Langeais, A Lovely Sunday Excursion Exploring the Town , its Château and its Market
We planned our visit to Langeais around the outdoor market and the château, two of my favorite things to do in any country! Every Sunday Langeais has a wonderful market, part of which is under a covered pavilion and the rest sprawls over a huge parking lot. [caption id="attachment_5223" align="aligncenter" width="600"] ...
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Oradour-sur-Glane: Lest We Forget the Cruelty Brought on by Intolerance
My first encounter with Oradour-sur-Glane came when researching a project for a French class in 2010. Fascinated yet horrified best describes my reaction. This past autumn we spent some time in this area of France and visited the “new” Oradour-sur-Glane as well as the obliterated village. Words cannot describe the ...
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Limoges is so Much More than Porcelain
Limoges is known for its lovely porcelain but it also has an amazing old town with half-timbered buildings and cobbled streets that made us feel as though we had stepped back in time. Our first day and a half we did a lot of exploring, taking in the beautiful old buildings and cobbled streets and visiting a porcelain ...
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Valley of the Frescoes- Bucolic Villages of Amazing Frescoes
The Valley of the Frescoes extends from Saint-Savin to Saulgé. There are five stops on this route: Abbey of Saint-Savin, Antigny, Jouhet, Montmorillon and Saulgé. We based our stay in Montmorillon and from there explored these frescoes. You can read about Montmorillon here. Valley of the Frescoes - Saulgé On our first ...
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Montmorillon Has it All: Books, Macarons, Photographic Vistas
Read my story in French » I first discovered Montmorillon when searching for book events in France. Montmorillon carries the moniker the “city of books and writing” . For an avid reader, that was all the enticement I needed. Another the name for Montmorillon is the “Town of Art and History”. It is definitely all ...
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Parc des Buttes Chaumont Is My Favorite Park in Paris
The Parc des Buttes Chaumont is my favorite, at least for now, park in Paris. It is both similar and dissimilar to Parc Montsouris which is another favorite park of mine. Buttes Chaumont is in the north of Paris (19th arrondissement) whereas Montsouris is in the south of Paris (14th arrondissement). Both parks are English in ...
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Pont Bir-Hakeim is one of Paris’ Newer Bridges and Lovely to Behold
Pont Bir-Hakeim is definitely not one of Paris’ older bridges but if you want an elevated view of the Eiffel Tower, then your trajectory will take you right across it!. I boarded the Metro Line 6 at Montparnasse traveling in the direction of the Passy Metro stop. I was so taken with the views that I totally forgot to put ...
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