Category Archives: France The Musée du Louvre, the national art museum in Paris, France, is so expansive and so crammed full of incredibly works of art that one can easily be overwhelmed. I had visited the museum on a brief stay in Paris many years ago – but remembered almost nothing about it. Of course, as most people […]  I was staying in Geneva, Switzerland, but spending the day in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (Chamonix) in France. Europe is like that! In the midst of a couple of rainy days in Geneva visiting with old friends before continuing further east, I booked myself an self-guided day trip bus trip to Chamonix. This included a ticket for the […]  Mont Blanc is more than just a mountain. As the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, it lends its name to a range of peaks – the Mont Blanc massif – which straddle France, Italy, and Switzerland. I had taken the train from Paris (see: On and Around the Seine) to Geneva, Switzerland, […]  Some cities feel like old friends. Whether you’ve visited many times or never, the streets and buildings are familiar from popular culture, pictures, and movies. Paris is like that – around every corner there is a familiar “Aha!” site. I had a couple of short stopovers in Paris during a recent rainy September. I found […]  If you Google “French” and “food” you will get chapter and verse on culinary artistry, precision techniques, high-quality ingredients, and deep cultural significance. On my first trip to France – many, many years ago – I was working for some friends at a small auberge in Parignargues. There, I was introduced to concept of the […] |
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