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Renting a Car in France for a Slow Countryside Trip
The small inns worth staying at are rarely next to a station, and the bus to the next village may run twice a day, or only on...
Most people meet the Ardeche from a canoe in August, squeezed between hundreds of other canoes, and leave thinking it is a river theme park.
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The small inns worth staying at are rarely next to a station, and the bus to the next village may run twice a day, or only on...
Road Trips
The Alsace wine route looks short on a map, and that is exactly why so many visitors rush it.
Regional Food
Half the restaurants on the Vieux-Port chalk the word bouillabaisse on a board outside, and most of them are serving a fish...
Inns and Stays
You check in at a small hotel in the Dordogne, the owner asks if you will take breakfast tomorrow, and the price on the little...
France Regions
Most visitors see Normandy in a hurry: a coach to Mont Saint Michel, a morning at the landing beaches, then straight back to...
Travel Tips
You booked a slow week of regional trains, and now the news says the rail unions have called a grève for Thursday.
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