Destination: France
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Sun, 7 Nov 2010 | By romina | Views [406]
Just 1-hr by train southeast of Avignon is the town of Aix (pronounced ‘X’). It is another beautiful town with a maze of cobblestone alleyways lined with expensive stores and restaurants. Certain bars/restaurants justify the sky-high prices just because ... Read more >
Sun, 7 Nov 2010 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [967]
After
talking until 2am with Nazih we were up at 8 and getting ready to head into
Paris to the Louvre museum. We had been briefed by Nazih on how to
negotiate the bus, suburban train and metro system and had no
problems ... Read more >
Sat, 6 Nov 2010 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [1041]
This morning we were up and organised for the 9am start only to find that
there was some sort of strike meeting on at the palace and opening
was delayed until about 10.30am. Kent is off his leg at the moment
and has to get ... Read more >
Fri, 5 Nov 2010 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [1024]
4/11
– We spent a dreary morning in the city of Tours finding the
Tourism Office (huge but right in the centre) then finding a park
(used a handicapped one in the end) and finding out info about the
area. Got some supplies ... Read more >
Fri, 5 Nov 2010 | By joyful_jo | Views [523]
We booked this room weeks ago by email because I remembered that the retreat rooms at the red Drikung Monastery in Tso Pema were in demand. Tashi Dolma, the Rinpoche's wife offered the slightly more expensive one with wooden floor and I liked the ... Read more >
Wed, 3 Nov 2010 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [1274]
30/10
Rained all night, it's quite nice sleeping in a nice cosy spot with
it on the roof, but cleared in the morning. Long straight roads
today, fairly boring, on the southwest of France to Bordeaux but no
views of the coast.... Read more >
Wed, 3 Nov 2010 | By joyful_jo | Views [606] | Comments [1]
We are up in the magical foothills of the Himalaya where we came in search of the Rigden Kings. Above the river valley in Kullu lies the Shambhala Art School run by Noedup Rongae who is painting a thangka of the Rigden Lineage, central tothe SHambhala ... Read more >
Wed, 3 Nov 2010 | By joyful_jo | Views [456]
We had three sweltering days in the heavy pollution and raw humanity of Delhi. We bought some bright kurtas, ate South Indian dosas, made some new friends, got a new pair of prescription spectcals (Indian spelling) and calmly meditated in the Buddhist ... Read more >
Wed, 3 Nov 2010 | By joyful_jo | Views [509] | Comments [1]
Snow in the mountains: we escaped sweaty Delhi on a 14 hour bus journey which was hair raising- first eight hours on the plains with blaring Bollywood on the video and crazy scenes out the window- dogs , cows and more traffic than I could imagine possible.... Read more >
Mon, 1 Nov 2010 | By beno | Views [498]
I love France; they certainly have one of the best lifestyles going - the only place I know where you can get a four course lunch with plenty of wine (often all you can drink... which is a a bit !!) for 20/30 EUR. However they are busy fighting a loosing ... Read more >
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 | By crazyeyes_and_flyingfraggle | Views [338]
We crossed the Channel
with Seafrance,
and I was back in
familiar territory...Calais docks on the right side of the
road. This was a 'pinch-yourself moment', we were actually doing
this! We headed straight down the west ... Read more >
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 | By bradenh | Views [571]
Hi all, its been a while since I wrote last but things have been ticking along nicely here. I think our season is pretty much over since our last trip was to the monaco boat show which was a good couple of days with the owner. He checked out a few boats ... Read more >
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 | By travasso | 
Flickr Photo Gallery
All over Paris...
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Fri, 22 Oct 2010 | By aroundtheworldigo | Views [535] | Comments [1]
Ohh God! If only anyone could have been with me today, maybe it wouldn’t had been so bad. If there has ever been a day in my life where I thought the world was going to end, I thought it was today! If there is a Hell, I think I visited it also. Both ... Read more >
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [1071]
We
came to a roundabout that circled a HUGE rock (una mas grande roca!)
and on the other side was the old border to exit Spain and enter
France. Before we knew it we were in Montrejeau and turned up a hill
and ended up in a ... Read more >
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