Tag: France

  • Nice and (nice) Monaco

    Nice and (nice) Monaco

    Nice, France, is on the Cote d’Azure, or Blue Coast. So named because of the bright blue Mediterranean Sea. This is part of the French Riviera, which I am pleased to say, was exactly the way I thought it would be: beachy, bougie, and beautiful. While in Nice, I took a quick half hour train over…

  • Avignon

    Avignon

    After an exciting journey in a BlaBlaCar, I safely made it to my hotel in Avignon. Avignon is in the Provence region of France, but the reason I wanted to go was because for a while, the Popes moved shop from Italy and set themselves up in Avignon.  BlaBlaCar I feel I should explain what…

  • Carcassonne

    Carcassonne

    I arrived to Carcassone after taking a stunning bus ride through the Pyrenees. The blue sky complemented the green mountainsides. There was still snow on some of the rocky mountain (lower R and M) tops. After hopping on a train in Toulouse I arrived to Carcassonne, a small town in southeastern France. I came here…