Only 3 days till I'm off on my France trip, after all this planning and reading it's finally feeling like things are coming together! I have all my driving maps [Northern France Michelin map + various google maps of varying lengths]. The Google maps are actually the most helpful as I am able to get...
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i just picked up a Canon SD630 digital elph for our France Trip [now only 7 days away]. i previously owned the Canon SD100 way back in the day, and took it all around europe, probably getting a good 20k shots on the thing. it was a great pocket camera, and that had a lot...
Since Tanya and I don't want to rent a car in Paris [or more that we don't want to drive in the city] we're doing what good friend Rick Steeves says and taking a train out to Rouen and grabbing the car there. We're also not returning it to Rouen, but Rennes down south so...
Here's a nice article on Brittany, France where we're going to be doing a lot of traveling: Brittany is a region located to the North-West of France. The English Channel on its Northern coast, and the Atlantic on the West and South. To the East, Brittany borders Lower Normandy and the Western Loire. Landscape: Brittany...
check this out! I've already been to a few like the cafe, but here's a whole list of movie locations used in the movie Amelie! How Cool! In the Footsteps of Amelie Poulain
Ian and Tanya's Paris Trip, December 23 - January 1st 2006 Trip Itinerary v1.5 Dec 23rd > LAX to CDG Travel Time from LA to Paris - 14 hours Sleep: on Plane Dec 24th > Paris Arrive in Paris at 3pm [aka: 15:00] Sleep: at Hotel Jeanne d'Arc, Paris Dec 25th > Paris Hang out...
Dec 29th > Getting Back to Paris Drive from Dinan to Rennes / drop off car Take train from Rennese to Paris, sleep there Dec 30th > Paris Take train over to Versailles Dec 31st > Paris New Years! The last three nights of hoteling are expensive, but not nearly as bad as the first...
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