You can get there on a train
Or you can go there with your brain
You could drive in your dad’s DeSoto
Or pretend with just a photo
So take a tour of Fontainebleau
Sit back, relax, kick off your shoe
This house is big;
this house is grand
Some say the best in all the land
Stone and bricks, not wood or logs
Lots [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2009 by dianagene
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We humans place our rare and wise in high places. Until relatively recently, the revered leader of the Tibetans dwelled high in the Himalayas. In Paris, way up almost on top of Montmartre, you won’t find any Lamas, but you will find a Dali. Salvador Dali that is. If he wasn’t the King of weird, [...]
Posted on January 5th, 2009 by dianagene
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We got up early and headed for the Montparnasse train station in Paris. We were going to the small town of Chartres about 50 miles southwest of Paris. We watched the gray morning countryside slide past as the train gently jostled its way in the early mist. We had only done the barest of research [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by dianagene
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