There simply is no way to tour Europe and not be awestruck by its scenic beauty, epic history and dazzling artistic and culinary diversity.
PART 1- OVERVIEW, ITALY My wife and I visited this fascinating continent in in 2023. We covered eleven cities in four countries over 36 days* This was made possible by x train trips, x stays in Air BNBs and 20000 steps daily walk along epic avenues, rivers banks, trails, shopping alleys...
OUR French part of the journey took us to the Provence represented by the city or Arles, Paris and Normandy, they represent 3 facets of France – the provincial scene (Arles), The historic scene and the WW2 scene. PROVINCIAL SCENE Arles was a roman city with many remands of a roman past ...
As my father being a WW2 Army officer in the Philippines, I had this natural liking for the WW2 story particularly in the Pacific theater. One of the objectives of the 2023 European journey was to get to better feel what it was like during WW2 in Europe and the subsequent Cold War...