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Style Moment | Au revoir, Belle-Île
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) American novelist and poet
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Eye on Design | Belle-Île-en-Mer | La Marinière
Coco Chanel made nautical stripes, la marinière, fashionable after she saw the fishermen on the beaches of Deauville, France wearing them. In Belle-Île, la marinière is practically the dress code. I couldn’t get enough…
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Belle-Île-en-Mer | Journey Across an Island
It started out as an interesting excursion…a visit to the studio of an artist who makes tiny ships out of mussel shells. It turned out to be yet another unanticipated adventure.
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Belle-Île-en-Mer | Frites
Check out the variety, and unique names, for all the sizes of french fries at this sandwicherie along the Belle-Île harbor. By the way, I saw the “familiale size” and it would feed a village.
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Beautiful Belle-Île-en-Mer
When painter Claude Monet spent time on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1886, he was fascinated by the constantly changing weather and the way the landscape altered with the tides. “I am staying in a tiny hamlet on Belle-Île and working hard. It’s a very beautiful, very wild place; the sea is incomparably beautiful and some of the…
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Belle-Île-en-Mer: The First Day
Today I took two trains, one bus, and a ferry from Paris to Belle-Île-en-Mer, an island off the coast of Brittany. I left my hotel in Paris at 8:00 a.m. and arrived in Belle-Île-en-Mer at 3 p.m. Here is the tale of my journey, and my first day on the island.
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Paris | Bastille Day | Fête de feu d’artifice
Watching the Bastille Day feu d’artifice on a perfectly placed Paris roof terrace is in the top ten spectacular experiences of my travels.
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Paris | Le 14 Juillet
Today is France’s independence day, Bastille Day. The day commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which took place on 14 July 1789 and marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The prison of Bastille was a symbol of the absolute and arbitrary power of Louis XI. By taking control of the Bastille, the people signaled…
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Style Moment | Budapest train station
“Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d’être. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison d’être, which lives on in itself.” André Kertész (1894-1985) Hungarian-born photographer
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Budapest | Healing Waters
People travel for miles across Europe to partake in Budapest’s thermal waters. The locals all recommended the Széchenyi Bath & Spa, in City Park, so that’s where I headed.
