortress). In the past centuries when they were wars, and when invadors came, people went to the church, to protect and defend themselves. We can find also many of such churches in the Thiérache, which is the North of the department of Aisne and at the South border of the Avesnois. There is a road which leads from one defensive church to the other. This church is made out of red bricks and blue stones (on my photo, there are not right blue, in reality they are of a blue-grey). They are extracted in the region and are also often sculpted. At the top of the church tower, you can see a girouette (a wind vane) which shows the direction of the wind. It is almost always a cock as wind wane on the top of the church.

Perle de Rosée, june 20th, 2006, 11/36 AM.

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• From Vanuatu, or New Hebrides, we are sailing with my virtual ship a long way though the South Pacific and are coming to the capital town of New Zealand, Wellington, where we are looking at Louise's Wellington Daily Photo. Wellington is at the other side of the world. If I dig a hole in the earth and I came at the other side of the world, I should came out in the South Pacific a few hundred (or thousand?) miles from the East Coast from the East Coast of New Zealand.
• I'm sorry that I did forget Spain on my way. I shall take them on my second virtual tour around the world, with all those who created a new City Daily Photo or City Photo Blog in the countries where I've already done my first virtual tour around the world.
• (Addenda) This part of the article was published first at 20th june 11:11 AM.
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122. To park the car, you must go over a bridge (Fourmies).

The owner of the car which park in this garage, has at first to go over a bridge (and not to let fall the car in the water), at second not to fear to forget where is the garage. I say this because he did set on the door of it a (mineralogic) sign-board with the immatriculation number of his car. I took this photo at the same place as the photo of yesterday.

(Posted by Perle de Rosée on June 19th, 1:12 AM.

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The bridge is over the Helpe Mineure in Fourmies.

Behind the garage is the garden of the house and at the top of the garden the house of the owner which is in the Main Street of Fourmies, the Street St Louis. Here the houses have their back to the river. It is only a little place of the town where we can see the river. At other places of the town the river is in the underground.

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• Now we are sailing again to the South in the direction Port Vila on the State of Vanuatu (It was called in the past the New Hebrides) . These isles are laying not far from the North-East Coast of Australia, in the Pacific Ocean. The blog is PORT VILA TO-DAY of Michael Blamey from St Kilda near Melbourne in Australia.
• Perle de Rosée, on June 19th, 2006, 12:45.

121. The Helpe Mineure in Fourmies .

This photo is taken not very far away from the Ecomusée of Fourmies. The greater bridge in the background is the one under the road which leads to the museum, but when you are on the road you do not see the bridge and you think you were on a normal road. From this bridge until the other side of the midtown the river is almost always in the underground especially on the mean place, named by the people "Place Verte" or green place.

The water of the Helpe Mineure flows from the East to the West, also it flows here from the greater bridge to the bridge where I took the photo. In this part of the town there are small streets called "montées", which are leading high to the Street St Louis, the main shopping street of the town. There are stairs in the "montées" to go to the main street, the Street St Louis, which is the shopping street of Fourmies.

The little bridges which you can see across the river lead to gardens and garages which are in the back of the houses. Without these numerous bridges, people couldn't go to their garages and gardens.

On the right side of the picture (but left edge of the river) it goes always upwards to the school district with the main high schools (private, St Pierre and public Camille Claudel) of the town.

In the valley between the hills of Fourmies, we find the Ecomusee (museum for industrial and town life in the two last centuries (19th and 20th), the Place Verte with the town-hall, which is also the Market Place and a good parking, when there's no market.

On the left side of the valley of the Helpe Mineure where we are on this picture (and on the right edge of the river...) , it goes high to the town district of Trieux, which is a town district with many poor workless people. In the fact, the crisis of the wool industry in the sixties/seventies when synthetic fibres replace the natural fibres, made the people workless and now it's always so.

Fourmies had 15 000 inhabitants at the beginning of the 20th century and exported wool in the whole world and one century later, it has only 13 000 inhabitants, so it has lost 2000 inhabitants in one century. But Fourmies is proud of its industrial past.

At this plave, where is the river there were in the industrial past a water mill and a glas factory "La verrerie Blanche". In the "Verrerie Blanche" (white glas factory) they made white glas for glases and house and in the "Verrerie Noire"(black glas factory), higher in the town they made bottles which are made the most time of coloured glas. Now, there is no more glas factory, but a glas museum in a neighbour town, Trélon.

Thank you to our friend Pierre, a fan of archeology, who tell Perle de Rosée about the history of Fourmies and said here where is the place with the the old water-mill of the old white glas factory (this place on the photo).

