Hello everyone!

My husband and I will be leaving for Paris on Wednesday, October 3. We will be staying for four nights, departing on October 8. From Paris, we are taking the TGV to Lyon, renting a car and driving to Chamonix Mont-Blanc. We will be staying for three nights in Chamonix at the Croix Blanche. On October 11, we will driving (yikes) to the Sous Les Figuiers in St. Remy-de-Provence, where we will stay for six nights. On Wednesday, October 17, we will drop off our car at the TGV in Avignon and take train back to Paris, where we will stay another three nights before heading back home to Houston on Saturday, October 17. Twelve weeks, minus one day before we leave. I'm really excited, but nervous about the driving portion from Chamonix to St. Remy.

I will be in Paris from Nov 1-8. Have an apartment in the 2nd. I am still planning on daytrips. But if anybody is going to be there at the same time, I am up for a GTG.

Tom

We are heading to France for a month starting in late September.

Paris:9/24-9/29
http://www.hotelmarronniers.com/index.html

Bonnieux: 9/29-10/20 (apartment rental)

http://www.holidaylettings.co.uk/rentals/bonnieux/5050

Paris: 10/20-10/21

We have one night before our flight from CGD- our flight is at 2:00PM. Any thoughts on where we should stay?

Thanks,

Margret

Happy Bastille Day French lovers! Today is also our 34th wedding anniversary, which is wonderful for a couple who adores France!

2 months from today we'll arrive in Barcelona for our drive up into France, and a September visit to the Languedoc area of France.

Yes, I will be doing a river cruise in early November beginning in Paris...

DH & I will be in France around mid-Oct. Attending a wedding in the Loire valley for the first 2 days. After the wedding, my parents will join us in tourint the Loire for 3 days. Then to Paris for 3 days before returning home.

am i dreaming?????
is it possible to just rent a car from Paris, drive to Bayeux...see the crosses (cemetary) and then just hang??? we will just be able to stumble upon a quaint b and b along the coast to spend the night? has hollywood tainted my dreams of France?

It's very possible! Here's a B&B we're booked to stay at in the spring:

http://www.lemasnormand.com

It has great reviews on Trip Advisor.

Clea, I too am trying to convince myself that, yes, I CAN go to Paris solo - I'm hoping for this September - checking airfares daily. Any particular tips/suggestions you ran across that you might share? I will also go to the Dordogne for a few days where I have family but one week in Paris just for me! What a terrific group on this post! If I am in Paris on any of the above dates, I too would love a GTG.

Has anyone stayed at any of the apartments on Parler Paris? I am always so glad to find this newsletter in my mailbox.

Happy travels to all.

ONly in my dreams...
Jealous of all of you who are going.

Have a great trip. I am with you in spirit.

Our kids are off to college and we'll be spending 3 weeks in Bourgogne, backpacking from Fontainbleau to Beaune via Auxerre and Dijon, then training it back to Paris. I love not knowing where we'll spend the night or where we'll dine. Any other avid walkers out there? We leave Sept. 29 and come back Oct. 19 and should hike for just over 200 miles. Can't wait.

(Hello again, robjame!)

I'll be in Paris a bit earlier than everyone... I arrive on the 15th of August and leave for London on the 14th of September. I've rented an apartment near the Pompidou for a bit of a writing retreat.

And I'm now scouring your posts for ideas on places to eat, events to attend and unusual things to do!

We are arriving in Paris September 14 and renting an apartment in the Odeon neighborhood. Will spend 10 days doing leisurely museum tour and eating at some of the Fodorites favorites. We will rent a car on the 24th and drive to Loire Valley. We are staying at Manoir Saint Gilles de la Cirottiere (http://www.manoir-st-gilles.com/pages/main.html), northeast of Saumur. Karen Brown recommended this place and it looks lovely---best of all, it is 75E/night including breakfast. Has anyone else stayed here? I can find no other information on it.

We'll be arriving in Bordeaux on Sept. 1. With 2 small children, we're doing our first house rental just north of the city. We plan to tour the Gironde, and possibly south to Pays Basque.

We will spend our final days relaxing at Sources de Caudalie.

Josh,

Pays Basque is so beautiful!! We loved it this past May. Do try and make the trip if possible!

going to Provence in September....
Arrive Barcelona on 9/25, spend 4 nights in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain and then 7 nights at a gite on the grounds of a winery in La Baume-de-transit--about 30 mins. from Nyons. Leave from Marseille on 10/7.

I posted awhile back that we were 95% sure we were going. Well, make that 100%! Tickets are purchased, hotels reserved, etc. We'll be in Paris for 5 days, then head over to the Bavaria/Tirol/Salzburg area for 6 days. It's a shorter trip than we'd like to do, but with a limited budget and limited time off (boyfriend just started a new job), it was all we could manage. We plan to make the most of it.

This is a suggestion for several people who have been writing in this post. We love to spend time in Dijon. It is a charming city that we have visited more than once. We stayed at a lovely apartment that you can see at www.myhomeindijon.com

We're going to Nice Sept 27th for a week. It will be our 4th visit there. On our other trips we've started and ended in Nice but have stayed other places in the middle. This time we'll just stay in Nice but probably do a day trip or two. We've never been to St Tropez so we're planning to rent a car and go there for a day.

We're leaving for Dublin on 9/13, flying to Paris on 9/17 and taking the train to St Victor La Coste (NW of Avignon) to participate in La Sabranenque restoration project for two weeks. Then back to Paris where we'll stay close to Chateau de Vincennes in a timeshare for a week. Train to Milan for two nights and then on to Venice where we'll board the Emerald Princess for a 17 night transatlantic journey. Perhaps we'll cross paths with some Fodorites and we'll never know....

If you had a choice of spending a day in Dijon as opposed to Lyon, which would it be and why?