This ancient, riverside port town is Brittany’s finest, an hour south of Mont St. Michele, its well worth an overnight stay on your way to the Loire Valley Dinan emulates the typical Breton lifestyle and opens up the window into this region’s more typical rural French lifestyles a little more. I enjoyed wandering through the back…
Category: Notable Sights
Fougeres, France
This Medieval hill town town castle looks so unbelievable it makes you wonder if it is a movie set at first glance. I almost could not believe it really exists. Look at the castle walls, wonder around the grounds and through the public community gardens imagining what it was like to live back in the…
Saint Malo, France
Driving along the northern coast of France you cannot help but notice one the crown jewels of Brittany. Saint Malo sits on the sea with its safe harbor for hundreds of sail boats and skiffs in the surrounding bay. The port was once a privateer headquarters that became very wealthy and is now a charming…
Mont St. Michele, France
The most stunning Castle in Brittany, if not the whole world, sits on the border of Brittany and Normandy at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. Mont St. Michele is an island fortress built to keep out the English. Rising tides made the island impossible to invade half of the day. Multiple tiers…
Chinon, France
This historic castle is located directly above the town of Chinon creating picturesque views of the quintessential France at its most magical. Chinon was further developed by Henry II in the 1100’s. It was a key point on a strategic river and served many purposes over the course of history. He left the castle to…
Neuschwanstein Castle
Ludwig II was an extravagant man who had a private and complicated life. After leaving his fiance, the night king escaped reality by building fairy tale castles of yesteryear as he withdrew from traditional duties of his kingdom living in a world of fantasy. Instead he focused on lavishly entertaining his eccentricities and had a…
La Parrilla, Restaurant – Spotlight Cancun, Mexico
La Parrilla has been dishing out the best local cuisine in Cancun since 1975 and has aged like fine wine, now with 3 restaurants in town! I have been coming to the downtown location for years and it’s amazing every time. La Parrilla is a Cancun Facet that has great local atmosphere and authentic, homemade…
Chitzen Itza – Mexico
The temple of Kukulcan, the central temple structure, built around 670, took 200 years to design and over 13 or so to build. Chitzen Itza, or the sorcerers of water, was central to Mayan culture which began around AD 600 thriving from a long period of heavy rain that enabled a population boom. It is…
Sea Turtles Nesting in Cancun!
Starting in May each year the loggerhead turtles begin crawling up the shores of Cancun to lay their eggs in the dunes. 40 to 60 days later tiny baby turtles being breaking out of their soft skins and crawling out of the sand toward the rough ocean waters for the first time. They have to…
The Spanish Inquisition, Ham & The Catholic Church
During the later years of the Crusades the Christians started running out of money and went to the Jews to gets funds to pay for the holy war. Once the crusaders pushed the Moores out of the Iberico Peninsula the Jewish lenders wanted their debts collected and this became problematic for the newly victorious Christians….
Journey Into Cuisine 