We are travelling from New Zealand to France in June/July next year. We will have approximately 12 nights in France starting from Paris and possibly ending up in Nice. We want to do self drive but don%26#39;t want to spend all our time driving and missing out of the wonderful countryside.
We would like to see the Normandy Beaches, Mont St Michel, perhaps travel by train to Bordeaux or Avignon and travel in the South of France ending up in Nice.
Does anyone have any suggestions of what we can do and where we can go in this time. It is certainly mind boggling to say the least.
There are 4 adults and 1 14 year old so would need suitable areas for all of us.
Look fowrard to hearing from everyone
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That seems like a very ambitious trip. You should figure on 6-7 days in Paris and that will just skim over the major sights. Then I would pick two other locations and take the TGV instead of driving. If you concentrate on one region you will see more than trying to do Paris, Normandy, Avignon and Nice all in 12 days. You might try to do the Loire area and Paris and possible Normandy this trip.
You should have a wonderful time. But give yourselves time to just relax and savor France.
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I%26#39;m with Holger. If you only have 12 nights concentrate on Paris with maybe a relaxed four or five day trip to Normandy and a little of Brittany. Frankly I don%26#39;t think you have time even to do both Normandy and the Loire valley without ending up having a rushed visit to both. Then if you are continuing your trip from Nice you could fly from Paris with Air France or EasyJet or take the TGV though this would be an hour or two slower.
Alternatively you could take the TGV to Avignon (three hours) and spend four or five days exploring Provence before you end up in Nice, or fly to Nice from Paris and spend some time exploring the Riviera. You probably would not want a car if you did the last as the coast is easiest seen by train and/or bus from a central base. The Riviera gets pretty crowded by June and a car is a liability vrather than an asset.
Just FYI the other areas you mention will also be busy in June and increasingly crowded as you get into July and the school holiday period.
Bordeaux is pretty out of the way in terms of the other places you mention, and frankly not that great a destination unless you have a deep interest in the wines of the region. If it is wine-producing areas you are interested in you might consider Burgundy instead of Normandy.
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we drove Paris to Nice and I thought it to be very beautiful. We stopped off at dijon, lyon, avignon, les baux, saint remy then onward to Nice, we did this in a few days.......
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