La Halle, Cremieu, France

In the heart of Cremieu stands La Halle, an imposing 15th century marketplace. During this period, Cremieu was the center of grain trade between France, Switzerland, and Italy.

Again, I had to get Google to translate the best page I could find on it.

Remember I noted that Cremieu was a center of grain trade. In La Halle are the original stone measures of grain. The way they worked is they would plug the hole with wood and fill the basin with grain level with the top. The buyer's container would be placed at the foot of the basin and the plug removed. The unit of measure was "bichet."

Scroll to the East and you'll see La Halle's relationship to Tour de l'Horloge.


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Tour de l'Horloge, Cremieu, France

My former exchange student took me on a walking tour of the old village of Cremieu. I'd been there briefly in the early 1990's but hadn't had the chance to walk it like the two of us did.

We climbed up a steep foot-trail to Tour de l'Horloge. I couldn't find much on it in English so I had Google translate this page.

From this viewpoint, you can see all across Cremieu. My pictures from Tour de l'Horloge begin here.


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Chemin du Marais, Villemoirieu, France

When I left Warsaw, I flew to Lyon to visit my friends just outside Cremieu. They live on this bucolic little lane in the countryside. What a nice place to live and drink French wine.

My pictures begin here.


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Golden Terraces, Warsaw, Poland

Just across the street from the Marriott where we stayed in Warsaw was the Golden Terraces. It is a commercial, office, and entertainment complex in the center of Warsaw next to the train station. It opened in early 2007.

It has a fascinating glass roof that looks like soap bubbles.

Here's the wikipedia article and here's their web site.

Kwidzyn, Poland

After we left Krakow, we took the train to the paper mill at Kwidzyn. Here's International Paper's site for that mill. The mill was built in the early 1970's by the Communist government. IP bought it in 1992.

Here's their web page (sorry, it's in Polish) and here's the wikipedia article. Here're my pictures of the mill. For a good laugh, here's my "apartment."