Beautiful, Interesting, Fun & Historical Things I like

Tomorrow is Bastille Day in France. It's their National Holiday.

Somewhere in Beverly Hills or the west-side of Los Angeles, California.

Ten acres of garden, with magnificent views over the Severn Valley. An intriguing layout of garden rooms and terrace around the house, with a water garden below, feeding into a chain of lakes. Notable collection of old-fashioned roses.

South Beach. Miami Beach, Florida

The tip of the promontory holds a picturesque church. Byron's Cave is a rocky area leading to the sea where the poet Byron used to swim. On the left, is Doria castle. Portovenere, on the Gulf of Poets, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its picturesque harbor is lined with brightly colored houses while narrow medieval streets lined with shops lead up the hill from the ancient city gate to the castle.

Nice

Mouth watering

Nice

Manarola, is one of the Cinque Terre in Liguria, Italy.

High above Lake Lucerne and near Brunnen, visitors will find the village on Morschach on a sun terrace. Morschach is a municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. 

Temple Church, 1 Fleet Street, Holborn, London. The Temple Church, a royal peculiar in the Church of England, is a church in the Inner and Middle Temples located between Fleet Street and the River Thames in London, England. It was built by the Knights Templar for their English headquarters in the Temple precinct and consecrated on 10 February 1185 by Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem.

Piraeus, the port of Athens, Greece

Lyon, sometimes Lyons in English, is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps. Lyon is one large World Heritage Site, with a big renaissance old town.

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Pretty little bauble......

In 1990, I was living in San Francisco with my, now husband, I took my mother to Paris for her first visit. It was just the 2 of us. I booked a room at the Hôtel du Vieux Paris, 9 rue Git-Le-Coeur, Paris, 75006. Now it's the fancy Relais Hôtel du Vieux Paris. Back then it was a nice hotel with a large room and 2 twin beds.