With the right attitude and expectations, the French café is one of the best experiences you can ever have. I’d go so far as to say a trip to Paris without spending a considerable amount of time in a café is not a good trip to Paris. But without an […]
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Perhaps the most important thing to understand about photographing Paris is that you will be the same photographer in Paris as you are at home. That is to say, if you are a wide-angle landscape photographer at home, you are probably going to end up taking wide-angle shots of scenes […]
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Packing for a trip to France is not all that different than packing for a trip to any other great city, but there are some peculiarities. Most of these are based on the weather and the culture, which we’ll talk about below. As with most trips, you will want to […]
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When you arrive in Paris, you should not have any trouble navigating the airport and getting to your hotel. The airport is similar to airports in the U.S. and is well marked. To make sure everything is clear though, I have made a quick video walking you through it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBajOtsthrU […]
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Perhaps the most spectacular place in all of France – and perhaps one of the most spectacular in the entire world – is Mont Saint Michel. Mont Saint Michel is a an island with an abbey surrounded by a small town and large medieval walls. It is a UNESCO World […]
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For this tour, we will be staying in two different hotels. We start by staying in Paris for 4 nights. Actually, most of us will be there longer than that, since we will be arriving early, but the tour portion is four nights. After that, we will move on to […]
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Here is the tentative itinerary for our tour to Paris! Hope it looks good to you. A few notes before you start reading it. First, this is tentative. I am continuously trying to improve it. So there might be changes to this. If there are, it will only be to […]
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Here is the general itinerary of our trip to Ireland. Hope you like the looks of it. After having been to Ireland several times and seen the reactions of those I have brought with me (about 40 people at this point), these are the things I think you’ll like the […]
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Flights to and From Ireland In the event you would like some guidance on picking your flights for our 2023 Ireland tour, I put this page together for you. It has some basic information about the peculiarities of flying into and out of Ireland, and some recommendations of specific flights. […]
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Good news – all hotels for the 2023 Ireland tour have been reserved. Here is an introduction to each of them. (None of these are my pictures, by the way. I just posted them here so you could see what these places look like.) Killarney International Hotel (Days 1 – […]
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