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/image%2F0569107%2F20190728%2Fob_84896b_old-times-reminders.jpg "It has been a long time since my last article. After seeing quite...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170807%2Fob_8fcd92_battle-east-sussex.JPG "To Christine to celebrate 40 years of (pen) friendship I have...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170720%2Fob_6c42bd_stud-farm-rosieres-aux-salines.JPG "Before 1760 there were saltworks in Rosières-aux-Salines. The...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170707%2Fob_713610_hohlandsbourg-castle.JPG "Hohlandsbourg castle, near Wintzenheim, is built on a top of...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170611%2Fob_3fc7b5_strasbourg-cathedral.JPG "Strasbourg cathedral can be seen from far away and recognized...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170604%2Fob_1a8993_la-cure-d-air-trianon-jardin-et-halle.JPG "Each time gardens are open in Lorraine we try to visit new ones....")
/image%2F0569107%2F201310%2Fob_292156a378c4812f793a083a6389aa8c_dscf1790.JPG "After the first book tree I saw in Nancy more than three years...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170430%2Fob_812daf_turckheim-porte-de-france.JPG "Turckheim is very near Colmar in Alsace. I went there years ago...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170424%2Fob_90c591_kaysersberg-4-2017.JPG "As usual we stopped in Kaysersberg on our way to the center of...")
/image%2F0569107%2F20170408%2Fob_e713a4_nyckel-harpa-2017.JPG "Last week end we had another opportunity to go to the castle...")
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One day in the Vosges mountains
It was so hot near Nancy a few weeks ago that it was a relief to go to the mountains. We stopped in Réhaupal to meet our cousins, then went to Gérardmer and ended up on the Route des Crêtes . There it was hardly cooler, I should say it was "less hot"....
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A very hot month of July in Lorraine
It rained on June 23rd in Lorraine, then... nothing. Temperatures started going up, and it was hotter and hotter. The whole region was concerned even the Vosges mountains. On July 4th, the record of temperature of a day in July was broken in Nancy : 37.8...
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The priory building in Varangéville
The priory of Varangéville (le Prieuré), in Meurthe-et-Moselle, was created by the monks of Gorze (in Moselle) in the 8th century. In 764, relics of saint Gorgon were carried through the region. One day, late in the evening, it was too dark to go on with...
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Street decoration
Have you noticed that we see more and more decoration in our streets ? In France, for sure. When I was young, we only had road signs and lights, sometimes trees. Flowers were in parks. Then flowers appeared in streets, very often in big square or rectangular...
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Lalique museum in Wingen-sur-Moder
Last Wednesday morning we watched glass blowers making Christmas baubles in Meisenthal in Moselle and in the afternoon we visited the new museum dedicated to Lalique work in Wingen-sur-Moder in Alsace. It is the only museum about Lalique creations in...
