Tarte
Date: 06/21/2006"Take a cooking class" was on my "To Do In Paris" list when we began spending time in this city a year-and-a-half ago...so I asked Mary if I could tag along...
Read OnLeonardo's House
Date: 06/19/2006Leonardo da Vinci's pink brick manor house is set on the edge of huge, park-like gardens, which are dotted with working models of some of the man's larger inventions.
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Normandy, 1944-2006
Date: 05/28/2006Sixty-two years ago, 156,000 Canadian, U.S., and UK soldiers stormed a 60-mile stretch of northern France. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Almost 10,000 Allied soldiers died trying to establish a foothold in France.
Read OnThe Invasion of Saint Tropez
Date: 04/05/2006I cruise into St. Tropez harbor aboard Laetitia, and wish I invented pointillism myself.
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Trabouling in Lyon
Date: 02/28/2006
Author:
Steenie Harvey
"Try the doors--maybe they will open." Well, that's what the lady in the tourist office at place Bellecour advised. Armed with my traboule map, I'm trying to access the secret alleyways of Vieux Lyon (old Lyon), furtively pushing against doors and feeling uncomfortably like a burglar.
Read OnYour Own Alpine Hideaway for Less Than $36,000
Date: 02/26/2006Buying a ski property in the French Alps doesn't have to be ruinously expensive.
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London vs. Paris
Date: 02/23/2006For my money, London and Paris are the most exciting, dynamic cities in Europe.
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Aching in the Alps
Date: 02/15/2006My bones are hurting badly--and I put the blame entirely on a Frenchman called Jean-Louis. I’ve been rolling around in the woods of Bois Barbu with him.
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