Month: October 2014
Farewell – Bon Voyage and Solari Boards
This post is dedicated to a friend, JL who departed recently. A while back, we did a post on Louis Vuitton and the use of Solari di Udine board to sell luggage in its NY flagship store. We mused then: I bet these boards must have appeared in dozens of movies to help depict the…
Musée des Blindés, Saumur
Continuing with our visit of Saumur … on the theme of military transportation, from live horses to their modern mechanical replacements … After touring the National Riding School (Ecole nationale d’Equitation), we quickly drove over to the Musée des Blindés (Armoured Vehicle Museum). Unfortunately, it was late in the afternoon and the museum was closing. So we looked…
La Cadre Noir de Saumur
Back to posting on the stuff we did in June in the Val de Loire … The French National Riding School (Ecole nationale d’Equitation) founded in 1972 is located in Saumur. Take a look at their very helpful official website here. Much of the information here came from this site. We had a 2+ hour-guided tour (the…
Random photos #101 – #105
These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). random photo #101 – finally…