“I’ll have a coffee thanks” is a question heard regularly throughout the day in France. But what you receive when you ask this question varies noticeably depending on where you are. However if you are travelling through France, Italy or the rest of Europe, such a question will result in you being served a small […]
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Coffee Lovers Mmmm!
Posted in France, Tourism, Travel, tagged Coffee, Espresso on September 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earthquake shakes my emotions!
Posted in France, Holiday, News, Travel, tagged Christchurch earthquake on September 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Nearly twenty years ago I made a definite decision that I was to set up a business based on my loves. I now specialise in French tourism and regularly travel to France to escort tours and look after my various rental properties in France, and check out the various canal boat trips. At the moment I […]
Dinan – our very own Dreamland
Posted in Brittany, France, French cuisine, Medieval townships, Tourism, Travel, tagged Breton cuisine, Brittany, Christopher Nolan, Creperie des Artisans, Dinan, Dreams, Fete des Ramparts, France, French cuisine, French Holiday, Imagination, Inception, Medieval towns, Paris, Rance River, Rennes, Saint Malo, Travel, Traveling with children on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited, mind-bending blockbuster Inception sucked me into a dreamland far, far away. In the back of the Rennes movie theatre I was transported back to Paris, but not the Paris we know – a Paris where the streets could effortlessly fold on top of each other, where enormous fireless explosions popped up around […]
The Lost Children of Paris
Posted in France, Paris, Tourism, Travel, tagged Paris on August 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As we walk around Paris we can learn something more at every step we take. This plaque appears on the school next door to the Eglise St Severin on rue St Jacques. Nothing more needs to be said. To the memory of the children, pupils of this school, deported from 1942 to 1944 because they […]
Cancale – The World is Your Oyster
Posted in Brittany, France, French cuisine, Holiday, Tourism, Travel, tagged Brittany, Cancale, France, French cuisine, French Holiday, Louis XIV, Mont Saint Michel, Oysters, Pointe du Gruoin, Saint Malo, Seafood, Summer Holidays, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Travel, William Shakespeare on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny. Pistol: Why then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. Falstaff: Not a penny. This famous quote from William Shakespeare’s celebrated The Merry Wives of Windsor ran through my mind a few weeks ago when I travelled to the idyllic seaside village of Cancale […]
Speedos – do you wish you were blind?
Posted in France, Holiday, Travel, tagged French Holiday, Pernes les Fontaines, Provence, Speedos, Swimming pool, Traveling with children, Venasque on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We were staying with our family in the lovely village of Venasque, in the Vaucluse district of Provence. France. We were spending our holidays in one of my favourite homes in the area. This home was located within the town walls of this delightful sleepy village, with its narrow streets and its selection of wonderful […]
Paris and The Beach
Posted in France, Holiday, Paris, Travel, tagged France, Paris, Paris Plage, Seine River, Summer Holidays, Traveling with children on August 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Golden sandy beaches, palm trees swaying in the summer breeze, little giggling children running around in their bathers, pina coladas on ice with petite paper umbrellas… so where in the world is Carmen Santiago you may ask? Paris. Duh! For the month of August, the banks of the Seine River temporarily transform into the world […]
We will Remember Them.
Posted in France, Holiday, Paris, Travel, tagged Liberation of Paris, Paris on August 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Another building, another photo?? Travelers to Paris wander the streets with their cameras at the ready, taking photographs of the magnificent buildings and structures that envelope them. It’s hard not to become mesmerised by the sheer beauty in front of you. A friend of mine once said to me “the more one travels to Paris, […]
Beggars – to Give or Not to Give?
Posted in France, Holiday, Travel, tagged Beggars, Paris, Venice on August 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
You are walking down a street in Paris and there is a man kneeling on the footpath holding a sign that says “J’ai Faim!” (I’m hungry?). What do you do? Put some money into his cup, give him some food, or look the other way to avoid making eye contact? This is a regular event […]
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