Exploring Flers

Hello again!

This week has been a little bit dull to tell you the truth. My tutor (the teacher I work the most with ) was not working this week because she was helping to chaperone a very cool program with two of her higher level English classes. They have an exchange program with a high school in Sweden, and went to visit them last March. Now the Swedes are in Flers, visiting their partners for the week. This means that my first day of work of the week was today, Thursday.

To fill my time I have been doing a lot of walking. I try to get out every day that I don't work, and even some days that I do, just to explore Flers a little bit. Unfortunately Flers is not the largest of places, and the city center lost its thrill weeks ago. I still love it, but it isn't the same feeling, seeing the same dozen stores you have seen for a month. I am very lucky, though, that Flers is small enough, and strangely shaped enough (imagine a fat spider, and its legs are the populated areas), for me to be able to walk out of it into a more rural landscape. Olivier and I took one walk like that Wednesday afternoon, and I thought, since I remembered to bring my camera, that it would be fun to show you what I saw on the way. 

First, was this house. I loved the brick details, but what really drew me to it was the backyard. Yep, if you look closely you can see that they have a bunch of sheep in their  yard. And yes, this is still inside the town limits, maybe 5 minutes from my apartment in the city center.

 I took a closer picture of the yard and the sheep.

 I took this picture with my back to the house with the sheep, so you can see that it was a fairly populated area. Flers isn't the cutest of towns, but you can see the guy walking his dog with what I think is a baguette. See! They really do that!

 Here is a picture of a little farther out. One of my favorite parts about Flers is that if you walk for about ten minutes in any direction you start to see scenes like this in the distance.

I just loved this house.

This is a picture from outside the city center, we climbed up a pretty steep hill.

 

 About half an hour later we made it out of Flers! The sign says St. Georges des Groseillers. We had to get out of the way of a bunch of tractors which were on their way to harvest some corn.

I hoped you enjoyed these pictures! I enjoyed taking them!

Shoshana