France

Researching my recent Le Bourget Airport post I discovered a couple of Concordes on display and, seeing as there were only ever 20 of them built, I decided to see how many I could find on Google Maps. Le Brouget…

Everybody loves the big blue furniture store, sitting here in my living room I can count at least 25 things I've purchased from IKEA. Anyway, they've got hundreds of stores and here's one in Spain (in the flight path to…

Near Paris, Le Bourget Airport features the "French Museum of Air and Space" and the Paris Air Show every second year. The airport is most famous as the landing point of Charles Lindbergh's historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927 but…

This is the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, France. More commonly known simply as "Notre Dame" (Wikipedia page), it's a gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, surrounded by the river Seine. Construction began in 1163, but wasn't finished…

The Château d'If is on the small island of If, in the Bay of Marseille, France. It was completed in 1531, and was originally intended as a defence against attacks from the sea, however it never had to fight off…

This is the small islet of Mont Saint Michel, just off the north coast of France. It is home to a Benedictine Abbey and steepled church, which were built between the 11th and 16th centuries, and was connected to the…