Travel – France

Saturday Snapshots #186

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Me and my shadow – Chatel, France

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Chalet Cateriane – a luxury ski week in Chatel

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  Skiing is something that Nick and I only got round to relatively late in life.  Unsurprising, really, considering that we grew up in a country where snow is unusual enough to make the evening news, and that had a sum total on one ski resort with one button lift!  Nick took to it like [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #184

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  Onwards and upwards – Chatel, France February 2012

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Saturday Snapshots #160

September 17, 2011

Paris reflections – August 2011   Still my favourite city in all the world.   Saturday Snapshots is a series of non-food photographs published every Saturday on CookSister.  Previously featured photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots archive page. Photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store, or even as high-quality A3-size [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #156

August 20, 2011

Paris lavender – June 2011   There are few things I like more than seeing massed plantings of lavender, and I found this impressive spread outside the Orangerie Museum in the Tuilleries Gardens in Paris earlier this summr.  I wonder if it will still be flowering as luxuriantly when I visit Paris again this weekend? [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #150

July 9, 2011

Pont Neuf gargoyle – Paris, June 2011   The Pont Neuf across the River Seine in Paris was officially opened in 1607 and, despite its name ("new bridge"), it is the oldest bridge in the city.  Walking under it along the river, you get a great view of the dozens of gargoyles adorning the entire [...]

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Coq au vin – so French, so easy

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  God bless the French. We have so much to thank them for, if you think about it. Over the years they have given us: 29% of our English language (accordingto Wikipedia!) – think words such as abbatoir, cabaret, camouflage, garage, lounge, macabre, faux, panache, raconteur, silhouette, voyeur, as well as many more less obvious examples. [...]

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