Blogs from France, Europe - page 1571

Egg 2. Hi all . We left Toulouse on the 14th September and drove South toward the Pyrenees (pair of knees). The landscape quickly became mountainous once we cleared the outskirts of Toulouse - its was stunningly lush and green and super hilly. Actually at times - were it not for the brilliant sunshine - you might have mistaken the surroundings for Scotland. We had a short lunch stop in Lourdes, just to see what it was like really, as the Senior eggs have been a few times. The upper part of Lourdes seems just like any other southern French town. The area is gorgeous and has a lovely Swiss feel to it. We parked up and strolled down to toward the Grotto. Although I´m not a religous person myself, I found the experience relatively interesting. ... read more

Oeuf no: deux. Bonjour Tour le Monde! ( I think that means '"hello everyone"). I´m adding some more photos of Toulouse - it was really fabby. Sxxx ps: In my defense re the last blog - I would definately have made better cassoulet - the meat vs haricot bean distribution was disproportionate in the one that I had the other night. ie: not enough sausage (thanks Claire! - you´ll know what I mean). ... read more

I went to the Eiffel Tower the other night- it's beautiful as the sun is setting. And they still have the lights left on from the millenium, so it starts to sparkle every half hour. The next day (Saturday) we had a bus tour of the city that highlights the main tourist attractions such as the Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, Opera, and Les Invalides. It started raining half way through but we stayed on (even though we were on the uncovered upper level). ONce the tour was over we got off to eat lunch at a little cafe and then went to do some shopping by our school. I bought some shoes at a Foot Locker, which was very surprising especially considering this was not a tourist area. We then went to the Musee d'Orsay, an ... read more

Septiembre 11, 2005 Visperas del viajes Ruta Inicial Hoy estamos en las vísperas del viaje que iniciaremos mañana vía Miami, donde nos veremos en el aeropuerto con Aleja, Juan Pa y ojala tambien Sofi para continuar enla noche hacia Madrid. Ya están ultimados todos los detalles y esperamos poder disfrutarlo como lo hemos planeado. Estaremos llegando al mediodía del 13 de septiembre a Barcelona donde hemos alquilado un apartamento a través de la red Apartamentos Barcelona, en una de las plazas más pintorescas del barrio gótico según nos comenta Mauri. Allí estaremos hasta el 16, cuando saldremos a Gerona y el 17 por vía aérea hasta Beauvais. En el aeropuerto hemos reservado un Renault Megane, que tendremos como nuestro compañero durante los siguientes 19 d... read more

One of my favorite places to go is the Palais et Jardin du Luxembourg. According to my Green Guide, the Palace and Gardens were built for Marie de Medici (of the famous family from Florence which also gave patronage to Galileo during his life) after she decided to leave the Louvre (which was the royal palace) upon the death of Henri IV in 1610. Marie wanted a place to remind her of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence where she grew up. Today the palace houses the Senate and the gardens are open to the public; the gardens are especially popular with students from the Latin Quarter. The Latin Quarter is so-named because many years ago Latin was the language of education and this was center of education in Paris and France for something like 700 years. ... read more