Share your feedback about places you have visited in France, what and why you love or not them.

I want to see this new tower

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6191132.stm 

Cannes .... et près de Nice ..... et Monaco. Ma mère a vécu là pendant 20 années. Notre vieux 'Mas' au-dessus de Nice était mon favori.

Le Suquet, Cannes, FRANCE. Vue sur l'église Notre-Dame de l'Espérance et sur le château et la tour de la Castre

Ma maison de mère et de beau-père était près d'ici.

I worked in Paris for a month twice in 2003. Was great to have some locals to show me around.

Otherwise I've only ever had a night in an old Chateau in Rouen once with a girlfriend I dumped three weeks later. The best part was driving through the narrow lanes and picking home made cheese off the wheely tray.  

Count me as a local who can show you around next time you are in France.
And if you like cheese I'd be glad to let you try this kind of plate that missrogue had when she visited me with factoryjoe in Burgundy this autumn.

Craig>> incredible that I need to come on tangler to learn from an Australian about this project!
My wife is architect and she hadn't heard about that before this morning
It should be done in 2012, but you don't need to be so patient for visiting France!

Alex>> for sure you can find some worst places that the one you have been
Et je pense que ta mère a été particulièrement chanceuse de vivre là il y a quelques temps, car depuis quelques années il y a vraiment trop de monde dans le sud de la France et ça perd un peu de son charme.

Je suis d'accord avec vous Gregoire. Non moindres beaucoup de personnes de Russie avec un montant ridicule d'argent des sources que je pourrais remettre en cause !

Demain nous chez Tangler avons un jour hors du bureau. Vers le haut de la côte avec notre compagnie de soeur célébrant 2006. Veuillez ainsi nous pardonnent si nous sommes silencieux.

Vous pouvez me dire tu (tutoyer) si tu veux.
Merci pour l'info!
"Notre compagnie de soeur": excellent ! C'est le plaisir de la traduction littérale de pouvoir rire un peu
You meant sister company and you write something closer to in company with [my] sister.

Toutes mes amitiés à votre soeur

All I remember abt France are the Eiffel tower and a beach we went to... I was 3 or 4. Clearest memory is trying to convince dad to put some money into those telescope thingies... and when he finally did, I couldn't see thru em cos I was too short, so he had to carry me... with lots of complaining thrown in.

And the metal... for some reason, I remember all the metal and beams and rivets 

I think we went again a few years later and drove around the countyside. Best memory - pulling over and 'stealing' some strawberries 

^^ writing all that in french would have taken me an hour.... so I cheated

oops 

I knew it!!!!! i knew i'll find dek in this group!!!!

purely for educational purposes....

Paris
Nice
Val Desire
Chamonix
Avigion
and another place I can't remember...

drove from le Harve to val desire... does that mean I can include all the places I drove through???

hmm... I have to say I'm very curious to know what/wher Val Desire is! Never heard about this place and can't find it with google.

Paris

Dijon

Nice

Montpellier

Beaune

 ...I think that's it, except for a bunch of cute little towns scattered throughout the Bourgogne Region that I can't recall the names of 

got a tip for you tara: when you don't remember the name of this little towns (aka villages) just go in a good restaurant, open the wine card and look at the list of famous Bourgogne
for the one you visited this autumn here is a list:
Gevrey-Chambertin
Morey-Saint-Denis
Chambolle-Musigny (a deep visit of this one that included cellar + restaurant)
Vougeot
Vosne-Romanée
Nuits-Saint-Georges (where you've discussed with a man in charge of a cinema about SnakesOnAPlane in French)
Beaune

I prepare a googlemaps of your visit with comments, links and photos: may be for the ram of your mac could help your personal memory of traveler

On a passé un mois en 2005 å Chambéry en Savoie pour faire un cours français. C'était super. On espére de retourner en France en septembre.

