Chapter 878 The Little Beauty in Life



It was a little surprising that today, the two of us were so crazy that we wanted to eat Chinese food again. £∝Top Novel, there happened to be a Chinese restaurant outside the casino supermarket, so we went in and really regretted it. There was only one person in the restaurant who was the cook, the boss lady, and the waiter. The rice was cooked in a microwave oven with water poured on it.

The stir-fried dishes were made by the proprietress herself, and the two dishes tasted the same. The proprietress was a Chinese-American mixed race, and could barely speak Chinese. She only had a smile on her face, which made An Qingju and An Chuyu feel embarrassed to leave. After eating, An Chuyu only had one sentence left. If we go to the restaurant today, we should just give An Chuyu a shoe-bottom steak...

In order to see Tintin, An Qingju and An Chuyu specially set aside three days for their trip to France, starting from Burgundy and heading north, passing through Luxembourg to Brussels to see Tintin's hometown, and also going to the Tintin Museum to have a close contact with Hergé's original work. Are they considered enthusiasts?

If they were just rushing along, they would have been a bit bored. An Qingju and An Chuyu did see some things other than Tintin. For example, the Maginot Line and the altarpiece in Ghent. If you go from France to Belgium, you will almost never miss the Maginot Line.

Almost everyone who has studied high school history knows about the Maginot Line - our history books are not making up stories about it. The reason why it is called the Maginot Line is that it is named after Maginot, the French Minister of War at the time. This minister was really unlucky, and now the "Maginot Line" has become a synonym for something that looks solid on the surface but is actually worthless.

Can you tell it clearly by looking at this picture?

Before World War II, France also expected that Germany would definitely attack, so France built the Maginot Line on the Franco-German border.

This is a huge fortification, built of reinforced concrete, and is very solid. Inside the defense line are cannons, trenches, fortresses, kitchens, power stations, hospitals, factories, etc., and the passages extend in all directions. In short, it is no problem to live in it.

At that time, the French thought that the border between France, Belgium and Luxembourg (called the Ardennes) was rugged and difficult to maneuver, so they did not take any precautions. But they never expected that the German army would break through. The German army first lured the British and French forces to support the Netherlands, and then attacked the Ardennes. The luxurious Maginot Line was rendered useless because the German army attacked its back from a detour.

Therefore, in the eyes of the French, the Maginot Line should not be a glorious place. The French government still regards the Maginot Line as a great shame (poor Mr. Maginot), and it would be best if the people of the world forgot about it, so they refused to allocate funds for maintenance and repair.

But the French refused to give up, and the local area organized a lot of volunteers to carry out emergency repairs and maintenance. Currently, there are still more than a dozen defense bunkers open to visitors, forming a special themed travel route.

Domestic websites that mention the Maginot Line usually talk about military successes and failures. I don't know how many people have been there. I can't find it on Mafengwo, and I can't tell you on Qunar. But you can visit the existing fortresses of the Maginot Line here. <, this is the main tourist attraction in the Lorraine region. It was raining heavily, and the wipers were busy all the way. I could see the huge claws of the wind power station in the dim light. < Village, you can see a huge tank at the intersection. It seems that I have taken the right road. When I arrived at the village, I quickly found it by following the road signs.

I didn't expect that. The tour was closed at 2pm. An Qingju and An Chuyu dawdled in the morning and at noon, and arrived here at exactly 2:30pm. It was all over. They only got an English instruction manual at the ticket office at the entrance.

According to the LP and the manual, this is the largest independent fortress of the Maginot Line in the Metz area, which can accommodate 1,000 people. The designers dug 10 kilometers of tunnels here, assuming that the fortress would be able to be self-sufficient for 3 months and fire 4 tons of shells per minute in war.

There is now a tram here. Taking the tram, tourists can come to the 4-kilometer tunnel under the fortress - a constant temperature bunker with a temperature of 12 degrees Celsius all year round. It is said that you can also visit a series of underground buildings, including kitchens, hospitals, and power generation rooms for war and famine preparedness.

If anyone would like to visit here, please remember to arrive before 2 o'clock.

For An Qingju and An Chuyu, going to Luxembourg was not for tourism. They just wanted to pass by and stay overnight. The total distance from Beaune to Brussels is 700 kilometers, which An Chuyu thought was a bit far, so they stopped in Luxembourg and stayed in a hotel. What Luxembourg looks like is all seen on wheels.

Luxembourg is a city (country) in the rain. It is an ordinary city, not big. It takes about half an hour to pass through the city and one hour to cross the country. An Qingju and An Chuyu followed the GPS instructions and walked along the Grand Canyon of Luxembourg. There are many ancient buildings on both sides of the canyon. If you calm down and look at it, you will probably see a lot.

