Back in January I mentioned that our big trip this year would consist of two weeks in France. We’ve now hammered out our plan some more:

The plan is as follows. Follow along on the map for extra fun!

1. Land in Paris (trust me, the ‘A’ is hidden behind the ‘K’) and jump in a car
2. Visit Chartres
3. Visit the Chateau de Chambord and start driving along the Loire valley
4. Visit Tours, and other small towns along the way like Amboise and Candes-St-Martin
5. Visit Angers, and from there turn north
6. See Mont-Saint-Michel, though after the experience we had at Rocamadour I think we’ll just take pictures from the outside
7. Visit Juno Beach
8. Visit the Vimy Memorial
9. Visit Reims
10. Spend a few days in and around Epernay and Troyes, sampling Champagne and meeting up with my brother
11. Drive back to Paris, drop the car and spend about five days there…probably visiting the Louvre a couple of times, the Musee D’Orsay, Versailles, maybe the catacombs, maybe just hanging out in St-Germain or Montparnasse.

So that’s the plan.We’ll cover A through I in first six days, then as our energy wears off we’ll start to wind down in Champagne and take the better part of the final week in Paris.

Anybody have any tips for those areas? Any can’t-misses?