France Tales

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Bordeaux is a beautiful city. It is much more like Paris than Toulouse. There is a harmony to the buildings and the walkways and the squares that is not as apparent in Toulouse. It has its problems too but from a purely aesthetic point of view, it is much prettier. Here are more than a [...]

Today I saw a great hand dryer in a bathroom in Bordeaux, we are there for the weekend this weekend. Take a look at the pictures. You plunge your hands into the cut out portion of it and then the dryer starts. The dryer is very high speed but almost no noise. You remove your [...]

Jean-Jacques and I have been traveling around to the little villages that surround Toulouse. We stumbled upon Lavaur by accident. I had seen a listing months ago for a grange, think big barn made of stone that is empty, for sale in Lavaur. We have dreamed of buying a grange and creating a home and [...]

Image via WikipediaIn France on TV we saw a show called Au Coeur de la musique seule which focused on Rhythm and Blues, Funk, and then early Hip Hop. It was a fantastic and realistic show. It interviewed not just the stars but mostly the sound engineers and unknown people behind the scenes. It was [...]

It snowed in Le Mortis on the morning of our last day for English Camp. Earlier in the week it had rained but on this morning I guess it was cold enough to snow. Since I didn’t have to drive or walk in the snow I was able to find it very pretty. The large [...]

Here is a map of the village where we were in the Pyrenées. We were very close to the border of Spain. We were fairly high up but certainly not on top. The Chalet where we stayed was called Chalet L’Izard. With snow everywhere on some days it was apparent that it was not the [...]