Fitting to introduce a blog on our last stop by starting with its more famous visual cue. We had decided…
Lyon – keen competition for Paris
If that is the Eiffel Tower, then this must be Paris? But not so fast. The Eiffel Tower sits near…
An ancient bridge and more
Another outing took us into the foothills where more ancient ruins dotted the landscape. More about the above shortly, but…
Sur Le Pont… on two wheels
Avignon, immortalized in a song “Sur Le Pont d’Avignon…”, is a pretty city know as the Citi Du Papes. Thanks…
Like our friends, wine only improves with age.
I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar…
Seeing through rose coloured glasses
Of everything we wanted to see in Camargue , the long legged and gawky pink heron/swan/ostrich look-a-like was high on…