Albatz Travel Adventures

May 24, 2025: Wandering the elegant buildings of Paris’s 9th arrondissement.

A Grand Magasin (large department store) Printemps Haussmann, was opened in Paris in 1865, and is ‘de la mode et de l’élégance’. the French phrase for ‘upscale’.

This was the time of La Belle Époque in France, and lasted until the First World Wa...

Looking at some of the many lakes around my home province.

Lakes near Vancouver, 2 hours north or 2 hours east, and no ferries.

A rickety wharf out into Alice Lake up near Squamish, BC.

Port Renfrew is where the famous West Coast Trail meets up with the lesser known but equally beautiful Juan de Fuca Trail (map at bottom).

In the town of Port Renfrew there is a fabulous pub.

The Tourist Office in Nancy (2025) handed us an old-fashioned map* with a walking tour of the Art Nouveau architecture in the city.

flowing lines of the ...

We paid the 6£ parking fee, and then drove past a whole bunch of students who were streaming past the toll gate, obviously having parked somewhere outside the gates to avoid the fee.

At the start of the path was a Visitor Centre which we skipped as the weather was looking ominous. Just below us lay the Ferry Terminal at Dover for trips to Calais in France.