Pirates and Poets
Upon our return from Guernsey we stayed on an extra few days in the St. Malo area. Our municipal campsite was the on the Alet peninsula to the south of the old town of St. Malo. With its sheltered marina on the northside and sandy beaches and the imposing Solidor Tower to the south, this […]
A Mythical Place – Mont Saint Michel
That myths and legends surround Mont Saint Michel seems fitting given its fairytale like presence as it rises up out of the sea off the coast of Normandy. With a history going back as far as the year 708, Mont St Michel has been a Benedictine monastery, a place of pilgrimage, a fortification, a prison […]
A Fairytale Town and Surrounds
Colmar, France is so fairytale-like it was apparently the inspiration for Belle’s village in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. A mesh of winding cobble streets and canals, quaint, colourful, half timber houses lining waters edge and enclosing odd shaped squares with Bartholdi fountains. There is a covered market, an array of museums and The Tanners […]
Stumbling Stones – Stolpersteine
Through travel we can have so many different learning experiences. We learn about history, geography, culture, food, nature, wildlife, music etc. Most of these experiences are wonderful and create lifelong memories we cherish but some are more challenging and today I wanted to relate the challenging. While out and about in search of a geocache, […]
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