Paris - The most romantic place to visit in most peoples top five list of must see cities in the world. Well it certainly had a lot of impressive buildings and attractions to see and we definitely enjoyed our stay but more because we made our own fun than anything else. The Paris that you may not have heard about includes sketchy people loitering around metro stations for no apparent reason, beggers on the steps of every site, Nigerians blocking pathways in order...

Unfortunately our stay in Bordeaux was cut short due to accommodation availability so we didn't feel like we had enough time to discover the real charm of the town and we didn't get the chance to go out to some of the local vineyards. On our way back to our hotel in the evening we walked along the river and found that it was the place to be, every man and his dog was set up with a picnic and drinks in the late sun…so we did the same. We got all comfortable, pu...

Perpignan was just a stop on the way to Spain for us as we don't like the idea of spending full days on trains. Luckily we had no expectations of the place because it was an absolute ghost town. Instead of the usual hostel or hotel we had found a place on AirBnB so we had someone's fully equipped apartment to ourselves which was fantastic. For the first time in ages we were able to enjoy some creature comforts like our own music, movies and a kitchen to ourselves...

Avignon was another nice French town where we had a pretty nice hostel with some decent people to get to know. From Avignon we explored the nearby cities; Marseille and Arles which were again, nice towns to walk through with the usual collection of old town, churches, castles, forts and pretty facades. Arles happened to be in the middle of their Festival of Nude which meant that all of the notable buildings were displaying art exhibits of nudity in some way or an...

We found Nice to be a lovely city and a great first taste of France. The buildings are so French and the croissants are to die for. We were in a great hostel with a huge kitchen, common area and a very social atmosphere. Every night most people would sit outside, drink and discuss their travel exploits. From Nice we visited Eze, Monaco and Antibes. Eze and Antibes were nice enough but nothing too outstanding, Monaco on the other hand was fantastic. We happened to...