Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts

Friday, September 4, 2009

Let's go to Small Island of Mont St Michel, Normandy

Friends,

Here is the magic place where sea level able to rise more than 12 meter during high tide. 
Most interesting is the low and high tide interval is within few hours. 
This beautiful and a "Wonder World of Western" is UNESCO classified world heritage.


I came here by bus and stopped by at the station on mainland.
Should you lucky enough, the bus will go straight to the island through
small bridge if the water level is low.
Ok, once you here, you will feel very relief and your panaromic
view is big open either facing to sea or mainland. You need to
know the tide table in order to be safe especially if you need to
snap more pictures at the beach front. but it is not adviseable
as the wind is very cold.

Inside the castle, there are many shops that sells sourviniers,
cafe for food and other outlets to cater for tourist.
Please make yourselve confortable, before you start climbing
up the stairs as it will take few hours to cover.

Do come here to have a better feeling and you won't
feel any hesitation.

Below is a finest photo that fit to describe
how beautiful the place at night.
"Courtesy from Wikipedia website"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MSM_sunset_02.JPG


Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Welcome to Saint- Malo, Brittany

Bonjour, Madam.
Bonjour, Monsieur.

St. Malo is very famous with her local oysters from small village of Cancale.
But I did not have time to enjoy the food due to limited resources.
Maybe will try some other time.
I have my good friend who is living in this castle.
His name is Mr. Loic. He is very rich guy for sure as
I did jokingly told him. If not how can he afford such
a grandy place here inside the ancient castle.

You can come here by TGV train from Paris.As it is a most
visited place in Brittany, you better come during weekdays
to avoid the crowd.

You can go to England from here by cruise.
Make sure you have the International passport with you.
Here is some historic data taken from France's tourist website for
your quick glance of St. Malo:-


Walled and built with the same grey granite stone as Mont St-Michel, ST-MALO was originally in the Middle Ages a fortified island at the mouth of the Rance, controlling not only the estuary but the open sea beyond. The promontory fort of Alet, south of the modern centre in what's now the St-Servan district, commanded approaches to the Rance even before the Romans, but modern St-Malo traces its origins to a monastic settlement founded by saints Aaron and Brendan early in the sixth century. In later centuries it became notorious as the home of a fierce breed of pirate-mariners, who were never quite under anybody's control but their own; for four years from 1590, St-Malo even declared itself to be an independent republic. The corsaires of St-Malo not only forced English ships passing up the Channel to pay tribute, but also brought wealth from further afield. Jacques Cartier, who colonized Canada, lived in and sailed from St-Malo, as did the first colonists to settle the Falklands – hence the islands' Argentinian name, Las Malvinas, from the French Malouins.

Here is some of beautiful photos which was taken by me.



My friend, Loic.
                        TGV from Paris.                                                           Lunch in Brasserie.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Paris, here I come.

Much talk about Paris.
Sensation, romantic, classic city, fashion crazy,
old city, dramatic history, opera, Moulin Rouge,
etc.

Here you are, me with some pics of the Paris
background.
1. Charles de Gaulle Airport
2. TGV Station
3. Water Cruise at Notre Dame
4. Eifel Tower
5. Montparnasse Station
6. Le Champs Elysees
7. Musee' Du Lourve
8. etc

                                                           Fresh Strawberries



                                                                   Paris Museum Du Lourve


More events to come on France interesting places such as St. Malo, Mount St. Michelle, etc.
See my Picasa Albums for more pics.
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