A Gallery of Photos: France

With Bastille Day tomorrow--a day I always acknowledge, when France celebrates its National Day--I turn a little nostalgic for the time my family and I spent there.  We had a favorite hotel in Paris just up from the Rodin Museum--a family-run spot not far from a little café where we could get a croque monsieur and beer.  Or we toodled around the south of France enjoying the sound of the cicadas, the air's herby smell, the warm peaches and cherries, and those wonderful soft cheeses we'd spread picnic-style onto chunks of fresh bread.  Ahhhh!!

Here are some photos from various trips.

Paris:

Eiffel Tower detail

View from our hotel window

And this--ours was a narrow street--with a peek at the Eiffel Tower

A Tunisian pastry shop

Notre Dame

The south of France:

Arles

Arles

Arles

Nimes

Orange

Sommières

Aigues-Mortes candy shop

Cloisters at St-Remy

St-Remy olive trees

Nice

Nice

Nice

Near St-Tropez

Note:  For a charming blog by an American expat who takes consistently superior photos of Paris and Normandy, go to this link (chezlouloufrance.blogspot.com)