Destination: France
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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 | By kathryn_hendy_ekers | Views [88]
We are sitting on a plane and leaving Europe behind us. Paul was very disappointed to make his last high speed train trip from Madrid to Bilbao on Wednesday. We were impressed that we got breakfast on the train. This is unusual for Spain for, after ... Read more >
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 | By keith_austin | Views [208]
* My quest to make cassoulet here in Paris has to be deemed a failure. While expat Australian author John Baxter, who has lived here for 20 years, might have been a bit of a purist for insisting that cassoulet had to be cooked in a wood-fired oven he ... Read more >
Tags: paris, fete de la musique, marais, hotel de ville, bongo drums, wine, bastille, market, cassoulet, lozere
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 | By keith_austin | Views [236] | Comments [2]
With mere weeks left until the end of our six-month sojourn in Paris – hang on, didn’t we just arrive? – thoughts have turned to the question of souvenirs. This is a somewhat vexed question if the truth to be told as the only souvenirs I’ve picked ... Read more >
Tags: souvenirs, paris, eiffel tower, notre dame, sacre coeur, berlusconi, michael jackson, elvis, berlin wall, mona lisa
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 | By kathryn_hendy_ekers | Views [113]
Paul wanted me to title this entry as “Let nothing worry you nor frighten you” which is a saying of St Theresa, the patron saint of Avila, the school at which he teaches and the city which we have just spent 2 days. This statement should not be taken ... Read more >
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 | By kathryn_hendy_ekers | Views [81]
Another high speed train, another Spanish city. We arrived in Cordoba earlier this week. The first view of the city appeared that Cordoba was like any other Mediterranean city, palm trees and modern buildings, until the taxi arrived in the old centre ... Read more >
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 | By true-claims-stories | Views [115]
During a Europe excursion I had a sudden Angina attack. I had to be treated and stabilized which included Oxygenotherapy, Nitroglycerine & Cardiac Monitoring. How World Nomads Helped Claimant’s medical record indicated previous symptoms relating ... Read more >
Tags: angina attack, cardiac problems, true claim stories, insurance claim, travel insurance, world nomads
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 | By tonielle_krisanski | Views [252] | Comments [1]
Wow! That is the best word to describe my experience of Nice. I arrived in the afternoon by train from Marseilles, and the first thing I did was walk down to the beach. An easy 15min walk and I was having ice cream on the beach in Nice! That evening ... Read more >
Tags: nice, monaco, beach, med
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 | By kathryn_hendy_ekers | Views [96]
As I have never been to Spain before I have decided to write entries on each city that we visit as a way of keeping a diary of our experiences. As I am typing this, we are travelling on a very high speed train from Barcelona to Cordoba. In contrast ... Read more >
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 | By 4ofus | Views [65] | Comments [1]
Well, we did arrive in Provence, finally!!!!! We had some fun and games around some towns where we missed turns or ended up in reconstruction areas with no redirection routes. But that is part of the travel experience in a car, and not for the faint ... Read more >
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 | By tonielle_krisanski | Views [216] | Comments [1]
Well I’m sure you’re all wondering what happened after I left you last. I was on the train to Lyon, hoping that I’d have a bed at the only hostel in town… don’t panic, everything worked out. It was surprisingly easy to get to the hostel, a bus, then ... Read more >
Tags: marseilles, cassis, lyon, calanque, beach
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 | By 4ofus | Views [82]
We drove down through central France on Saturday 6th June, with huge storms and winds on our tail, but a great highway in front of us. We drove right through the lower half of the Loire Valley, into the Massif Centrale and into Dordogne region - about 4.... Read more >
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 | By keith_austin | Views [156] | Comments [1]
SPRING sprang in Paris and then sprang right away again; we’ve experienced the first prolonged period of persistent pluie since arriving four and a half months ago and although the rain has stopped it’s left behind cloudy blue skies and a cold wind.... Read more >
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 | By tonielle_krisanski | Views [134] | Comments [5]
Coming to you from a train… traveling from Dijon to Lyon (where I hopefully have a bed tonight). Since I’ve updated you last, I’ve been to a few places in the French countryside – Nancy, Strasbourg and Dijon. I’ve enjoyed being off the ‘beaten ... Read more >
Tags: nancy, strasbourg, dijon, france, trains
Sat, 6 Jun 2009 | By kathryn_hendy_ekers | Views [101]
I think I mentioned last week that we would be stuffed full of foie gras and red wine by the time I wrote my next entry. However, this was not the case. We were in for quite a surprise with our walking tour. We have spent 8 days on the tour in the Dordogne ... Read more >
Sat, 6 Jun 2009 | By 4ofus | Views [75] | Comments [1]
We have just completed a truly wonderful week in our rather huge French gite,which was our first experience in rural France. Our flight down from Prague went well; our £10 flight on Skye Europe actually left the tarmac and landed without a hitch - you ... Read more >
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