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World War II in France

June 30, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 8 Comments

Picking up from our last episode about the French family in World War II, it’s 1940 and the bombers have attacked. The Germans have sent their tanks and troops through the Ardennes forest bypassing the Maginot Line. The French government, not having another plan to defend France, appointed Marshall Petain to take charge of the […]

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Our French lesson this week is about World War II

June 1, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 3 Comments

In our French lesson this week we are reading a short but true story. The purpose is for us to learn French, but the story is about recounting in a child’s eyes the outbreak of World War II in France. How it started when they returned from a family vacation. How she noticed that her […]

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A Visit to the Louvre

May 27, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 20 Comments

Lately it’s been rainy and cold here, so we had this great idea – let’s go to the Louvre. We signed up for a guided tour offered by Paris Walks and saw a lot in two and a half hours, plus we hung around for another couple hours after the tour to expand our horizons. […]

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The Canal du Midi!

May 18, 2013 by Brenda Prowse 7 Comments

Approaching lock on Canal du Midi trip

Last week we had the pleasure of joining friends from Poulsbo, Karl and Kelly Hadley, Jim and Sharon Moore and the former Rotary exchange student Flora Midiou and her boyfriend Julien Plubel on a wonderful barge trip on the Canal du Midi in Southern France. Now I better understand the song from Camelot, “It’s May, […]

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May Day – Labor Day in France

May 1, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 1 Comment

May Day - Labor Day in France

This morning we are on our way to our usual mid week visit to the gym when – they are closed! Why would that be? They’re selling some kind of flowers on every street corner – what are they and why? After I went for a compensatory run along the Seine, I came home to […]

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April in Paris-Jardin du Luxembourg

April 30, 2013 by Brenda Prowse 11 Comments

Finally the trees have green leaves, tulips and flowering shrubs are blooming, and it is much more fun to visit the Jardin du Luxembourg (Luxembourg Gardens) only about half a mile from our apartment. These are the gardens featured in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables! The 60 acre park attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each […]

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Filed Under: History, Sight Seeing Tagged With: jardin du luxembourg, Luxembourg Garden, Luxembourg Palace, Palais du Luxembourg

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