dimanche 15 mai 2011

Here we go again… nearly

We were no sooner returned from Paris that we thought to leave. This fall, probably. For spot tourism, the way we like.

So we started looking at the prices of ticket. Who were staggering, especially compared with the offer which we had taken advantage of in March. Will ticket prices fall as the date gets nearer? Who knows!

And then a nice Saturday morning a month ago, I see in my faithful paper, in the "special deals" travel column, tickets Montreal-Nantes $563 on AirTransat, leaving May 16, return May 24. We rush to visit AirTransat website, to check whether it is possible to leave on the 16th but for a longer stay ... YESSSSSSS! So we leave May 16 tomorrow, and will return June 14. Twenty-eight days, it will be our longest trip so far.

The next day we went to at our travel agent, the always efficient Susan Mallette, in Viasol to Lorraine, and everything was settled within hours. This time, we will travel by car, since we will jump here and there in France. The buy-back formula is most advantageous. Go! A Peugeot 308 is waiting for us.

This is our route, with hops and skips, two to four days maximum in one location:

• arrival at Nantes, staying with a friend of Roger, also a photographer,
• small jump to Plozévet because Roger and Brittany is a love affair that can not be denied,
• return to La Rochelle, see above,
• then, on to discoveries: first Rocamadour,
• then Albi,
• Carcassonne,
• then south to Gignac-la-Nerthe, near Marseille, staying with Rachel's sister,
• short jaunt to the Verdon
• then Saint-Jeannet in the Maritime Alps, just north of Nice, staying this time with Rachel's the step-mother.

June 12, we go back to Nantes in two days. Hop on the plane the 14.

Hoping that these nice people will one day have a uncontrollable desire to become tourists in Laurentian Sainte-Sophie. You never know ...

Reservations are made (except one), visits and sites to see are largely found. A new GPS was purchased, along with a new suitcase for Roger. A 28-day trip needs a bit more stuff than a 10-day trip, dontchaknow. I have a new lighter nultipocket travel vest, sleeveless. 've taken quite a liking for moving around freely.

Passports, tickets, purchase contract of the car ... lots and lots of scary butterflies in my stomach.

I intend to try again to maintain this blog on a daily basis, perhaps limiting myself more to travel notes. Time will tell.

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