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19 Days in SE France and Paris
We enjoyed our 7th trip to France 10/20 to 11/6. The weather stayed nice with only 3 days of rain. I am just doing highlights for your review. We flew into Paris from Tampa and used the TGV to get to Draguignan and back quite cheaply and in comfort. AutoEurope for a nice small car rental. Around Nice, we used the great bus system to leave the car at home to get into Nice and Monaco. I could easily see how a "car less" vacation could be done out of Nice with the bus and trains into all of SE France.
Lodging - 2 great gites www.les-trois-baous.com near St. Jeannet just north of Nice and www.la.bastide-des-muriers.com near Draguignan. Very nice accomodations within easy travel of the many sites in East Provence. We allowed 3 days at the end for Paris and used www.paris-rent.fr for a studio. Small is the word but a great location and host. There are many sources of info for touring the area to the great small hill towns, Nice etc so I won't touch on any towns but I would HIGHLY SUGGEST a side trip to the 4 hill towns north of Ventigmia Italy. What medieval villages these are. Spectacular. I'd suggest you visit Kevin Hin's nice blog on the Nice area french-riviera-blog for some great advise for Nice and surrounding area. RESTUARANTS we enjoyed: La Table d'Yves - Fayence - 29E plat du jour to start - great value l'Escapade - Antibes- very reasonable sea food etc Safari - Nice by Cours Saleya - fun spot - reasonable Le Logis du Guetteur- Les Arc - upscale but reasonable - 31E Plat - terrific Chez Hugo - Seillans - 2 mo's old but terrific La Pesguiere - St. Tropez Near square with several other resturants. Huge menu, reasonable and great views La Salle Marger - Flayosc - Dutch couple - fabulous 59E lunch for two. La Farigoulette - Tourtour. good value provencal menu REED - Paris - recently opened by Canadian lady who was a private chef for 20 years in Paris - limited menu - seemed like slow cooking with Osso Buco and Cow Cheeks etc but was very good . $100 with bottle of wine for 2 FISH - La Boisonnerie - wine bar- restuarant - terrific value I think and very well done. $100 with nice bottle of Macon wine. That's about it. A very enjoyable trip but the SE of France didn't seem to have the excitement of the other regions. Maybe a bit too build up around the villages maybe. But still We would return for maybe a carless vacation in Nice. Again only very friendly and helpful people we found to help us. LOVE THE FRENCH!!!!!!! |
Thanks for the report -- will check out that Nice blog too!
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thank you - I have written a more detailed description of the gites in SlowTrav
I believe I did not type up the Muriers gite web site correctly - try WWW.la-bastide-de-muriers.com I booked them through Gites de France which really workw well for easy payments and paperwork |
still not working right for Muriers
The Gites de France reference is g1915 for Muriers and 7245 for Baous! |
Thank you dsevig for your succinct report. I would like to read the Kevin Hin blog yet no matter how I attempt to retrieve it, no luck. I entered his name, I entered the blog name, I did searches, and nope. I now request your assistance, please.
My husband and I have rented an apartment on the water in Antibes for 7 nights the last week of June. We are looking forward to visiting some of your selections. |
using google entering either "kevin Hin" or "french riviera blog" will come up with the site in my search - hope this helps
we thought Antibes was very nice with its market and musees. |
http://french-riviera-blog.com/categ...out-this-blog/ - I copied and pasted the address
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Thank you oh so very much for the web site. I will delve into it this afternoon.
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