Tagged: France

Nantes Loire location shapes its food

This fish monger’s stall was one of the busiest early on a Wednesday morning at Nantes’ Talensac Market. The food of Nantes, once at the Atlantic Ocean mouth of France’s Loire River,...

Off to France

On Labor Day I’m headed back to France, this time to a small section of the Loire Valley where I’ll visit the hometown of Jules Verne and see and see how his genius...

I’m so honored

Here’s my news from the spring meeting of the Midwest Travel Writers Association, of which I’ve been a member since 1983. Those who follow my regular blogs got other aspects of these...

Day One In France

The plane ride was rough, no doubt. A five-hour layover in Newark and six-hour flight on AirFrance. Yet here I am, in Paris again. And completely breathless. Today marked the first of...

caves are cool even in France

Caves are usually cool places to be, a compelling thought in this heat. Depending on their access to the surface, a cave is between 55 and 65 degrees year round…quite pleasant these...

Art of packing specific to the trip

Soon I’ll be off to France. I’m shown here with the clothes I’ll wear on the flight and the things that need to go in my personal bag.The act of packing for...