Road Trips
French Toll Roads or D Roads and How to Split a Driving Day
Paris to Beaune on the A6 takes about three hours and costs roughly 30 euros in tolls one way.
From the summit of the Puy de Dôme you can count more than 80 extinct volcanoes lined up across the horizon, green cones and craters that last erupted around 7,000 years ago.
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Road Trips
Paris to Beaune on the A6 takes about three hours and costs roughly 30 euros in tolls one way.
Regional Food
Drive any back road in the Aveyron or the Gers in late afternoon and you will pass hand painted boards that say vente directe ,...
Inns and Stays
You arrive at a stone inn above the Lot valley at six in the evening, and the woman at the desk asks a question that catches...
Travel Tips
The cheese stall at a Saturday market in the Lot had a hand lettered sign that read "Carte à partir de 15 euros".
Games
Spend a summer evening in a small French town and you will eventually find the tombola, the raffle drum turning on a trestle...
France Regions
Drive two hours north of Geneva and the traffic thins to almost nothing.
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