Date:         Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:03:07 -0600
Reply-To:     Martin Jagersand <jag@CS.UALBERTA.CA>
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From:         Martin Jagersand <jag@CS.UALBERTA.CA>
Subject:      Tales from Europe and VW campers (part 7)
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After a brief visit back in Canada, I'm now in Europe again.
I took some photos and made a web page of various T4 Campers I've
seen. Visit:

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/vw/

click "Some versions of the later T4 (Eurovan) based campers"

This time I'm living a bit outside Grenoble in Meylan. Definitely less
stressful than the "finding parking" adventure I had when I lived
Downtown (literally at the "G" in Grenoble on the map...).

Haute Meylan is filled with the concrete mansions of the noveau rich,
(and two remaining chateau's of the old rich) overlooking Belldonne
massif of the alpes across the Isere valley.

The car models here are also distinctly different. While downtown
Grenoble is dominated by subcompact Renaults, Peugots and Citroens,
the preffered way to show off your euros seems to be to buy either a
Mercedes, Audi or BMW. Rather un-patriotic by French
standards. However, public opinion research has shown that southern
Europeans are used to that the social elite say one thing and do
another.

Popul is the only VW camper around, and gets strange looks in the area
we live. It's a different story at the institute where I work.  Here
Popul draws a crowd of interested students and researchers every night
when we leave. In two weeks we're going on an outing to the mountains
with my new colleagues here.

Martin and '85 Westy Popul
--
Martin Jagersand
University of Alberta
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jag/