Gallery of Jim Blilie's Photos:
France 1997 and France / Italy 1999
All images are copyright © James W. Blilie, 1997 through 2010, All rights reserved
For detailed pages on each trip, click on these links:
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Below is a mixture of the trips in 1997 and 1999 (a tiny sample of my photos)
For more details from each trip, click on the links, above.
If you prefer a slide show, Click HERE
For the slide show: Click on the first picture on the black photo
album
page and then click the "play" 
button at the upper right
of the view panel to start the slide show. Enjoy.
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Paris |
Paris, Tuileries Gardens | Paris, Tuileries Gardens | Arles | |
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| Gigondas | Gigondas: Les Dentelles de Montmirail | Gigondas | Gigondas: Vineyard of Domaine Raspail-Ay | Gigondas: At our very first Gîtes at Dom. Raspail-Ay |
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| The Roman ruins at Glanum | The Roman ruins at Glanum | The Roman ruins at Glanum | Gigondas: The Belvedere | Arles |
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| Arles | Arles: The Roman Colliseum | Arles: The Roman Colliseum | Gigondas | Orange: The triumphal arch built during Augustus's time (?) |
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| Pont du Gard, part of a Roman Aqueduct (part of a nearly 50 km (31 mi) aqueduct that brought water from the Fontaines d'Eure springs near Uzès to the Castellum in the Roman city of Nemausus (Arles). | Chateauneuf du Pape: The vineyard of Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe | Vaison la Romaine, the Roman amphitheater | Vaison la Romaine, Steve Mason next to a "Dolum" a huge wine vat, normally buried (I'd like to see the potter's wheel and the kiln!) | Vaison la Romaine |
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| Vaison la Romaine, theRoman bridge: Still in use ~2000 years after construction | Gigondas | Gigondas: Steve Mason in the Dom. Raspail-Ay vineyard, taken from the deck of our Gîtes | Gigondas: Jeanne and Steve Mason on the deck of our Gîtes | Gigondas: Hiking up to the Belvedere |
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| Bonnieux: Our Gîtes | Bonnieux: Our Gîtes | Bonnieux | Near Bonnieux | Near Bonnieux |
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| Another Chateauneuf du Pape vineyard | Gigondas: A vineyard under the Dentelles |
Gigondas vineyard |
Gigondas: on the deck of our Gîtes |
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Part of the Gorges du Verdun |
Bonnieux: A group shot at our Gîtes: Jeanne Mason, Steve Mason, my Mom, Jeanne's Dad, Anne Gengler, Jeanne's Mom |
Near Gigondas | Gigondas | Bonnieux |
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| Near Gingondas | Poppies and vines | Seguret | A dry-stone built "Borrie" | Sunset at the Bonnieux Gîtes |
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| At Vacqueyras, with the Gigondas and Beaumes de Venise hills behind |
View of Gigondas from the Belvedere |
View from Tarascon Castle |
View over Bonnieux |
The Cinque Terre |
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The Cinque Terre |
The Cinque Terre |
Michaelangelo's David at Florence | Florence -- looking out of our hotel window | Florence the Arno |
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| Façade of the Florence Duomo | Florence: The Duomo | Florence: The Ponte Vecchio | Florence: Scooters! | Florence: The replica of the David in the town square |
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| Florence: Fountain in the town square | Florence: View from the top of the Duomo (~600-foot climb on increasingly narrow stairs. Mom made it too.) |
Florence: View from the top of the Duomo |
Another view of the Arno at Florence |
Views of Florence, Italy |
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Our B&B above Florence |
Tuscany |
Tuscany | Tuscany | Tuscany |
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| Our Agriturismo at Fietri in Chianti | Our Agriturismo at Fietri in Chianti: L to R Jeanne and Steve Mason, Anne Gengler, Jeanne's Mom, the owner of the place, my Mom, Jeanne's Dad |
Italy: Misty mountains in Liguria |
Grape flowers at Fietri |
Chianti: Castello Broglio |
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Chianti |
Chianti |
Chianti |
Montalcino |
Montepulciano |
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| Palazzo in Montepulciano | Olive leaves, Tuscany |
Poppies, Tuscany |
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| Siena |
Siena: The Duomo |
Siena: The Duomo |
Siena: The Duomo |
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Siena: The town square |
Siena: The town square |
Vertine (there's a beautiful walled medieval hill town around every corner in Tuscany!) |
Outside Volterra |
Background image is hills and poppies, near Gigondas, May 1999
Last updated: 26-Nov-2010
