VW Beetle in front of LA MAISON BERTHILLON 29-31 Rue Saint Louis en l’ile Paris, France 4ème
View from Tuileries Garden over the Place de la Concorde Paris France
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Since 1899, Fouquet’s restaurant has embodied the brilliant and festive spirit of Paris. Ideally located at the corner of avenue George V and the Champs-Elysées.
Bistro St Andre on the left bank. The stroll from St Michel across towards St Germain takes you down Rue St Andre and it is a very interesting quarter of Paris.
Shop detail in the Marais district Paris France
Tuileries Gardens Paris France – French travel books
A fine VW Beetle parked outside Berthillon Ice cream shop on Rue St Louis en L’ille Paris. The ice cream is not to be missed although you will have to queue. The island is a favourite of ours with it’s great views of the Seine and both banks of the city. It has many lovely restaurants and has a very definite neighbourhood feel to is. Try Cafe Med for lunch.
My passion is writing about travel and particularly French travel. I have traveled extensively in France and wine and food has always featured on my travels and now in my books. My friends always await our return from France with the latest new finds from the vineyards and I was more than happy to keep sampling. I am from Lancashire in the north of England but have now relocated to Somerset (nearer to France) and able to enjoy devoting my time to writing and new discoveries.
France came late to me as a destination, in fact so conservative was my travel upbringing that it was a long time before I even ventured to Cornwall. I have more than made up for the slow start and have enjoyed helping many others with their travel plans to France and especially to Paris and Provence.
I have written a series of four books on France - Three are now on Amazon:THE FIRST TIME WE SAW PARIS about our first steps in French Travel, THYME FOR PROVENCE our discovery of that glorious region and the people and places we met and discovered, A DREAM OF PARIS a personal memoir of our times in Paris with friends.
France has been fun, we have been burgled on our very first arrival, we discovered the best cafe that changed our travel lives on the very next day, we learnt about French wine, we escaped from the most horrendous gite, we found the best of gites, B & B's and people, we laughed and cried with dear friends in Paris, I was hosed down by a crazy owner to cool me down in Provence, our breakfast in a remote village was served by the French army, we stepped totally out of our comfort zone and discovered the best of French culture. The experiences are varied and many and please come with me as I retell the stories and my footsteps are there to follow.
I am also writing about ancestry and genealogy and my first book about our incredible family story themed around war and the military is now on Amazon - A BULLET FOR LIFE.
I love the English game of cricket, golf, soccer, photography, walking and cooking. Oh, and travel of course.
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