Northern France

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• A Unique Summer Festival in Northern France: Festival of the Giants

  Blog: Video Diary of an American in France - 26 August 2011

  From cheese-rolling competitions in England to La Tomatina festival in Spain, Europe has some eccentric events. Among the most traditional and unusual is the northern French town of Douai’s Festival of the Giants, which is held in mid-July each year. The Festival                  Local people parade the gayants, among which feature Monsieur and Madame Gayant and their [...]

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• Walking in Lille

  Blog: Indian Bazaars - 5 July 2011

  Why were we in Lille? It had been an old, neglected town of France until twenty years ago but now it was a booming tourist place. How had that happened? We were here to explore the town, the central market and its many pedestrianised streets, to understand the Urban Heritage strategy that the French town had adopted but also to simply walk the streets and enjoy ourselves.

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• Lille Book Market

  Blog: Indian Bazaars - 19 June 2011

  Young and old people walked about quietly through the courtyard and the passages around it, rummaging through old books and secondhand magazines, old photographs, posters and records. For us, it was a different book landscape than we were used to. The graphics were different, the text was different. Here and there in-between was a text that was familiar, an artist’s work that you had read about before or seen earlier.

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