Musée de National du Moyen Âge
admin2022-08-12T19:11:19-07:00FRANCE Paris - The traffic noise at the corner of busy Saint-Germain and Saint-Michel boulevards turned muffled murmur this September day as I entered [...]
Paris – Promenade Plantée
admin2022-01-19T13:17:03-08:00FRANCE Paris - It’s a charming scene to visualize, Parisians boarding the Vincennes railway to spend the day , picnic basket in hand, [...]
Leonardo da Vinci’s last home – Chateau de Clos Lucé
admin2020-12-07T09:37:57-08:00FRANCE- Amboise. How many historic, over-the-top, Loire architectural monuments to money and power can one ooh and aah over before chateau fatigue settles in? I [...]
Tiny Chédigny a France garden star
admin2020-05-26T07:45:42-07:00The Loire Valley village of Chedigny, in its entirety, is a designated Jardin Remarkable. FRANCE Chedigny - Perhaps I wasn’t on the right [...]
Garden festival – Domaine de Chaumont-Sur-Loire
admin2020-03-30T12:33:16-07:00Chateau de Chaumont-sur-Loire overlooks the Loire and the village of Chaumont-sur-Loire in central France. (All Photos: Yvonne Michie Horn) FRANCE Chaumont-sur-Loire - During [...]
Loire – Jardin du Plessis
admin2020-03-30T12:58:31-07:00In the Loire Valley, the Jardin du Plessis is not quite a French garden, but not quite an English garden either. FRANCE Loire [...]
Paris’ hidden garden – La Vallée Suisse
admin2020-03-25T11:33:49-07:00FRANCE Paris - The expanse of sculpted white marble titled “The Poet’s Dream” struck me as pretty awful. Located near the Palais de la Découverte, [...]
Les Jardins du Musée de Montmartre
admin2020-04-02T15:53:15-07:00Visitors enter the Montmartre Museum via a rose-draped arbor. FRANCE Paris - The basilica Sacré-Coeur, the eye-popping, white wedding cake atop the city’s [...]