Generally driving in France was a pleasant experience. Contrary to our fears, other drivers tend to give-way and assist merging and turning traffic. On narrow roads, these are survival behaviors. However, at the end of our week of renting …
On our way to Paris, we stopped here to visit the home and gardens once owned by Claude Monet. The 150 year old place looked to us like the very same scenes depicted in his impessionistic paintings. The flowers were …
One of the most pleasant experiences for us was to visit the open air markets. On Saturday the markets were vast and contain everything from socks and clothing to meat, vegetables, cheese and all other necessities of life.
We spent two days at the town of Rouen, a rather large center for commerce with a university. The town is 150 km West of Paris and nearer the coast. From here we visited several smaller communities along the coast …
In this village is a magnificent church from the middle ages. For 900 years this church has been here. Inside is a maze (there is also one in Boise at the Unitarian church) where it is thought that a person …
Orleans is the birthplace of Joan of Arc and the city is celebrating the 600th anniversary of her birth. Orleans has excellent public transportation and is an exciting mix of an old town with narrow streets and a modern central …
After getting off the boat, we traveled by train to Munich Germany. Here we had a six hour wait for our train to Paris. in order to pass the time, we hopped aboard a tour bus and saw the major …
Our bicycle trip today was through the rolling hills of the wine country in Austria. On both sides of the path vineyard’s stretch high up onto the rocky hillsides. We past several old castles and thru villages that have existed …
Wow! what an amazing place. This city has so many giant public buildings and monuments that it will take a week to see what is here. This was a favorite city of people with only one name. Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, …
Our bicycle trip today is from Visigard to Estergom; both are small cities in Hungary. Hungary is not a member of the European union so we convert our money into florens at the rate of 1 to 250. We have …