France travel stories
Versailles - there really aren't words to describe it. Amazing, magnificent, dazzling, over-the-top, breathtaking just don't do it. I had to see it for myself. And it is everything I ever imagined. I made a day trip from Paris to Versailles, twelve miles away and...
Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Champs-Elysee, and the Arc de Triomphe. These are just a few of the major sights that tourists flock to on a trip to Paris. This is understandable of course, everyone wants to see these major sights that Paris has to offer. I myself spent my...
Friends often call me a NASA-TV nerd. I watch transfixed by late night filler video of an earth rotating below the orbiting International Space Station, and in the same way I' m fascinated at how Google Earth maps depict the earth from space. I've found it to be my...
The St. Regis Atlanta Celebrates Paris on Peachtree: Astor in Tuileries Garden Stay As Peachtree prepares to welcome Paris at the High Museum with The Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden exhibition, The St. Regis Atlanta has conceived an overnight package to...
Chateau Eza on the French Riviera Nestled at the top of a steep hill overlooking sweeping vistas of the Cote d'Azur, is the beautiful five star hotel and restaurant Chateau Eza, in stunning and historic Eze Village. Behind the narrow winding alleyways teeming with...
Walking Tall at Obernai Fetes When I arrived in Strasbourg to work as an English teaching assistant it was late September it was unseasonably warm and sunny. As autumn finally (and somewhat surprisingly) descended upon Strasbourg the leaves turned brown and amber and...
         Gourmet Paris in the Springtime Exciting New Course Offerings PARIS, FRANCE (March 18, 2013) - As springtime approaches, recreational cooking school, Promenades Gourmandes and its founder Paule Caillat, have...
A Winter Week in Paris Costs Only $1,139 There are several good reasons to visit Paris in winter: You won't wait in line at the Louvre or Musée d'Orsay, you won't suffer un-air-conditioned buses and restaurants, and prices are a lot lower. To take...
Editor's Note: This is one installment of a seven-week series from an ITKT featured writer. For the first time I hold my own in a little shop, buying souvenirs. The man behind the counter is patient, and I sort of understand him as he sort of understands me. I...
Editor's Note: This is one installment of a seven-week series from an ITKT featured writer. After breakfast I hike into the hills behind town. I pass wildflowers and the occasional burro. The roads are steep and curvy but I get to see another part of this...
Editor's Note: This is one installment of a seven-week series from an ITKT featured writer. I have an awful confession. I'm ready to kill the ducks. Every night there's some canard catastrophe outside my window where they all quack incessantly like car...
Editor's Note: This is one installment of a seven-week series from an ITKT featured writer. This morning my I-phone alarm sounds off at a strange time and I reach over to investigate. But the alarm tone I chose a year ago, church bells, is not coming from this...
