Dispatch from Metz

Across France, from the Sacré Coeur in Paris to St-Michel de l'Aguille in Le Puy, churches large and small perch on high ground. In Alsa...

Sarrebourg

This wraps up my series of posts on our visit to the Vosges du Nord and the lower country to the west. The posts included: An introduction t...

The rolling landscape west of the Vosges du Nord contains hard reminders of the tragedy of World War II, both from before the war and in its...

For an afternoon's excursion, Susie and I drove to the town of Pont-a-Mousson , which is about 30 kilometers south--that is to say upstr...

From its source in the Vosges Mountains on its way to its confluence with the Rhine, the Moselle passes through the city of Metz. In fact, i...