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Compared with the past, this time I added some new equipment, which I feel very comfortable using: iPad Mi2, the screen is sharp and convenient, and I don't need to bring travel books, all electronic ones can be used. Especially when visiting museums, I really travel light, an iPad can solve the two major functions of the tour guide and taking photos, which is great.

An Qingju and An Chuyu equipped their SLR cameras with a high-end ultra-light tripod and a selfie artifact: a remote control. An Qingju and An Chuyu had used several portable tripods for their SLR cameras, but they all had quality problems and were easily broken.

This time I bought a very good portable tripod called Manfrotto. Although it is a bit expensive (almost 200 yuan), it is of good quality and easy to operate. It can support An Qingju and An Chuyu's canon550d without any problems. It has a good price-performance ratio. With the remote control, it is much more convenient to pose for selfies, which is very helpful for the two marmots to pose.

As for other electrical appliances, the French plugs are the two-pin round stick plugs, so you can get it with some universal plugs. The music in the new car you drive can be copied to a USB drive, and the new car supports USB drives or Bluetooth to read music!

An Chuyu will not elaborate on other items, which are nothing more than clothes, daily necessities, and medicines. As for clothes, the temperature in France in summer is not very low, and the thickest clothes are trousers and jackets. An Qingju and An Chuyu wear short sleeves most of the time, and put a thin sun-proof jacket in their schoolbags. Hats and sunscreen are a must.

An Chuyu will not elaborate on other items, which are nothing more than clothes, daily necessities, and medicines. As for clothes, the temperature in France in summer is not very low, and the thickest clothes are trousers and jackets. An Qingju and An Chuyu wear short sleeves most of the time. A thin sun-proof jacket is kept in the schoolbag as a backup.

Hats and sunscreen are a must, they are indispensable. Because you will be out for a long time, you must have enough medicine. This time, An Chuyu caught a cold and had diarrhea, thanks to these medicines.

As usual, you should prepare a copy of important documents (ID card, passport, round-trip air ticket, insurance) and bring them with you. You can also prepare an electronic version and save it on your iPad or in your own email box to be prepared.

Before leaving, I went to the bank to exchange some Euros (1,000 Euros in cash for two people a month is enough). Be careful to exchange some small change as it is difficult to find change for a 500 Euro bill.

In fact, you don't use a lot of cash in France, but there are some places that don't support magnetic stripe credit cards like in China (hotels, supermarkets, etc. do support it), including: gas stations, self-service toll points on highways, self-service ticket machines on subways and buses, etc.

If you don't have a chip credit card (note that it must be a chip credit card, not a chip debit card), you can only pay in cash at these places, so be mentally prepared.

The things mentioned above, if you have prepared them here, you can basically handle the entire trip. Some people may ask: Why do you plan your trip this way or that way? How can you know that this is the place you want to see?

Those who can ask this question have already learned about "travel" from "tourism". For most "tourists", the keywords of traveling in France should be: Paris, Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Galeries Lafayette, perfume, Provence, Arc de Triomphe.

So what do the following words mean to travelers: Napoleon, Bastille, Paris Commune, Louis XVI. The Sun King, Francis I, Notre Dame de Paris, Charles de Gaulle, the Normandy Landing. Escaping from the jaws of death, Burgundy, Bordeaux, the Seine, Chanson...

For An Qingju, traveling can be divided into three stages: "wandering in thought" before traveling, traveling, and "recollecting" after traveling. In the "wandering in thought" stage, An Qingju would hold a map in one hand and write a chronology of major events in France (which he compiled himself) in the other hand, and read as many French novels, French movies, French stories, French documentaries, and even French news as possible.

In this way, you can gradually sort out the places you want to see, and gradually build a three-dimensional travel map of time and space in your mind.

This is the beauty of self-guided travel. In An Qingju's opinion, if you travel with a group, it is like chewing wax and repeating the places that countless people have walked on. What these places mean to you is completely unimportant. You just force these nouns into your mind, as if "mass" means the same thing.

Although it is complicated and even difficult to prepare for a trip on your own, the trip to that land and the things you experience on that land are all unique and your own experience. You may visit a place that everyone goes to, but the angle of viewing is your own choice.

You may choose a place with few tourists, but it will still be well-known to you. This is the real charm of travel for An Qingju and An Chuyu.

We arrived in Paris at 2pm. We went through customs first and then picked up our luggage. No one checked us. I heard on the news that France had strengthened airport security measures in response to the US's request to strengthen its investigation of terrorists. I didn't realize it.

