margo wrote:As a nice, easily managed area - the Champagne area of France is good - and you get to drink some bubbly as well.
When you're doing the trip with a car (I pass that region at least twice/year when driving to France :wink: ):
Reims, Épernay, Troyes, Langres, Reynel, Prauthoy and Châlons-en-Champagne, for instance, are nice places to visit, though.
Anything in progress/new about your trip?
So far all that is planned is that my friend is joining me and we'll spend 3-4 days in London and 3-4 days in Paris. I would love to tour some wineries and possibly stay at a family runned place just to have a low key day or two to wind down from the busy sightseeing of the large cities
Margo, I'm nutso about Lucca.
I liked the Hotel Piccolo Puccini, small, right by chiesa San Michele, to me a delightful neighborhood; I spent time in the lobby listening to the nice clerk (he'd fixed me a cinzano or a ramazzotto or something, with an ice cube) tell folks on the incessant phone that there was no room there or any place else in the old city (this was in April - the clerks follow these matters, call each other), and giving suggestions for places outside the old city walls. That was while we were watching a tennis match after I got back from my walk around the city wall. He was the guy who made fun of the 'spaghetti eaters' (tour clumps) to me - by way of saying a kind of admiration that I'd travel by myself: I'd see more, eat better, and so on.
Well, there are tours and tours. Just talk.
His english was superior to my baby italian.
Marty, if you are spending more than a day in Rome, TALK to me.
Osso
It now looks like we'll be visiting Pisa and Lucca on our way through to Milano from Roma. We have a couple of days to have a dekko!
Most other areas have firmed up.
Oh, great! I haven't been to Pisa...
now there's a blast from the past!
Plus, you never reported well, Margo. Haruuumph.
@ossobuco,
harrrumph -indeed! Very poor form!
