Travel – France

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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Saturday Snapshots #147

June 18, 2011

Eiffel Tower detail – Paris, July 2006   It has been called "the tragic lamppost" and a "grande suppositaire".  It was designed and built in 15 months and stnds twice as tall as the Washington Memorial and the Great Pyramid of Cheops.  It featured in a Duran Duran music video and a James Bond movie. [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #144

May 28, 2011

Paris reflections – July 2006 Looking through my photos, I was astonished to discover that I have not been to my beloved Paris since 2006, when I took this picture of the Louvre reflected in its iconic glass pyramid.  Luckily this careless scheduling oversight will be rectified when we visit next month;)   This is [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #127

January 29, 2011

  Show me the way – Chamonix, January 2011   This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister – all previously featured  photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots compendium page.  Photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store and [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #93

June 5, 2010

   Lille sunset, August 2006 Lille is the fourth largest metropolitan area in France, after Paris, Lyon and Marseilles.  It is also the hometown of General Charles de Gaulle and one of the three cities that can be reached directly from London by undersea rail link on the Eurostar train.  This makes it the ideal place for a [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #76

February 6, 2010

Into the great white open – Chamonix 2008 Another Alpine photo, seeing as I am full of the joys of skiing right now At the summit of the Aiguille du Midi above Chamonix in the French Alps, there is a door that leads out onto the ridge down which climbers and skiers must walk to [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #75

January 30, 2010

 Aiguille du Midi climbers – Chamonix 2008  The Aguille du Midi is an impressive 3,842m peak in the Mont Blanc Massif in the French Alps above Chamonix.  Its name literally translated means "needle of midday" and it is so named because the sun sits directly over the peak at noon, when viewed from Chamonix. According [...]

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