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| Notre Dame |
La France---nous t'aimons. T's first trip My first in many years. Oh the style, the comfort. Again, it is especially so perhaps in contrast to Baku. Many people on this trip asked us what it is like in Az. In comparison (to France, or even Lebanon) Az seems so much more limited: in style, in food, in rights....
[Now really expecting those men in suits!]
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| T and You-Know-What |
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| K outside the Louvre |
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| Nighttime on the Seine |
Why does France feel comfortable? It is mellow yet vibrant, well organized, interesting and, off season yet, not too busy. There is both order and beauty--what a concept! Lebanon was fun (and had one or two of those qualities, though not consistently...) but we dashed all over the place nonstop. Here we have only four and a half days but it feels more relaxed.
Two days in Paris (and one without our bags, which didn't make the transfer in Istanbul) but we managed to see Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, l'Arc de Triomphe, and Galleries Lafayette (a department store!!) and to picnic in Bois de Bologne and walk along the Seine at night. And to eat in lovely bistros, T enjoying entrecôte and frites every single day. Moi? Salade Nicoise, mmmmm, and poire roquefort for DINNER one night--such variety,
so interresante!
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| T at the chateau in Blois |
We rented a car for our two + days in the Loire Valley (had been aiming for Provence but time was too short to go all that way) and visited several chateaux: Chenonceau (built over a river!), the royal palace at Blois, Château du Clos Lucé (where Leonardo da Vinci lived the last years of his life), and Chambord (just the outside, but wow!)
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| K at Amboise |
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| Leonardo's tank design |
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| every château needs one of these |
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