It is a good idea to start planning your summer vacation right now. Not only is it good to ensure you have available spots on an airplane, it is also the ideal time to visit leasure parks and other websites to get ealy-booking rebates. You can easily save 10% (or more) when you book...
Vacation
Inspiration for Vacation Planning
I wanted to share some videos from YouTube to get you in the mood for vacation planning. Now is the time to start planning and ordering your vacation destinations if you want to have good chances to get all the dates you want at the right locations. Let’s start with a video from Disneyland...
Auvergne Cottage
We look forward to visiting the Auvergne Cottage this summer. Service is excellent and reservations worked smoothly. We have taken off three weeks this year to spend one week at the Parc Asterix combined with visiting our friends for a day or two combined with one week at the cottage and one week in...
Do You Like The New Design?
First of all, Happy New Year, and welcome back to this blog. If you look at the article “Yet Another Facelift” from September 13th, you will notice that there was a second facelift on the blog in 2008. What do you think of the new appearance? Doesn’t it remind you of vacation planning and...
Buying Rather Than Renting
It is actually cheaper to BUY a car than to rent one. I just found a tremendous resource at this website: http://www.lacentrale.fr. Last year we had problems because we had a Visa Electron card AND cold hard cash. The latter is apparently no longer interesting for the large auto rental companies at the Charles...
A Couple of Nice Videos
I thought a couple of videos from others who have been to France this year could be inspiring for all of you, so I wanted to share: The following videos brought memories from our own visit to the Parc Asterix last year: Update: October 31st 2008 – these videos were removed after I wrote...
Economic Crises
Danish experts have lately been talking about Danes taking much cheaper vacations as a result of the economic crises all around the world. I believe it is short-sighted to compare Bulgaria with France – just as an example. Here’s the reason why. If you go to a discount destination such as Sunny Beach in...
France’s Cultural Sites
You can directly download “France’s Cultural Sites” here: http://us.maison-de-la-france.com/us/cmm/4_volets_2007_uk.PDF. This 8 page PDF-brochure can be printed regardless of whether you use Windows, Linux or MacOS. It’s a fantastic overview of a magnificent country with lots of good information. We have talked about going three weeks in 2009. One week in Paris, one week combined...
Vacation in France 2008
Steve and Eduardo have visited France, and they actually created some rather good albums with a wide variety of photos mixed into a video with excellent music. Enjoy. Here’s video number 2: Always nice to see how others have perceived France, and the second video contains fireworks from the Bastille Day. Truly a job...
Video Impressions from France
Some nice videos from Val de Loire – one of the truly most beautiful areas we enjoy visiting: Amboise and Leonardo da Vinci Amboise and Leonardo da Vinci are irrefutably linked. The artist and inventor spent the last years of his life here. He lived in Le Clos-Lucé, a country house just outside the...
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