It's exactly that ! Today, this tower only serves as a colimasson staircase to give access to the apartments that surround it.

Now, that’s funny

And if we do not know History, we can go ahead without realizing it.

Very true. It doesn’t shout to us. You have to search for it.

While ten meters away, there is the "place des barrernes", which is now a parking lot

What has not been turned into parking lots – geezzz

but at the time of the ramparts, it is there that was stored all the weapons.

An armory?

I like History for that, when we know, this tower, we do not look at it any more in the same way.

No. I would think about it each time I walked up and down those stairs.

Let's look at the other tower (and while there, with a view of the fountain and the statue of the Liberty Square).

Yes, please. Place de la Liberté? I have it here right on the Google Map. The old town with all its crooked streets.

We see a little more military side, but it remains integrated with other buildings. And here too, it's more than a staircase. The plates on the door below, it is to announce doctors' offices. (life makes jokes)

Yes, they don’t look so nice, but what can these doctors do? They have to announce to their patients where their offices are …

As for the area, I do not think it's related to water (although here, there are places where I can drink at the river, not everywhere, but it's worth noting). I think it's more related to relief. Most places are difficult to access, and you can see someone coming from afar. And as if that was not enough, to hide there are plenty of "avens" (a kind of cave).

I think it was a ”Danecism” the thing about being the water … it can do you good or bad. We use it as a metaphor.
It’s very good that you can drink from your rivers. Even as the waterbodies here are clean enough for Saphir12’s herons to multiply, I wouldn’t drink it. Maybe from a spring.

And how often do we look at something, I do not know. When it's beautiful, it's beautiful, and that's it? The old bridge in St Affrique, I saw it for the first time in 1989. For almost four years that I have my dog, I start my day passing by. And yet, every day, I take the time to look at it. He is majestic, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Yes, I know the feeling. Today I took a walk in a forest – the weather improved so it was possible – and it also never looks the same. This picture I took on my way home.

I finished with the avatar of my character on KI (my character, not me):

It’s very handsome. Have you created it all by yourself or did Saphir12 help?

He is a warrior in perfecto, rangers. And next to it, he still has ways, hence the top hat. The death's head on his neck is that in his background he is undead. And in the background, there is the teddy bear and the dragon, its nice side and angry (in French, it looks like "soup with milk").

"Soup with milk"? Opaque?
Oh, sort of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? That's a lot of symbolism to put into a small place
I don’t know anything about role gaming except for some people nearby who hang their costumes to dry on the clothes line, so they must do it. You have to tell me some, when you feel like it. I sense that you have built your character with the qualities you want him to have. It must be like starring in a movie.
You and Saphir12 are the first Frenchmen I have met since my teenage years. I had a pen friend in France, forgot where, but I remember his name. Yvon. He sent me a lot of French stamps. Perfect stamps with the postmarks in the lower left corner. They are beautiful. They are the cornerstone in my collection, and I bought a lot more of French stamps to supplement the ones Yvon sent me. Today I took out my collection for the first time in I don’t know how many years, mainly in order to check if there should be a Saint-Affrique motif. There wasn’t. I found my favorite one: Château Chambord. I love that building and the violet colour.

EDIT: Fixed the spring link and an error in the text ....

Hello Base Campers!
Since the cat is out of the bag

so to speak and two Base Campers have made a headstart
I suggest everyone should have the chance to get himself a headstart.
You may check in at the muddy camp ground in the Netherlands at your earliest convenience.
The address is: SNURK & Friends
They have a team thread. It has not been used for 17 months
They have probably forgotten it is there, but I fished it up from some canal before it froze over and cleaned it.
So, if you need some hygge do come into the cozy livingroom. You’ll find coffee and tea ad libitum
- maybe we can find some Hollandse Graanjenever too.
I tell you, it's an aquired taste which I admittedly never aquired
We really don't have a plan for this SNURK trek. It's open ended. You just stay as long as you like.
Oh, yes, you may hum this one as our temporary National Base Camp hymn Ik wist niet dat je kwaad werd
- obtained from my Dutch connection, adriverhoef. Dank
Well, you can let it play. The next one - according to my more than rudimentary Dutch - is a very appropriate one about someone who cannot find his camper 'Waar is toch mijn caravan'.
So go easy on the Hollandse Graanjenever, Base Campers
Have a safe trip