An Qingjue and An Chuyu didn't go in, not because they didn't want to go in, but because there was a big dish (Paris) behind, and because they were tired of the aesthetics at that time and felt that there was really nothing to see. This is the Red Bridge that flashed by.

There were welcome snacks upon check-in, and the room was also very familiar to the star-rated hotel room; the breakfast was also very rich. Like all the star-rated hotels I have stayed in, the internet access in the room is charged, and there is free wifi in the hotel lobby. There is nothing else to say. Staying in a business hotel is also a change between the B&Bs along the way.

When I woke up, the rain outside the window had stopped, but it was still cloudy. In the morning, I found that there were many Chinese people staying in Shuangyushu Hotel, some for meetings and some for tourism. They gathered in the lobby early in the morning waiting to check out, shouting and yelling.

The breakfast was good. A Chinese couple sitting at the table next to An Qingjue and An Chuyu were also talking about duty-free shopping and buying watches - was there nothing else to talk about?

Last night it was raining and I was lazy. I didn't go out to eat. I just ate some sausages in my luggage and boiled a few eggs in my room. I was so hungry when I woke up in the morning. I ignored the conversation of people buying watches at duty-free shop and ate a lot of food in silence.

I went back to my room and was lazy for a while, curled up in bed and watched TV. The English channel was playing a documentary about the mothers of June Fourth. It was about how Ding Zilin spent her entire life searching for the truth after she was innocently shot dead during a June Fourth march for her son. I had seen a clip of this online, and now I am reviewing it again.

Today we are going to enter Belgium, and Tintin is calling me. But now I am not worried about whether I will see Tintin. When I arrived in Belgium, An Chuyu didn't believe that I couldn't find him - as long as I play by myself, I will definitely find him.

With this reassurance, An Qingju's mind became active again, and he was unwilling to go straight to Brussels. At the beginning of this year (2014), I watched George Clooney's new film "The Monuments Men" (also known as "The Monuments Men"), which mentioned many works of art. To be honest, the movie was really bad. It wanted positive energy, thrills, and artistic expression, but the result was a mess.

An Qingju watched the film patiently to the end, in order to remember the artworks mentioned in the film. An Qingju and An Chuyu were going to Paris, where "The Six Pilgrims of Calais" is in the Rodin Museum; Vermeer's "The Astronomer" is in the Louvre, and there is also Rembrandt's self-portrait; Cezanne's "The House of Dr. Gachet" is in the Orsay Museum.

The remaining artworks that were obviously not on An Qingju and An Chuyu's route were left for later viewing, such as Renoir's "Little Irene". Bruges is a bit far (Michelangelo's "Bruges Madonna" is there), but An Qingju and An Chuyu can go to Ghent (iclamb).

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Ghent is only 60 kilometers away from Brussels. Very convenient. We went there right away, two people checked out and set off. The highway in Belgium is free of charge. It turns out that this is called the intercontinental trunk road, which is a cross-border highway. They all start with e and are very high-end. Thinking of the money charged on the road to Fontainebleau, I feel really sad.

This unplanned travel destination did give An Qingju and An Chuyu a surprise, which was words. An Qingju and An Chuyu always thought that Belgium and Luxembourg were basically French-speaking areas, just like France. Unexpectedly, it was actually a one-size-fits-all situation from Brussels, and all of Belgium in the north was Dutch-speaking.

The first time I saw Dutch, I thought it was really weird. A few consonants lay together, and it looked like a word was made by randomly scratching on the keyboard. For example,

An Qingju and An Chuyu didn't know which direction they drove into Ghent from. But once they entered Ghent, they felt that the style was very different from France. As they got closer to the canal, they felt that the architectural style of Ghent looked a bit like the Dutch style that An Qingju and An Chuyu had seen in pictures - of course, they had never been to the Netherlands, so they couldn't make any rash judgments.

Most of the road signs in Ghent are in Dutch and French. Poor An Qingju and An Chuyu now even feel at home when they see French. They went to great lengths to find an underground parking lot, which is located in the basement of a large market square.

It was probably because some kind of carnival was held in Ghent over the weekend. When An Qingju and An Chu came across this place, they could see garbage everywhere that had not been sorted out after the carnival, and workers were slowly dismantling the scenery supports one by one.

An Qingju and An Chuyu suddenly decided to go see the altar painting, but now seeing that there are churches everywhere in this small city, they have no idea which church this altar painting is in. (To be continued...)


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