An Qingju and An Chuyu's flight arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport T2, but the automatic car they ordered was only available at T1 (there was also a pick-up point at T2, but there were no automatic models). The two of them took the airport's free shuttle and followed the signs to pick up the car at the Budget store in T1, which was very smooth.

All car rental companies park their cars on the red floor of the airport parking building. You read it right, it is the red floor - probably because they don't want people to remember the wrong location, so they just use color markings. Once you get to the red floor, it is easy to see because the walls are all red. Just find your car rental company's sign and drive away.

An Qingju and An Chuyu's car was automatically upgraded to a Volvox C60D4, a diesel car, and a big one. But it was actually a brand new car, just produced on July 1, 2014. When An Qingju and An Chuyu got the car, the mileage was 12 kilometers! The car was spotless and smelled like a new car. Apparently, not many people rent automatic cars in France.

When we were about to leave, we found that there was no place to insert the key under the steering wheel. It was the first time I used such a high-end car, so I quickly asked the staff for help. It turned out that when the key was in the car, the car started when I stepped on the brake and pressed the start button. It was advanced! After the two marmots started the car, they drove onto the road following the instructions of the first French word they learned today, ie (exit).

An Qingju and An Chuyu's first stop in France was not Paris, but a small town called Giverny, 90 kilometers away from Charles de Gaulle Airport. Paris was reserved as the final stop for An Qingju and An Chuyu's dinner.

The car set off from the airport, the road became narrower and narrower, the scenery became wilder and wilder, and the GPS finally brought An Qingju and An Chuyu to their accommodation in Giverny: a village called Limetz, 1 km outside Giverny.

It was already past six when An Qingju and An Chu met at their residence, which was already 12 midnight in Beijing. This was why they couldn't drive too far on the first day after getting off the plane, or they would get sleepy.

The gate to the residence was closed, and An Qingju went up to ring the doorbell with a bit of trepidation. It was the landlord's family who greeted An Qingju and An Chuyu. They were about to go out for dinner and were waiting for An Qingju and An Chuyu to check in.

The owner's yard is located in the countryside of Limetz. The house is surrounded by a courtyard covering an area of ​​5 or 6 acres, which is very beautifully maintained. An Qingju and An Chuyu's room is an independent small brick house at the end of the yard, with its own small gate for entering and exiting. The gate in the photo leads directly to the owner's large yard.

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Due to the time difference and the fact that he had just arrived in Guijing, An Chuyu quickly familiarized himself with the room and went to sleep. An Qingju was not sleepy at all. It was his first time in Guijing, so everything was new to him. So he put on his backpack and went out of the courtyard. Soon they crossed a small river in the village. The small house on the river should be a dock.

But after walking 200 meters, I saw a map at the entrance of the village, which marked the boundaries of Limetz. If I continued along this road for 1 kilometer, I would reach Giverny. So An Qingju turned back and walked towards the downtown of Limetz village, and it only took 15 minutes to arrive.

The town was very clean, but An Qingju soon discovered something different: there were cars parked on the road, indicating that many people lived in the town, but there was no one on the street. After walking around the village for more than half an hour, he only saw a woman walking across the street and then hiding in the house. Where did the person go?

Standing on the street and listening carefully, I could hear the whispers of people in the air. It was about 7pm in France, dinner time. Everyone was eating and chatting in the courtyards and houses, but no one was standing on the street.

This scene was a bit strange for a Chinese. In the memories of An Qingju and An Chuyu, the village was probably the busiest at dinner time: the workers came back from the fields; the children ran wildly in the streets; the adults who had nothing to do stood on the street chatting, and those who had something to do also talked loudly while working.

Many people actually stood at the door with their bowls in hand, eating and talking to passers-by; small vendors pushed their carts and kept passing by shouting; even the doors of the houses were wide open, and the voices of people talking in the rooms floated onto the road...

The answer was not given until the next morning when An Qingju and An Chuyu met the landlord. And today An Qingju saw this scene:

The quiet village service center, the one with the word mairie is the town hall (equivalent to our village committee). Every window of the northern residents is equipped with shutters, and the windows are completely covered when people are not at home. The small black device in the photo is used to fix the shutters.

However, after walking 500 meters, we reached the end of the village. Under a huge oak tree, there was a small monument. I looked up the French dictionary and found that a US Air Force soldier was buried here in 1944 as a memorial. A propeller on the tombstone reminded An Chuyu that this was once a battlefield in World War II. (The novel "He Came from the End of the World" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "Add Friends", search for the public account "qdread" and follow it, hurry up!) (To be continued..)