For those interested in transportation

The SMART car seen on every corner

"A" by Hamilton -on Copenhagen harbour

a few concept cars seen in the showrooms on the Champs-Elysees

Dacia Duster

and on the streets:

not your everyday ATV

the go-cart?

and Pizza Hut delivers

"Velib" the new rental bikes in Paris

the all weather scooter

and in Denmark the kiddies have their own style.

Breakfast in Paris

breakfast on day 1, 2 & 3 - yum!

We went back for day 4 & 5 to the same cafe we sampled on day 1 & 3....not only was it was just around the corner, but it had what we desired....an endless choice of different pastries.

Bonjour Paris....the city that loves it's tower

A tour of Tours

Always on the hunt for the an old and charming town centre,

we were treated to this maze of old streets and buildings, loaded with cafes and bistros.

a gorgeous cathedral too.

with endless stained glass windows.

Chinon - revisited

We have been here before....years ago on another holiday. We were passing close by so took the detour. Chinon is a stop on a tour of the Loire Valley, an old town with a hilltop fortress made up of three forts seperated by moats and linked by an outer wall.

overlooking the rooftops of the town

our hotel that night: Chateau de L'Aubriere, just outside of Tours

Unexpected breakfast location

Leaving Mont-Saint-Micheal early the next morning we head to Tours. Nothing is open for breakfast so we will stop for something a little later. We take any old exit off the freeway, drive past some fields, then an industrial area looking for some sort of cafe. We enter a town and find ourselves surrounded by buildings and streets like these....we have stumbled across Vitré. And after a bit of Internet research we find that it is said to be the finest medieval town in Brittany, with an old-town centre and lots of narrow streets lined with medieval cottages. Finding a cafe here for our breakfast was no problem at all.

I love the details

little bits of Mont-Saint-Michel

More from the Abby

Here are some of the doors (and son) I photographed inside the Abby....I experimented with putting them into a collage.

The incredible Mont-Saint-Michel

We arrived, finally.....the journey took me about 35 years! I think I was only twelve or thirteen when I first decided I was going to go to Mont-Saint-Michel. My French teacher, Miss Mitchell was giving us a lesson on the geography of France " et c'est l'île du Mont-Saint-Michel"

enjoy the photos!

this sign was interesting. Danger of quicksand and a notice about which parking lot will flood at high tide , so move your car before 2100 hours!

looking down on the one narrow and empty road

from the wall - for dinner we found a restaurant tucked in along this area of the wall,

a few shots inside the Abby, here a courtyard and great rooms with walk in fireplaces. (the scale of that room is lost in the photo. it is huge, we didn't have to duck our heads to look up the chimney)

and some views from the top.

The causeway below was built in 1879 - before then the tides controlled passage to the island. Today the higher areas with the grass banks do not flood during high tide. The lower car parks and areas with buses do flood. the evening we were there we witnessed a typical spring high tide, the water rushed in...no kidding it was incredibly fast, we were spell bound. All the low flats seen in our views and the lower parking spots were covered. Wouldn't it be incredible during a raging spring storm?


I walked down the causeway to get a night view.
and to make the viewing perfect, the crowds were leaving by the bus load as we arrived.

A dream fulfilled!!