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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 ...

montmorillon

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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Saintes- a Fascinating Gallo Roman town filled with amazing history

Read my story in French » The Gallo- Roman town of Saintes which dates back over 2000 years is the capitol of the Santoigne Department in the Poitou-Charentes (now the Nouvelle Aquitane). This delightful town is easy to navigate on foot. I parked my car in one of the numerous car-parks and walked everywhere. My B&B ...