(posted on the 1:12 AM, June 18th, 2006).

(with additions on the 31th July 2006).

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Now, we are sailing on our virtual ship though the Pacific and we are visiting first the North Pacific, where we are finding the ISLES of Hawai, in Honolulu, where lives Nicolas who has just an outage with his computer. So, while we are waiting that it is repaired, we can look at the ancient photos of his blog.

To-day, (it means the 18th June) I discovered another site of Honolulu by Kala, in O'ahu. I give to you the link here. (29th July). (added on 31th JulyNow, on the same adress we find Nicolas and Dana).

Perle de rosée, June 18th, 2006, 11:31PM.

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120. A house over a bridge.

There are some places where there are houses over a bridge : in Venice the bridge of the Rialto, and in Erfurt, Germany, the bridge of merchants (Krämerbrücke for example. Here there is also a part of a house over a bridge or a river which flows under a house. The name of the river is the Helpe Mineure. The Helpe Mineure and the Helpe Majeure which flows parallel to each other through the Avesnois from the East to the West, and the both flows in the Sambre. Southly flows the Helpe Mineure which flows through Fourmies. Northly flows the Helpe Mineure through Avesnes-sur-Helpe. This photo was made in Fourmies not far from the Ecomusée and in the 19th Century the river flows through the market square in front of the town-hall, a square named commonly Place Verte by the people, or green place. Nowadays on the Place Verte, the river flows under the ground. The place whereunder it flows is taken by a big parking, the market on Saturday mornings, and a green with trees.

Perle de Rosée at June, 17th 2006, 11:45th.

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Now, we are still in Australia, where we are looking to the blog of Phil, who made a blog about Wedderburn. I found it well. Perharps he will come again on his blog some day.

11:34 Pm, June 17th, 2006.

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119. The Ecomusée of Fourmies.

This textile factory is in Fourmies and was made to a museum of the life during the industrial era (1850-1960). First you can see a room with textile machines, where the guide explains how the spinning and webbing machines go and then rooms with old shops, old things of the daily life, like the story of the wash machines, remake of old shops, and then you have also a room about the Fusillade de Fourmies (the killing (shoting) of Fourmies) of the first May 1891.

It was one of the first times the workers made a feast on the first may with demonstrations to defend their rights. The troup shot on the workers during the défilé and 9 workers were killed. In french this historical event is called La Fusillade de Fourmies. Since this day the first of May is always a great feast in Fourmies. Fourmies has a very high worker's tradition. In the textile factories were made wool, wool pieces and the industry of the glas. There were also two big glas factories : the white glas factory (la verrerie blanche) where was made fine glas for the home, and the black glas factory (la verrerie noire), where they made colored bottles. Now, it was no

apartheid where the Whites worked in the white glas factory, and the Black in the black glas factory, because all people in Fourmies were white, but many of them like in all coal mine towns and textile towns of the North were very poor and now almost all people in Fourmies is always white, but there is much always much poorness in cause of the factorys which were closed in the sixties/seventies.

The conditions of the working people of the industrial era from 1870 until 1950 can be compared with the conditions of working in England in towns like Manchester, Liverpool or Birmingham in England.

But there are in Fourmies some big houses, for example in the Street St Louis in Fourmies (the main street) with a very eclectic style. There were the houses of the trademen, of the banks and of the bosses of the factories.

Other sights of the Ecomusée by night, 1, 2.

Posted by "Perle de Rosée" on June, 16th, 2006.

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Another blog from Darren in Australia : Gold Coast City, the last city of Queensland before you come to New South Wales. It is on the East Coast of Australia towards the Pacific Ocean.

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118. Somewhere in the Avesnois (3).

This kind of green land calles in french "bocage" is typically for the Avesnois, the green land of the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais (North country of France). It has meadows with some hedges and woods. I took these photos like the two others in Sains-du-Nord between Avesnes-sur-Helpe and Fourmies in the East of the Avesnois.

An other photo taken at the same place : Here.

Posted by Perle de Rosée at 11:47:AM at Jeudi 15 juin 2006

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Another blog of Darren in the same region of Australia (like in the last post) is this about Logan in Australia (Posted June 15/06 at 11:41 AM.

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117. Somewhere in the Avesnois (2).

The Avesnois is an especially green country. It is also a nature park. It has also many cows whith which are made the free local cheese the Maroilles, le Dauphin and La Boulette d'Avesnes.

I shall explain another time how are these three cheese. I made these photo in Sains-du-Nord.

