The drives for our summer trip to Europe both started and ended at the Charles de Gaulle airport of Paris. For both these drives from Paris to Switzerland and then the return drive, we made a one-night stopover in different cities in northeastern France. Both stops were in places that we had not previously visited and we were quite positively surprised by both of them. This post will provide an overview of these two French cities at the beginning and end of our drive.

Our first stop was in VESOUL in the Haute-Saône department, a town of some 15,000 inhabitants, first documented back in the year 899. The first 3 pictures below portray this charming place. We had a very pleasant evening here with nice, almost cool temperatures, compared to what we experienced for the entire month afterwards. The following link provides some more info from Wikipedia on Vesoul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesoul

Our final stop on the way back from Switzerland to Paris was in the town of TROYES in the Champagne Department with some 62,000 inhabitants. We heard good things about this stop, so our expectations were quite high, but we were definitely NOT prepared for a city core that was seemingly almost entirely out of the late Middle Ages. It is a city with a rich historical past, situated on the River Seine which 140km/90 miles further down-river flows through Paris. Its medieval old town features narrow, cobbled streets lined with hundreds of colorful, half-timbered houses, mostly dating from the 16th century. I went almost trigger-crazy on that afternoon following our arrival - and got up especially early in the morning before our departure to the Paris airport to explore the town further, resulting in hundreds of more images. For more information, click on the following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troyes

I upload only one post today, as this marks the end of my images from our 2023 trips. Tomorrow I will start with a similar, but shorter and less versatile series covering our 2022 trips to Europe, covering mainly Switzerland plus short stays in the UK, Rome/Italy and the French Riviera.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to this series. Please use the link below if you would like to review this intro:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-797460-1.html

SUMMER TRIP INFO: Set # 7 provides more information on this second trip of the year to Europe
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-797711-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

MY ONLINE ALBUMS: If you are interested to see more photos of this series, I invite you to view my albums on my photo website. Access my website with the link below, click on the tab "Albums-Chronological" on top, this and past posts are part of the album "2023 Trips - Interim Selection" at the very top of the list. Click on the link "Short" to see the small selection of images I already worked on, more to come at a much later date. Earlier travel series I posted on UHH can also be viewed via my website: Click on the tab UHH on top which provides a link to the UHH pages and indicates the topics and pages where these can be found. Unfortunately the link from my website to the actual albums or UHH works only on laptop or desktop computers, not on handheld devices like iPad or cellphones, as the standard pdf format I use is not supported by these.
Link: www.weberwest.weebly.com

Thanks for visiting, I recommend viewing the downloads and look forward to your comments and questions.

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The drives for our summer trip to Europe both started and ended at the Charles de Gaulle airport of Paris. For both these drives from Paris to Switzerland and then the return drive, we made a one-night stopover in different cities in northeastern France. Both stops were in places that we had not previously visited and we were quite positively surprised by both of them. This post will provide an overview of these two French cities at the beginning and end of our drive.

Our first stop was in VESOUL in the Haute-Saône department, a town of some 15,000 inhabitants, first documented back in the year 899. The first 3 pictures below portray this charming place. We had a very pleasant evening here with nice, almost cool temperatures, compared to what we experienced for the entire month afterwards. The following link provides some more info from Wikipedia on Vesoul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesoul

Our final stop on the way back from Switzerland to Paris was in the town of TROYES in the Champagne Department with some 62,000 inhabitants. We heard good things about this stop, so our expectations were quite high, but we were definitely NOT prepared for a city core that was seemingly almost entirely out of the late Middle Ages. It is a city with a rich historical past, situated on the River Seine which 140km/90 miles further down-river flows through Paris. Its medieval old town features narrow, cobbled streets lined with hundreds of colorful, half-timbered houses, mostly dating from the 16th century. I went almost trigger-crazy on that afternoon following our arrival - and got up especially early in the morning before our departure to the Paris airport to explore the town further, resulting in hundreds of more images. For more information, click on the following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troyes

I upload only one post today, as this marks the end of my images from our 2023 trips. Tomorrow I will start with a similar, but shorter and less versatile series covering our 2022 trips to Europe, covering mainly Switzerland plus short stays in the UK, Rome/Italy and the French Riviera.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to this series. Please use the link below if you would like to review this intro:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-797460-1.html

SUMMER TRIP INFO: Set # 7 provides more information on this second trip of the year to Europe
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-797711-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

MY ONLINE ALBUMS: If you are interested to see more photos of this series, I invite you to view my albums on my photo website. Access my website with the link below, click on the tab "Albums-Chronological" on top, this and past posts are part of the album "2023 Trips - Interim Selection" at the very top of the list. Click on the link "Short" to see the small selection of images I already worked on, more to come at a much later date. Earlier travel series I posted on UHH can also be viewed via my website: Click on the tab UHH on top which provides a link to the UHH pages and indicates the topics and pages where these can be found. Unfortunately the link from my website to the actual albums or UHH works only on laptop or desktop computers, not on handheld devices like iPad or cellphones, as the standard pdf format I use is not supported by these.
Link: www.weberwest.weebly.com

Thanks for visiting, I recommend viewing the downloads and look forward to your comments and questions.

.

superb images!

Do You know what?
You shot the set I dreamed to capture...but Troyes is far away from home (Dijon...ca. 175 km)