Ancient Structures

August 26, 2008

Well…I don’t like that photo of the Roman Gate of Trier in my last post!  It was a dark, cloudy, rainy day not to mention it was very late in the day when we came upon the gate. We stayed in Trier another day and the sun came out so here another shot … I […]

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Shopping at the Market in Aubernas

August 21, 2008

Since leaving our friend Le Frogge last week, we’ve visited Bourges, Chartres, Paris, Rouen, Reims and Sedan…all in France. We are back in Germany in Trier…a town that is 2000 years old..in northern Germany, near the Luxemburg border…heading to Hamburg and the north coast.  Trier has incredible Roman ruins including this wall gate…built in the […]

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A Day at Les Vans in Ardeche

August 21, 2008

Our last day in Ardeche we traveled with our friend Le Frogge to the town of Les Vans..about 60kms from St Andeol…to spend the day with his niece, Ee, whom we’ve met before when she visited Sydney…some years ago. Slice cavorting with one of the locals… Ee fed us a fabulous lunch with an assortment […]

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La Rochelle Flashback

August 21, 2008

This is both a flashback to La Rochelle (with slides) and a sneak preview of things to come. In my previous post about La Rochelle, I mentioned that the Laterne Tower is also known as the Priest Tower because of a massacre that occurred there during the religious wars. Related to the La Rochelle massacre […]

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A Lesson in French Cooking

August 21, 2008

If the French are not famous for their Eiffel Tower, the French Revolution, Cognac and Champagne surely they are famous for their cooking.  I think all French are born gourmets. And whenever I am with Le Frogge…I find myself in the kitchen.  He is absolutely a gourmet and over the years I have gladly submitted […]

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Saint Andeol de Vals

August 11, 2008

Saint Andeol de Vals, Ardeche, France is one of hundreds of small villages scattered across this mountainous countryside.  This is where we are staying for a few days with our friend Le Frogge and his family. We are guests in this house…Le Frogge’s family home which was built in the 1800s.  It is situated on […]

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Laterne Tower in La Rochelle

August 11, 2008

We spent 3 days on the Atlantic coast of France at Rochefort, 40kms south of La Rochelle. We had a delightful experience with an elderly Frenchman and his son after we stopped on a street in La Rochelle to get our bearings.  We arrived at La Rochelle at the busiest time and with the help […]

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Zigzagging Across France

August 4, 2008

We are zigzagging our way across France.  We stopped in Colmar (again) and stayed for 3 days at our favourite campsite…beside the river. The storks lurking for a feed… Camped next to us were two brothers…one with an accordion and the other a saxophone.  Every day and evening they would cycle off to earn their […]

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The Kirche in Ulm

August 4, 2008

From Kufstein in Austria we went north and we stopped in Ulm (Germany) for just a couple of hours to see a most beautiful Gothic church….The Ulmer Muenster …a few miles from Stuttgart… When the Ulm church was built (circa 1377) it had the highest church spiral in the world.   But just a few miles […]

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Castles and Art Nouveau

July 30, 2008

Heading west from Vienna towards France, we stopped for a night in the Austrian town of Kufstein. It was late and so the light wasn’t spectacular.  You can see a better photo of this fairy-tale looking castle on wikipedia.  Kufstein was another well kept medieval delight and quite unexpected.  We had simply earmarked it as […]

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