France Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals - Page 5

Even though I didnt spent more than just a few days in the capital of France, I have had a chance to see and experience everything that that country had to offer, starting with the Louvre museum and Parisian Catacombs to the very tasty Crepes, which were sold literary on every corner of the streets.

Rob's Birthday!!! Cannes, France, Monaco and Monte Carlo Yup! Today is Rob's birthday! Whoo-hoo! Happy Birthday my handsome man! We had an amazing adventure filled with train rides, photos, hot sunny days, rain and running to catch the last tender of the ship! It started with a stroll through Cannes to get to the train station. I was able to show Rob parts of Cannes that I knew, but everything was closed still. No worries, we'll check it out when we get back from Monaco. We headed towa…

Noooooo i don't want come back :(what I did after...mmmm ah yeah...I remember, worked 1 year in a Champagne house.before restart school for a master of enology ( 2003-2005 ) was so hard but so happy know to get it.

Weekend trips around Europe

Bon soir everyone!Haven't updated in forever so figured it's about time. I've been back in Paris since Thursday night, having spent the previous 2 nights in Saint-Malo which is a NW coastal town in the Bretagne region of France. I'll backfill entries for that and my last visit to Paris momentarily. This entry will cover Thursday night through tonight, April 8.After my rainy first day in France, the weather has been nothing short of amazing - warm but not too hot with sunshine practically past…

So today was our last full day to see Paris / enjoy life in Europe. The first stop of the day was to find the mini Statue of Liberty. We walked along the river until we found the island it sits on. It was bigger than I thought but still much smaller than the original. We took a sweet picture of it with the Eiffel Tower in the background, from another bridge farther down the river.I had seen a postcard of La Defense area of the city, which is a business district. The guidebooks don't really me…

We ate breakfast at the hotel again because it was SO FREAKING GOOD and then we walked around the city a little bit before we had to make out journey to Charles de Gaulle. We made a mistake and didn't buy the right metro tickets because I just wanted to use up the carne des billets. Once we got to the station at the airport, we had to get through the metro ticket receiver thing to pass into the airport, but since we didn't have the right tickets, it wouldn't let us in. We walked around…

Our day in Paris started much later than the rest of the tour. We were actually able to "sleep in".  Without the long ride, we had a nice around town tour of the sights of Paris.  The Opera, Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Elysees.  Being the old city it is there are so many wonderful sights to see and the architecture is so marvelous. The tour also included tickets to the second level of the Eiffel Tower.  That gave us a wonderful, birds-eye view of Paris.  But it also showe…

       It's had to have happened to you.  You're running late and you find yourself stuck in traffic behind some old dude going 25 miles an hour in the wrong lane with the wrong blinker on.  Most likely you're in Florida.  And then there's always the white-haired guy that's dragging his leg down an aisle in front of you thus delaying you're acquisition of the latest organic whatever or a coffee that requires a r…

So I went to Bavella on the 11th (even if the location is set as Ajaccio - it was too difficult to find it on the map here!)We went for what was spposedly a three hour walk, but was in fact only two (although we admittedly stopped for lunch, and the climbing took a bit of time as well - to be explained in a minute!)So we did the walk called 'La Trou de la Bombe' (it had a Corsican name but I have apparently already forgotten it!) Which involved a fairly easy walk  with a rather large hol…

I figured that this would be my first entry in the journal of Paris.  For anyone who has read any of my previous entires then you most likely know that this will have some sort of humor.  Trust me this is one.  If you enjoyed the Spain story then you'll love this one.  I will in later entries be telling the story of the day prior, but this is the story that I felt like writting today.  EVERYTHING IS TRUE. This day was not like any other day in Paris.  The night…

Días de esquí en el Valle de Chamonix. Varias estaciones de esquí formando un dominio de casi 800 km de pistas. Navidad y Año Nuevo en Los Alpes en un entorno natural increible.

good time, with good friends ( thanks Nico ;) ) who decide to go skiing for the end of the year...fortunately I took 4 weeks of vacation to come back in France...Sooo right :)...I immediately said YES when i knew this project... I used to do skiing in my childhood ( with my mother and sisters ) but since, not so much :( ( kinda expensive )last time was in 1999 in Vosges mountains ( not so high but fortunately this year, a lot of snow & booze !!! )what a feeling to ride on snow again...i …

The first day we did the city of nimes.   First we saw The Maison Carrée,  a well preserved Roman temple built in 19-16 BC.   Then we headed on over the the Amphitheatre, another well preserved structure from the roman Empire.  After walking around the city we headed out to Pont Du Gard.   That is the aqueduct built by the romans. 

My first trip outside of the USA (for 3 weeks!) ~ we got to see England, Scotland, France, and Spain. Oh, and saw a few TBs along the way, also.