Pete, Maz and all that Jazz

Just odd ramblings as they occur. If you're looking for excitement here, you're worse off than I can imagine.

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France

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See Slideshow Rochefort-en-Terre is now one of Brittany’s most visited sites after being put on the map in 1907 by the French-born Ameri...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Saint Goustan, Auray, France

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By the fall of 1776 the War of Independence between the newly minted United States of America and Great Britain was in danger of being lost ...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Vitre, Britanny, France 2018

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See Slideshow In 1598, Henry IV, King of France, visited Vitre and was so surprised by what he encountered he is purported to have said ...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Villedieu les Poeles, Avranches and Saint Sever Calvados, Normandy, France

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Villedieu les Poeles See Slideshow Villedieu-les-Poêles is a small city of 3,900 people in Normandy authorized by the Government to...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Vire, Normandy, France

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See Slideshow The original walled city of Vire was built on a rocky promontory above the Vire River and, since 2016, the town of 20,000 ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Landelles et Coupigny, France

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Back in the Spring we decided to re-visit Lower Normandy and Brittany in northwest France to fill in some gaps left following previous trips...
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Thursday, August 09, 2018

Domfront, France 2018

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See Video Domfront is a fortified town with many surviving towers along remaining sections of the ramparts, the majority of which can be...
Saturday, August 04, 2018

Horta, Azores 2018

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Click for video The Azores is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other one being Madeira. The Azores is an archipelago o...

Hamilton, Bermuda

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Click for video Bermuda is one of the fourteen remaining British Overseas Territories and, as such, is self-governing with its own const...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Liverpool Reprise, 2017

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We last visited Liverpool in 2011 and, at that time, had focused on cataloging some of the numerous city center pubs, visiting both cathedra...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2017

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Courtesy By Unknown Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=196261 We stopped off in Rotterdam, Netherlands for ...
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