The Loire Valley and especially Blois
Today we met up with our good friends Anne and Bruno from Paris. We discovered a few days ago that we would be in Sicily at the same time. We watched the sun set over the salt flats with a glass of Marsala. The car is still unscratched. Aujourd’hui nous avons retrouvé nos amis Anne …
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First images of Sicily – the Kasbah in Mazaro del Valle (we are leaving Palermo for the end of our trip). We have rented a brand new Twingo rosso and considering the extraordinarily narrow streets our French sav nat is sending us down we are wondering how much red will have been rubbed off in …
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We are spending the last few days of our holiday on Lake Orta quite close of where we began nearly a month ago at Lake Iseo. This is the little island in the middle of the lake. Nous passons les derniers jours de nos vacance sur le lac Orta tout près de l’endroit où nous …
Today we went in the other direction on the cycle route between Iseo Lake and Brescia to visit the delightful little town of Brescia with its broad spectrum of architecture. Here, you can see the 15th century side of Piazza de la Loggia. The second photo was taken in a pasticceria en route at Paderno …
Clusane del Lago is on Lake Iseo, the smallest of the northern Italian lakes. We saw the restaurant as we were riding towards our destination of Paratica 5 k further along the lake and booked a table for the way back. The view was stunning! Jean Michel ordered fried lake fish while I had a delicious scalloppina …
This cemetary is in the tiny village of Gudon not far from the Austrian border where we stopped for a picnic lunch. Ce cimetière est dans le petit village de Gudon pas loin de la frontière autrichienne où nous avons fait un picnic à midi.
TSanta Maria della Croce is a basilica on the outskirts of Crema in Lombardy built in the Lombard Renaissance style where an apparition of the Virgin Mary is said to have helped Caterina degli Uberti, a woman from Crema fatally wounded by her husband on 3 April 1490 (he cut off her hand and part of her arm …
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Cervo was a well-earned rest at the top of a hill cycling along the Ligurian Coast east of Imperia. It was full of little streets like this one. On a bien mérité le repos à Cervo qui se trouvait en haut d’une colline sur la côté ligurienne à l’est de la ville d’Imperia. Il y avait plein …
Practically every inch of an Italian beach is taken up with deck chairs and beach umbrellas that are rented out to users at various price according to the location. From time to time, you do find a public beach but it’s always small. In the photo below, you can see a public beach in the …
It took 45 excruciating minutes of narrow roads and hairpin bends to get up to this B&B in Liguria in Italy yesterday. By the time we got there, the top of the mountain was covered in mist and we couldn’t see a thing. But this morning, the sun came out and it was worth it! …
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