France Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals - Page 14

I have to start this off by mentioning what I won't miss about London: mean people on the buses and tube.  Everyone knows the etiquette: move as far onto the train as possible, sit in just one seat on the bus.  But today I saw a girl sit on the aisle seat and put her bag in the other on the bus, and a lady scream at people for not moving in and letting her on the train even when there was no room.  Icky.  Come on people, have a little consideration. But I do appreciate on…

     As our first  morning Alitalia flight to Napoli via Milano was cancelled,some hours later,we had the pleasure to admire from the airport,  again during a lot of hours the  gorgeous Venitian skyline(as for our suitcase,it has preferred to laze in Roma). Finally arrived in Napoli,we went to Alitalia lost and found office where an unfriendly guy gave us....a phone number.We were dropped by the shuttle to Hertz office and took our car,without checking…

Here are some pictures of our trip to Nimes, France and around the Camargue.

So much for the city of lights--I flew into Paris last night to meet my parents, who are on a month-long tour of France and Italy and have been in Paris for four days now, and we left the city this afternoon.  I'll be driving down France with them, and will be meeting other relatives in Mallemort, halfway between Aix en Provence and Avignon. I did get a chance to have a nice Parisian dinner with them however, at a great bistro named L'Ourcine, located in the 13th Arrondissement.&nb…

Not for the faint of heart, nor for those who cannot walk for long distances- this can be broken up over a couple days if you want...  Furthermore, this is an everything tour of Paris- not just here's the Eiffel Tower, here's the Louvre, so do the parts that you want...  I've added a bunch of pics from the internet to illustrate the blog- so I don't claim credit for a lot of these photos. I always start my tour at Les Halles- why? because its by my house.  No other reason.&nbs…

MONT BLANC.......

Metro-Paris, run by RATP: It's a 'must' for metro riders (or so called metro-freaks like me) to come and see this. This is probably one of the most densest system in the world. But it's very old, almost every station has the same design, only very few of them look really amazing like something special. The most of them are just the white-tiles-station of the parisian style, side platforms, narrow entrances, one-way-corridors. Nevertheless it serves the city well, and most of the peoplle livin…

Few days of rest at my parents house and then went to the Alsace region and popped in to Germany for a couple of hours for coffee and cakes ;-)

This was my first snowboarding trip to France and I'm glad I made the effort. I was also privileged to have my mates come together from all over the world so that the 6 of us were able to share New Years together. It was a beautiful town, great food, friendly french people and great snow. Unfortunately, it's very expensive and the place is full of English people.

the best part about paris i believe, were its cafes.  I went to Europe with the half-formed intention of sitting in a cafe for hours, not doing anything at all..i got my wish on our first day itself, when it began POURING rain like mad! We sat inside this great cafe (it was right opposite the Louvre) for nearly 3 hours.  With a dark wood bar, dark colored couches, small tables lit by floating candles, the cafe/restaurant/bar was everything that I could have wanted in a European expe…

Once the tallest structure in the world, the Eiffel Tower is probably Europe's best known landmark and Paris's most famous symbol. You couldn't possibly visit Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower. Even if you do not want to visit it, you will see its top from all over Paris. It rises 300 meters tall (984 ft) and was twice as high as the Washington Monument, at the time the tallest structure in the world. 1889 World Exhibition The Eiffel Tower was built for the World Exhibition …

Sept. 21, 2007:  Day 5 – Au Revoir Parliaments               Today was the last day Justin and I would travel together.  He would be traveling to Ulm, Germany to stay with Yogi for about a week.  After that he would be on a Contiki tour through Europe for one month.  We checked, but our itineraries did not match up.  I was going to be on my own again.  It was going to be a transition.   &n…

22 August, cont’d   Well, it never stopped raining last night so we stayed close to the hotel.  We had dinner at a nearby Brasserie and then we headed to an Irish bar to watch football (soccer).    Dinner was an experience.  Beth had escargot and a glass of champagne right here in France!  The escargot arrived in their shells with some tongs designed for the purpose of shucking snails.  In her first attempt to use them, the snail flew into Beth’s la…

The thing to do in Paris on New Years Eve is to go to an expensive restaurant late (around 9). The restaurant we went to gave us a free bottle of Champagne with our meal. Once we ate our dinner (which cost a whopping 600 Euros) we went out to a bridge over the Seine River.  There was a small view of the Eiffel Tower. The Bridge (as well as all the other bridges in Paris) were all packed with old and young alike, counting down till the New Year. Most of the younger people were completely …