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Loire

The Loire Valley is another beautiful area in France. We have just touched on it on both of our trips in 2018. We have more to explore there.

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April 7, 2025 Tours FR

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We have been looking at Tours for a few days now and we finally decided to make it a stop. No guidebook of France is

May 3, 2022 Nourmoutier en Ille FR

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After a wonderful time in Brittany it was time to begin setting south for Spain. We are not in a big hurry so today we

April 24, 2022, Vendome FR

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We were excited because last night when we were walking around town we saw them setting up the market for today. We woke up earlier

November 16, 2019 Tournon-Sur-Rhone FR

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We woke up early with only two things in mind for the day. Head over to the Valrhona Chocolate company, and then jump in François

September 24, 2018 Chartres FR

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Our plan when we arrived was to head towards Spain, so of course we drove north today to Chartres. Along the way we decided to

September 22, 2018 Chateau de Chambord FR

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Well, plans change. We had originally planned to go to Orleans for the day, but last night we discussed spending a few days in the

We visited Normandy and Brittany unexpectedly in the Fall of 2018 after being urged to do it by nearly everyone we met. Besides the D-Day beaches Normandy also has Mont St Michel one of the iconic places in France.

September 28, 2018 St. Malo FR

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Today we enjoyed Brittany. We had to make a decision, who said there is no stress on these trips. We are really enjoying Brittany and

September 27, 2018 Mont St. Michel FR

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There are two iconic images of France for tourism. One is the Eiffel Tower and the other is Mont. St. Michel. Since we were close

September 26, 2018 Coleville FR

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We are still on the Normandy peninsula basically moving from the area of Utah Beach to Omaha Beach. We got a late start as we

September 25, 2018 St. Mere-Eglise FR

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Today we covered the most distance we have covered in one day on the trip, about 200 miles. We got up a little early, and

Auvergne

We stopped for a couple of nights to try out some Beaujolais wine, and to visit a volcanic mountain, this area really appealed to us. We love the cheese from Salers. The capital of this area is Lyon the second biggest city in France. We made a short visit to Lyon in our Fall 2019 trip.

October 6, 2019 Lyon FR

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The jet lag is starting to wear off so we woke a little earlier to head into Lyon. We purchased an all day pass for

October 5, 2019 Lyon FR

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We are both battling a little bug coupled with jet lag and a pretty good storm resulted in a poor nights sleep for both of

April 14, 2018 Salers FR

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The plan today was to hit two villages in the Cantal region of France. Cantal is famous for its cheese and the ruggedness of its

April 13, 2018 Orcines FR

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Today we reluctantly left Burgundy. But before leaving we wanted to take a look at some more of the Beaujolais country. Somewhere around Julien we

April 12, 2018 Rommaneche-Thorins FR

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We woke up to a pretty steady rain in our Aire in Cluny. Ton pointed out that I had been throwing the term Aire around

Aquitaine

We made a couple of stops in Aquitaine, primarily to visit the famous Bordeaux wine country.

May 4, 2022 Blaye FR

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The next couple days will be a lot of driving. We are looking at covering about 300km’s per day as we aim for Galicia. Today

October 2, 2018 Bordeaux FR

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Everyone we talked to over the last few days told us we had to go to Bordeaux. Ron was a little intimidated with the idea

October 1, 2018 St. Laurent Medoc FR

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We spent the day exploring the wine region on the west side of the Gironde River. This area has some of the most expensive wines

September 30, 2018 Blaye FR

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We had an early start to the day. The weather continues to be great, highs in the low 70’s and lows in the low 50’s.

September 29, 2018 Rochefort FR

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Today we reluctantly left Brittany and decided to take a big bite out of our trip to Spain. We covered over 350km today to the

Midi Pyrennes

We have not really explored this region, but just stopped a couple of times coming and going. Ron really liked Albi.

November 1, 2018 Issoire FR

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After a short nights sleep and feeling a little worst for wear we woke up to beautiful blue skies. It was time to make some

April 16, 2018 Rivieres FR

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Today turned into a maintenance day. We are at a campground in Rivieres and we did not move here. After we were done visiting Albi

April 15, 2018 Albi FR

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The day started out with a visit to the cheese shop under the supervision of Patrick the campsite owner. He also had a French couple