CNN has compiled a list of 14 “best” aviation museums around the world, including in the U.S., China, Russia, France, Ukraine, Poland…You could almost build a round-the-world trip to explore them all.
Claude Monet, most famous of the French Impressionist painters, was also one of France’s most committed gardeners. He spent half his 86 years developing his extensive gardens at Giverny, and they are the subject of hundreds of his paintings.
More French people live in London than in Bordeaux, Nantes or Strasbourg and some now regard it as France’s sixth biggest city in terms of population.
After the French Revolution, came the cemetery revolution. Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery was in the vanguard of this 19th century movement, when small churchyards in expanding cities could no longer hold all the dead.
As several Gumbo Guessers quickly realized, Gumbo was visiting the Lower Depths, the sine qua non of modern society, the sewer system. This particular sewer is in Paris, and it runs through the Museum des Egouts—yes, the Sewer Museum.
A scene of every day life in an historic city. After having spent the morning exploring the great medieval cathedral in Chartres, we finished a fine lunch before heading into the medieval city down by the River.
A splash of bravura color against a dark winter night provides a cheery break in a long walk home up the hilly Rue de Caulaincourt in Montmartre, Paris.
For Where in the World is Gumbo #11, Gumbo traveled to the Roman arena of Arles, in southern France.
The Paris Ritz is reopening after being closed for more than a year.
When the Eiffel Tower was built, as the centerpiece of Paris’ 1889 Universal Exposition, not everyone loved it. The writer Guy de Maupassant mocked it as a “high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders.”
CNN has compiled a list of 14 “best” aviation museums around the world, including in the U.S., China, Russia, France, Ukraine, Poland…You could almost build a round-the-world trip to explore them all.
Claude Monet, most famous of the French Impressionist painters, was also one of France’s most committed gardeners. He spent half his 86 years developing his extensive gardens at Giverny, and they are the subject of hundreds of his paintings.
More French people live in London than in Bordeaux, Nantes or Strasbourg and some now regard it as France’s sixth biggest city in terms of population.
After the French Revolution, came the cemetery revolution. Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery was in the vanguard of this 19th century movement, when small churchyards in expanding cities could no longer hold all the dead.
As several Gumbo Guessers quickly realized, Gumbo was visiting the Lower Depths, the sine qua non of modern society, the sewer system. This particular sewer is in Paris, and it runs through the Museum des Egouts—yes, the Sewer Museum.
A scene of every day life in an historic city. After having spent the morning exploring the great medieval cathedral in Chartres, we finished a fine lunch before heading into the medieval city down by the River.
A splash of bravura color against a dark winter night provides a cheery break in a long walk home up the hilly Rue de Caulaincourt in Montmartre, Paris.
For Where in the World is Gumbo #11, Gumbo traveled to the Roman arena of Arles, in southern France.
The Paris Ritz is reopening after being closed for more than a year.
When the Eiffel Tower was built, as the centerpiece of Paris’ 1889 Universal Exposition, not everyone loved it. The writer Guy de Maupassant mocked it as a “high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders.”
