MY BLOG
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Bimmers!! BMW Welt & Museum
2023-12-01 13:23:20 UTC
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BMW model badges
When I found out that our path back to the US was through Munich, I was interested, no make that excited, at the prospect of visiting BMW Welt and Museum, two architectural marvels across the road from each other…
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Magnificent Munich
2023-11-26 17:28:15 UTC
As there were no non-stop flights from Marseille back to Washington D.C., we decided to break up our return with a two day stopover in Munich, our connection city. The last time I was in Munich was in the 1970s and I can recall but two things about it, my…
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Cassis, Provence
2023-11-20 23:12:42 UTC
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We had an agenda-free day on the tour so four of us hired a taxi and headed to Cassis, a coastal town along the French Riviera famous for its cliffs, the sheltered inlets called calanques and lots of boats. For me it was an opportunity to roam around and capture…
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Vibrant, Vivacious Marseille
2023-11-13 21:31:59 UTC
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I think this is the third organized tour I have joined. One in 2006 was a photo tour to Scotland, it rained every day, I believe we had two hours of sunshine over 12 days. The second was a photo tour in Iceland. Traveling with another photographer is always a…
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Photo of the Day: Over Germany
2023-11-09 15:45:57 UTC
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Alpine view
On the way to Munich, spectacular view.
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The Caumont Centre D’Art
2023-11-08 08:17:27 UTC
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Street entrance
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It’s a garden, it’s a museum, it’s a fine restaurant. It is the Hotel de Caumont, a beautiful former private mansion in the Mazarin quarter of Aix en Provence. The Caumont has a long convoluted history as you would expect…
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Discovered in a boulangerie
2023-11-07 06:35:59 UTC
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Pain au Chocolat
Simply elegant. It would be a crime to destroy it by eating it … arrête moi!
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Photo of the day, Marseille
2023-11-06 05:33:16 UTC
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Detail, fountain of Palais Longchamp
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Musee Granet
2023-11-02 08:14:14 UTC
The Granet museum has two faces, the first a collection of French, Italian and northern European paintings from the 14th to 19th centuries, and sculpture. The second, housed in a separate building a few blocks removed, exhibits about 70 pieces of 20th-century art, with works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso…
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Photo of the day - Les Baux
2023-11-01 07:44:47 UTC
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Some fall color, taken from the medieval town of Les Baux de Provence.