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[Last updated: 01-Sep-2025]
I love this country, because whenever I am in it, I feel so relaxed. This page contains a selection (primarily grouped according to the thirteen Regions of Metropolitan France, then by département), of photos taken during my visits to France.
Notes:
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Nord
Lille (7 photos, taken on 15-Dec-2014)
Eure et Loir
Chartres (10 photos, taken on 26-Oct-2013)
Versailles
Essone
Seine et Martne
Élancourt - France Miniature
(12 photos, taken on 28-Oct-2013)
Milly la Forêt (15 photos, taken on 13-Jul-2013)
Fontainebleau (4 photos, taken on 13-Jul-2013)
Versailles (20 photos, taken on 14 & 15-Sep-2013)
L'Île de la Cité (6 photos, taken on 27-Jul-2013 & 29-Sep-2013)
Les Catacombes de Paris (3 photos, taken on 29/30-Sep-2013)
Le Pont (Passerelle) des Arts (3 photos, taken on 27-Jul-2013)
Le Louvre et Le Jardin des Tuileries (8 photos, taken on 27-Jul-2013 & 22-Dec-2015)
Views along the River Seine (9 photos, taken on 27-Jul-2013 & 22-Dec-2015)
Montparnasse (6 photos, taken on 23-Aug-2013)
L'Hôtel des Invalides (6 photos, taken between 27-Jul-2013 & 07-Sep-2013)
La Place de la Bastille (3 photos, taken on 24-Aug-2013)
La Gare de Lyon (7 photos, taken on 24-Aug-2013)
Le Jardin des Grands Explorateurs and Le Jardin du Luxembourg (3 photos, taken on 29-Sep-2013)
La Gare du Nord (3 photos, taken on 08-Sep-2013)
Montmartre/La Basilique du Sacré Cœur (6 photos, taken on 08-Sep-2013)
La Sorbonne (6 photos, taken on 29-Sep-2013)
Le Ba'ta clan Café (3 photos, taken on 21-Dec-2015, after the attack of 13-Nov-2015. The Related Links contains two BBC articles - one of the atrocity (Dec-2015) and one of the trial (Feb-2022).)
La Place de la République (3 photos, taken on 21-Dec-2015)
Avenue des Champs-Élysées (9 photos, taken on 27-Jul-2013 and 19-Dec-2015)
La Place de la Concorde (3 photos, taken on 27-Jul-2013 and 19-Dec-2015)
After-thoughts (7 photos, taken between 23-Aug-2013 and 22-Dec-2015)
Paris (68 photos, taken in Nov/Dec-2022)
This BFMTV link shows, probably for the first (and
last?) time, completely empty streets of Paris, during the Coronavirus
(COVID-19) outbreak in 2020.
Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Haut Rhin
Colmar (16 photos, taken
on 14-Dec-2013)
Haute Savoie
Annecy (27 photos, taken
on 7- and 9-Aug-2025)
Chamonix (20 photos, taken on 08-Aug-2025)
Alpes Maritimes
Cannes (8 photos,
taken in Jun-1987)
Saint-Tropez (4 photos, taken in Jun-1987)
Sophia Antipolis/Antibes/Nice (6 photos, taken in Jun-1987)
Menton and Monaco (9 photos, taken in Jun-1987)
Aquasplash Water Park (4 photos, taken in Jun-1987)
As a Postscript to this part of France, my attention was recently drawn to a YouTube selection of the now-closed mountain route through Les Grands Goulets. It took my mind back some years when, during the summer months, a number of us would drive from Ferney-Voltaire to "le Midi" for a weekend's camping on, or near, the beach!
We would sometimes take the A7 and A8 autoroutes (between Lyon and Cannes),
sometimes take the N85 Route Napoleon (between Grenoble and Cannes (via
Gap, Sisteron, Castellane and Grasse)), and once or twice take the now-closed
"scenic route" through the Parc Naturel Regional du Vercors, between Grenoble
and Gap (via Les Grands
Goulets; see the first two YouTube links in Le Midi list of
Related Links)! An absolutely great experience, and (brown-trouser) fun,
especially in a Peugeot 205 GTI!!!
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