Blogs from France, Europe - page 1606

It’s funny how when you live in a city, it’s hard to imagine why people choose to come there on vacations. You sort of become accustomed to all the “sites” and forget to take the time to enjoy them. This is, believe it or not, even a little true for Paris. Maybe not as true as for someplace like San Diego, however, by the end of September, the only sites we had visited were those from my mandatory school field trips. Luckily for us, we have plenty of people coming to visit us over the course of the year. Our first guest was Lisa, Tyler’s mom, for the first two weeks in October. We had a great time. For the first time in 5 weeks, we were done with all the set up chores, and ... read more

Hey Everyone! How are you all? Sorry for being so slack recently, even when you don't have a ton to do it takes for ever to accomplish anything. Seriously, systems are not a strong point over here. It is quite frustrating. Yesterday I had replied to some emails and had in fact written the journal entry I'm about to rewrite :p when I was told my time was up on the computer and i had to give it to someone else. Which is normally fine cos you do normally only get an hour here, since there are so few computers and everyone wants to use them. But I aciddentally closed my journal window before it had properly sent and so lost the whole thing. grrr. so anyway, here we go again.... well, life in lyon is ... read more

Visited the city of Paris and am/ was very impressed by the French ability to build new and exciting structures side by side with many ancient and impressive structures which contain beautiful paints and works of art. The Lourve is a whole days worth of site seeing all on its own and the river seine is majestic and beautiful and so worth seeing for yourself - go when you can.... read more

Well I don’t know where to start. Today’s actual date is the first of March. Yikes! That means I have 6 months worth of activity to sum up, for posterities sake. Okay. Well, over the last 6 months, I have sent out a few e-mails, so some of this will be old news to you all, but bear with me. So, I guess I will start in the beginning. After months of preparation, we arrived in Paris on the 23 of August. We each had two large pieces of luggage and a carry on in addition to our laptops. Of course we decided not to get a shuttle. Our flight was coming in pretty late, and that made it difficult to find a shuttle service that was willing to pick us up (a slight lack of ... read more

Motorhome News from Europe 3 France. 21st September 2004 Bordeaux and South along the Atlantic Coast Having said farewell to Sonia in Limoges, we headed through heavy rain west to Bordeaux country and the wine town of St Emilion, a name surely on everybody’s lips at some time in their lives. There were vineyards as far as the eye could see in every direction, purple grapes just about ready for harvesting and every cave in the town seemed to be selling wine and sign after elaborate sign seemed to point to yet another chateaux. St Emilion itself is immaculate and drools with money - a place to admire, a centre of commerce - but not a place to live, Janice would tell you. At last the temperature was dropping, now approaching 18C from a sweltering 37C ... read more