[tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
- From: whocanduncan1@xxxxxxxxx
- To: "TCB" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:35:29 +0000
That's what I'm talking about! Please keep it coming.
Traveling co-conspirators of busses, or something like that. Go TCB!
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From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:09:26
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
The key is to rent a car, or in your case, a motorcycle. You can go anywhere
and without it will be harder to get away from the touristy sites.
!0 days. Less you won’t see enough, more is tiring and expensive. My biggest
tip about seeing France, or anywhere is to get out of the big cities and go to
a grocery store. Just look at the stuff they eat and ask people what is this? I
was in a big store and I was looking at the wine and it was really expensive,
like the prices here. As I am standing there and telling my friend, ”they can’t
drink this every day”. So, this really old bent over lady with a cane comes
over to us and pointed to the floor, under and behind the big shelves were
dozens of two gallon bottles of red and white, some with no labels at all. They
were about 2 American dollars each.
I wanted to buy ice, ya know, a bag of ice for the cheap cooler I had bought so
I could chill the hard cider I had bought from a roadside booth. The French do
not understand ice at all. They think that cold drinks are bad for the colon
(SWEAR TO GOD). I learned that if you wanted more than a couple of cubes you
have to go to a bar. They have ice.
The trains are cool and thrifty, but when you get to the town, you still need a
ride to get away from the station. You can rent a bicycle if you are very hardy.
You can spend a week in Paris. Two days in the freaking Louvre. One at
Versailles. The Musee Orsay(sp). Notre Dame (don’t buy post cards from the guy
at the little gate out front. He tells you that they are part of the admission
price, but it’s not, it’s a scam, and he gets everyone).
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
Yep
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From: kelly dosch <kellydosch@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:31:48 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
There are no French virgins. Those cherries are long gone, but they still
have the boxes they came in.
But seriously folks, Duncan wants to know about the non-touristy, non-over
priced, non crowded rustic and charming spots. Am I right?
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
To: "TCB" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011, 12:24 AM
Everything. It will be my first. I'm a french virgin.
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From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:23:25 -0600
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
I have been a few other times. What do you want to know?
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
I am lucky to have a native expatriot as a neighbor.
Denis, this is closer to the info I am looking for. Thank you.
Where did Renior sit?
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From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:12:23 -0600
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
I am surprised that this discussion isn’t about how the French are rude and
stink. I am impressed. Back when I was young and single I did a “trip of a
lifetime and flew in to Frankfurt, Germany, picked up a car and went to
Hiedelburg and then a slow route to Paris, North thru Belgium, to Amsterdam,
Copenhagen, Hamburg and back to Franfurt in 8 days.
Nowadays it would give me a heart attack.
Another time I flew into Frankfurt (the cheapest destination ticket, even now.
If you want to go to Europe, fly to Frankfurt) and to Strasburg, Paris, the
Loire Valley to Nice, then to Italy and Genoa, then to Switzerland, Vienna and
back to Frankfurt. I think that was 10 days.
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
True enough. I couldn't resist.
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
To: "TCB" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 11:37 PM
No. But nothing beats inside info
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From: kelly dosch <kellydosch@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
Well I'm trying to be a smart-ass. Is your Google finger busted?
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
To: "TCB" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 11:28 PM
Not trying to be a smart a**. is there more info available?
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From: Ronnie Hughes <fracdogii@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
They have been planning it since last summer. it's been used for 1000 years
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>Has he goggled the route?
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>From: Ronnie Hughes <fracdogii@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: [tcb] Re: OT: When is the best time to visit France?
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>My son and a couple of friends are headed to paris on march 23 to hike the way
>of saint james through france and into spain. The last 10 days they are going
>to a reggae festival somewhere in spain in late august.
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>On Wed Feb 9th, 2011 5:54 PM CST whocanduncan1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>All arguments, please. Time of year, price, bus shows, et al.
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