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Colonne Vendôme park and maybe this afternoon I'll go to Versailles. I have also an invitation to eat for 6 F at a department store and also free tea, so if I can shop there I will and buy something and have it shipped. I have just discovered that the customs rule reads that one person is...

Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower from the bus Champs Elysee Arc de Triomphe Garden and building Statue Louvre Rhino statue Arc de Triumph de Carousel L'église de la Madeleine Latin Quarter Windmill Cafes near Sacre Coeur Horseman on Sacre Cour Tower Sacre Coeur Sacre...

Road up Toward beach Lower level Walkway up Looking left Backyard of church Rooftops Views from Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde PS The Italian rail strike is over. I enjoyed your letter that came to the ship at Marseille and I hope he'll have another one for me. I got the Seville...

Fields Valley below Les Baux Ruins on the hill Iron cross in front of church Entrance The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, a short distance outside the walls of Arles, France. Bob walking between the tombs It was one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world. Roman...

Looking across river from Avignon to the castle of King Rene Looking across the river Roof tops of Avignon Walls of Avignon King Rene's Castle in Tarascon Castle moat Castle Collegiate Church of Saint Martha Looking across road to road to Van Gogh's insane asylum in Saint-Remy We...

View of Toulon from the high road We ate dinner here and it was pretty good, at a sidewalk restaurant along the waterfront. August 6, Thursday Today we visited Avignon, Arles, Les Baux, and Aix en Provence. Cliffs along the road to Avignon Cypress along the road When we visited the...

My next visit to Europe was in the summer of 1964, to meet my husband's ship at ports around the Med. He was a pilot and flew S2Fs (antisubmarine planes) off the aircraft carrier Intrepid The_planes_that_Bob_flew The Intrepid was supposed to have the following itinerary 11 June – Leave...

Between the 15th and the 22nd of July, we were in Paris for my father to deliver a paper at the 5th International Cancer Congress. So that we would be able to understand some things, my mom gave us Berlitz lessons in French for several months before the trip - in those days US schools did not...

In 1950, my father's expenses were paid to International conferences in Paris and in Oxford. All he had to do was to find a way to fund us. So he worked at two jobs (commuting by train between Baltimore and Philadelphia) for the winter of 1949-1950 Passport photo My mother prepared us for the...