Before the race comes through, the waiting crowds see...

a cycle club rides on the on the Tour de France course

a 'devil' float in advertising caravan and crowd

a giant cyclist

a mineral bottle on wheels

the GIFI float and crowd

then, maybe 40 or 50 minutes later ....

the first part of the peleton rushes through

then, maybe 40 or 50 minutes later ....

more peleton labours its way along the race road

france

new :

cestas aire - a stop on the french wild west, bordeaux to the spanish border - the n10 and a63

Transbordeur bridges in France and the world 2: focus on Portugalete, Chicago, Rochefort-Martrou

Germans in France - St. Quentin cathedral

Germans in France
Reims cathedral
Cambrai cathedral
Soissons cathedral
Arras cathedral

Gustave Eiffel’s first work: the Eiffel passerelle, Bordeaux

a dream unfulfilled - the transporter bridge [pont transbordeur], Bordeaux

a fifth bridge coming to Bordeaux: pont Bacalan-Bastide, a new vertical lift bridge

the 6th bridge at Rouen: Pont Gustave Flaubert,
new vertical lift bridge

Ile de France, Paris: in the context of Abelard and of French cathedrals

France’s western isles: Ile de Ré

France’s western iles: Ile d’Oleron

on first arriving in France - driving

France is not England

Marianne - a French national symbol, with French definitive stamps

the calendar of the French Revolution

la belle époque

Grand Palais, Paris

Pic du Midi - observing stars clearly, A64

Carcassonne, A61: world heritage fortified city

Futuroscope

Vulcania

Space City, Toulouse

the French umbrella & Aurillac

50 years old: Citroën DS

the Citroën 2CV:
a French motoring icon

the forest as seen by francois mauriac, and today

places and playtime

roundabout art of Les Landes

le pique-nique

Hermès scarves

bastide towns

mardi gras! carnival in Basque country

what a hair cut! m & french pop/rock

country life in France: the poultry fair

short biography of Pierre (Peter) Abelard