RS guide blogpost on travel in France

Love Vero's blog/FB posts. She takes great pictures and tells a great story with them.

Ditto - she does a fabulous job exploring Paris and points beyond. It was informative and poignant to watch her stroll through Montmartre with only a handful of people on the streets.

Love Véro!

That was such a vivid and accurate snapshot. All of our French friends and family started traveling the moment the 100 kilometer limit was lifted and they are still at it. It's a different world for them, now.

I hope a lot of people read and share Veronique's post, so people in the States can see how life can be once again--not as it was before March--but there can be a new livable normal if we go back to seriously trying to control this beast.

In the article, Veronique proposes that apartments are likely less sanitized for Covid-19 than hotels despite standards set by agencies like Air BnB.. Ive stayed in a few different hotels in British Columbia and Yukon for business in the last month and did my own sanitizing of obvious surfaces (light switches, door handles, remotes, counters, faucets). I’ve been looking at apartments for our upcoming 14 days in Provence, and I guess I could sanitize an apartment myself like I do a hotel room but it makes me think that hotels would be a safer bet. My gut feel is that hotels would be more diligent than apartment owners in this regard.

My gut feel is that hotels would be more diligent than apartment owners in this regard.

I think you're right, although I prefer to avoid hotels in general. But it hardly matters at the moment, because, as Americans, right now we can't go anywhere that we want to go. Now, Peter, if only your country would open their border. But I certainly understand why they don't want to.