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Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
that's the place!
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I agree Avignon's quite good, I was there recently, and wouldn't mind going back - but without a coeliac - because the one who was in our group did my head in by the end of the weekend.
But yeah, as OU says, he's been and done Provence.
Really?Griff said:
I spent three months there a few years ago, in April/May/June, and I wouldn't have thought it would shut down in September, because Montpellier isn't just a touristy place.
Montpellier has several universities, loads of students, so it's usually fairly lively, because of the students plus tourists. Do you mean Montpellier, or the little towns closer to the sea, like Sete or Palavas and Grand Motte and so on?
To me, it reminded me a bit of Manchester, a city that's compact enough to get about in (not a nightmare like London), studenty so lively bars and gigs and DJ nights and stuff, although of course it didn't rain as much as Manchester and the food and wine were better generally.
Where's that place with the green lush hills... soj you were going to go with someone I think?
I thought that was in Spain, with madz?
Forgotten now 
Griff
Feeding the foxes
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Really?
I spent three months there a few years ago, in April/May/June, and I wouldn't have thought it would shut down in September, because Montpellier isn't just a touristy place.
Seriously, mid-September and the place was dead. We assumed everyone had gone back to Paris. The place just felt like it had totally wound down for the year at that point.
Maybe it picks up again near Christmas, but honestly mid-September and it was grim and empty. Even though it was still quite hot.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Ah, maybe it was in Spain
that'll explain why no bloody searches worked! Picos de Europa.
...not France
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I quite like the Loire Valley too, although it's all very well getting p!ssed, but if you find some decent wine and want to bring some back with you, you'll get stung if you've flown with a budget airline. I bought a couple of bottles of Chateauneuf du Papes for just over E20 while in Avignon recently, as gifts for friends. I'd stupidly forgotten the bit about checking in liquids (I usually take carry on only) and got stung E20 by Ryanair to take it home, making it even more expensive wine!
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Wrong time of year if you're looking to go away September/October OU, but if you fancy going back there next spring as well, you might want to check out the Printemps de Bourges music festival (13-18 April, 2010):
http://www.printemps-bourges.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_de_Bourges
Bourges is in the department of Cher, about two, two and a half hours south west of Paris. It's also just up the road from most of the chateaux in the Loire Valley, if you wanted to kill two birds with one stone.
And there's La Borne just up the road if you like ceramics and pottery and stuff... oh, on second thoughts, probably not, as a lot of it's probably in the category of useless ornaments. Although I'll still mention it in case anyone else wants to look it up.
http://www.printemps-bourges.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printemps_de_Bourges
Bourges is in the department of Cher, about two, two and a half hours south west of Paris. It's also just up the road from most of the chateaux in the Loire Valley, if you wanted to kill two birds with one stone.
And there's La Borne just up the road if you like ceramics and pottery and stuff... oh, on second thoughts, probably not, as a lot of it's probably in the category of useless ornaments.
Although I'll still mention it in case anyone else wants to look it up.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Basically: Rosbifs 1 - 0 Frogs
Which is how we like it!
Although if you're reading bits about the relations between France and Algeria, I don't know if you've seen the film Indigenes? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444182/ It's not about the Algerian war, it's about Algerian soldiers fighting for/with the French during the Second World War. Two second pitch is: An Algerian 'Band of Brothers'. If you haven't already seen it, you might appreciate it, it's rather good.
Ah, maybe it was in Spain
Picos de Europa.
...not France
haha! phew - thought I might be going a bit mental then - never know when the alzheimers is gonna come knockin
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
The earth moved for you that much?!ooOOoo
But...you'd miss out on the delights of a really scary thunderstorm shaking the earth beneath you!!(I thought I was in serious danger of actual death once
The earth moved for you that much?!
Heh - seriously, we were in this tiny tent, 3 of us, and the fucking earth was MOVING! With each crack of thunder, we shit ourselves
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Just don't rent anything too close to a road - and ask serious questions of the landlord/agent about the local traffic on the nearby roads.
I've rented places in what appear to be the middle of la France profonde but because of the lack of local employment the locals all need to leave to commute to the nearest town before 6am driving noisy badly serviced trucks and motorcycles. I was OK - I just went for some early skinny-dipping in the river at the bottom of the field and then came back to bed, but my house-mates were massively pissed off by their lost sleep.
