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Monthly Archives: June 2018
Sancerre, Guédelon and Briare
On our first long stay here (2013), we did a ramble to Bourges and some places around there, and we asked Mary and Gilles if we could go to Sancerre. Although we were not great white wine fans, we’d heard … Continue reading
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A Walk in Saint Mammès
Saint-Mammès is one of our favorite places to visit for a walk, so today off we went. As always we enjoyed our stroll, and the morning ended with a surprise – a good one, at that. Saint-Mammès is at the … Continue reading
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A Walk in La Rochette
As we have no rambles planned for the next two weeks, we’ll be doing lots of walks and day-trips from our home-base here in Bois-le-Roi. I’m working on a post for just Bois-le-Roi so you can see where we are … Continue reading
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With an Old Friend in Paris
We had the great pleasure to introduce an old friend to Paris a couple weeks ago. When Laurie and I were in Coronado, across the bay from San Diego (in my Navy days), we became closest of friends with Paul … Continue reading
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Clermont-Ferrand and back to “home”
After Albi, we turned toward home (Bois-le-Roi home, that is), making two stops on the way. The first was near the town of Puy-en-Velay, and the second at Clermont-Ferrand. Viaduc de Milliau Both regular readers of this blog will know … Continue reading
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Albi
After three days in Toulouse, we hit the road again. We spent a night in Albi, which has two really amazing sights: a museum and a cathedral. I know you’re saying, “Another cathedral!?!” Yep, and one different than any we’ve … Continue reading
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Toulouse
We spent three days in Toulouse with Mary and Gilles. Toulouse is a big city, home to Airbus (a tour guide asked us where we all were from and when Laurie and I said, “Seattle,” her immediate response was, “Oh…Boeing”). … Continue reading
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Bastides
In previous years I’ve posted a couple times about bastide towns and, since we visited a few this trip, I’ll combine them into one post. A little background on these interesting towns: In 1337 the king of France died without … Continue reading
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Gers – Part 2
Following up on the Gers – Part 1 post, here are some other places we visited in the Gers: Lavardac This small town a few miles from our base at Moulin de Bapaumes has one distinguishing feature: an amazing country … Continue reading
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Nérac and the Gers Region – Part 1
After our brief stay in Brive-la-Galliard, it was on to our destination, the Gers region. This region is in southwest France and although we visited just a small part on its northern edge, we enjoyed it greatly. The impetus for … Continue reading
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