A Five-Day Itinerary for Istanbul
Seeing Istanbul for the first time? Use my itinerary for an introduction to this exciting city.
Seeing Istanbul for the first time? Use my itinerary for an introduction to this exciting city.
An independent itinerary in Andalusia, recounted with expenses and other details that others can base their own plan upon.
We were beginning our explorations of Deux-Sèvres, but as usual I had some detours in mind. We left Niort and rather than heading directly northeast…
My only thought in heading to Cognac was that, since Kristian and I have to keep postponing an exploration of Bordeaux and its wine towns,…
We were quite delighted with Charente-Maritime by the time we got to Saintes in the evening, having explored Jonzac and Pons after our leisurely morning…
It's possible to drive from Cognac to Saintes in half an hour, but I had more touring in mind, wanting to see these two towns,…
I wanted to see Angoulême just for historical interest, from the importance of the counts of Angoulême and especially because of Isabelle d'Angoulême, wife of…
"Favorite village of the French" declares the banner on this tower in Sancerre. We had decided to see this hub of the local wine industry,…
La Rochefoucauld in the Charente department was on our route from Limoges to Cognac as we followed D10 and D13, and we stopped just because…
A chance to see an opera while seeing Limoges for the first time I had hoped we'd get to Limoges, which we'd never been to,…
Last year as well as this January, I kept to trains and buses to explore France. It's so convenient because you're going from the center…
Bourges was my first day trip out of Vierzon, as I expected it to be the most interesting, and it was. It's a good-sized city…