Posts Tagged ‘France’
La Terre des Lauriers
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Provence July 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Today Sarah and I drove my parents to their airport for their departure after three action-packed weeks bopping around Europe. You already saw our pictures from the Italian leg of the trip, right? (If not, see the next most recent post.) Here’s a very brief run-down of the Provence leg of the trip, which was a solid week in Remoulins with day trips out pretty much every day to explore local stuff.
- We flew into Marseille on a Lufthansa flight from Munich. We very nearly missed the flight thanks to the rail system (not sure if it was ALX or DB’s fault…but it sure was stressful).
- We picked up our rental car, a Fiat Punto (pretty small for four adults and light luggage) at the airport in Marseille and drove out to Remoulins, where a rental cottage on the grounds of a Chambre d’Hôte awaited us. We loved the location of our lodging, but it was pretty cramped for four adults and rather poorly equipped. More on that later, perhaps.
- Every day we planned to do something new and even when we were too tired, sweaty, or hungry to follow through on our plans, something easier and more local kept us interested.
- We ate a ton of fresh fruit, stuff right off the vine, tree, etc. I’ve never had white nectarines before, but I’ll be looking for them now. Sadly, I doubt they’ll taste as good as ones from the road-side stands in Provence, but I’ll try them anyway. Most of that fruit goes great with goat cheese and another local product, wine. Yum!
- We planned to visit l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Aix-en-Provence, and Avignon and were pleased with all of those. Smaller places, like Uzès and Gordes and Castillon-du-Gard were complete (and welcome) surprises – cute places we just stumbled upon in search for WiFi (not every McDonald’s offers it) or a landromat open through lunch.
Here’s the map, to give you a rough idea:
View Provence July 2009 in a larger map
Here are my favorite pictures from the past three weeks (below). You can see all the pictures we took here.
Hotel Sully Saint-Germain
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Paris Finis
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Back to real life!
Here are all the pictures from the trip, organized into several sets and slideshows. Most of these are images you’ve seen in recent previous posts, but I’ve got them all together in one blog post here. Click on the individual squares below for the larger versions, or click the title of each grouping to start a slideshow for that grouping.
back from Paris
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008We just got back from Paris tonight. There are some more pictures to be posted later this week, but for now, check out these night shots — especially the Eiffel Tower ones.
Photos de la Seine par Nuit
Saturday, November 29th, 2008Took these last night. The originals turned out pretty orange due to all the incandescent lighting along the river, but I managed to mess with them in the GIMP somewhat to get the white balance back into an acceptable range.
Wish I understood better how all that stuff works…perhaps a class in modern DSLR photography at my local Volkshochschule is in order (it’s been recommended to me before).
Savourez-vous les photos (et mon français terrible)!
Nous voyons à Paris!
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Paris Planning November 2008
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Narrowing down our list of stuff we want to do, while keeping enough buffer room in for spontaneity, is truly an art form.
Help us paint our picture.
Here’s our rough itinerary and short list:
- Depart MUC for CDG at 10:35 on Thursday, November 27 (we’ll train it down to the airport)
- Check into the Sully Saint-Germain (pictured at right) sometime the same day
- Marché des Enfants Rouges
- Museum Discount pass?
- Les Catacombes
- Les Dingues (scroll down to number 3 on that page)
- Centre Pompidou
- Old Marais Quarter walking tour
- and if we like that, maybe even a walking tour focused on the Resistance and Liberation the next day
- Musée National du Moyen Age/Thermes de Cluny (Musée de Cluny)
- Check out of the Sully Saint-Germain on Monday, December 1st
- Depart CDG for MUC at 18:20 on Monday, December 1st (train if possible back to Regensburg, otherwise maybe spur-of-the-moment AirportLiner
What have you done? What would you have done (differently)?