We have vacationed many times in France.  But in 2011, we finally decided to buy some property in Normandy, France.  We bought a small house in a tiny village in southern Normandy. 

Here are my photo pages for Normandy in 2011:

Some of the Towns and villages we visited while house-hunting.
Some photos I took while walking outside our village.
A couple bike rides I took with my brother and his wife in the fall. [including a dolmen and menhir]
Two manor houses near us.
A walk up the hill called Mont Margantin  Normandy has some funny ideas about what merits being called a mountain.

These next two pages document a visit to Normandy in May 2010. there is a little story that runs through the 2 pages, so read them in order. 
Mortain, Domfront, Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, Vire.
Villedieu-les-poeles, Mont St-Michel, Avranches, La Roche d'Oetre.

In 2007, we spent 3 months in Paris, but in May of that year we went to Vichy to study French. Jim took French classes and played golf. I walked around  Vichy  and drove up to the tiny village of 
Charroux. 


And here are the pages I composed during the 3 months we were in Paris.
September 2007

Place des Vosges
A local market
Canal St. Martin 
Château de Vincennes,
Various ministry buildings
Jardins du Luxembourg
Jardins des Tuileries
Carnavalet museum 
A boat trip through the Canal St. Martin.

October 2007La Sainte Chapelle, The Conciergerie
Notre Dame de Paris
some shots from the streets of Paris.
Vaux-le-Vicomte 
Parc de Belleville.

November 2007

Close-up shots of some monuments and tall buildings.
Some ceilings in Paris.
The National Library of France