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MHD
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Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 1941
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 8:11 pm: |     |
Planning a Summer Vacation to the South of France & was wondering if anyone had any opinions on where to stay. We are already thinking of Nice (for a city), Arles (for a "town") and we are debating about a good beach destination in between. St. Tropez seems a bit too pretentious, so we were thinking of either Ste. Maxime or Corsica.
Any opinions or alternatives?
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 542
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 11:34 pm: | |
Try Montpellier, somewhat farther west---wonderful architecture and not as touristy as Nice. Visit the town of Aigues Mortes--- used to be closer to the sea but now landlocked and quite interesting to see.
I also recommend Carcassonne and Perpignan, for great architecture. If you're going to Arles, you may as well spend some time in Nimes, which I find friendlier.
Corsica is worthy of a trip on its own, and, as I recollect, is about an hour's flight from airport at Nice or Marseilles. Corsica is stunningly wild and culturally very different from the French mainland. |
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