We traveled last weekend to Nancy, France. It is a 3 hour train ride east of Paris.
Nancy is where Art Nouveau started at the turn of the 20th century. Sarah and I are both big Art Nouveau fans, so we enjoyed it a lot. The city provides a map with all the Art Nouveau architecture on it. We walked and walked looking at different buildings. It was really cool because there were a lot of houses with interesting Art Nouveau detail on them that weren't by a famous architect. This made the whole town fun to walk through.
I've posted some pictures, but I want to caution you. If you aren't an avid architecture fan, you might have trouble wading through them.
http://picasaweb.google.com/suzypics2/Nancy
We also ate at a famous brassiere, Brassiere D'Excelsior. There is a picture posted at picasaweb that shows the ornate interior. I had some nice profiteroles. Profiteroles are vanilla ice cream filled pastry puffs smothered in warm dark chocolate sauce. This place brought a gravy boat of chocolate sauce to the table and smothered them after serving them. Yum!
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