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Monet's Garden, Giverny |
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Standing in Monet’s Garden is like being in a Monet Print:
Claude Monet, as many would know, is known to be the founder of Impressionism, a term which was coined from the title of his painting Impression Sunrise, “Soleil Levant”. A visit to Monet’s home and garden will take you into the the picturesque world of [...]
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Escargots de Bourgogne, with garlic and butter |
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Food in Central France: a brief gastronomical tour!
Burgundy and the Rhone Valley, the Jura and the Massif Centrale.
Dijon; Nuit st Georges; Beaune; Cluny; Chablis; Santenay; Auxerre; Fontenay; Vezelay; Nevers; Autun; Macon; Arbois; Besancon; Ornans; Ronchamp; Limoges; Aubusson; Moulins; Vichy; Clermont-Ferrand; Le Puy-en-Velay; Conques; Lyon; Bourg-en-Bresse; Perouges; Montelimar; Grenoble; Chambery; Aix-les-Bains; Annecy; Evian-les-Bains; Lac Leman.
Food in [...]
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Armagnac, France's finest brandy |
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Armagnac is more than a brandy:
Formerly a province of France, the county of Armagnac was the most powerful of the fiefs of Gascony. It was a historic comté of the Duchy of Gascony, was once an important countship and attained its height of prominence in the 15th century.
Armagnac is a region of hills ranging to [...]
Annecy's Palais de l’Isle is a little prison |
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Annecy a Little Venice:
Annecy, in the Haute Savoie, is a beautiful and popular resort town on the northern end of the Lac d’Annecy. Take a stroll around the old town and you’ll quickly see why this town has earned itself the tag of Little Venice.
A network of canals criss-crossing the town and bridges decorated with [...]
Chateau Chambourd in the Loire |
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Tour Routes in France
Virtually all multi-country Europe tours pass through or originate in Paris, but few see much more of France. It is possible to do a pretty extensive tour of France but even so some fairly important areas will be missing or only covered briefly. Regional tours are popular and give you more of [...]
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Paris: Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysees |
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Travel to France for a Europe Tour with Joie de Vivre!
There’s a lot more to France than Paris and Provence. Travel to France involves a journey into the whole French way of looking at the world, and life. Not for nothing do we use the french words “savoir-faire” and “joie de vivre”!
France lies at the [...]
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