The Exchange in France

I'm off to university in France! The Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 shall welcome me to its hallowed Manufacture des Tabacs campus from August 07 to the following January, but before that are before me meanderings in Melbourne, happenings in Hong Kong and cheekiness in China. Let the alliteration stop and read on...!

  • 334 days (01 Jul 2007 - 30 May 2008)
  • 49427 km (30713 miles)
  • 12 countries
  • 77 entries (62814 words)
  • 748 photos
  • 4.5 ratings (30 votes)
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Day Journal date: Country Place Title Distance Media Rating
1 Jul 01, 2007 01:32 Australia Sydney » An Interesting Start 0 km [*] (7) 4.8 (3 votes)
2 Jul 02, 2007 10:54 Australia Melbourne » Victoria the Third 714 km
3 Jul 03, 2007 10:30 Australia Ballarat » Sunshine on a cloudy day. 817 km [*] (12)
6 Jul 06, 2007 09:40 Australia Melbourne » What day is it? 920 km [*] (8)
7 Jul 07, 2007 13:15 Australia Melbourne » Good Old Collingwood Forever! 920 km [*] (7)
10 Jul 10, 2007 13:41 Australia Melbourne » Postera crescam laude 920 km [*] (13)
11 Jul 11, 2007 06:38 Australia Melbourne » Twenty-one Today! 920 km [*] (7)
11 Jul 11, 2007 13:39 Australia Melbourne » Malbourne - An Apilogue 920 km [*] (3)
13 Jul 13, 2007 03:22 Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui » Jo san, Heung Gong! 8348 km [*] (4)
15 Jul 15, 2007 16:06 Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui » Money Money Money 8348 km [*] (30)
19 Jul 19, 2007 16:05 Hong Kong Tai Mei Tuk » Can I please have the idiot soup with noodles? 8368 km [*] (38) 5 (1 votes)
21 Jul 21, 2007 05:25 Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui » The hourglass is almost up at Sharp Sandy Point* 8388 km [*] (20)
22 Jul 22, 2007 13:20 China Shenzhen » The Sheer Shock of Shintillating Shenzhen 8415 km [*] (8)
24 Jul 24, 2007 13:48 China Kunming » All that altitude really gets to you... 9611 km [*] (14) 3.6 (1 votes)
27 Jul 27, 2007 08:13 China Kunming » A foreign language is a weapon... 9611 km [*] (15)
29 Jul 29, 2007 04:14 China Beijing » It's just like riding a bike. 11703 km [*] (8) 2.8 (2 votes)
32 Aug 01, 2007 16:24 China Beijing » 爱我中华! 11703 km 4.8 (2 votes)
36 Aug 05, 2007 08:37 China Beijing » No-one carres for you at Carrefour 11703 km 5 (1 votes)
39 Aug 08, 2007 11:27 China Shanghai » Mandarin Lesson One: Méiyǒu is a dirty word 12784 km 4.9 (2 votes)
42 Aug 11, 2007 11:07 China Shanghai » Honey, I'm home! 12784 km 4.1 (3 votes)
45 Aug 14, 2007 03:11 China Nanjing » Peace reigns over Nanking 13052 km
48 Aug 17, 2007 11:29 China Xi'an » Another day, another bell tower. 14001 km
56 Aug 25, 2007 15:54 China Beijing » You know you've been in Beijing too long if... 14915 km
59 Aug 28, 2007 16:59 China Beijing » Hong Kong and China - An Epilogue 14915 km [*] (14)
60 Aug 29, 2007 12:15 United Kingdom London » The hellish myth of Heathrow is a stark reality. 23063 km [*] (11)
61 Aug 30, 2007 15:04 France Paris » Ahh, Paris! 23405 km [*] (47) 4.2 (1 votes)
69 Sep 07, 2007 16:40 France Lyon » Last stop. All out all change. 23801 km [*] (19) 5 (1 votes)
70 Sep 08, 2007 19:41 France Lyon » The World In Union 23801 km [*] (16) 5 (2 votes)
83 Sep 21, 2007 10:04 France Lyon » Once upon a time... 23801 km [*] (40)
91 Sep 29, 2007 17:06 France Lyon » Tourist time again 23801 km [*] (28)
96 Oct 04, 2007 15:29 France Lyon » Vive la bureaucratie française! 23801 km
99 Oct 07, 2007 16:58 France Lyon » French Lesson One: 'Fermeture exceptionnelle'... 23801 km [*] (3)
105 Oct 13, 2007 08:49 France Aix-en-Provence » Yes mum, don't worry. I'm practicing safe Aix. 24053 km [*] (37) 5 (1 votes)
107 Oct 15, 2007 22:48 France Marseille » Il pleut sur Marseille 24080 km [*] (45) 5 (1 votes)
