Nimes, France is filled with interesting places to go, pretty, vibrant, friendly and compact. On top of that we are in an ideal location. We are in a maze of streets interspersed with homes and businesses, but not a lot of auto traffic. Many of the streets surrounding us are pedestrian only because …
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Southern France – Nimes: Warmth, Air BnB escapades, travel
Yesterday we left Lille by rail. We had an 11am checkout and a 5pm train. We had found we can use Uber in France and not having to rely on taxis made things easier and cheaper. We Ubered our big old packs to the rail station and easily found a baggage storage locker. That gave us almost five hours …
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Weird And Wonderful Bruges: A fine day in France and Belgium.
We walked to a train station yesterday morning in order to follow up on Alex' advice to go to Bruges. I struggled to get our bus tickets loaded on to my phone before the bus left, even though I gave myself 30 minutes. More evidence of my tech deficiency. The ride was green and pretty, like all of …
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Vielle Lille: Why don’t I have a sense of direction?
I spent hours this morning trying to orient myself to the streets in Lille. Can't say I did a great job. Part of the difficulty is using French maps. The other part might be between my ears. Eventually we felt prepared to attempt the 2km walk from our apartment to Vielle (old) Lille. A supposed 40 …
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Scotland to France in 101/2 Hours; We do like the trains!
We left Kingussie at 8:47 am two days ago on a Thursday. Train travel is so not stressful once you are on the train. Of course, you can stress before you get on if you forget what super safe place you put your tickets, but I wouldn't do that. We sat back and watched the countryside go by and dozed a …
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