Castles in Paris

Come join me for an odyssey that begins in Osaka where samurai castles stand next to glass skyscrapers. Then onward to Beijing, the dynastic capital of an ancient land. Next we'll travel by train across the rolling steppes of Mongolia and arrive in St. ...

"Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies,dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes. That's the Irish for you!"...Let's see how I do after my welcome!

... walls. The best part of the whole place was the gardens. I had no idea they were so incredibly massive containing mini-castles, summer homes, lakes, entertaining rooms, and much more. I was impressed that the gates are left open to the public allowing ...

... little more than let the slow-moving current pull us downstream. We floated by a few of the medieval towns, with their castles built high up in the hills overlooking their subjects, and stopped in one called La Roque Gregeac. According to some literature ...

... us youngin's saw the Karlsruhe Schloss im Flammen, or castle in flames, the night prior to our trip to Paris.  I don’t know what it is about burning castles down to the ground, but as long as there are fireworks, I hope it never stops. Friday, ...

... breakfast, woot!) and finally down through France.  Pierrefonds is about an hour or hour and a half drive northeast of Paris.  Looming above Pierrefonds in all its majesty is the stunning Château de Pierrefonds (Castle of Pierrefonds).  ...

... and a small baguette. One chateau was beautifully furnished, another that had been sacked during the French Revolution. Two other castles she saw included Cheverny and Chenonceau, a renaissance castle. The Loire valley was the favorite place of the ...

... it was the last push! We spent the first portion of our ride along the river with some lovely quiet roads and views of castles. We stopped at a very pretty town of La Roche Gageac for a cafe au lait and glanced up at the troglodyte caves that could be ...

... bit slow because Melanie successfully got a cold, so we just hoped on and off the buses and absorbed yet another handful of castles and impressive structures. Again the city here becomes absolutely full of life at night, and the streets fill with what we ...

... De Versailles is on a massive piece of land - bigger than anything we saw in the UK - and we saw most of the palaces, churches and castles the UK had to offer. This place is just so big - it would take several days to really get about this place and do it ...

... Josaine explained that during the period when Burgundy and Champagne were at war, the village was in fact one of the largest castles in France. One of the kings eventually ordered the castle be raised to the ground, and the foundations were used for ...

... we headed to the Paris Plages, which is a beach that is put by the Seine one month every summer. So Hannah and I made some sand castles and pictures in the sand. I made a Notre Dame and Hannah built an Arc de Triomphe. When we were all fully recharged, we ...

... The gardens were vast and extremely well kept, definitely fit for a king!  We made our way to the summer/recreational mini castles of king Louis the 16 and queen marie Antoinette. We explored Marie antoinettes first and it was really cute and beautiful. ...

... back home, with fountains, ponds and ornamental hedges. It's no wonder the French Revolution occurred amidst such opulence. Mich loves her castles and palaces, and spent about 2 hours longer than I did in the palace and grounds. I had to leave for the ...

... tolerance for a museum, which works out nicely. Wanna see if you're compatible with someone? Go to Europe and go to a lot of museums/castles, and see if one of you hates the way the other one does things. Haha but we had no such problems. We saw the ...

... Paris is only 9km wide, go figure..) Friendly people met: 2 Unfriendly people: 2 181 369 Hours of sleep:  not enough Castles: 1 Vespa ride: 0 (I'm coming back for that one, no worries) Number of times people didn't understand me (or pretended not to, ...

... of the famous park across the road from where we were staying, Luxembourg Jardin, where we strolled through, admiring statues, gardens and castles before meeting two of the Lewins (Anna was too sleepy) and headed to the metro to check out Notre Dame ...

... . After finishing this I ran upstairs since I had 45 minutes left. They had a bunch of diaromas of all the French forts and Castles of the time aroud Louis and Napoleon.  Mostly Trace Itallian style (star forts). After this I ran down stairs and saw ...

... So, we visited, the Arc du Triomphe, Les Champs Elysées, the Town hall, La Notre Dame, La Defense, the Louvre (once more already closed when we arrived), La Senne, the Sacré couer, the Tour Eiffel ... We stayed until the 5th. The castles were ...

... able to make our way around the city and take an amazing tour of Galway Bay and the coast.  We saw several castles and the beautiful countryside with farms everywhere!  It's springtime so almost every farm had baby animals... each piece of land ...