Paris Sightseeing
Paris is a fascinating city, filled with tourist attractions where you could admire some of the most important art masterpieces of the world. The monuments and the tourist destinations from the France capital city are known all over the world, being recognized symbols around the world. Here is a shortlist of the most important monuments [...]
Paris – The Heaven for Visitors
Are you anxious about deciding a vacation place this year? Don’t worry at all. I am going to tell you about a place that is nothing but a heaven on the earth and this is the place that I have visited last year. Yes, I am taking about Paris, the paradise for visitors. This is [...]
Bordeaux, France
We headed for Bordeaux specifically for the wine. Hardly educated in French viticulture, we didn’t know the difference between the grape growing regions of Bordeaux, nor the difference between the wineries within each region. Mentally using Napa Valley, CA as our benchmark, we drove towards Bordeaux. As in previous French towns, we rented a Gîte [...]
Gourdon, France
Périgord is an area with over 100 known caves with prehistoric etchings and paintings dating from 12,000-17,000 years ago. 7 are open to the public. The most famous cave is Lascaux. Discovered in 1940 and opened to the public in 1948, Lascaux was closed 15 years later because green fungus, caused by carbon dioxide and [...]
Nîmes, France
Founded by Augustus as the Roman Colonia Nemausensis, today Nîmes has some of the best preserved Roman public buildings dating from the 1st century A.D. A hurried sightseer can visit all in a day, but a more leisurely pace avails one to the posh shopping boulevard and sidewalk cafés. Pont du Gard, an aqueduct built [...]
Côte d’Azur, France
For 13 days, we traveled along the Mediterranean coast between Menton at the Italian border and Cassis, a small harbor town east of Marseille. Nice The drive from Grasse to the Gîte we rented near Nice in St. Isidore was a short 30 minutes. Pulling up to the house, we knew we made a good [...]
Chasteuil, France
Having chosen the Gorges du Verdon for our next walk, we called several nearby places that offered a room with cooking facilities. The logical choice was a Gîte Rural, a rental house in the country. We found one listing, but the owner was leaving for vacation and wouldn’t rent it for the time period we [...]
Apt, France
Apt is a very small town highly recommended by travelers and mentioned in Peter Mayle’s Encore Provence. In Apt, we felt that we had finally reached the Provence we were longing for. Pretending to be Peter, we hopped through tiny towns perched on minor peaks and resting in vineyard covered valleys. With Peter’s recommendations in [...]
Versailles, France
The Château de Versailles was constructed during the reign of King Louis XIV from his father’s hunting grounds. According to a guidebook, Louis XIV was motivated to build the grandest château in Europe after seeing another palace that humbled his own residence. Louis XIV threw the palace owner in jail and promptly started building something [...]
Tour du Mont Blanc
1st night in Les Houches (France) After a long drive from the Loire Valley, we reached Les Houches. We chose Les Houches as our TMB starting point specifically because of the excellent dinner prepared by Hotel Slalom last year. Disappointingly, Hotel Slalom has a new chef. The meal tasted like a microwave defrosting of sub-quality [...]
