France
epub |eng | 2016-06-10 | Author:Leslie Jonath

Framboise Fraise des bois FÊTES de la MUSIQUE The citywide summer music festival called “Fêtes de la Musique” is held on the summer solstice. The word “fête” (“festival”) sounds like ...
( Category: General June 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Barlow, Julie & Nadeau, Jean-Benoit [Barlow, Julie]

12 English Envy We were in France for the seventieth anniversary of D-day, in June 2014. It was the third time we’d watched the French commemorate the Normandy landings, but ...
( Category: General May 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-26 | Author:Berlitz Travel

Homage to Grace The parcours Princesse Grace is a trail of 25 places in the principality that are associated with the former Hollywood film star Grace Kelly, who married Prince ...
( Category: General April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:Aurelia d'Andrea

Banking Opening a bank account in France is another exercise in red-tape aerobics, but it’s a very necessary evil. If you’re planning a reconnaissance trip to scope things out before ...
( Category: General April 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-16 | Author:Ken McAdams

TWENTY DOWN A ROAD LESS TRAVELED THE STATUE of Liberty, designed by the Frenchman Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was dedicated to the homeless huddled masses yearning to be free. It didn’t escape ...
( Category: General April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Robert Wheeler

North view from Hemingway’s room Fontaine Saint-Michel Pont Alexandre III III Influence Ernest Hemingway was surrounded with colleagues and good friends during his time in Paris. He was a part ...
( Category: General April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Marcia DeSanctis

VILLAGES OF THE PAYS BASQUE The Pyrénées divide France from Spain, and early morning on the highway from the city of Pau through the Béarn to the Atlantic coast, the ...
( Category: General April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Alexander Lobrano [Lobrano, Alexander]

Consider the segue of our lunch by Christophe Moret, Ducasse élève extraordinaire. After the fish course, I had a ris de veau à la ménagère (cooked as a housewife would, ...
( Category: General March 17,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-12-01 | Author:Lonely Planet & Alexis Averbuck & Oliver Berry & Nicola Williams [Planet, Lonely]

Pays d’Aix Picturesque Pays d’Aix (Aix Country), within which oh-so-elegant Aix-en-Provence is ensconced, sits 25km or so north of Marseille. Aix-en-Provence Pop 145,273 A pocket of left-bank Parisian chic deep ...
( Category: General February 26,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Hanson Mitchell

chapter eight Migrants Migratory birds begin to arrive on the western slopes and headlands of Corsica as early as February, flying north from their wintering grounds in Africa. By March ...
( Category: Corsica February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Rick Steves & Steve Smith & Gene Openshaw

Length of This Day Trip: With the usual lines, allow 1.5 hours each for the Château, the Gardens, and the Trianon/Domaine. Add another two hours for round-trip transit, plus another ...
( Category: General February 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Parker

2000 89 The 2000 may be the finest wine this estate has produced. Its dense purple color is accompanied by aromas of figs, blackberries, and cherries, low acidity, a voluptuous ...
( Category: Wine February 2,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Planet, Lonely & Berry, Oliver & Butler, Stuart & Carillet, Jean-Bernard & Clark, Gregor & Robinson, Daniel [Planet, Lonely]

The tourist office also has audioguides (€3.50; in English, French and German) for a 1½-hour walking tour of town. Le Pass Musées (adult/child €10.10/7.10) gets you into all four municipal ...
( Category: General January 17,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Planet, Lonely & Le Nevez, Catherine [Planet, Lonely]

Understand Notre Dame Timeline 1160 The Bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully, ordered the demolition of the original cathedral, the 4th-century Saint-Étienne (St Stephen’s). 1163 Notre Dame’s cornerstone was laid ...
( Category: General January 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:David Lebovitz

La Petite Rose This homey bakery surprises with a beehive-like Mont Blanc (chestnut cake) and festive fruit tartlets with apricots and strawberries. Macarons show their Japanese roots and are flavored ...
( Category: General January 6,2016 )