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Montparnasse Cemetery

Posted onOctober 7, 2017April 27, 20208 Comments

Montparnasse Cemetery, with a surface area of 19 hectares, is the second largest cemetery in Paris. It is located in southern Paris and was opened in 1924. When you come in at the main entrance, at 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, there are some laminated cemetery maps hanging by strings on Read More …

Categories14th arrondissement, MontparnasseTagsMarguerite Duras, Sculpture, Simone de Beauvoir

By train to Marseille

Posted onAugust 9, 2017November 17, 20206 Comments

This is the main railway station for Marseille, Gare Saint Charles. In a typical hour, trains arrive from Avignon, Brussels, Le Havre, Paris, Toulon, Bordeaux, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence and Hyeres. And once a day there is even a direct train from Frankfurt am Main. As you can see from the first Read More …

CategoriesMarseilleTagsMarguerite Duras, Train travel

Mekong Delta tour 1995

Posted onApril 14, 2017September 23, 20177 Comments

Towards the end of our Vietnam trip in 1995 Nick and I took a three-day bus tour of the Mekong Delta at the southern end of Vietnam. This excellent tour was organized by the original (and at that time only) Sinh Café, which is now called TheSinhTourist to differentiate it Read More …

CategoriesVietnamTags1995, Marguerite Duras

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