France When I Was....
By Sue21
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
Pamplona, Spain
September 29, 2018 4:17am CST
Seeing as I lived in the heart of the West Midlands it was an awfully long way to go to France.
We went by Train and what I most loved that it was a Steam Train and we were mostly by the Coastline seeing the waves going over each other.
I was quite unabashed even though I was wearing a school mac for that day things were like that just then.
Anyway we got to this huge boat thing and it took us to Dieppe.
Dieppe was a place I had never been before and like a little girl that I was I said that I had never got there before.
Anyway I fell in love with the high sea walls of the Port and the lovely sea air.
Loved the Boat as it was full of the smell of Gitannes I think you spell it like that and I did not mind that at all.
I bought an ornament there that was in our house for yonks after that.
All in all although it was a very long journey and we were only there for a few hours I loved my first time out of England and for me it was like going on a trip to the Moon something way out.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Sep 18
Oh yes it was a very long trip down there but I loved it all the way there and back.
Seeing as I hardly ever went that far it was sort of exotic to me at that time.
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@JudyEv (382312)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Sep 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 I know exactly what you're saying. I would have been really excited too.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
1 Oct 18
Wow, that was some trip for you as well.
All the way there by yourself.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
1 Oct 18
@DianneN
But you had the courage to go though.
I flew to Barcelona on my own for the first time and it was really great and best plane journey ever.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
1 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 My father was able to put me on the plane then, and my relatives met me at the gate. I only traveled once again by myself, and that was to visit my boyfriend at the time. My father once again put me on the plane and my boyfriend met me at the gate. 
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
6 Oct 18
nice nostalgia for a lovely trip
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
6 Oct 18
Really it was and still is as we never went too far and out of England that was the first time ever so its a special memory.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
6 Oct 18
@arthurchappell
Yes there was another one and I did so want to go to the Isle of Man with the School and was not allowed and that would have been equal for me at least.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
6 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 my first venture abroad was very special to me too
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
9 Oct 18
Also a very long trip you went on too.
I have never been to Frankfurt but have seen it on Television and images elsewhere.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
9 Oct 18
@nela13
Really it is lovely and there is never very much to see of it now on the television.
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
9 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 I loved the experience and Frankfurt is a very beautiful city.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Sep 18
Nope I a married a Spanish a instead even further away.
You are funny.
I married a Spanish guy who spoke my West Midlands accent to a t.
Hows that getcha.
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wow??.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
1 Oct 18
I still do have good memories of it as I had never been so far away from home and out of England.
Steam Trains were so lovely to travel in.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
1 Oct 18
@Courage7
I just might some time or another and would love to thank you.
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@Courage7 (19626)
• United States
1 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 I wish you could go back if you want to.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
3 Oct 18
wow. sounds like when i went to Niagra Falls here as a child. i brought back a Native American doll i had for years. 
wish i still had her.
wish i still had her.1 person likes this
@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
3 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 i have had so many special dolls over time even into adult hood i collected them . had to give those up from moving to smaller places though over time
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
5 Oct 18
@bunnybon7
After that I have not had many dolls at all but I have liked a lot of the ones that have come out.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Oct 18
I had one too sort of not a genuine one but it was a nice one.
I used to have a Welsh Doll too and she was lovely.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Sep 18
It was Fredo and although tiring it was very exciting and of course I did not know a word of French nothing at all.
I got by okay though.
Have a great day ahead Fredo.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
1 Oct 18
Yes I do have thank you.
Although I had to wear a school mac and shoes and it was terribly warm it was all very exciting at least for me it was.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Oct 18
@just4him
Oh yes memories the good ones are the most important I would say.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
3 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 The memories are important.
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@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
2 Oct 18
France is one of the place I would love to visit epecially Paris and a city just above Paris where some of our ancestors came from to visit the royal castle where they came from when they escaped and came to America during the French Revolution to save their heads from being cut off.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
2 Oct 18
So glad your Ancestors were able to escape that terrible plight.
Paris is a wonderful place to be in even if its just going through it.
@Deepizzaguy (122232)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
15 Oct 18
Thank you for sharing this wonderful story.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
15 Oct 18
Thank you also.
It was a day out to remember and still holds good memories now.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
1 Oct 18
Thank you and it was a good trip.
We ate over there in France and it was a very good meal and it was nice and warm.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Oct 18
@CarolDM
Very good memories and my Nan was with me too.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
2 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 That is great, good memories.
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