Three years ago I was in Paris and having something to eat in one of the several street corner cafés within a two-minute walk from my hotel. It was a...

Preliminary details for a return visit to Europe are slowly taking shape and include the French town of Azay-le-Rideau. It’s not very big town—the population is about 3500—not quite a...

This marvelous, quirky little train only travels 10-15 miles-an-hour over most of it’s entire route, which is not quite 40 miles long beginning to end. The rail line dates back...

BEYNAC-This ancient little town is located on the Dordogne River. For me, there is a kind of never-ending wonder in knowing that there were people here, living and working and...

Deep down I always felt that adding a dozen days to my Washington trip to see and ride The Little Yelllow Train was a real stretch. And, yes, I know...

The better part of the day yesterday was spent traveling from Carcassonne to Vernet-les-Bains by way of Narbonne and Perpignan. It was another bi-level TGV that brought me to Perpignan...

As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, there is a strike by railway workers underway here in France and, as with most things French, it’s being conducted in a uniquely French...

You can’t wander through this fortified medieval French town without being astonished at the scale of everything or at the incalculable amount of human effort that must have been expended....

      Paris, like many other cities, has a program providing the occasional use of a bicycle at no charge. As you can see from the photo I took...

I’m quite comfortable making my own reservations for travel within the U.S or Canada. Europe is a different matter. I’m not going to travel literally halfway around the world at...