Sarah had another vacation. Perhaps you think that's a strange opener, but it seems like she always has one! European schools, well, Europeans in general, have much more vacation time than their American counterparts. Maybe they know something we don't...but it always poses the question....what to do?This time, we decided to go on a road trip like we did in October, but instead of Italy, we chose to stay in France. Briefly, our 9 day mini driving Tour de France was to travel in a counter clockwise circle around the western half of the country. We'd be visiting the Dordogne River Valley(Sarlat area) for several days, then the Loire Valley(Tours) and the famous chateaux for several more, then on to Normandy coast(Bayeux) and the WWII battlefields. At this point, we would head south and west going to Mont St Michel(near St Malo on the map), then to the city of Nantes, where Nick has clients, and finally complete the circle with a long drive back to Aix. We had hoped to stop somewhere near Bordeaux on the way home, but we were three weary travellers by that point. If interested, see the link to a map of France below.
Nick, Sarah and I are each working on writing about different portions of the trip and we hope to have our posts up soon! I'll be describing our visit to our first destination, the Dordogne, where the photo above was taken.
A bientot!
Susie
PS. Aix isn't on this map, but it is located right above Marseille.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/europe/france/france.htm
2 comments:
Nick, great visiting with you this week. I'm not sure it is a good idea for Ans and I to look at these pictures.... Just make us want to come joing you all. By the way Nick, in all those late nights at the Onion you missed telling my how attractive your signigicat other is.... Love the pictures that your daughter is taking. It is like looking at face book of my kids. I just noticed that my comments must be approved by the blog author so I'll keep them short and sweet. thanks for the great lesson on France too by the way.
Mark,
Thanks for your comment...we don't get many!!Hopefully you'll check the blog often and you and Ans will decide to come over here too!
a bientot!
Susie
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