The Petit Palais, and its neighbor the Grand Palais, were built to house exhibits at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Since then it has housed the city’s Fine Arts Museum (that’s city as opposed to national…).
The Abbey and Monastery Mont-Saint-Michel is, really, two places: the historic religious structures at the top of the island mountain, and the town below that supported it in ancient times and today.
I’ve tried staying in other neighborhoods, but I know now it’s hopeless. The only place I feel at home in Paris is in the closest possible proximity to my first home there in Montmartre, on rue Tholozé, in 1966 ….
The Island and Village Everyone told us that Mont-Saint-Michel is “special,” even friends who knew how many old churches and quaint villages we’ve been to, even those who usually are concerned with long drives.
Where Gumbo was, as Jonathan L, with help from Lynn Milar recognized, was behind an abandoned station on an abandoned rail line—the Petite Ceinture—that once girdled Paris, connecting its rail stations and freight yards, and providing both passenger and freight service.
A walk through a picturesque town with PHeymont, who enjoyed it so much he almost forgot to take pictures!
Summer or winter, onion soup has its appeal. A rich broth, the onions, the crusty bread, the melted cheese—what more could you want? This one’s at Paris’s iconic Au Pied de Cochon.
On Monday the Eiffel Tower opened the renovated first floor of the hugely popular monument and it included a glass floor. The floors 187 ft high and gives visitors the sensation of walking on air.
The Canal Saint-Denis, just a bit past its junction with the Canal Saint-Martin and the Canal de l’Ourcq in northeast Paris, appears to flow downhill to pass under a bridge. It so much appears to that I had to stand there for a few minutes to remind myself that it couldn’t be.
When we were planning our summer 2014 trip to France, we decided to start with a week in the south before our two weeks in Paris, and one of the planned items on our “bucket list” was a long drive through the picturesque villages of the Luberon region.
The Petit Palais, and its neighbor the Grand Palais, were built to house exhibits at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Since then it has housed the city’s Fine Arts Museum (that’s city as opposed to national…).
The Abbey and Monastery Mont-Saint-Michel is, really, two places: the historic religious structures at the top of the island mountain, and the town below that supported it in ancient times and today.
I’ve tried staying in other neighborhoods, but I know now it’s hopeless. The only place I feel at home in Paris is in the closest possible proximity to my first home there in Montmartre, on rue Tholozé, in 1966 ….
The Island and Village Everyone told us that Mont-Saint-Michel is “special,” even friends who knew how many old churches and quaint villages we’ve been to, even those who usually are concerned with long drives.
Where Gumbo was, as Jonathan L, with help from Lynn Milar recognized, was behind an abandoned station on an abandoned rail line—the Petite Ceinture—that once girdled Paris, connecting its rail stations and freight yards, and providing both passenger and freight service.
A walk through a picturesque town with PHeymont, who enjoyed it so much he almost forgot to take pictures!
Summer or winter, onion soup has its appeal. A rich broth, the onions, the crusty bread, the melted cheese—what more could you want? This one’s at Paris’s iconic Au Pied de Cochon.
On Monday the Eiffel Tower opened the renovated first floor of the hugely popular monument and it included a glass floor. The floors 187 ft high and gives visitors the sensation of walking on air.
The Canal Saint-Denis, just a bit past its junction with the Canal Saint-Martin and the Canal de l’Ourcq in northeast Paris, appears to flow downhill to pass under a bridge. It so much appears to that I had to stand there for a few minutes to remind myself that it couldn’t be.
When we were planning our summer 2014 trip to France, we decided to start with a week in the south before our two weeks in Paris, and one of the planned items on our “bucket list” was a long drive through the picturesque villages of the Luberon region.
