Chateaux and Catherine d’Medici

Chateau Chenonceau, complete with scaffolding, from the garden.

The tower in the front of the Chateau Chenonseau, sheltering the nests of swallows.

Before we came, both Hannah and I read “The Confessions of Catherine d’Medici,” and it filled the halls we walked through with the people who lived in them. It also influenced our choice [...]

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Foto Phave: Cathedral Saint-Louis de Blois

We loved this view of the flying buttresses of the Cathedral Saint-Louis de Blois from the area in front of the castle. We’ve loved the history and castles here in the Loire Valley, although I have fallen a little behind in the blog here, as I’ve been under the weather.

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Lost in Language

Lyon from the esplanade of Fouviere

Traveling as a family, it is obvious that we are not French. As we walk into someone’s presence, we are usually talking and laughing, giving ourselves away. For many years, I have thought about language. In the game “If you were granted three wishes, what would you wish [...]

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River Through Time

Our own trip down the mountain was the reverse, other than the first few kilometers. In Les Trois Vallees, the largest ski area in the world, vacation rentals begin and end on Saturday. The drainage of departing skiers on Saturday gather from the individual resorts into a huge, slow moving current on the freeway which [...]

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