Category: FRANCE

Saturday May 25, 2019 We catch up on some sleep this morning and then enjoy our pastries and coffee. We are not used to leisurely mornings on our travel days so this is unusual and pretty pleasant. Sandrine had insisted on driving us to the train station and shows up on time at 1115. We […]

Friday May 24, 2019 Today we sleep in a bit and then head out around 1000. We start by walking to the Maison Carree a temple built between 2 and 5 AD by the Emporor Augustus for the colony of Nemausus (now Nimes). It was built on a platform dominating the public square and its […]

Thursday May 23, 2019 Our bus choice of times was limited today so we are up early to catch the 0730 bus to Pont du Gard. I ask the driver in French if he can tell us when to get off. It is about a 50 minute bus ride and the morning route includes picking up […]

Wednesday May 22, 2019 After our morning pastry and coffee, we check out and make our way to the Carcassonne train station. We have a two hour ride to Nimes which takes us through some nice French countryside. When we arrive in Nimes our apartment owner picks us up at the train station. She had […]

Tuesday May 21, 2019 We sleep in a bit this morning and Carol is happy when she returns to the room with a coffee that they let her make in the breakfast room. The breakfasts at the hotels in France are generally extra at about 10 Euro per person and do not look great. Besides […]

Monday May 20, 2019 Since our hotel was across the street from the train station, we have a fairly early departure of 0853. The train ride is less than an hour and we are in Carcassonne at 0935. Carcassonne is divided into the lower town or Ville Basse, where we get off and the upper […]

Sunday May 19, 2019 This morning we start our day with a walk towards the church of St Albin where I read that they have a Sunday Market. It is not raining but there is rain in the forecast so we wear our rain jackets. When we get there, it is March larger than we […]

Saturday May 18, 2019 Today, we board a train from Albi to Toulouse. It is a little less than an hour ride and we are in Toulouse and at the Hotel by 1100. The hotel is near the train station which will make for an easy departure in two days. Our room is not ready […]

Friday May 17, 2019 Today’s main event is a visit to the Toulouse Lautrec Museum. He is another artist that we have heard of but do not know a lot about. Before we can go, I have to attend to the very important task of making sure my wife has a morning pastry and coffee. […]

Thursday May 16, 2019 This morning we leave Narbonne and head to Albi. It is a three hour and forty minute ride due to a hour and twenty minute layover in Toulouse. I noticed on line that our train arrives Toulouse at 1112 and there is a train to Albi that leaves at 1116. This […]