France and Art
If the first religion of Paris is food, the second must be art. Musée D'Orsay and the Van Gogh Atelier des Lumières immersive light and music experience were food for the soul.
French Food!!
Seriously, that's how the French take their food. In order to have the full French experience, we had lunch at Guy Savoy. Year after year, Guy Savoy is bestowed with THREE Michelin stars, making it [...]
The Louvre Museum
The Louvre is the largest museum in the world - so big that it's impossible to see all the museum has to offer in one visit. How long would it actually take? Well, if you [...]
Paris!
Paris in the spring was a delight - cool, dry weather and plenty of flowers. Paris at its best!
Corsica Adventures
We called this trip the "Francathalon", because we were pretty exhausted until we got to relax on the sailboat. Michèle and the boys kept us busy! As a bonus, we were so close to [...]
Mont Saint-Michel Abbey
Now that we slogged through the sandy hike to Mont Saint-Michel, we spent the next day hiking up the interior. Mont Saint-Michel started as a monastery (monks only) in the 7th century, became an abbey in [...]
Pilgrim’s Walk in Mont Saint-Michel
During the Middle Ages, pilgrims had to walk their way to Mont Saint-Michel during extreme low tide. It was considered very dangerous. Back then, people who planned to go to Mont Saint-Michel first made out a [...]
Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Eisenhower called the operation a [...]
La Hague Coastal Trail
We hiked a piece of the Grande Randonnée which runs through the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain. It runs for thousands of miles, like the Pacific Crest Trail.
