*Driving Across France: Trip Journal & Francophile Heaven

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[Post by Mr. Kong of Daily Kos, 6/10/19]. Mrs. Kong and I are celebrating our 15th anniversary and we wanted to do a “big” trip. Since I’m a cheap bastard who still lives in his starter-home, we can afford to do something like this every so many years.
We spent the first couple days in Paris to clean up a few loose ends. The last time we were in Paris the Seine was so flooded that a lot of the museums had been closed. We wanted to see the Musee d’Orsay, which has one of the largest collections of impressionist art. We also wanted to go up in the Eiffel Tower, which I have never done as many times as I’ve been here..
Now the TGV isn’t perfect. There are only so many high-speed lines. Getting from Point A to Point B might require changing trains or even switching to a “regular” train for the smaller cities. I figured some city pairings might be better served by car, so we elected to drive the rest of the trip. At the TGV station in Aix we picked up our rental car for the rest of the trip..(Read More at the Link below).




You don't realize just how big the Eiffel Tower is until you get close to it.




Impressionist art at the Musee d'Orsay.





Boarding the TGV, high speed French train.





Roman aqueduct at Pont du Gard in Provence, in southern France....Con't.


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