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There's so much to see, so much to experience! This is just a flash to get us
going...we plan to get specific (and selective, not definitive, as always) in
the coming weeks and months, adding excursions, out-of-the-way places, odd spots
for the odd traveler...some ideas:
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 Following the three
Marys,
you know, the ones who left Jerusalem back in the first century on a boat with
some other saints and whose artifacts seem to be housed in nearly every church
or sanctuary along the Mediterranean coast... |
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Retracing the epic journey of
Roland over the Pyrenees into Spain, in the name of France and Charlemagne, in La
Chanson de Roland: does Roncevalles really exist? where is
Roland's trusty sword Durandal? can you still hear Oliver's horn? |
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What about the
Cathars, those
so-called heretics in the South of France who were massacred during the
First Crusade? what were they all
about anyway? and why should we care? |
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And don't forget that
Picasso, his cohorts, and his concubines lived for a while in Ceret, on the very
southernmost French coast of the Mediterranean, just up into the Pyrénées, near
Andorra... Speaking of which, what
exactly is Andorra? a city, a country, or what? |
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Knowing that Notre Dame
Cathedral in Paris has been the site of many exciting, exotic, erotic, and
historical events, rather than just considering it a grand cathedral, makes a
visit there much more entertaining... |
There are hundreds of stories
just waiting to be told, and probably just as many that don't need to be.
Let us know if there's something that piques your interest or confounds you
or just gets your juices flowing when you dream about traveling in France. Email
us and we'll see if we can get the scoop on it. Back
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