We also visited the Bourgogne and stayed in a renovated winegrowers cottage in Meursault. We arrived there after quite a long day travelling (delays at Lyon airport) and went to the local boulangerie and purchased what were to be our staples of the holiday (two kids - can't go past pain au chocolat,  a baguette or a fromage tarte). We all sat outside the local Hotel de Ville and enjoyed a picnic on the grass in the warm autumn sun. The tiles on the roof of the town hall are atypical for the region and quite beautiful. Here's a link to a pic.

http://www.alamy.com/stock_photography/7/1/Mick+Rock/A0MDGM.html

My four-year-old dubbed it "the place" and wanted to go there every day. I think the food had a lasting effect on him and for some reason gave him nostalgia for the Hotel de Ville. The Hotel-Dieu, part of the Hospices de Beaune, in Beaune (about 30 mins away) also has a beautiful and famous roof. This "palace for the poor" was set up by the Dukes of Burgundy. There was a famine and the rich were losing their workers and community to illness and starvation. It was set up in the 1400s - an act of charity and necessity.

http://www.hospices-de-beaune.com/gb/hospices/historique.php

The caves (cellars), Marché aux Vins, in the town are also worth a visit. It's nice to spend a day in Beaune, mooching around the shops and museums too. The "tourist train" was also good (especially for us as we have kids who love anything train-like). 

The whole Burgundy region is gorgeous.

Alex - Tes parents ont un Mas en provence? Salaud!  (Excuse my French...)  Ma mère (et beau père) habite en Salon de Pce depuis 20 ans, aussi - mais dans an aparto, pas une ferme.   Toutefois, mon père et ma belle-mère ont une maison en Normandie (pres de la Loire - 45min de Laval).  Pas vraiment la même chose qu'un mas en provence mais c'est "Chez Nous" quand-meme.

Et la en Normandie/Loire, c'est pas les russes mais les anglais.   J'ai passé beaucoup temps en France, plutot Normandie (Laval, Lassay, Mont St Michel, Caen, les plages d'embarques) et Provence (Avignon, Aix, Arles, etc) - mais j'ai passé un an en internat a Sofia-Antipolis / Valbonne, alors je connais la cote d'azur aussi.

Prochainement, la Bourgogne, pas vrais Gregoire?  

Ha ha le CIV! J'ai fais mon lycée là bas, j'étais interne pendant quelques mois (pavillon damier) - Que de bons souvenirs

Oui, ça était le Complexe Scholaire de Valbonne pendant mes années ('84?).  Je me souviens plus le nom du pavillon (j'étais en 4eme - tout en haut, pret des edifices scolaires).  Pour moi, malheureusement, pas vraiment des bons souvenirs.   Mais j'ai appris le francais!

J'étais à coté de la piscine Moi c'était pour ma classe de 2nd, et c'était en 2000

Ah oui, la piscine... du voisin!   Alors tout en haut, comme moi?  Un de ces jours, je retournerai. (Dis-donc, je ne viens pas a Tangler assez souvent.  J'ai trop de "communautés en-ligne" qu'il faut faure les tours....  Je suis un peux prét a tout laisser tomber.)

Utilise le "notifier" (tu le trouveras sur la home page de Tangler) c'est utile pour garder le contact avec la communauté sans avoir a revenir régulièrement sur le site.

En Anglais. Sorry Smoking Goat. It's taken me awhile to respond to you. Sadly we have no lonnger the Mas nor my parents. I don't want to make this a sad post but just a fact of life or rather time. Do miss 'going home' to France.

En ce moment ma compagne et moi, on voyage beaucoup. Comme elle est de Normandie, on a fait beaucoup de visites là bas, et notamment tous les lieux de mémoire du débarquement (Omaha Beach, etc.). On a visité la Camargue, plus près de chez moi : Aigues-Mortes, Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer, Arles ... et la Provence, plus particulièrement le Lubéron avec St Remy de Provence, les Baux de Provence, Gordes... On a fait aussi un peu Paris. Et en juin on fait Strasbourg, le mont St-Michel et la Bretagne Nord (St Malo, St Brieuc). Si vous voulez j'ai quelques albums Picasa si vous aimes les photos

What a nice life you lead FoM.

I was not traveling a lot before knowing my girlfriend but since we do love visiting a lot of places