Category France
Friday Photo 29
With the European Football championships kicking off in Paris tonight when the host nation play Romania, I of course had to choose a picture from the French capital. This is the view of La Seine across to the Pont des Arts – it was taken in the December of 2005.
Twenty-Four Hours In Montmartre
With wonderful Paris looking a little soggy at the moment, head for the hills and the authentic Parisian charm of Montmartre……
Sunday Photo – 29
Another reason besides the wonderful artwork that Musee D’Orsay is my favourite gallery in Paris is the building itself. It is housed on the Rive Gauche of La Seine in the old Paris to Orleans railway station. Many of the original features of the grand building have been retained, most notably the incredible clock and the […]
Sunday Photo – 17
A Sunday morning stroll along the banks of the Seine in Paris is one of the delights of visiting the great city……..
Friday Photo – 16
I have never before featured a photo of a restaurant sign, but this one from the Black Cat Restaurant in Troyes, France certainly caught my eye.
The Devil Is In The Detail
Yesterday I posed a little conundrum – what are there 170 of in Europe? The answer is cathedrals with authentic gothic architecture – apologies if the question was a little too obtuse! There are said to be seven characteristics of what makes a cathedral gothic style – great height/size, the flying buttress (to support the […]
Sunday Photo – 14
Today’s photo is the view of Cap Ferrat taken from the Moyenne (Middle) Corniche, one of the three famous corniches, the mountain roads that take you from Nice to Menton in the South of France. The views all along are spectacular and the drive exhilarating. It was the Grande Corniche (the highest and one with […]
Friday Photo – 6
Today’s photo was taken in July 2005 in Bonifacio on the French island of Corsica. We had travelled to Olbia in Sardinia, flying out from Gatwick on the day of the London 7/7 bombings. We had been totally unaware of the atrocities that had befallen the capital until we switched on our mobile phones to […]
Sunday Photo 5
Twice I have spent Christmas in Paris. Wonderful memories of our rented sky high apartment, shopping in markets and attending Midnight Mass at Notre Dame. This photo was taken in 2006.
Day Trip To France
On a whim we decided to do some Christmas shopping in France. The £60 Eurotunnel fee was no barrier to this and I more than recouped the cost by filling up with diesel at €1 a litre and by stocking up on wine and champers at £3 per bottle cheaper than in the UK. I […]
