Collegiate Church of Notre Dame, Vernon: Where Gumbo Was #31
Gumbo was visiting the gothic Church in Vernon, a few short kilometers from Monet's gardens and home at Giverny.
Gumbo was visiting the gothic Church in Vernon, a few short kilometers from Monet's gardens and home at Giverny.
WiFi has become as necessary to travelers as a toothbrush and passport—although the question of how fast and how expensive continues to develop. Airlines are finding the need for more bandwidth and more speed (see Gumbo newslinks of the past few...
On a past trip to London (England that is), we stayed at a hotel in South Kensington which was only a short walk to Hyde Park. On a sunny Autumn morning we were taking a morning stroll and noticed these deck chairs set up by the banks of the river.
The exhibit was called: "Stars of the Big and Small Screen. See the Cars that were the Stars".... and it was an interesting collection of American Steel....
Paris Zoo will reopen on Saturday after a six-year remodel. They are trying to create as real natural habitats as they can and shed the image of a traditional zoo. Animals will live together and be able to retreat from viewing areas...
The Palm Sunday as known in the other countrys it's a well-known holiday, a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter . The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem , an event...
It's a battle in the sky between inflight WiFi providers such as GoGo and Inmarsat to grab the biggest share of the market. GoGo has been ahead, but with only a small portion of the world's planes equipped, the market is still wide open. ...
It's spring and the cherry blossoms are opening everywhere. To me few things say "goodbye winter" and "hello spring" more than cherry blossoms.
After a rather long winter I was ready for a pleasant dayhike. While I’d rather head up to the mountains for a stroll in an alpine meadow, there’s way too much snow up there in April. Fortunately in the Northwest there are some...
I made this image of a man sleeping next to a side entrance of the National Assembly on my first trip to Paris, as a 16-year-old in 1960.
PHeymont's search for the scenes of his favorite mystery novels takes him to the neighborhood of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Gumbo's Picture of the Day for April 13th, above, is an image I made nearly 55 years ago, on my first trip to Paris: a man sleeping on the ground at a side entrance to the National Assembly building.
When my mother was a child, she and her mother spent summers at the Hotel Lêger in Mokelumne Hill and her father would join them on the weekends. Built in the early 1850s, when the population of Northern California was...
Gumbo's taken a big jump from the Swedish street scene in Puzzle #30. Can you figure out where he's landed? To repeat the rules: Share your suggestions, hints and discussions with others by posting them here as comments...but if you absolutely...
Museo de las Americas One of the highlights of visiting the Museo de las Americas (web site) in Old San Juan is the “Indian in America” which is a permanent exhibit. This is recognition of over 20 tribes from around the...