If you like old stones do not pass up Nîmes. It is by far home to the best preserved Roman buildings we’ve seen.

Could a lovelier city exist? Even a cold, cloudy day couldn’t dampen the beauty of Strasbourg.

We liked everything about Dijon. Yes, this city has it all. If I could speak French I’d never want to leave.

Susan and I decided to limit the distance of each train journey so that our old boy, Teej, needn’t spend more than four hours at a time in his carrier. And that’s the primary reason we chose Narbonne as our first stop in France.

I’m glad we did because I was charmed by this often overlooked city that lies between the mountains and the sea.

We’d arrived on a warm and sunny Thursday morning in October. It was market day. The village streets were jammed with antique vendors, vegetable sellers, yard good merchants and just about everything in between, including a couple of polished stone kitchen sinks.