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Planes, trains and (French) automobiles!

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Let's see what happens when you mix 2 brothers and 2 sisters-in-law with a map and a French rental car and set them loose in France for 26 days!!  The four of us have studied maps, read reviews, consulted with each other across the country (thank you ZOOM!), and made all our reservations...now we just have to wait 'til May 1 so we can start the adventure of  " 4 Hunts in France". Babette and John Gary and Kathy Together, we will be flying into Paris, and catching a train to Tours where we will pick up our rental car....a trusty Peugeot 5008.  We will head to Amboise (to see beaucoup des chateaux), Sarlat (to see Neanderthal cave paintings), Carcassonne  (to see a fortified medieval city that is now a UNESCO heritage site) , Collioure (to dip our toes in the Mediterranean and get a splash of Catalan culture just 15 miles from the Spanish border), Avignon (to enjoy the heart of Provence and celebrate John's birthday), Annecy (to see an alpine town o...