This image is from our 2018 trip to the Vendée on the west coast of France. It's the city of Niort and one of its churches, Saint André ...

This building is probably, over all, in better shape than our garden shed. But the door looks like it's seen better days. Still, there...

This is the entrance to a cemetery in the small town across the Vendée river from the house we rented. We took a short walk around the neigh...

This is that beach in the video with Tasha that I posted the other day. After our little walk, we got back into the car and headed back to t...

The Atlantic coast of France is known, at least in France, for its marais salants (salt ponds). As far as I know, these are not large comme...

We saw a lot of sailboats on our trip to the coast. Well, duh. But really, who owns all these sailboats? I know the French are really, reall...

I'm going out of order here. The beach in yesterday's post with Tasha was the third beach we walked on. After the first beach, on th...

Dog day at the beach! This is the second third beach we took Tasha to on Noirmoutier. It's on the ocean side of the island, so there is...

All the houses in Le Vieil on the island of Noirmoutier are painted white. So it's not surprising that someone would want to be sure the...

Among the places on our must-see list during our trip to the Vendée was the island of Noirmoutier. Ken and I had set foot on the island once...

This is une mangeoire (a manger) in one of the cow pastures that Tasha and I passed while walking along the Vendée River. Before the sun wa...

On our first morning in the rental house in the Vendée, a Sunday, I felt a slight chill in the air and noticed ground fog forming in the low...

The marshland region we visited last week is formally called le Marais poitevin, but it's also known as la Venise verte (Green Venice). ...

A few steps from the house we rented is the Vendée River, a small river full of fish and other wildlife that is part of the Marais Poitevin ...

Ken went to the store. Tasha and I stayed home. She spent the whole time sitting and standing at the door, waiting for Ken to come back. She...

Here are a couple of photos from inside our vacation rental house. I didn't take any pictures of the bedrooms or the bath, but Ken did, ...

We decided last summer to plan a trip to the central Atlantic coast this fall. In 2008 we went there, to the Ile d'Oléron, and wanted to...

...is a Bipper Tepee. Just kidding. This is the first time I've seen a Bipper Tepee, and the first time I've ever known that a car c...

This weekend we'll move our clocks back one hour. That means it will be getting dark earlier in the evening. At least it will get light ...

I saw this painted over a little window on the side of a house. I wonder what goes on in there? I think I know what doesn't. Don...