All Posts Tagged With: "french travel tips"
Travel Zen
I’m a Stranger Here Myself “Success is the quality of your journey.” An observation from some much wiser than I. (Or, perhaps just a better translator of fortune cookie epigrams? )While that’s an admirable wish(and are’nt they the best kind?) our journeys must often play second fiddle to the everpresent hydra of time and money. […]
13Jul2010 | Bicycle Gourmet | 6 comments | Continued
French Travel – Part Two
More good news… All trains, TGV and TER are 99% on time. And, I’ve found the “trainpersons”(with very few exceptions) to be extremely helpful and courteous. In major stations, someone(maybe even some two)will speak English. Otherwise, someone may speak “a leetle eeeglish.” 6. Bus In three words – “Don’t go there.” There is no French […]
11Jun2010 | Bicycle Gourmet | 5 comments | Continued
French Travel – Part One
Like ex-employers who insist “your cheque is in the mail”, I’ve always been suspicious of the proclamation: “Statistics don’t lie.”They are ,after all, the mathematical creations of Statisticians. The Human kind. Who have been known to”misspeak”themselves. And even, on occasion(shock horror)lie! Thus,it is a minor(personal)miracle I have no such qualms with the statistic that French […]
6Jun2010 | Bicycle Gourmet | 3 comments | Continued