In depth recounting of my global wandering
Up to this point, we’d done nothing that differentiated this tour from any other. That changed after lunch when we shared the first of many group activities that would signify and define this trip and was a principal factor that …
Last stop before lunch – Notre Dame or more precisely Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. So, why my insistence on precision? While it’s true that if I simply wrote Notre-Dame, the image that would come to the minds of most people …
Seeing the Cité. From the Hôtel de Ville it was time to cross one of the 37 Paris bridges that span the Seine. In this instance the Pont d’Arcole. (Here’s a list of some of the French words and their …
As with most organized tours, our first full day of activities began with a bus ride and a walking tour intended to provide some basic information about and a general orientation to the city. Though it rose from very small …
I enjoy the adventure of travel and, sometimes, I expect the journey itself to become part of that adventure such as a train ride across Asia or a drive down the Mississippi River. For other trips I expect the transportation …