Late last night I returned from a few days away in Carcassonne. I was treated to lovely warm and mostly sunny weather unlike the weather in England when I left.
I will be posting all about my travels soon, but before I do that I need to fix my computer because it is in danger [...]
Archive for the tag 'France'
Filed under Anecdotes, Carcassonne 2012, Holidays
To Toulouse and Back
16 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2012
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
PhotoHunt – Ripped
This is an exhibit from La Coupole, which is a fascinating and humbling place to visit. It is very interesting from a historical point of view and at the same time quite shocking that such a place existed. The time when I visited there was a temporary exhibition entitled “Deportation and genocide, a European tragedy”. [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Dec 2nd 2011
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
PhotoHunt – In Memory
Thiepval memorial stands in an isolated windswept position and is the largest memorial in the world and was opened on 31st July 1932 by the Prince of Wales. It contains over 72,000 names of British and Commonwealth men with no known graves, who fell on the Somme between July 1916 and March 1918. Most [...]
17 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2009
