Trip Schedule

Paris, Fri Sep 7
Notes:
Ricardo, Niki, Monica and Zé will leave Charles de Gaule airport and pick up Pedro, Claudia and Marlene.
Supermarket: buy wine glasses, gas for cooker, plates, etc.

Driving Paris to Sancerre: 3:00pm - 5:00pm (2Hours journey)
Sancerre, Fri Sep 7 - Sleep in camping (1 night)
Notes:
Visit Chateaux, Buy Cheese, Pouilly Fume, Loire Valley wine road
Driving Sancerre to Tours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (3Hours journey)

Tours, Sat Sep 8
Notes:
Buy wine and Cheese-saint maure

Driving Tours to Poitiers: 7:00pm - 8:00pm (1 Hour journey)
Poitiers, Sat Sep 8 - Sleep @ Marlene's friends garden ;) (1 night)
Notes: Wake up early in the morning

Driving Poitiers-St. Emilion: 9:00am-12:00pm (3 Hours journey)
St. Emilion, Sun Sep 9
Notes:
Chateaux Grand Corbin - Les Anges and Chateaux in Pomerol

Bordeaux, Sun Sep 9 - Sleep in camping near Bordeaux (3 nights)
Notes:
Visit Palais Rohan, museums, wine shops

Driving Bordeaux to Toulouse: 9:00am-11.00am (2Hours journey)
Toulouse, Wed Sep 12
Notes:
Stop just for lunch and a quick look around

Driving Toulouse to Marseille: 14:00pm-18.00am (4Hours journey)
Marseille, Wed Sep 12 - Sleep in camping near Marseille (4 nights)
Notes:
Diving, visit wine region around, beach
(Marseille-Nice 2Hours journey)

Sun 16 Sep - most of us will have a plane to catch, either to London or Porto (Ricardo and Niki will take all of us to the airport)
Mon 17 Sep - Ricardo and Niki will catch a plane in Nice early in the morning

Van Hire?

Todos, here are some companies para aluger ok,

http://www.argusrentals.com/

http://www.auto-europe.co.uk/

http://www.discountcar-hire.co.uk/car8.html (Good One)

http://www.carjet.co.uk/common/directory/index.php?rf=999999&cl=CDG (Last Citroen).

Good luck! If i come will be a lastmin.com apperance i am afraid..... I never though the idea of a promotion could piss me off this much!!!!!

Ric, don't drink the valley dry, leave some for me....

Email from Pedro Campos_16.08.07

Hey everybody!Me and Cláudia are also confirmed; Cláudia's bought her ticketfor the 7th and my interrail ends in Paris on the 6th.The attached file is the recommendations my french flatmates gave me

Last updates_Important

Less than one month for our mitical journey and only 4 of us have commited and actually bought the plane tickets so far...

The tour will be done on the west side of France: bourdeaux, lanscapes etc... (Ricardo can give further information on this, and an updated map will be posted in the next few days)

Come on people! This will certainly be the journey of the year!

We have prices for car rental! and we think this will be the last week to rent them and decide who is coming along. Of course we could all meet there afterwords but you will have to do your own arranjements and gather a couple of people to share the car hire.

FIAT doblo (or similar) : 10 days = 229.98+22.42(additional driver) = 252.40GBP

optional navigational system=81.52 GBP (avoids getting lost and might be a very good option)

5 seats+5 luggage space and also air contioner (Rates include: Collision damage waiver, Theft protection, Third party liability insurance, tax (VAT), unlimited mileage and location/airport fees)

If there are more than 5 people coming we are better off just renting 2 cars as renting a 7 seat car can cost as much as 735.00GBP!

*Ricardo, Niki, Zé and Monica are very keen on the FIAT Doblo, although a very funny looking car it's quite spacious and it's blessed with air conditioner!

For those of us who already have a plane ticket to Paris*, we will be arriving on the 7th September @ 11h55. The car hire will start at the airport (Charles de Gaule) and we are thinking of sleeping near Paris that night in a cheap hotel:

"Premiere Classe Paris Ouest - Pont de Suresnes" just 2Km from the city center this 1 star hotel has a better rating than most of the 2star hotels in ryanair website (3 in 5).
So 1 double bedroom for 1 night = £29.00
For those who know Paris this hotel is right next to the Bois de Bologne!

For the rest of the journey the sleeping arranjements are going to be decided as they are needed...unless anyone has other ideas ;)
The main idea is to stay at bungalows or similar in camping parks. I hope there will be no need to sleep under a bridge but if we will come to that I'm sure no one will complaint.

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