Good Morning Base Campers!
I thought I had seen most. But I widened my small morning-narrow eyes when I had one of these
’Today-Google-dresses-up-to-celebrate-President-McKinley’s-second-cat’s-258th-birthday’
logos reminding me – I think just us living in Denmark; they have a Rolodex with adresses – to go cast my vote at the local and regional (they forgot the senior citizens’ council) elections today. When you KliK the logo you get a video. I had hoped it showed how to place my ’x’ the right way with the tied-down-cut-in-half-#2-pencil (we save where we can).
I never understood why we cannot have a tick box. Tick boxes cannot be all that expensive.

Google as a ’good corporate citizen’.
Whauw! Thank you!
And that after Danish Margrethe Vestager, the European Competition Commissioner, slammed Google with a fine of no less than €2.420.000.000 ~ US$2.84 billion
An amount to be felt even by Google.
But no hard feelings. Whauw!
Of course, I shall go vote, Google it’s a privilege to be able to.
Margrethe took on Apple, too, by the way.
These companies must have a love/hate relationship with Denmark, because they both bought land for establishing data centers to profit from ’green wind turbine electricity’.
Facebook did too.
Here we are constructing the power transformer plant for Apple:

Otherwise things look quiet.
SNURK did not get more friends overnight. SNURK’s address is here
In 13th Birthday Challenge
Team Kraland still sits firmly at #36
Crunching@EVGA went up two ticks to #21 - probably because tanner2 moved in from SeriousCrunchers
SNURK and friends did not move from #17
Let’s see if we can move it

Good Morning Base Campers!
When I advertised yesterday on the Crunching@EVGA Forum:
If you have nothing better to do, Base Camp is conduction - [sic] yes, it should have been conducting - an informal trek to
Team SNURK & Friends
- you may know SNURK, the creator of the SNURK sign which many of us carry.
they answered
Hmm, are you trying to trick us? SNURK and friends are only 2 spots above us in the WCG Birthday Challenge and we have a small chance of catching them in the remaining 28 hours of the challenge.

Well, conspiration, corruption, and now some seemingly conflict of interest …..
What have I come to?

SNURK & Friends have some serious crunchers (not to be confused with SeriousCrunchers), but still deltavee and USAFA 82 are able to make some spike and this gentle uphill as a ski jump hill take-off slope as this graph indicates:


I’m afraid it will be gone tomorrow – the graph I mean. How do you make it permanent?
All we have to do is make sure that uphill ski jump hill continues up so that the ski jumper never jumps.


On this last day of 13th Birthday Challenge
with a little less than 16 hours remaining at the time of writing we have
Team Kraland fixed at #36
Crunching@EVGA sprinting along furiously now at #19 below UK
while SNURK & Friends hold their own at #17 ahead of UK

And, yes, the sing-along yesterday was the perfect tranquilizer.

One of those we sang was ”The Danish Song Is Like a Young Blond Maiden” written in 1925 by Carl Nielsen, probably the most famous Danish composer.
Here it is performed by Danmarks Radio’s (DR) women’s choir in the new very, very handsome and very, very expensive DR Concert Hall.
Oddly, in some cases money plays no role, but cutting #2 pencils in half at elections ....

Well, end of class today
All of you with SNURK signs should feel it their duty to give SNURK & Friends as generous a tip as you can afford

Thank you little mermaid for getting the Base Campers warmed up for camping at my team!
Thank you little mermaid for digging up and breathing new life into my team thread from the hidden depths of this forum!
Thank you little mermaid for reporting so extensively about our progress in the 13th Birthday Chanllange!
Thank you little mermaid for being the most colorful person on this forum!

Greetings and lots of thumbs up,
SNURK