Prieure de 'Epinay
Travel Blogs from St.-Georges-sur-Loire
On to the Loire
... later down came a whirlwind of marble sized hail, covering the streets of Angers in what looked like day old snow. I took refuge in a doorway long with and older lady, both of us afraid of slipping if we tried to run for it. It was not much of a refuge as the swirling winds pushed the hail into every nook and cranny. When the worst had passed I took the opportunity, skirting along the buildings to make it back to the car. From my knees down and particularly my shoes were soaked so ...
De l'après-midi jusqu'à la nuit tombante...
... And also you might be able to tell from my post yest, that Le Mans was just starting to feel like a smelly trap (just another day in Le Mans la de la...etc etc). Ooh yes, I wil have to post some pics of when I went away last weekend, cos I passed through Lille, and we went to Paris, and also I stayed in Amiens. So lots of nice areas were visited! Lille is stunning:) But then so are most places in certain places!! ...
Le mariage de Hélène & Cédric
... France pour rencontrer Vincent, leur colocataire de l’époque à
Montréal !!! Faut de toute façon que je vienne en France si je veux
assister à des mariages… ou en Serbie, ou ailleurs, parce qu'au Québec, ya définitivement une pénurie lol.
(bah je serai pas la prochaine non plus, alors j’ai rien à dire lol)
Bref, ce mariage était tout à l’image de mes
deux amis voyageurs qui, dans les ...
Arrived in Angers
Had an early start and the euro tunnel journey was really straight forward. It only took 30 mins to get to Calais, much better than taking the ferry. It was so windy today I would have been throwing up all over the show. Enroute to Angers was wet and windy but we managed to avoid the worst of it. It was a long drive today, about six hours. We had a ...
Song of the World: back from Japan
Some years ago, whilst on a motorbike trip through France, we specifically went to Angers in order to see the tapestries of Jean Lurcat. Unfortunately at that moment in time they were on loan to Japan and it's taken us another thirteen years to get back there.
In 1937 Lurcat had seen ...