Category: France

Today we started off by visiting Beaune’s most popular site, the medieval hospitals. Afterwards, we traveled west to the town of Autun to visit the Musée Rolin and the Cathedral of Saint Lazare. Hospices de Beaune The Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel Dieu served as a hospital for the poor in the 15th century. Now,…

You know how when you do something enough, you recognize that you’re going to make a mistake at some point, and that mistake is going to cause something to go horribly wrong? I’d been worried about experiencing my first real travel disaster since I got to Europe. I’ve read horror stories on the internet, and…

The day started off with us hopping on the bus in Paris for a long day’s ride to Beaune, France; making stops at the commune of Vézelay and the Fontenay Abbey on the way. I appreciated the stops we made, it just makes traveling so much easier, you know? A little about Vézelay Vézelay is…

This post was supposed to be about visiting the Eiffel tower and other touristy places in Paris, but then we kept running into wackjobs over and over, so now it’s also about the three crazy people I met in Paris. Life’s like that sometimes, you know? Searching for Unicorns at the Cluny Museum Today, our…

Now, this may be difficult to believe, but Paris is not the only city with Cathedrals! Crazy, right? Chartres is a commune (a municipality) of France about an hour and a half southwest of Paris. It’s greatest draw is its towering gothic style cathedral. Its quiet streets are a welcome change from the crowds in…