Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, Feb. 19, 2014: Eiffel Tower at Night
Lit for the night–no special occasion–the tower is reflected in the river at its feet.
Lit for the night–no special occasion–the tower is reflected in the river at its feet.
CNN has compiled a list of 14 “best” aviation museums around the world, including in the U.S., China, Russia, France, Ukraine, Poland…You could almost build a round-the-world trip to explore them all.
I’ve just become aware of a series of regional & city guides for Spain & SW France, called Maribel’s Guides for the Sophisticated Traveler. They’re available free online in PDF format, 16 of them, and look very interesting. And by the way, the thumbnail for the Bilbao guide is, guess what, the Frank Gehry-designed museum which, I have no doubt, Gumbo will be visiting. See another here .
Claude Monet, most famous of the French Impressionist painters, was also one of France’s most committed gardeners. He spent half his 86 years developing his extensive gardens at Giverny, and they are the subject of hundreds of his paintings.
More French people live in London than in Bordeaux, Nantes or Strasbourg and some now regard it as France’s sixth biggest city in terms of population.
As several Gumbo Guessers quickly realized, Gumbo was visiting the Lower Depths, the sine qua non of modern society, the sewer system. This particular sewer is in Paris, and it runs through the Museum des Egouts—yes, the Sewer Museum.
A scene of every day life in an historic city. After having spent the morning exploring the great medieval cathedral in Chartres, we finished a fine lunch before heading into the medieval city down by the River.
A splash of bravura color against a dark winter night provides a cheery break in a long walk home up the hilly Rue de Caulaincourt in Montmartre, Paris.
With the approach of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I in mind, Jeff Steiner has posted a series of postcards on his website, Americans in France, with ghosts of that war merged with a current view. As I mentioned the last time I…
This is the last in a four part series highlighting my visit to the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum. I really enjoyed this small, off the beaten path car museum and it has a wonderful car collection which I’ve partially discussed already….
Lit for the night–no special occasion–the tower is reflected in the river at its feet.
CNN has compiled a list of 14 “best” aviation museums around the world, including in the U.S., China, Russia, France, Ukraine, Poland…You could almost build a round-the-world trip to explore them all.
I’ve just become aware of a series of regional & city guides for Spain & SW France, called Maribel’s Guides for the Sophisticated Traveler. They’re available free online in PDF format, 16 of them, and look very interesting. And by the way, the thumbnail for the Bilbao guide is, guess what, the Frank Gehry-designed museum which, I have no doubt, Gumbo will be visiting. See another here .
Claude Monet, most famous of the French Impressionist painters, was also one of France’s most committed gardeners. He spent half his 86 years developing his extensive gardens at Giverny, and they are the subject of hundreds of his paintings.
More French people live in London than in Bordeaux, Nantes or Strasbourg and some now regard it as France’s sixth biggest city in terms of population.
As several Gumbo Guessers quickly realized, Gumbo was visiting the Lower Depths, the sine qua non of modern society, the sewer system. This particular sewer is in Paris, and it runs through the Museum des Egouts—yes, the Sewer Museum.
A scene of every day life in an historic city. After having spent the morning exploring the great medieval cathedral in Chartres, we finished a fine lunch before heading into the medieval city down by the River.
A splash of bravura color against a dark winter night provides a cheery break in a long walk home up the hilly Rue de Caulaincourt in Montmartre, Paris.
With the approach of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I in mind, Jeff Steiner has posted a series of postcards on his website, Americans in France, with ghosts of that war merged with a current view. As I mentioned the last time I…
This is the last in a four part series highlighting my visit to the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum. I really enjoyed this small, off the beaten path car museum and it has a wonderful car collection which I’ve partially discussed already….