Trafton’s European Tour 2022/2023

Ok , back to beautiful Uzes and a little wine trip tomorrow. Av revoir 🍷

Bonjour from beautiful and much warmer Uzes, France. First stop, the world famous Pont du Gard water viaduct just down the road a few kms. As we said earlier, Nimes is referred to as the French Rome. The Romans loved Nimes and made it the capital of their French empire. La Maison Carre ancient Roman…

Ok, it’s true, I love bakery’s. I thought I’d visit as many Boulangeries in Uzès as possible and score the baguettes 1-10. Score 7.7 , very good! Ok, it’s five doors down from our apartment. Pipolo De La Nougatine Score 6.64 reminds me of a bake off loaf at Fred Myers, very disappointing

Ok, road trip today to Pont de Gard, and then the World Cup finals, France vs Argentina. I’m going with Argentina. I’ll just be quiet about it here. Au revoir!

Greetings from beautiful, but cold, Uzes, France. It’s 32 degrees at night!You’re probably wondering where Uzes is located? Uzes is a very, very old city, the Romans built it as they controlled the area from 100 BC until 300 AD or so. It was a textile production area, so it’s been wealthy for a long…

This is one of the last remaining segments of the original town wall. These pictures were taken throughout the last week when it was sunny and cold. St. Emilion has a long religious history. The monks actually expanded the wine business. Ok, off to Uzes, in southern France, on Thursday. Hoping for sun 👍 Au…

Bordeaux is one of the premier wine producing areas of the world. So, after being here a few days, I thought I’d write about the wines here in Bordeaux. The Right Bank is around St. Emilion, where we are staying. It’s wines, (almost all blends), are dominated by Merlot grapes. This area is very welcoming…

We decided to take a short road trip from St. Emilion to Bordeaux for a walking tour. We decided to do the trip on Saturday because of the markets and to avoid traffic, which is terrible here. Bordeaux is a big city, over 800,000 in the metro area, and has an excellent tram system. We…

Cindy and Kate took the train from Reims to Paris for a little sightseeing after their champagne party. Ok, back to the hotel and some wine. Cindy and Katie reported 37,000 steps, including 95 flights of stairs. I’m sorry I missed that 😎 Ok, that’s it for Paris, only 26,000 steps 😜 Unfortunately, the weather…

Due to technical difficulties (our internet is not great) our blog has been delayed! But here we go! Cindy took the commuter train from St Emilion to Bordeaux, then the TGV (fast train) to Paris Montparnasse train station, then the Metro (subway) to Gare de l’est. She met up with Kate, and they took the…