Have fun in France. I have enjoyed it each time I have been able to go.
Paris is always great. I hope you get outside to see the country too. It
is really beautiful there.

I'm going to go ahead and paste portions of an email that I sent to that
French journalist that wrote to the list a while ago. I'm too lazy to
rewrite the whole bit. Maybe it will help you have some ideas for
letterboxing in France. You might want to check with that woman to see if
she knows of any new letterboxes too. I was sad to come away with no
letterboxes. I certainly put in my work to get them. It was the first time
I came away angry at another letterboxer. Somehow spending hours and hours
going around to totally unremarkable locations only to come away with no
stamp and being threatened by scary-looking guys in a strange neighborhood
was not my cup of tea. I mean, I can handle the death threats, but to come
away with no boxes . . . :-) j/k

Let me know if you do find anything out there. I believe the two boxes in
the Brittany are still active.

From: cadenza74@earthlink.net
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:22:50 -0600
To:
Subject: French letterboxing

Actually, letterboxing has begun in France, although truthfully I think that
the boxes planted were from Brits. I went looking for several boxes while I
was in Paris. I will send you an address for their clues, but to tell you
the truth, it won't be worth your time to find them. I looked and didn't
find anything. I didn't like the ones in Paris at all. They weren't in
good locations at all and I didn't find anything I looked for.

The ones I looked for and didn't find are at this site. I didn't find any.
To be fair, I didn't actually finish looking for the one in the lamppost
(garden) as I didn't feel right about scaling a huge fence surrounding
private property. I also didn't want to climb up a large wall with only
small cracks in it like the same people had at input1. Those two could have
possibly been there, but I was looking from many angles and couldn't see
what could have been a letterbox. The letterboxes planted by this couple
were irresponsible and dangerous. The one that was in the disused railway
line was on clearly closed property. I had to trespass, and I imagine break
the law to get to the spot. It was in a very dark, long, abandoned tunnel.
I was terrified that if something were to happen to me while I was there, I
might never be found. It was too dark to see if anyone was hiding there. I
had to climb very high, and when I was coming back I was threatened by two
locals who saw me. Please don't use this website as an example of how to do
letterboxing!!!! You don't want to teach people irresponsible and dangerous
letterboxing. It will bring a bad name on the whole community. One of the
boxes was safely placed and nicely worded (the one that is in French), but I
couldn't find it. I found every step of the clue and spent forever looking,
but the spot that I think it was supposed to be hidden in had digging around
it for a different grave. I think it might have been dug up with it. I
liked that clue, but some might take offense to planting in a graveyard and
feel it is disrespectful. I am only sending you this website to show you
there has been some letterboxing in France.

http://spacehijackers.co.uk/letterboxing/form.php?table_name=boxes&page=0&fu
nction=search

There are two other French boxes that I know about. Unfortunately, I was
unable to get out to them during my trip to Paris last month. I do know of
someone who told me she found them already. She will be coming to Paris in
September.

The two French boxes are located at http://www.GlobalLetterBoxing.org/ They
are with a large list of letterboxes found outside of Dartmoor.

I might have some pictures of letterboxing activities. I will look and let
you know if I have anything helpful. Best of luck. I hope that you have a
lot of success with this article.

Cadenza (Jana J. Riska)



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