It’s hard not to love a city with big outdoor art, like this butterfly made of flowers along a pedestrian street in Murcia, Spain. There was also a traveling street art show display nearby with images and historical descriptions of famous Renaissance paintings that are currently housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. We
Turin (or “Torino” if you’re Italian) was our favorite city on this trip. I guess we saved the best for last! It’s a large city, about one million people, but it felt approachable and welcoming to us the moment we arrived. One of the treats we enjoyed was this coffee specialty of Turin: the Bicerin
We have loved the gorgeous cathedrals we’ve seen across France, from the simple to the ornate, but France doesn’t have the market cornered on them. We’ve looked at so many stunning cathedrals across Italy during this trip. The one above is in Verona, where we spent several days. See also the one below: Verona has
As I mentioned in my last post, we’re vacationing in Italy and it’s been a great time so far. We’ve spent the last three days in Bergamo, a smallish city an hour northeast of Milan. It’s set on three levels, across seven hills: Citta Bassa (Lower Town), Citta Alta (Upper Town), and the top level:
Winter weather has been pretty extreme just about everywhere this year. Western Europe has had tons of rain and as such, a lot of flooding. Angers has experienced flooding conditions that apparently rival the floods of 1995. In the picture above, the water you see is covering a street which has been impassable for 2-3
We took a field trip out the the countryside, just 20 minutes from home, to the little village of Grez-Neuville. Really, it’s a village made up of two smaller villages: Grez and Neuville, which are separated by the Mayenne River. A lovely bridge connects the two. This photo was taken standing on the Neuville side,
The New Year has arrived and with it, a chance to look back at the exciting Christmas week holiday we spent with one of our children who came to visit us in Angers. It was a fun week and we kept busy, despite it being bitterly cold and each of us getting mildly sick with
We took a walk on a beautiful fall day recently and stumbled across, as apparently one does when living in a French neighborhood, this lovely chateau, less than three miles from our house. Château de la Perrière was completed in 1699 and now serves as a golf clubhouse to the attached 18-hole golf course and
This foot bridge, located a few miles south of Angers over the Maine River in Bouchemaine (translates to “mouth of Maine”), was a key access point for the United States Army’s 5th Infantry Division to help liberate the city of Angers from German control on August 11, 1944 during WWII. Greg found this while on