Perle de Rosée (June 14/06, 3:05 PM).

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I am sailing the coast : the link of to-day is for Brisbane in Australia and on this blog we are looking at the photos of Darren : Brisbane Daily Photo.

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116. Somewhere in the Avesnois (3)

I took this photo in Sains-du-Nord. It is in a little town between Avesnes-sur-Helpe (the capital town of the Avesnois) and Fourmies. Sains-du-Nord is on the road between the two towns of Avesnes-sur-Helpe and Fourmies.
Perle de Rosée, posted June 13, 1:56.

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The second link on a blog of Sydney is these on the blog of Sally, who makes also a blog of Sydney, but with other photos : Sydney (nearly) Daily Photo.

Perle de Rosée, posted June 13, 1:20.

115. Joan of Arc in the Church of Recquignies

There is no giant with Joan of Arc although she could be one, as herold of the village of Domremy in the Lorrainne. But here she is not in Domrémy and not in the Lorraine, but in the church of Rocquignies. Roquignies is in the Aisne but one kilometer away from Avesnois and sometimes on the roads around you do not no if you are in the Aisne or in the North. Joan of Arc is also the name of many french private schools. It is also an emblem for a nationalist political party which I do not like. It is not good to have taken one of the most popular saint woman of France to make of it the symbol of a political parti, because now she is no more an herold of all. Joan of Arc played a role during the hundred year war during the 14th/15th centuries. It was a war between France and England. I apologize to remember at this war to my english friends of the daily photo blogs, because it was a war between England and France, but it is now a long time ago and over. But I am not of these long past times.

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We have two photo blogs of Sydney. The first one is a City Photo Blog. Its name is "Through rose-coloured lenses" and it is ruled by "misbehaving chicken".

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114. How far is it ?

This is a sign-board for the people who are coming from far away with their boats on the river. On it you can see all what they can do or have or buy in each town where there is a nautic base in the aera. And how far it is to the next nautic base. You can read here that there is a river harbour in Berlaimont. It is 4 km away (with the curves of the river), and on the other side in Boussières-sur-Sambre 10 km away (by road it is only four or five kms). There you can only drink a cup of coffee.

To-day I went to the department Aisne (Picardie) to hear a baroc music concert. Before I went home I made a project that I had since a few weeks. To look how many kms there is from the department North to the department Ardennes. The place where we went in the Aisne was only 11 kms away from the department Ardennes (Region Champagne-Ardennes). In this department you can find some mountains until 500 meters high (or 600?). To the border of the North to the border of the Ardennes there are only 27 km to drive through a little part of the Aisne. It is not very far. From the border between Aisnes and Ardennes (it means from the border from the North-East of Picadie to the border of the North-West of Champagne, to here in Pont-sur-Sambre, there are only 62km. Also is Pont-sur-Sambre is nearer to the overnext region Champagne-Ardennes) as to the capital of our region North-Pas de Calais !!!! Lille is 100 km in the North-East of here, and I think 85 km far from Fourmies and Anor, the towns which are the most in the South-East of the North.

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We are looking now at an other blog of Michael Blamey, it is ST KILDA TO-DAY. St Kilda is in Melbourne, also on the ocean and from there you can look at Melbourne.

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113. The sky with the ancient brewery sign and chimney.

You know I'm non-alcoholic (I drink no alcohol), but ancient sign-boards are beautiful, particularly when they are rising into the sky like this one. It is the sign of the ancient brewery of Pont-sur-Sambre (The brewery no more exist, only the house). This house is in the middle of the town, near the nautic base.
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Melbourne, Australie

Now, we are sailing from Japan to another continent Oceania, where the biggest Isle is Australia. And there we are sailing along the coast to Melbourne where we are finding again (we saw him already one time in Moscow) Michael Blamey. The name of his blog about Melbourne is Melbourne Today.
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112 (2) The map of Pont-sur-Sambre (on the sign-board).

This is a detail of a sign-board of the last post. You can see here how the town is in a curve of the Sambre. On this plan the North is in the corner above right. the great street on the left is the main road. You can see it also on the first page of the official site of Pont-sur-Sambre (not mine), on the left on the aeral view. This site is (or was) in my side-bar. In this street stands the tower. The parralel road is the street Notre-Dame. On the plan you can see how the church is far away from the middle of the town. It is near the river on the right.

a) We cannot see the part of the river below, it flows paralell to the border of the picture and it is part of the curve of the river. We cannot see the bridge of Bachant which is on this part of the river. The bridge on the left is the Pont à Pont (Bridge to bridge, pronounce the first -t as if it were before the a), and the one on the right is the bridge of Quartes (in french : Pont de Quartes).

b) All on the right on the other side of the river is another road. And there you can see the place of the electricity power factory.

c) At the top of the plan is the road of Bavay, on the left on the other side of the Pont-à-Pont is Aulnoye-Aymeries and on the right side of the picture is the direction of Maubeuge, below is the direction of Bachant. With the third bridge, the Bachant bridge, which we cannot see on this picture.

