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With just a morning left of our Parisian adventure we did what AI had outlined for us and went shopping. Marks & Spencer this is not Galeries Lafayette was just a short walk down from our hotel and we arrived slightly before opening time at ten. At two minutes to ten, what can only be …
One of our favourite films is Amelie, a love story set in Paris, and today we set about trying to find some of the locations of the film. Coffee, Religion and the Republic Much of what we wanted to see was in the Montmartre area so we headed out there on another bright, but autumnal …
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We tried out a different cafe for breakfast this morning which also give us the opportunity to check out the weather and gauge our clothing choices. It was fresh but dry and it could only get warmer, right? I elected to go without a coat trusting that I’d be warm enough in just a jumper. …
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Paris is somewhere that we haven’t been for a very long time, probably 20 years or more, and so we decided that it was well overdue a visit. On the journey over, and to get me into the mood, I watched the film “Le Château de ma mère”, based on Marcel Pagnol’s autobiographical books. I’d …
I know, you have two questions: Day Five Day five was another day at sea. This time no attempt was made to go behind the scenes or to take trip to the flicks. Instead, we contended ourselves with eating, drinking (tea) and walking the deck. The latter was not was easy as it sounds given …
Another non-Italian destination today. France this time in the form of the island Corsica. The distance between Italian Sardinia and French Corsica is apparently only 12km and so it is no surprise that Corsica at one time was part of the Italian empire. This was lost when the Corsicans had enough of Italian rule and …
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