Devour The World

Löwendenkmal

July 25, 2008

The Löwendenkmal in Lucerne (or Luzern) was carved out of natural rock in memory of the deaths of the Swiss mercenaries at the Tuileries in 1792. Mark Twain described the Lion of Lucerne as the saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world. It’s a beautiful sight to see, and you have to […]

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More Goods…

July 23, 2008

Other purchases that we made included products from Le Chateau du Bois – you saw their lavendar fields a few entries ago. I purchased this fantastic essential oil. I put one drop on pillow for its soothing effects a couple of days ago and I can still smell it!! It’s fantastic!! Carrie found some Lavendar […]

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Finding the Catacombs…

July 22, 2008

Prior to our trip, Carrie had said that the one thing she most definitely wanted to see were the underground catacombs in Paris – can you imagine what a vault filled with human bones would look like??? Luckily, our hotel wasn’t too far from this entrance so we figured, “piece of cake…”. Sadly, we didn’t […]

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The Louvre

July 21, 2008

Don’t let the title of this post fool you. This is the closest we got to the Louvre. No, we didn’t actually go in the museum. We only had 3 days in Paris, and neither of us wanted to spend an entire day inside, fighting crowds to get a glimpse of the Mona Lisa. Please […]

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Riding on the Metro

July 21, 2008

The Metro is Paris’ subway system. It is fantastically convenient – you really can get to wherever you want to go and it is relatively inexpensive. There is a downside, however – as with any form of public transportation, you have to be prepared to deal with anything.Before we left for Paris, everything I read […]

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Flowers in Provence!!!

July 21, 2008

Lavande photos (not to be confused with Lavandine that is grown everywhere else but the mountains of Provence). The bees buzzing freaked me out a bit but I regretted not purchasing some of the honey from these Lavender bees. These photos just don’t do the colors justice…but Carrie was right, we were both lucky that […]

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Montmarte…sacre coeur

July 21, 2008

Sadly, it was raining when we went up to the Sacre Coeur but it made the view no less spectacular. Carrie probably has some city views from the Montmarte that she may wish to share…

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Lavender Madness

July 21, 2008

As Jenny reported earlier, you really expect to see fields of lavender everywhere in Provence. Since this is not the case, we had to go looking for it. It is a testament to our friendship and sense of decorum that neither one of us flipped out and there were no attempted stabbings during this truly […]

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carrie at Grasse

July 20, 2008

The mad scientist at work…please note that I am not the cause of all the bruising that you see… all ready for her session as “Ms Floral/Fruity” Adding additional scents to the mixture I have to admit that I’ve never been good at chemistry but this was really easy! If only high school Chem was […]

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Galimard at Grasse

July 20, 2008

Best part of the trip. We made our own perfume at Galimard (a famed perfumerie) in Grasse. It was a great experience. The “Nose” at Galimard uses about 2,000 different scents every day. He works 15 minutes at a time to preserve his finely honed sense of smell. In the class we were given around100 […]