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Update 1/11/07 : You can look also on Google Earth and on Google Maps where is Pont-sur-Sambre.

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On the same North Isle of Japan, we are looking for Julia, who is showing to us her photos of Kitakami.

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112. Tell me the town... Raconte-moi la Ville.

Tell me the town four times... I don't know why but this picture of a sign-board in Pont-sur-Sambre which stands near the Nautic Base came in four times although I tried only two times to send it.It is a sign-board of the river navy of France (voies navigables françaises) to explain the people which are coming out of their boats what is to do or to see in the town, where they can buy something to eat and drink and so on...Here you see how Pont-sur-Sambre is lying in a meander (curve) of the Sambre. On this picture you can see two of the three bridges, but one can see it better on the next picture.

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Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/08/2006 11:58:00 PM

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From Tokyo I'm sailing on my virtual boat to the North Isle of Japan, where I'm finding Midnitebara with her blog of the daily photos from the town of Akita : Akita Daily Photo.

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111. What's this ?

The people of Pont-sur-Sambre when they are making sometimes a little walk to the nautic base of Pont know what it is, although these stairs which was created some fifteen years ago are not employed. I let you no longer wait... It is an open air amphitheater. In the front of it there is something which could be a little stage, but it has already a bad aspect and it is no more used. So that it would be good to renove it to play little pieces or sing in open air.

perle de rosée on 7 juin 2006, 2:17 PM.

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The virtual travel of Perle de Rosée.

From Danjeon in Corea, we are crossing the sea to go to the capital town of Japan, Tokyo where we are looking at the photo blog of tetsu.

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110. The North.

I made a photograph of this sign-board in Pont-sur-Sambre. It is the other side of this I published in the third message of this blog. On this side of the sign-board you can see the whole department of North. It's in France along the border of Belgium. The Avesnois is in the green part of the map in the South-East. It is for this reason we say we are in the South of the North. I am born in the middle of the North, where is the main town, Lille (in one of its borough town). On this map it is the part in orange colour. In the North of the department is the North Sea, in the East Belgium, and in the West the other part of the region the Pas-de-Calais, which lies at two seas the North Sea and the Channel. In the South is the department Aisne which is in Picardie. On the green part you can see the big forest of Mormal which is the greatest forest of the region Nord-Pas de Calais. Pont-sur-Sambre is at the North-East edge of this forest. Gommegnies and Le Quesnoy from which I already published photos on this blog are in the West of the forest. Fourmies from which I already published photos here also is in the South-East corner of the green part.

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a) You must ask yourself if my link of Sunday was on Brasov and not on an Asia town, although I begun to be in Asia, it is because I was not at the same place in my blog "Voyage virtuel dans les Daily Photos" So, now we are leaving Seoul in South Corea to go to Dangeon in the same country and look at the blog of Cold Noodle and his photos : Dangeon Daily Photo.
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b) I am sailing with my virtual ship to the Volga and on the Volga to the Black Sea, from which I'm sailing though the mouth of the Donau (Danube). It is the place where lived an ondine of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and the father of the ondin of Mörike (in german books of fairy tales), and from there I'm going to Brasov where a Daily Photo Blog begun and stopped (perharps not...) in a short time. It was hold by Stefan G. : Brasov Daily Photo.

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109. The place of the village of Féron.

On this picture you can see the place of the village of Féron. A lovely little village place with its traditional Monument aux Morts : it is a monument to the dead men of the three world wars : 1870, 1914-18 and 1939-45. You can find this monument on each place of village in France and on one of the main place of each bigger town. This one is on the place of the church village. Other picture of Féron : see "A cool kind of lamp" in this blog.
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How I'm sailong with my virtual ship along the coast of China, and I came to the peninsula where is Corea and there I stop a while my virtual ship to come until Corea where we look together at the pictures of Kais. : Séoul Daily Photo.
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108. The Eurowalkers in Fourmies.

