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The tour to France was a great experience.
Grundfos Petanque Club has, ine the beginning of june, on invitation from the french partipants in the olympic games last year, been a trip to France to play against the french Grundfos company. The tour started in Bjerringbro 5th and via a single night in Germany they arrive the day after at Saint Avold, one of the "flowertowns" in France, placed in a landscape with low mountains.
There was seven teams form Bjerringbro and eight from france. The teams was placed in four parts mixed danish/french. The frenchmen were very good and won 3 out of four parts. The only danish victory went to Brian Jensen and Inger Marie Hørlyk. They lost later in the semifinal to the comming winners of the tournament.
The sport part was the smallest part of the visit. The danish went also to the american graveyard in Saint Avold which is the biggest in Europe. The area was liberated in the end of november 1944 by an american infantery division and on the churchyard are more than 10.000 crosses for soldiers from the first and the second world war.
They also made a visit to the main city in the area, Metz by the Mosel river. The city can be dated 3000 years back. The city was important in the roman time and had an amphitheatre with room for 25.000. The city was the capital city in the old country Austrasien. A great deal of the houses in the city are build of a special honey-jellow sort of stone, which is local. They saw the cahtedral, the number two in France, there are among other things ery famous glasmosaics paintet by Marc Chagall.
Before traveling back to Denmark via a night in Germany it was time to by petanque equipment.
On the fifth day they arrived at Bjerringbro, very tired and a great experience richer