Tag: France

• Part II: Beauty’s BOLLENE (or what it means to be French)

  Mention any small, provincial town in southern France and we’re game to visit.  The girls were content with our hotel in one such village, Bollène.  They were content until the morning after our night in the ancient structure when we told them this was actually Belle’s village – a poor, provincial town in France.   Then they were…

  willtravelwithkids

  September 22, 2014

  Children, Europe, Family, Photography, Tourism, Travel

  Bollène, France, Mediterranean, Provence

• Indelible Scars- Verdun

  

  In-del-i-ble (adj): not able to be forgotten or removed One hundred years ago the Great War – the war to end all wars – began.  Years of carnage and devastation followed.  I have seen the scars. Millions upon millions were killed.  This war reached the furthest corners of the globe.  I once visited a military…

  willtravelwithkids

  July 15, 2014

  Europe, History, Travel

  France, military cemetery, Verdun, World War I