When I got to into European Union’s Youth Science Project in the first place, I was quite indifferent to the fact that the end conference will be held in France, because it was no where near my immediate travelling list. Right now, after a week spent in Bordeaux, Poitiers and Paris, I couldn’t have wished for better destination.

After arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris I got straight onto TGV (train à grande vitesse, French for “train of great velocity”) to Bordeaux, a port city in southwest of France. TGVs could go up as fast as 570km/h, but for commercial trips cruising speed is about 320km/h. It doesn’t feel that fast till you look out the window and glance at cars moving on highway.

When I arrived at Bordeaux train station, I can’t help, but notice how classy it looked, they succeeded at maintaining that 1900s something feeling here by keeping the old mechanical departure board and other little things. And from that point forward, almost everything proved my prior not…... Lasīt tālāk