Bordeaux Wine Country, Lourdes and Provence

September 25–Oct. 6, 2009

Bordeaux
Travel through Paris and the romantic French countryside on this 12-day journey. Start with two nights in Paris immersing oneself in the conviviality that only Paris can deliver. Then continue by high-speed “TGV” train to Bordeaux where you'll spend the next two nights and enjoy an excursion to St. Emilion to include wine tasting with a local expert. From Biarritz make your way to Lourdes, where two nights offer enough time to follow the pilgrims to St. Bernadette’s Grotto. Stop in the beautifully preserved medieval walled city of Carcassonne on the way to Nîmes, and enjoy an orientation walk through the city center. Visit Pont du Gard, the 2,000-years-old Roman Aquaduct and Avignon. A full morning is dedicated to Aix-en-Provence, one of France’s most elegant cities, and then on to Cannes before arriving in the Principality of Monaco. Two nights offer the possibility to visit the Monte Carlo Casino and to join an optional excursion to explore the famous artist town of St. Paul de Vence and Nice with its flower market.

Prices from $2,609.
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— Jim and Lynnette Schluter, WAA travelers, 2008

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