A trip to France
From July 13-22, Dan and I visited France, thanks to the generosity of his parents. It was a lot of fun. We saw so much and I have fallen in love with pain au chocolat!
We spent the first several days in St. Marcellin, a small town in the Alps near
Grenoble.
We could look out over the town and the mountains from the deck of the house in which we stayed. While there we explored, and saw the hanging houses in Pont-En-Royans.
From there we went to the Grottos de Choranche, which is full of "soda
straw" stalactites made by water dripping slowly through tubes of of crystalline limestone to create amazing chandeliers of stalactites up to almost 10 feet long.
The same day, we went to where monks make Chartreuse, a green liquor made of 150 different herbs. Only 2 monks know the secret recipe, and they monitor the oak vats of liquor from their monastary via computer. :) How modern!
The next day we took an amazing drive switchback-style up one gorge and down another,
visiting a monument to the WWII French Resistance Fighters before visiting a Rhone winery and nearby a chocolate manufacturer (YUM!).
Then we took a fast train to Paris, where we visited
Sainte Chapelle (the stained glass) and Notre Dame (across the Seine in the picture),
the Louvre, the Musee de Orsay, Montmartre and the Basilica of Sacre Coeur, the Eiffel Tower, and my VERY favorite, the Rodin Museum.
We spent the first several days in St. Marcellin, a small town in the Alps near
Grenoble.We could look out over the town and the mountains from the deck of the house in which we stayed. While there we explored, and saw the hanging houses in Pont-En-Royans.
From there we went to the Grottos de Choranche, which is full of "soda
straw" stalactites made by water dripping slowly through tubes of of crystalline limestone to create amazing chandeliers of stalactites up to almost 10 feet long.The same day, we went to where monks make Chartreuse, a green liquor made of 150 different herbs. Only 2 monks know the secret recipe, and they monitor the oak vats of liquor from their monastary via computer. :) How modern!
The next day we took an amazing drive switchback-style up one gorge and down another,
visiting a monument to the WWII French Resistance Fighters before visiting a Rhone winery and nearby a chocolate manufacturer (YUM!).
Then we took a fast train to Paris, where we visited
Sainte Chapelle (the stained glass) and Notre Dame (across the Seine in the picture),
the Louvre, the Musee de Orsay, Montmartre and the Basilica of Sacre Coeur, the Eiffel Tower, and my VERY favorite, the Rodin Museum.
posted by Amanda at 9:18 PM
3 Comments:
How neat!! Mom
That looks amazing! I'm terribly jealous.
It was really fun...we got to see so much amazing stuff in such a short time. I took over 200 pictures - I had a tough time choosing which ones to put here!
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