Seeking evaluations & suggestions! My wife & I & teen grandson are planning 23-day overview driving tour of France with a few days in edge of adjacent countries. Goal is an introduction & some highlights of covered area. Especially enjoy roadside scenery, mountains, rural areas, local(use Rick's "Back Door") cultures, short walks & history.
Day 1, Tues Apr 21, Frankfurt Germany airport to Bacharach; Day 2 on to Metz, Fr; tentative stops were in a post reviewed Apr 12.
DAY 3, 250 miles: Visit a couple Metz-area ancestral villages; after lunch, the Joan of Arc birthplace site(s) in Domremy-la-Pucelle; take mainly N4 to suburban B&B E-side of Paris.
DAY 4, Fri: RER train into Paris to use hop on/off bus tour. "Must-See's" are Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe & Notre Dame Cathedral. Back to same B&B.
DAY 5, Sat, 200 miles: Drive around Paris to Palace of Versailles. In P.M. on to ancestral homesite near LeMans. Then bypass Tours to find B&B in Loire Valley before Blois.
I plan to post more of Tentative Itinerary later today.
We have no lodging reservations yet. We usually either phone ahead that given day to a B&B such as Rick lists or we just watch for roadside B&B signs in the evening & check them out. The latter doesnt work well in non-tourist areas. Please let us know when we plan such!
Again your comments, suggestions & critiques are not only welcomed but requested! They will help us decide what to add/subtract/substitute. We realize that we will not have time for all the places on our tentative itinerary. It is already being revised in our minds as result of first post. Those likely revisions are not shown here-we want to get feedback on entire trip before making 'final' decisions. I realize it would be ideal to post entire tentative itinerary right now, preferably in one post, but I can't get it done. Thank You!