113 Oct 21, 2007 10:38 France Lyon » J'saispas, demande à Chantal 24357 km [*] (14)
115 Oct 23, 2007 22:19 France Nice » It's very Nice, in a Mikanical way 24654 km [*] (63)
119 Oct 28, 2007 00:39 France Lyon » Living in Lyon #1 - How to fall in Vélo'v. 24951 km 4.6 (1 votes)
126 Nov 03, 2007 21:07 France Grenoble » It's noble, it's green, it's Grenoble! 25045 km [*] (29)
128 Nov 05, 2007 22:15 Switzerland Geneva » For God's sake, bring international ID! 25166 km [*] (48)
133 Nov 10, 2007 18:53 France Paris » Il existe un Paris quelque part... 25580 km [*] (35)
135 Nov 12, 2007 20:42 France Paris » Jazz in the Basement, but that's not all. 25580 km [*] (15)
138 Nov 15, 2007 01:17 Germany Hamburg » Ich komme heim. 26327 km
147 Nov 24, 2007 01:24 Germany Berlin » Green Tea Mint Rooibos Chai Latte w/German accent? 26582 km
161 Dec 08, 2007 01:25 France Lyon » Living in Lyon #2 - You Light Up My Life 27558 km [*] (29) 5 (1 votes)
172 Dec 19, 2007 16:37 France Strasbourg » Sitting down on my Stras... bourg... 27943 km
173 Dec 20, 2007 18:31 Germany Karlsruhe » ... being quiet in Charles' Quiet... 28010 km
175 Dec 22, 2007 17:32 Germany Heidelberg » ... playing Heid and go seekelberg... 28062 km
178 Dec 25, 2007 01:35 Germany Hamburg » Šestnact roasting on an open fire 28531 km
181 Dec 28, 2007 18:36 Germany Eisenach » You can't stop the music. 28818 km [*] (34)
185 Jan 01, 2008 02:37 Portugal Lisbon (draft) - NYE in Random Location - Coming Soon!!! 30861 km
197 Jan 13, 2008 01:40 France Lyon » Sometimes it really IS just a walk in the park. 32252 km [*] (27) 3.8 (1 votes)
199 Jan 15, 2008 22:38 France Lyon » French Lesson Two: Bonjour! Bon ben, écoute... 32252 km 4.2 (2 votes)
230 Feb 15, 2008 10:11 France Lyon (draft) - 69 - Something happens! 32252 km
244 Feb 29, 2008 10:11 France Lyon (draft) - 69 - Adieu... 32252 km
246 Mar 02, 2008 10:12 France Paris (draft) - 75 - On the road again 32648 km
252 Mar 08, 2008 10:13 Germany Berlin (draft) - B - Noch einmal! 33527 km
260 Mar 16, 2008 10:14 Poland Warsaw (draft) - WI - Slight mistake 34045 km
263 Mar 19, 2008 10:16 Belgium Brussels (draft) - Brussels - Fleeing to neutral territory 35207 km
270 Mar 26, 2008 10:17 Belgium Brugge (draft) - Bruges'd aside. 35226 km
273 Mar 29, 2008 10:18 Germany Velten (draft) - OHV - Alles klar, alles klar 35888 km
276 Apr 01, 2008 10:20 Germany Leipzig (draft) - L - Where I am now! 36053 km
280 Apr 05, 2008 17:40 Germany Erfurt » Dirty rivers but pretty mountains. 36151 km
285 Apr 10, 2008 17:42 Germany Cologne » Da simmer dabei, dat is prima! 36438 km
289 Apr 14, 2008 17:42 Germany Dahn » On hiatus 36646 km
291 Apr 16, 2008 17:43 Germany Stuttgart » It doesn't take much to make me happy, gä? 36757 km
293 Apr 18, 2008 20:15 Germany Nürnberg (draft) - N - Sayonara 36914 km
295 Apr 20, 2008 20:17 Czech Republic Plzeň (draft) - Dobry den! 37084 km
300 Apr 25, 2008 20:17 Czech Republic Český Krumlov (draft) - ... 37209 km
307 May 02, 2008 10:47 Czech Republic Olomouc (draft) - Olomouc - coming soon! 37439 km
309 May 04, 2008 10:49 Poland Oświęcim (draft) - Auschwitz 37591 km
311 May 06, 2008 10:51 Poland Kraków (draft) - Eventually. 37787 km
315 May 10, 2008 10:52 Czech Republic Prague (draft) - Prague!! 38126 km
319 May 14, 2008 10:52 Belgium Brussels (draft) - Argh belgium... 38849 km
321 May 16, 2008 10:53 France Paris (draft) - Last Parisian hurrah 39111 km
325 May 20, 2008 10:54 France Lyon (draft) - Adieu :-( 39507 km
329 May 24, 2008 09:55 Finland Helsinki (draft) - Biding time... 41586 km
335 May 30, 2008 09:56 Hong Kong Causeway Bay (draft) - Show me the way to go home... 49427 km
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