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 …