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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Buying French & German rail tickets – Packing cubes – Love locks in Paris
This week’s blogger round-up contains a very helpful website review by Maggie Lacoste from Experience France by Bike for hassle-free purchase of French & German train tickets at the best prices, followed by tips on using packing cubes (I had never heard of … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, France, Paris, Travelling
Tagged capitaine phone app, love lock bridge in paris, packing cubes
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Mussels & Bread
This week’s blogger round-up is all about food. Paula McInerney from Contented Traveller reports on eating mussels in Brussels, which it’s a very popular food in France as well. We buy them on the Sunday market. And it’s the Fête du … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Food, France, Paris, Weekly Blogger Round-Up
Tagged bread festival, Brussels, fête du pain, mussels, weekly blogger round-up
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: the San Pellegrino headquarters – Le Crotoy flea market – Gourd festival in Nice –
In this week’s Blogger Round-Up, Mary Kay from Out and About in Paris takes us to Bergamo in Italy where she was given a special guided tour of the San Pellegrino art nouveau building, while Janine Marsh from The Good … Continue reading
Posted in France, French customs, Italy, Sightseeing, Weekly Blogger Round-Up
Tagged Bergamo, gourds in Nice, Le Crotoy, Nice, San Pellegrino
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Navigating Europe’s main airports – Riviera medieval festival – Packing Tips –
This week’s Blogger Round-Up is all-Australian, starting with Carolyn from Holidays to Europe with practical suggestions as usual, this time on how to get to and from Europe’s major airports. Phoebe from Lou Messugo gives a detailed description of a … Continue reading
Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Carnival time in Nice – The Bay of Angels in Nice – Van Loos’ The Three Graces
This week’s Blogger Round-Up starts in the city of Nice on the French Riviera with Phoebe from Lou Messugo who shares her stunning photos of Nice Carnival. And to give you another view of Nice, Margo Lestz, writing for The … Continue reading
Posted in Art, France, French customs, Loire Valley châteaux, Weekly Blogger Round-Up
Tagged Bay of Angels, Nice carnival, The Three Graces
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Colmar in Alsace – Zadar in Croatia – Saint Valentine’s Day in Paris
In this week’s Blogger Round-Up, Carolyn from Holidays to Europe takes us to Colmar, which is one of my favourites places in Alsace, with its picturesque canals while Chasing the Donkey gives us an insider’s tour of Zadar in Croatia … Continue reading
Posted in Croatia, France, French customs, Uncategorized, Weekly Blogger Round-Up
Tagged Colmar, Saint Valentine in France, weekly blogger round-up, Zadar
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President Hollande’s Marianne
If you read my post last week on green stamps, you may have noticed the drawing on the stamps. When I saw it, I was somewhat intrigued because the previous Marianne stamp was a little different. So I checked it … Continue reading
Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Renovating a château – Visiting Southern Italy – No pants in the Paris metro
Welcome to this week’s Blogger Round-Up. Three posts caught my eye immediately this week. The first, by Janine Marsh from The Good Life France, tells the story of an Australian couple who have bought a château in the south of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, France, French customs, Italy, Paris, Renovation, Uncategorized
Tagged no-pants metro, renovating a château in France, southern italy
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Weekly Bloggers’ Round-Up: How to make a Christmas log – Favourite places in the Marais – Limone in Piemonte
A little bit of Christmas to start this week’s Blogger Round-Up with a recipe for French Christmas Log from French Moments, followed by Paris Weekender‘s favourite haunts in the Marais. To finish off, fellow Aussie Chrissie from Riviera Grapevine takes us … Continue reading
Posted in Food, France, Italy, Paris, Weekly Blogger Round-Up
Tagged blogger round-up, christmas log, limone, marais
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The 2013 Independant Wine Growers’ Fair in Paris
It’s Friday and we’re making our yearly trip to the Independant Wine Growers’ Fair in Paris at Porte de Versailles. We are surprised to find plenty of empty parking spaces in the back street we usually use to avoid the … Continue reading
