Telephone Boxes (or Booths, as I call them). I am a lover of things reminiscent of the past. Especially when it comes to telephones. When I was young, I dreamed of owning a Victorian style phone. Later in life, I perused thrift stores because I want to find an old rotary dial phone for Miss [...]
The Queen's Hamlet. Place d'Armes, 78000, Versailles, France. Also known as Hameau de la Reine, the Queen's Hamlet was the place I most wanted to see when we toured the Palace of Versailles. Passport Ticket. We purchased the Passport ticket which included admission to the entire estate at the Palace of Versailles. While the [...]
Royal Yacht Britannia. A few weeks ago I shared photos of some of the doors to be found on the Royal Yacht Britannia. If you missed that post on the Britannia, you can find it here. I found the views from the yacht to be beautiful. The yacht itself with its wood accents and attention [...]
Shakespeare and Company. 37 rue de la Bûcherie. Paris, France. Shakespeare and Company is an Independent Bookstore in Paris. From the moment that Helen commented that I should visit there while in Paris, I knew that this was one of the destinations on my "must see" list. As I mentioned, after our visit to Sacré [...]
Royal Yacht Britannia. When I shared some photographs from my time at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh in this post, I also mentioned that we had purchased the 48-hour Royal Edinburgh ticket for the hop-on hop-off bus tours. We went that route because it included fast-track admission into Edinburgh Castle, The Palace Of Holyroodhouse, and The [...]
Sacré Cœur. 35 rue du Chevalier de la Barre. After a morning spent making our way to some shops on rue d'Hauteville in Paris, we realized that if we had traveled all this way that we should continue on to see Sacré Cœur. We had already covered 2.2 km (1.37 miles) making our way from [...]
Prisons of War. One of the exhibitions at Edinburgh Castle is the prisons of war exhibition. It's located within Dury's Battery, which is at the top of the hill past the Royal Scots Museum. The re-creation shows what life was like for the prisoners of war. Prison Doors. Of course, I found the prison doors [...]
Scotland. It's Halloween, so of course, my travel tale had to come from a graveyard! Originally the question was... which one? I visited quite a few graveyards while in Scotland. I've already shared about visiting the Necropolis in Glasgow. As luck would have it, while I was hunting some information on Flodden Wall for last [...]
Doors of Paris. Part Deux. As promised in last week's Doors of Paris post, I'm back with another set of doors from our strolls around Paris this past spring. 66 Boulevard Saint-Germain. I was able to find the location of this door because it's located beside Jeff de Bruges. Now I'm wondering why I didn't [...]
Paris. The City of Love. La Ville-Lumiére. The City of Lights. Two beautiful nicknames for a beautiful city. A Corner of Paris. Last week when I shared some doors from Paris in this post, I realized that I had shared very little about the Paris portion of our trip this past Spring. The best place [...]
