Thinking of doing a Tour de France trip? Here are some tips to help you make the best of the tour. It is highly recommended to learn some basic French. You will be surprised how helpful people are when you make the effort to speak the basics.You need to do some serious research before you go to France. Make some decisions about the stages you want to see as this will decide how you go about things,. You do not need to hire a camper van for the Tour but it does ...

Well the day has arrived ... The Tour de France finish in Paris on the Champs Elysee. Like Alpe d'Huez, the place is crazy. People everywhere. We find ourselves a great but precarious spot we call the "Edge of Glory". Check out what was behind us if we stepped back a bit too far! Standing on the tunnel wall was great, we saw pretty much everything. Even though it was such a big event it was surprising how around the Arc de Triomphe there was still l...

What a great day! Did a visit to the Louvre and later Monmartre. Didier's list of Louvre must sees. One tip, get to the Louvre when doors open to see the Mona Lisa ... it gets crazy busy during the morning and until close. Mona LisaThe Winged Victory of Samothrace.Statue of Saint Mary Magdalen.Slave by MichaelangeloHorses of Marly The arvo we headed up to Sacre Coeur and Monmartre, The Sacre Coeur church is beautiful, especially the interior. For those ...

We rolled into Gap at 1am. Pretty happy to escape the Alpe d'Huez madness and traffic. We found the truck stop we used a few days ago. We are up at 7am and make an early start back to Marseille. We had some initial fun and games in Gap cleaning our toilet and draining our grey water. We make good progress despite occasionally taking wrong turns and hit the car hire place at 10:30. Our train back to Paris leaves at 3:40pm and so we were very keen to avoid the 1...

Well what an epic day. There is no doubt France takes Bastille Day very seriously. We got up early and headed to the Champs Elysee. Well it was busy and we realised that our best bet was to find a less crowded area. We settled on Place de la Madeleine and what a great spot it was. If you want to get to see Bastille Day on the Champs Elysee then you need to get there mighty early. Most of the Champs Elysee is reserved for VIPs. Once the parade leaves the Champ...