In Fourmies 200 pupils who are learning german in the Primary Schools (from 6 years old until 11 years old) made a show in german with the help of 40 pupils of a primary schools which made english. They played a theater piece about Europa with one english and many german children songs. They traveled in this piece in other european countries and in Egypt and Turkey. It was organized by the association Fourmies-Bernburg. There were also during a week an exhibition about Germany and other countries in the European Union. The pictures here above show the different drawings children made for a competition to make the advertising for the show. The collage on the picture below with another picture with many speaking mouthes won the competition.

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Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/04/2006 08:31:00 PM
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Hong Kong, China

I am sailong though the China Sea to Hong Kong where I find Lisi, a blog friend of mine with her Hong Kong Daily Photo.

Sent at June 04 2006, 7:39 PM

Updated at Monday 19th, March 2007 : Here is the new blog of Hong Kong Daily Photo.

About Duckie

Ask me why is a "duckie" here adopted by Perle de Rosée. It's because for several days I saw I yellow bird coming out the grave of my litttle bird Fifi and because there are many ducks on the Sambre in Pont-sur-Sambre he went to a female duck. Now he's in the whole world.

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Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/04/2006 08:18:00 PM

107. "A door must be opened or shut".

I begin with a quotation of the french drama writer of the 19th century "A door must be opened or closed". It is the title of one of his theatre pieces. I made this picture in Gommegnies near Le Quesnoy. Here you can see how two neighbours have different ways of life : the one has an opened door, the other a shut door.

I have published other photos of these doors on Pont sur Sambre and Avesnois out of time.

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From Singapore we are sailing on the China Sea to Manila, Philippines. There we can look both at the old blog of .... , which adress is Manila Daily Photo

Her new blog is Manila Dp

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Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/03/2006 08:21:00 AM

106. The climbing plants are dead.

I've spoken in the post of yesterday of the owner of the ambulances of Bavay who has no place to let go out of the garages her 14 ambulances.

Since two years that a gatter was built on the historic place in front of her garage she's fighting to let the gatter which was built two years ago desappear. At one of her window, she has also a board which explains how an ennemy of the nature cut the wall-climbing-plants on their feet so that the plants are starving.

It was the first board I photographed as the lady saw me and asked me to photograph the second board, on the door of the ambulance bureau published yesterday, and I promised her to make the affair be worldwide on the world wide web*. It is another remembering to our old town district which desappears.

It is in the little town of Bavay about 8 km away from Pont-sur-Sambre. *

The board claims : an ennemy of the nature cut willingly our wild climbing plants (I do not know exactly the name of the plant in english).

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*On the first publishing of the blog there were her an ugly, but funny mistake, I wrote how I can read now in the printing I made at this time : the world wild web!!!!

*Update : I have now find the name of the plant in english : it is called "virginia creeper".

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From Kuala Lumpur it is no far from Singapore, so I'm sailing to that Island with my virtual ship and you can look here in the blog of Singapore Daily Photo.

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105. Problem of Parking : the ambulances have not enough place to come out of the parking.

The thema of to-day is by the City Daily Photo a parking problem. On the pictures that I show above this one has the woman who rule an ambulance firm in Bavay, a roman town 8km in the North-West of here a problem to park them.

On the first picture you can see the little place that it was already before to come from the garage between the two houses. An other house is in the back of the two others and the garage also, so that this hole was two years ago a square with historic value, because there are some historic houses on it. So that it is forbidden to build on this square. The woman of the ambulances has also another problem : you can sea the climbing wild wine grapes trees which was cut at their feet by somebody who was not found so that it does no more have leaves.

On the second picture you can see the board that the ambulance woman set at her window to let hear her voice about the parking problem : the board is an open letter to the mayor, because he let the "Cour Marcel", it is the name of the square become not so beautiful how it was since two centuries.

On the third picture you can see the building with the ambulances and the gatter that the neigbour built two years ago on town ground. This gatter is dangerous because it can fall.

The door of the gatter is also on her gas counter and always open so that the gatter has no use. The man who has to write how many gas the woman use in her house cannot open the counter container, so that the woman has to pay her gas on an evaluation of the winter with the warming of the house and pay since two years too much for her gas.
The lady went to the tribunal, but had no success until here and hope that her new neighboor will let the gatter away.
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--Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/01/2006 11:42:00 PM

Updated 26/08/06 : I went there again about a month ago, and there were no difference with before.

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I'm am sailing from Indonesia, where I were just after the earthquake only virtual, because it is impossible for me to help in another way, to Malaysia, where we are visiting the big capital town of Kuala Lumpur with Disquette : Kuala Lumpur Daily Photo.

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Posted by perle de rosée to Pont-sur-Sambre and Avesnois Daily Photo at 6/01/2006 10:23:00 AM

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