France

This trip to the Cote d'Azur in 5 days took us by car from our city to an area of ​​France that we still did not know. We headed from Lloret to Arles which was our first stop on the route and the place where we stayed the first night. On the second day of the trip we went to visit some of the most beautiful cities in the area such as Avignon, Les Baux en Provence and Aux en Provence, where we enjoyed some of the most special places of the trip.

Adonis La Barbacane Residence Our hotel in Carcassonne was an apartment in the very center of the city, located less than 5 minutes from La Cité. The apartment has all the comforts, including a small living room and kitchen, apart from the double bedroom and the bathroom. All rooms are very spacious and very clean, so we highly recommend it for such a getaway.

Tips in Carcassonne and the Cathar Castles If you are going to do this route in the summer, go with the idea of ​​finding a lot of people on these visits. We met a lot of tourists and that we were in low season, although it coincided with the weekend. If possible, traveling in the less tourist months will allow you to enjoy much more of an incredible environment.

This getaway took us to Carcassonne and the Cathar Castles in a weekend. We leave Lloret de Mar and head to our first destination, Queribus Castle, which is about two hours from home. When you go through the ticket office to buy tickets, they offer us a passport that costs 2 euros more than the price of the original ticket (5.

Hotel La Fontaine Caen Hotel in Caen. It is in a fairly central situation so it is very comfortable to visit the city and as a base for visits in the surroundings. The price does not include breakfast and parking is paid, 12 euros a day, which although it may seem cheap for France, although it is a bit far from the accommodation.

Our trip to Normandy in 4 days took us to visit places such as the Cliffs of Étretat, Honfleur, Caen, Landing Beaches such as Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, La Cambe, Arromanches, Batteries de Longues, the incredible and famous Mont Saint Michel , Saint Malo, Dinan and Val de Reuil, where we spent the night last day, before returning to Paris Beauvois Airport to return home.

Day 4: VAL DE REUIL - BEAUVAIS AIRPORT - GIRONA Saturday, August 17, 2013 Today the alarm rings at 7.30 in the morning in Rouen Val de Reuil, in which it was our accommodation, the Hotel Balladins Rouen, the last night from this trip to Normandy that has offered us so many things. It is our last day and we have to return the rental car in Normandy at Beauvais airport.

Day 2: CAEN - DESEMBARCO BEACHES (Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, La Cambe, Arromanches, Batteries de Longues) - MONT SAINT MICHEL Friday, August 16, 2013 Today we wake up at 6.30 in the morning. As usual and we always count, when an alarm sounds at this time, it is usually a sign that we are traveling and warns us that it is time to start getting going!

Day 3: MONT SAINT MICHEL - ST. BAD - DINAN - VAL DE REUIL Saturday, August 17, 2013 Mmmm ... what sounds the alarm clock? Yes, it will be that it is the alarm clock and that it is 6 in the morning! We really want to know Mont Saint-Michel, but we are so tired of yesterday traveling the Landing Beaches that we just delayed it 15 minutes to take advantage of the heat offered by the Hotel Chambres les Salles.

Day 1: GIRONA - BEAUVAIS AIRPORT - ÉTRETAT CLIFFS - HONFLEUR - CAEN Thursday, August 15, 2013 Ringggggg, Ringggggg ... mmm ... alarm clock? But if it's only 4 in the morning !!! That's right, it's 4 o'clock in the morning, but today we get up without swirling in bed ... today is a special day, today we go on a trip to Normandy and we will enter through the cliffs of Étretat and Honfleur.

Day 0: PREPARATIONS A few days after finishing the trip to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, we closed a getaway that we will make to one of the places that, also, had been on our list of “dream destinations” for years. We already had that we would return from Sri Lanka and Maldives on July 14 and that this getaway will be the bridge on August 15, so we will hardly have time to recover from one trip ... to undertake another.

Day 2: CARCASSONE - LAGRASSE - FONTFROIDE ABBEY - LLORET DE MAR Sunday, April 10, 2011 Today we set the alarm clock at 9 in the morning. We will take advantage of the bed a little more before we set off for Lagrasse and the Fornfroide Abbey. After picking up everything and having coffee in the apartment, about 10 we get going.

Day 1: LLORET DE MAR - CASTILLO QUÉRIBUS - CASTILLO PEYREPERTUSE - CASTILLO ARQUES - CARCASSONE Saturday, April 9, 2011 6.45 in the morning: Ringggggggg, ringgggggggg ... What do you think if we change the time and sleep 10 more minutes? This is how our weekend getaway to France has begun, pointing more to the South of France, we go to the Cathar and Carcassonne castles.