TOURING FRANCE
Going through an old external hard drive I found a lot of my original digital photos taken with my first digital camera) a two megapixel Cannon point & shoot) plus some taken with a second digital (Nikon Coolpix) and various early ohones that took photos. I shot all my "real photographs" on film well past the early 2000s and still shoot film to this day. Issue is I have over 1,000 slides and Carol has over 2,000 film negatives sitll in the scan, manipulate, resample for internet then post. That said can set up my screen and slide projector then bore guests till they melt into the floor. Once all the film marked for scanning is finsihed and combined with all the digital (especially when switched to DSLRs for bulk of photographs) will be able to fatten up my websites and bore guests with PowerPoint presentations till they never return if get out alive. Below is the result of stopping at most WW 1 and WW 2 or scenic pull offs as travelled around France.
BELLEGARDE & PERTES DE LA VALSERINE
READ THE SIGNS OR MISS OUT
When travelling just as we do at home we fix most meals ourselves. If we stopped for every meal on a trip the cost would either knock a week off our time due to budgeting to possibly have costing us to totally miss some trips from lack of money in the trevel budget. This pull out looked interesting and it was lunch time and seldom do we pass a church or such pulloff without stopping to see whats up. We had just come south through Bellegrade which I knew was the site of a big WW 1 battle and this area was littered with WW 2 sites where the Allies pushed across France heading to Germany.
MORE FRANCE
JUST A FEW STEPS OFF THE PARKING LOT
Just off this parking lot were over a half dozen well marked trails going in all directions. Some mostly scenic and some both senic and historical. Sign posts gat distance time and difficulty of each with trails that took from a half hour to a full day. Some were mostly level with bridges and handrails wherever needed and others that required ropes and ladders to navigate but even a hillbilly from Georgia could figure the symbols and signs out. While Carol fixed lunch I powered down one of the more difficult trails then after lunch we took a leisurely walk down one of the shorter and easier scenic trails.
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