A tour around some blog posts

SOME interesting posts and entertaining photographs from a few of the bloggers I follow who provide a sneaky peek into their French lives.

So take the chance to follow a tour across France, dropping in on some tourists stops, as well as an opportunity to read about a fan of the rail system and how trees are tracked in Paris.

What's up with the "sénateur noir" - Sarkozy the American
Some simple searches of Google throw up some interesting insights into how US presidential hopeful Barack Obama is described in the French press.

Within the last month, the term "black senator" only appears 28 times in the English press, sometimes not referring to Barack Obama, and many times coming from minor media outlets.

Le Gouffre de Padirac - Le Franco Phoney
A new discovery for me is the site of April Hollands, an Aussie now living in France, and who has written about the places she visited whilst crossing the country, including an underground boat ride in the Lot.

A gouffre (pronounced ‘goof-rrr’) is a cave, and this one is massive. Apart from stalictites and staligmites, the gouffre offers an underground boat ride at a constant 12°C.

Take the train - St Bloggie de Riviere
Sarah has given up on the plane and reckons the way to travel from the south of France to the UK is by train, here she writes about a recent trip.

Despite delays and such, I do prefer train travel. I love train stations where I detest airports. Stations are romantic (or the big ones are), while airports are functional and full of stress.

The peculiarities of sheep - The mountain dweller
You are sure to enjoy The Mountain Dweller and her photographs which tell of one woman's move from 'UK suburbia to Alpine pastures, or from shops to sheep as it were'.

Usually the sheep go up a mountain for breakfast, but this time my husband took them down to graze for a few hours in a recently harvested field of barley.

Trimming the Paris trees - ParisDailyPhoto
If you want to follow Eric as he takes you around the streets of Paris then make sure you subscribe to his site, here he explains why the trees in the capital are microchipped.

Soon it will be fall and this morning, I happened to witness a tree triming. Doing a little research on the web, I found out that there are no less than 95 000 trees in the streets of Paris