epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Marjorie R. Williams

The Sweet Life in Provence While Provence doesn’t have unique rights to the biblical phrase, it is the Promised Land for anyone with a sweet tooth. For heavenly treats, try ...

epub |eng | | Author:Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. [ Harvard Student Agencies, Inc]

Getting there is easy enough; the 49, 49A, 54A, and 123 buses will all take you by Christ Church Cathedral, which is directly adjacent to Dublinia. You can also walk ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Dorling Kindersley

View map Ajaccio Statue of Napoleon, Ajaccio A winter livestock market in Roman times, Ajaccio became a major settlement only after the Genoese erected a Citadelle here in the late ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...