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Wed, 7 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [382]
ORANGE SOLVED TWO PROBLEMS FOR THE ROMANS. It was a perfect place to pension off loyal Roman officers and their presence would be a deterrent to those pesky Gauls who continued to tweak the Roman nose. The main sites are the city arch, not ... Read more >
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 | By airportelf | Views [208]
I arrived in France one fateful August morning to find no luggage waiting for me. This was 40 days ago. Let me quickly recap 40 days without luggage.
Day 1: laundry. Borrow clothes from my sister I'm staying with. File luggage report. ... Read more >
Mon, 5 Oct 2015 | By elcastleberry | Views [599]
In a shining moment of mature glory, I drank two cups of coffee on an empty stomach and raced up to freezing temperatures and thin air at an altitude of 3,842 meters, where I promptly started running up flights of stairs, fueled by excitement and adrenaline.... Read more >
Tags: altitude, cable car, france, hiking, mountains, outdoors, snow
Mon, 5 Oct 2015 | By pjandc | Views [248]
Headed out at 8.30am today headed for Rothenburg in Germany. Celeste found a little town by the name of Ribeauville on the way. It was still in France. After a tour of the "Old Town" , as I was driving and didn't listen to Gavinshka, we parked and got ... Read more >
Mon, 5 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [322]
THE FIRST RUMBLES OF THUNDER had scarcely died when Patoo, all 50+ bouvier kilos of her, whimpered at our door. We knew we shouldn’t let her in but she looked so wretched we could hardly resist. Isobel soon returned from the Saturday ... Read more >
Sun, 4 Oct 2015 | By marinamorais | Views [356]
It was a beautiful and refreshing autumn morning. We left our tiny rented apartment at Quartier Latin and walked to Jardin du Luxembourg, jackets off. The three of us had to do our best to resist the fabulous smells coming from the plenty café... Read more >
Tags: budget trip, eurotrip, france, jardin du luxembourg, montmartre, paris, quartier latin
Sun, 4 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [444] | Comments [1]
On Tuesday, we went as a group to go see Le Faiseur at the Theatre des Abbesses. Le Faiseur is a play by Honore de Balzac. Balzac, it should be noted, is not remembered for his plays. But regardless, he did write at least one play, (he actually ... Read more >
Tags: abbesses, balzac, props, theater
Sun, 4 Oct 2015 | By pjandc | Views [231]
Last night's dinner was at a Kebab place just down from our hotel. Good kebabs and wine was the order and was fullfilled. Sunday morning Al and Andrew headed off to the Car Museum while the girl's and I headed into town for the museums and breakfast.... Read more >
Sat, 3 Oct 2015 | By pjandc | Views [198]
Packed and ready to go we checked out of our hotel and sauntered across the road to Rex's Cafe for breakfast. Coffee, croissant and bread. Breakfast done we paid the carpark fee for 3 days. 95 Swiss Francs or about 150 dollars. WHACK!!!! Alain driving ... Read more >
Sat, 3 Oct 2015 | By pjandc | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 2 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [502]
In a shocking move, Sunday began with us getting into the bus and driving for at least an hour. This brought us to Périguex, a small town with a beautiful cathedral.
While we were there, the town was also in the middle of Pé... Read more >
Tags: animals, bus, popcorn, train, transportation
Fri, 2 Oct 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [426]
PICASSO HAD NOTHING WITTY OR SELF-DEPRECATING to say about the prehistoric cave paintings at Caverne Pont d’Arc as he did with Lascaux and Alta Mira. He had been dead, after all, for more than 20 years when they were re-discovered ... Read more >
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 | By kakimono | Views [545]
On Saturday, we woke up and grabbed breakfast at the hotel and lunch at the market. Not because we slept until 10:30 at which point breakfast could reasonably run into lunch, but because we had another full day ahead of us, which meant another bring-... Read more >
Tags: canoe, dancing, market, picnic
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 | By kakimono | Views [580]
Friday we had to show up at the train station at 7:30 with clothes for the weekend and food for lunch packed. In addition to everyone in the Paris program, we were joined by the four Brown students studying in Lyon. We got on the train a little before ... Read more >
Tags: bus, cave painting, food, sarlat, tour, train, transportation
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 | By vagabonds3 | Views [357]
AUTUMN MAY NOT BE THE BEST TIME TO VISIT the French Alps. Summer is over and ski season is months away. Many of the hotels and restaurants close from mid-September until December — even hoteliers need vacations — so we are bunked ... Read more >
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