Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From: Five Senses Productions <fls@home.com> >Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 01:09:46 -0700 >Subject: [Leica] oops! Going to France instead.... > >Friends, please don't think me a bumbling idiot >for crying wolf about going to Greece so quickly...... >My S.O. and I have changed our plans and we are >going to France for 16 days instead. Deep thanks >to all of you who generously replied to my query >about photography in Greece. =20 > >NOW, a new set of questions.......photography and >general travel in France.......recommendations? RE : In order to prepare your travel, I suggest you to buy Ralph Gibson's book : l'histoire de France (there is an english version).Pictures have been made with a M6 as you know probably.Very far from HCB or Doisneau or Brassai. Try to avoid south of France in July and August unless you like the crowd. I suggest : 3-4 days in Paris; then take a TGV ( high speed train) and go to Burgundy. Rent here a car. 10 days in the true France (Paris, as New-York for the USA, is not representative of France): good wine (please do not put an iceberg in your glass : it's a gastronomic wreck!); good cooking; friendly people with a special accent for some of them ; beautif= ul landscapes around Brancion (there is a TGV station near Solutr=E9), castles(try to hire a room in the Brancion castle), Nicephore Niepce muse= um in Ch=E2lons sur Sa=F4ne... Dominique Pellissier