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7 Days in Dordogne: Up, Up and Away!

What a day! A visit to Chenonceau ended our tour on a high note. My traveling companion and long-lost and found friend from grade school, Julie, and I put some serious miles behind us. We drove over four hours straight from Sarlat to Tours. I’m dropping Julie off at the train station in Tours tomorrow […]

7 Days in Dordogne: The Finale

After six days in Dordogne with my Colorado friend, it was time for the grand finale. We threw caution to the wind and took our first hot air balloon ride over the Loire Valley, visiting the Chateau at Chenonceau no less. The tour of the Château at Chenonceau is not precisely what you’d expect from […]

For the Love of Lavender 

Had the Barefoot Blogger had known how fabulous lavender fields are in person, I would have been visiting them much before now.

A Photo Guide to the SNCF/TGV Trains at Paris’ CDG Airport

If you’re like me, finding my way around airports and train stations is sometimes tricky. Since I often take a train from Avignon to Charles de Gaulle in Paris, I jotted down directions and took a few photos to create a CDG Airport Photo Guide to help me learn and remember where to go. This […]

Les Mardis Nocturnes D’Uzès

Nothing compares with the Saturday or Wednesday markets in Uzes. Yet these Tuesday events, clearly for tourists, have the added attraction of a nighttime ambiance in the Place des Duche.

My Life and Travels in France: The Beginning

  As long as I can remember, I’ve dreamed of “faraway places” — like the ones Mother told me about when I was a child. Escaping into the fairytale world I visited in my mind was my way of dealing with real life. “Going to China, or maybe Siam, I have the whole world to […]

7 Days in Dordogne: Albi to Cahors

Julie and I splurged on two luxuries during our Dordogne tour. One was to spend a night in a hilltop chateau en route from Albi to Cahors. The other I’ll divulge later. Day two on the week-long car tour from Uzes to Tours, through the Dordogne with my long-time friend, Julie, was hurried and hot–35 […]

7 Days in Dordogne: Cahors to Sarlat

Seven Day Dordogne Tour

We finally got it right on the third day of the seven-day Dordogne tour with my friend from kindergarten.   We narrowed down the “to-do” list for our seven-day Dordogne tour to a manageable number of places to see in one day. We developed the concepts of “walkabouts” and “drive-by photo shootings.” In other words, […]