France travel stories

Paris!

My first visit to Paris was brief: just a couple of days between London and a month long assignment in Brussels. My first impression was of a city designed to dwarf humanity, with avenues too wide ...

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Europe, 1970

It was a warm, sunny day and, as noon approached, the cars thinned out. It seemed everybody was taking the traditional long French lunch. I had been standing beside the road with my thumb out for q...

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Le Ville Lumiere

Everyone knows Paris is a city of romance. If you want to go to Paris you should go in spring, with a beautiful man or women who is madly in love with you. You can walk arm in arm through the stree...

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Nice and the Côte d'Azur

In the spirit of impulse weekends, my flatmate and I decided to flee London and head for some sunshine. Evaluating all the options we eliminated a few of the more obvious ones like Tenerife, the Co...

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Chamonix and Geneva

Well I've had an interesting time in France. I've had adventures featuring Veronica the Chilean mountaineer, Pierre the French train robber, Avalanches, Fires, Danny and Franky (the terror ...

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