(or why I am blogging in France tonight instead of being awake in the middle of the night because of jetlag in Japan) If you follow my other blogs a little bit (Ogijima and David in France) you must know that yesterday was supposed the day I moved to […]
A short while ago, I told you about all of those old postcards from the beginning of the 20th Century that I own and that originally belonged to my grandfather. A certain number of them were sent by one of his cousin’s who was sent to the front of […]
We end our short overview of Andorra with El Pas de la Casa, a quite peculiar and unique town in my opinion. There are two ways to reach it (and only one road really). The first one is from Soldeu and the rest of Andorra through the Port d’Envalira […]
This view is one of my favorite views of the Sacré-Coeur. Back in the days, when I was walking up or down Boulevard des Italiens and wanted to surprise/impress a foreign visitor friend, I would simply say “look this way” when reaching Rue Laffitte. It worked every time. […]
Despite not having been to Andorra in many years, I had been so often in the 80’s and 90’s that I thought I knew most of what is not to be missed in the country. After all it is a small country. Well, I was wrong… As our small […]
Today, a small piece of Paris recent history. La Samaritaine was one of the biggest, oldest, most famous department store in Paris, and one where Parisians actually went shopping to (unlike Galeries Lafayette). It was closed a few years ago by an unscrupulous owner (LVMH who else?) who used […]
The Pont des Arts (Arts Bridge) used to be my favorite bridge in Paris. It has everything you want for a “favorite bridge.” First it is pedestrian, and it also happens to have one of the best view you can imagine from a bridge in Paris. If you look […]
I don’t have much to tell you about the Ordino Pass (Coll d’Ordino in Catalan). It’s just one of the many passes in Andorra, one that has remained quite unspoiled. This is one of the good things about Andorra, despite its booming development, nature that has barely been touched by […]
As we have two weeks left in France before the big move, we decided not to entirely spend them packing, and to have a mini “goodbye tour” of the region. As we hadn’t been to Carcassonne in about three years, we thought it would be good to go now. […]
We continue with our visit of Andorra with today the village of Pal, possibly the most charming village in the country. While the rapid growth of the Andorran population has seen among other consequences a quite chaotic and not very aesthetic surge of new constructions everywhere, the village was […]