My friend, Ruth Hunter, and I will rendez-vous at Charles De Gaulle airport early, very early, Sunday morning, March 29, after flying out on Saturday evening. Me, non-stop, from Atlanta and she from Dulles in D.C. by way of Minneapolis! Gotta love the air carrier hub system! Our Viking Cruise Line representative will shepherd us through the city to the Viking Pride docked in the famous Seine within sight of La Tour Eiffel! We will begin a back - to - back journey along the rivers of France. On Easter Sunday we will travel by luxurious motor coach (read bus) stopping for lunch in Dijon and joining the Viking Hermod in Chalon-sur-Saône in the famed region of Burgundy. I think you can guess how we will be spending much of our second week!
This trip will be a first for Ruth who, although an avid cruiser, has not yet experienced river cruising. I love it! I find it less stressful than all the planning involved for ocean cruising. We will just go where they take us to the wonderful sites and famous locations of northern France, like the Beaches of Normandy and the Palace of Versailles in the mornings. In the afternoons we will wander the small villages and towns seeking a fragrant boulangerie to enjoy a fine baguette avec jambon et fromage and watch the world go by. But what a world it will be!
We will greet April in Paris and then seek out the grape vines of Southern France which will just be beginning their season of growth. I know it will be a challenge to sample all the fruits of the last harvest but Ruth and I will do our best! We will visit several classic wineries and of course some Abbeys and schools and villages and Cathedrals. And, yes, as lovely as Atlanta and Maryland are in April, we will be reluctant to leave the elegant, pampered lifestyle that we will quickly become accustomed to!
Join us here for our travels. I will do my best to keep you updated but do not promise to add all the right accents to the French until I figure out the keyboard a little better. But you will know what I mean and I would love you to become a follower and post comments or questions!
AuRevoir!
France's Finest!
Merci beaucoup for being the trail blazer for us before we visit Paris later this spring. It sounds like you are in for a world of excitement and beauty. On my Mac if I hit the alt key and 0128 I can type a sign for euro. Bon voyage mon aimee.
ReplyDeleteI should have experimented with my skills. But I think we will figure it out,
DeleteWooHoo! A reader! Already! Yes, alt+0128 is ASCII code for €, and that holds true for PC keyboard as well. (One can hope, since ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Exchange, but since so much we'd expect to find standardized is NOT, it pays to confirm.) So, here's hoping for little expenditure of € and lots of nice ° for our trip!
ReplyDeleteI have been to Europe many times since 2008 and this is the first time that the Euro will be close to in our favor! Sweet! And I couldn't do it so Ruth may have to help me out here!
DeleteYou are quite lucky to have the € so much in par with the $. That will save you some $$$ for sure. Wish I was going with you! Have fun ladies, and I am looking forward to following along the journey!
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