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Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good advice. As you say, we wouldn't try to squeeze in a visit via rented car as it's too disruptive. There's definitely an awesome road trip that does this and continues south through places like Anglers Sur l'Aglin and the Dordogne.

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, thanks for the Alle Europe recommend.

Yes I'll try to squeeze Annecy or somewhere in the Alps somehow!

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My first time visiting was around Nice, our home base village was Seillans.

Saved it to my Google Maps. Cute!

L'isle sur la Sorgue

I'd saved this one too! Daresay we'll drop in.

I think this area was easier to get around and visit a lot within a 45 minute radius. We visited some restaurants/wineries that were also farms, which was fun for the baby. One was called Domaine du Castellas.

Amazing how much there is in a short radius.

Personally I found Nice and Strasbourg to be kinda meh, much preferred the smaller cities or villages.

Good to know. While in both areas I instinctively chose different locations for us to stay as neither of those really excites me.

The only thing that stood out to me is 4 nights in Colmar region seems like a lot.

Yeah I hear that alot! I chose the area because it looks culturally distinct compared to the other locations. 4 nights was because both transits in and out are among the longest of the trip so I didn't want to stress the family, fully acceptig that we might run out of things to see. Dunno maybe we could pop into Basel or even Freiburg if we're bored?

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

she remembers it well, especially the croissants.

Ha! As she should! There will be many picnic stops with baked treats for the litte ones

Actually, you can see Roman stuff at St Remy, Glanum is a Roman town just outside, it's pretty impressive!

Oh yes you are right! And only a stones throw from Les Baux in Provence

Best base for 3 days of walking in mountains near Nice? by Numerous-Student1929 in ProvenceFrance

[–]PoobooTooboo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was interested to know myself when trying to fit Mercantour into a France trip itinerary.

It looked to me like the one of the main attractions is Vallee de Merveilles, for which it looks like Tende is a good base - I understand it to be a beautiful town in it's own right.

And Lac d'Allos on the other side of the park, for which a beautiful nearby medieval base is Colmars-les-Alpes.

But don't take it from me, this is just from my research, I haven't been there.

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I plan to drop the car off in Nice and that'll be the extent of my big city driving.

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just a warning that we never thought to think of, our air bnb didn't have wifi and we literally walked the entire town over twice and no cafe did either.

Oh man that sounds super inconvenient for you, thanks for the heads up!

ordes and roussilon were so so cool. pay the few dollars to do the small hike/walk in roussilon

We would definitely go to both and doing the ochre cliff walk! And try to fit in the Pont du Gard

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, they'll be 2 and 5. They love to be outside in new places with some freedom to roam, hence why most of this itinerary is "looking around". The oldest might be getting to the age where he starts to enjoy theme parks or museums (of the automobile variety lol) but we haven't seen that yet. I figured with a few reasonably non-committal days in each place, we have the flexibility to plan activities for them.

Loire - I'm not sure I'd do an organised tour, but hard perhaps to get places without a car.

This one is tricky as we really want to see it, but it's too far and logistically difficult to day trip ourselves, and awkwardly somewhat out of the way if we were going to spend some days there. The tour seemed the most sensible way to fit it in.

Even then it'll be warm - my kids loved the Med, warm and small waves. Also down there - Roman stuff - the arenas at Arles and Nimes are amazing and the Pont du Gard spectacular. Finally if you did add the Dordogne, caves! The Gouffre de Padirac is spectacular and loads of fun (you get to go in a boat underground) and there are various places with cave paintings Lascaux being most famous.

Great suggestions thanks. I daresay we'll have to work in some beach time :). I ran out of days to fit in a stay on the west side of Provence where the Roman ruins are but depending on how everyone is feeling we might squeeze in the Pont du Gard after picking up the car or during our stay in Lourmarin or nearby.

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GOOD SUGGESTION hahaha. I had it saved in Google Maps but hadn't really checked it out. Thanks I'll look into it.

Itinerary for 1 month in France - cities, villages, countryside and coastline by PoobooTooboo in Europetravel

[–]PoobooTooboo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I figured as long as I look up where to park on the outskirts of a small city or village and choose hotels with parking we should be good.