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Our travels in France have been a thoroughly enjoyable experience — it’s truly an exciting and beautiful country. The towns we’ve visited, the sights we’ve seen, the people we’ve met. This book presents our vacation adventures, travel anecdotes, snippets of history, and our enthusiasm for travel in France.

This is a story of what we saw and where we saw it, during our nine trips to France. Eight other countries (Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain, and Switzerland) border on France, and we have crossed those frontiers more than fifty times, and have visited some parts of France at least a dozen times.

This story does not trace what we did during any one year, but is a composite of all our trips — nearly one hundred sixty nights, spent in over one hundred different places. To us the RV is a convenient way to travel, but this book is not about RV travel. We have not spent even one night in a hotel in France, so it is obviously not about hotels.

Most of what we find of interest is not time-dependent. For example, the Romans constructed an amphitheater in Nimes in 50 AD; the Abbey at Mont-St.-Michel dates from the 1000’s; the Crusades Army left Aigues-Mortes for the Holy Land in the mid-1200’s; Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was completed about 1345; the Louvre became a museum in the late 1700’s, so what we saw during our 1995 trip hadn’t changed in any important way since the first time we were in France, in 1970.