- PROLOGUE -
Our European trip in 2009 was so full of adventures that we were not home long from that trip before we started contemplating the next one. We really don’t enjoy all the hassles of airports and flying great distances, so we do longer stays away, putting as much time as we can between boarding planes. While we have nothing against travel agents or all-inclusive holidays, we are just not the packaged vacation kind of tourists ... and I don’t function all that well with too much structure.
The 2012 tour is made possible by home exchanges, collaboration with many friends, car and accommodation sharing, and of course, the support of relatives in all kinds of ways.
We have titled this blog, In France with Friends
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| Salon de Thé dans Passage du Viuex Palais, Montauban, FR |
Joanne, my life partner and the woman who keeps me fed and focused came up with the title. This trip is really so much about great friendships—ours and the special people with whom we are travelling. Our other friends in France are the food and the wine, naturrelement!
THE ITINERARY and known places of domicile:
- July 30 -- departure to Wales
- August 3 -- Paris with a side trip to Belgium
- August 15 -- Segonzac, Charente
- August 17 -- Moissac, Tarn et Garonne
- October 1 -- Vaison-La-Romain, Provence
- October 21-- Collioure, Languedoc
- November 3 -- Barcelona
- November 6 --- Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Las Palmas, Antigua, St Maarten, Miami
- November 22 -- home
MAPS: I will endeavour to add maps to each of my postings to help the reader see where we are. We plan to be doing lots of wandering so I hope the maps will be helpful.
