Category Archive: France

THAAAAANK GOOOODNESS!  The sunshine came this afternoon!  I can snap lots of pictures!  It was quite cloudy this morning, and it was drizzling a little. So, today, I went to an area that is about 20 minutes from Besançon that proudly displays its architecture that best represents the Englightement Age, a period that took place […]

All I knew that I was going to go to bunch of museums today in this little area called the Citadel of Besançon.  Citadel of Besançàn is a fortress that was built between 1668 and 1711, and it was a small town on top of a mountain.  Today, it’s a one-stop tourist attraction that is […]

Americans certainly do love drinking sodas as United States is loaded with a wide selection of sodas.  Well, of course not all as I don’t like sodas.  I recently learned that France has a huge selection of juices that I have never seen before including abricot juice and banana juice! The other day, I was […]

Good bye to Provence for now until I’m back in two weeks.  I’m now in Besançon which is in the Franche-Comte region, a region that is situated between the Burgundy region and the Alsace Lorraine region.  It’s on the borderline of Germany and Switzerland. The train ride yesterday was the easiest train ride as it […]

While France is loaded with incredible pastries including apple tarts, eclairs, and beignets, there are certainly some pastries that hardly exist in France.  Surprisingly, brownies is one of them!  Today, I had the pleasure to make brownies for my host family.  Cécile sure did help me! They sure did like the brownies!  Mmmmm!  It’s chocolate!  […]

The children of my host family are hysterical, especially Nicolas.  He made some great silly faces.

It’s hard to believe that I’m living in the history that I was taught throughout my life.  I remember clearly that in middle school, I learned that towns that were built during the Middle Ages were typically built on land surrounded by water like Bayonne in the Basque region, or on top of a hill. […]

All I knew that I was going to des Baux de Provence, another village in Provence today.  On the way to des Baux de Ptovence, we stopped by an area filled with trees.  Actually, I should say that we stopped by the woods.  “We’re having lunch in the woods?” That was my first impression as […]

I’ve never seen a town that is SO PINK and RED.  ALL buildings brown-ish pink.  It’s absolutely beautiful.  It’s even more beautiful than homes made of red-brick.  The buildings are also quite old as I can see the paint coming off the doors and shutters.  Missing paint spots on shutters and doors is actually very […]

This historical little village is absolutely different.  I’ve never seen an architectural style so unique like this village.  Slabs of rocks are stacked on top of each other and the shapes of the buildings are so interesting.  Some are in rounded-pyramid form, and I have to admit that this form is so cute! In one […]