Versailles and Pantheon
Paris has been hit with a crippling heat wave that is affecting large parts of Europe. All we had in us for the last couple of days was a brief…
Light Workshop, et. al.
Today we headed off the one of the new must-see exhibits in Paris, the Atelier des Lumiéres, or Light Workshop. It's an experience hard to describe, but describing is my…
Weekend in Paris
Did you miss me yesterday? I was tired. We spent the day poking around MontMartre before having dinner with a friend. When on "pokes around MontMartre", that usually entails a…
Orsay and The Orangerie
The finest collection of Impressionist art in Paris is at the Orsay Museum, across the Seine from the Louvre. It was once a railway station but was converted into a…
Two Towers
Today we visited the Arc de Triomphe first, then the Eiffel Tower. Sometimes it's good to get an overhead view of a place, and with Notre Dame off limits now,…
Odds and Ends
Most of today was spent on the upper deck of a sightseeing bus to give our granddaughter a chance to see the major sights of Paris and decide which ones…
Back to Paris
This year our France trip will focus on Paris, sort of a reduced-scale version of our first trip in 2013 when we stayed four weeks. This will be a stay…
Chateau Brissac
We try to plan one big splurge for each of our trips. This trip we decided it was time to fulfill one item that had been on our French to-do…
A rest stop in Bourges
Travel can be surprising. Like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. Today we'll see the first of two consecutive nights of amazement. We…
South of Arles
Today we headed into marshland. Before arriving in this area I had not realized that this is rice country. I grew up in rice country in southeast Texas, so on…