Photo of the Week: La Savane des Esclaves, Martinique
Slave Village of Martinique (La Savane des Esclaves, Martinique) Growing out of Gilbert...
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Category: France
Photo of the Week: Paris by Night
As cliche as it may sound, there really is something indefinably special about walking through the...
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Photo of the Week: High in the French Pyrenees at Can Rigall
As a non-European, the Pyrenees are definitely off-the-beaten track Europe. Even after years of...
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Photo of the Week: La Rochelle France
Photo of the Week: La Rochelle France La Rochelle, on the western coast of France, is a lively...
Read MorePhoto of the Week: Vineyards of St. Émilion
On a Sunday afternoon my brother and his coworkers and I took a trip 35 km out of Bordeaux to the vineyards surrounding Saint- Émilion. The village, now a World Heritage site, was overrun with day-trippers (like us), souvenir...
Read MoreLearning French in France
I was never really interested in France or French, preferring to study a less bourgeois language like Spanish in school. Not that my language prejudice mattered, because like most Americans I never mastered a second language at all. Sure, I later got by hitchhiking in Cuba with my rudimentary Spanish, but I didn’t speak the language. And then I married a guy from France…
Read MoreThe Parisian's Paris
European correspondent Gilbert Carlson takes us through his hometown–Paris–so you can dodge the tourists, save money, and experience the City of Light as Parisians do.
Read MoreBordeaux, France
By Stephen Bugno Blog of a Modern Nomad The next day I rode the slow, winding topo train to the French border town, Hendaye, where I caught a short ride out to the on-ramp of the divided highway. After about 25 minutes standing...
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