I was enjoying the splendor of Trouville almost exactly a year ago during the early spring just when the sleepy town was preparing for the summer influx. I was going through my photos and remembered how striking the bare trees were with their big gnarly knobs. Like out of a crazy sci-fi film, I thought they would attack the inhabitants but luckily they didn't and I am sure they bloomed glorious a few weeks later. They are called plane trees and are native to the northern hemisphere. Certain species in North America are sycamore trees.
Please read the glowing review of my tours by my new friend/BFF Tracey Jackson.
I am very touched by her kind words. Tracey writes a terrific and funny personal blog and just wrote a bestselling book which you must run out and buy immediately, Between a Rock and a Hot Place-Why Fifty is Not the New Thirty. It's about life after 50 and it's LOL funny. I will write a post about our delicious tour later in the month.
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In addition to my Eye Prefer Paris Tours, we now offer Eye Prefer New York Tours, 3-hour walking tours of New Yorkís best neighborhoods including Soho, Meatpacking/West Village & Tribeca. Tours cost $195 for up to 3 people and $65 for each additional person.Come take a bit of the Big Apple on an Eye Prefer New York Tour!
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New! Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes
I am happy to announce the launch of Eye Prefer Paris Cooking Classes. Come take an ethnic culinary journey with me and chef and caterer Charlotte Puckette, co-author of the bestseller The Ethnic Paris Cookbook (with Olivia Kiang-Snaije). First we will shop at a Paris green-market for the freshest ingredients and then return to Charlotteís professional kitchen near the Eiffel Tower to cook a three-course lunch. After, we will indulge in the delicious feast we prepared along with hand-selected wines.
Cost: 185 euros per person (about $240)
Time: 9:30AM- 2PM (approximately 4 1/2 hours)
Location: We will meet by a metro station close to the market
Class days: Tuesday,Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Minimum of 2 students, maximum 6 students.
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wow...love these gnarly trees; how would one translate gnarly in French, or even Dutch for that matter.
Posted by: Joan | April 05, 2011 at 05:20 PM
Love this pics and I will be reviewing her fab book at my blog The Boomer Muse.
Posted by: Layla Morgan Wilde | April 05, 2011 at 06:15 PM
These are indeed plane trees, and they line roads all over France. The appearance you show here is not endemic to the tree itself but the result of a particular practice called "pollarding."
Posted by: Judy | April 06, 2011 at 11:15 AM