tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13200294575711196462011-04-21T16:33:02.549-04:00This blog is a birthday gift to my good friend Kelsey Ann Clough Keyes, who is wonderful! Happy birthday, Kelsey Keyes! Mainly, I will recount a few of our adventures while we both studied in Besancon, France, in 2001-2002.Agneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900775900782619108noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320029457571119646.post-39006407884571919582009-03-28T19:34:00.002-04:002009-03-28T19:34:53.066-04:00Here's a great article about Besancon in today's Guardian:<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/mar/28/besancon-france-city-breaks<br /><br />I miss it so much!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1320029457571119646-3900640788457191958?l=happybirthdaykelseykeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Agneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900775900782619108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320029457571119646.post-72244096886683638592009-03-09T23:01:00.001-04:002009-03-09T23:10:45.775-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">Here are a few photos of Besancon to set the scene for the adventures of Kelsey Keyes!<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXYlbdd05I/AAAAAAAAAAs/anQYXUJHkbQ/s1600-h/Roll+37_025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXYlbdd05I/AAAAAAAAAAs/anQYXUJHkbQ/s320/Roll+37_025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311389473091474322" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The main square of Besancon, la Place de huit septembre<br /><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXZCUzPiUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/HWS-fPiYJww/s1600-h/Roll+37_024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXZCUzPiUI/AAAAAAAAAA0/HWS-fPiYJww/s320/Roll+37_024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311389969519970626" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The fantastic bookstore Campo Novo, one of our favorite places in town<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXZ30J5StI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OO3OzC7CjDw/s1600-h/Roll+37_008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXZ30J5StI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OO3OzC7CjDw/s320/Roll+37_008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311390888469547730" border="0" /></a>The Doubs River, with a glimpse of the Centre de Linquistique Applique (CLA), where we spent many a dull hour waiting to use the super-slow computers<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1320029457571119646-7224409688668363859?l=happybirthdaykelseykeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Agneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900775900782619108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320029457571119646.post-61250298070333172072009-03-09T22:49:00.001-04:002009-03-09T23:00:23.616-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXWcNdYPYI/AAAAAAAAAAk/zgpWeZ8yj14/s1600-h/Besancon031_filtered.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OtUOAk3F9pM/SbXWcNdYPYI/AAAAAAAAAAk/zgpWeZ8yj14/s320/Besancon031_filtered.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311387115690933634" border="0" /></a><br />Kelsey Keyes and I first became friends when we were both sophomores at Knox College and both attended a meeting for students who would be going to study in Besancon, France on Knox's study abroad program. Right away, unbeknown to each other, we each swore to make the other our friend - and thus, our friendship was off!<br /><br />During our year in France, Kelsey Keyes did a lot of wonderful things for me, including organizing a fabulous surprise crepe party for my birthday. This blog is my way of saying thanks to her for those wonderful memories, for her own birthday, eight years later. Better late than never, non?<br /><br />Here's a photo of Kelsey Ann Clough Keyes filling crepes at my birthday party in the Knox office in Besancon.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1320029457571119646-6125029807033317207?l=happybirthdaykelseykeyes.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Agneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02900775900782619108noreply@blogger.com0