Au revoir Belle Beille

The campus I taught at is in an area of Angers called Belle Beille, kind of a hike from le centre, on the other side of la Maine. This semester I had class at 8 am on Thursdays. Once the sun started to rise earlier and earlier, it made for a stunning bike ride on Thursday mornings. In honor of this, here's a picture from my last morning commute for an 8 am at Belle Beille. I'll miss my these sunrise rides, and just biking to work in general. You miss out on traffic, being annoyed by idiotic drivers (ie drivers texting and swerving in the highway lanes) and probably more that I happily can't think of since it's been a while I've had to drive in rush hour traffic.

 
I like this very tree-y part by the Humanities campus.

Here's the view from our bureau. BUA is the bibliothèque universitaire, the school library. I always thought all the buildings around Angers had these little smoking porches (see the rails to ours?) to increase the productivity of French workers. Approximately everyone smokes, including my students.  However one of our lecturers was threatened to stop smoking from there, so I don't know if I've been wrong all along about these smoking porches. (I've got to show you though, there's so many office buildings that have multiple porches on every floor. They def aren't emergency exits.)

Now back to the test-grading... Bonne soirée à vous!