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16-day whirlwind tour: day 9
Posted June 04, 2006 at 03:56 AM by starchicklie
In Nice, we visited Fragonard, a perfumerie. We were given a spectacular tour where they explained the complex perfume-development and production process. From there, we drove to Cannes, where the famed international film festival is held. After frolicking along the beach, we arrived in Lyon, the 3rd largest city in France. There we had [...]
aubazine monastery in correze, france
Posted June 29, 2006 at 10:10 PM by
We decided to visit the monastery at Aubazine, and ended up staying to hear an hour-long guided tour. The building was absolutely gorgeous – the monastery dates back to the 11th century and connects to a large church right next to it. There was a really cool stairway that leads from the second floor of the monastery into the church, which [...]
Haussmann-free Paris
Posted May 29, 2007 at 03:38 AM by lapetite
In the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III commissioned Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to rebuild Paris for the modern era. Up until this point, Paris had been much like other European cities: dirty, dark, disorderly, and in grave danger of fire or plague. But Haussmann changed all that — he swept away most of the teetering medieval [...]
Holiday Hangover
Posted May 30, 2007 at 01:45 AM by lapetite
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years… The holiday season is dead and gone, with not a hint of revelry on the horizon until Valentine’s Day, right? Ah, but that’s because you don’t know about La Fête des Rois.Even as a kid, I always thought of La Fête des Rois as a sort of “hangover [...]
16-day whirlwind tour: day 10
Posted June 04, 2006 at 03:56 AM by starchicklie
We traveled from Lyon to Paris, where we flew through the Louvre. I would recommend devoting at least an entire day to really savor the art and see everything in the museum.
