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gertie
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Re: Still Getting Around
« Reply #60 on Jul 17, 2010, 6:16pm »
I really appreciate the reports and the evocative emotions expressed. I look very much forward to trying a month in Paris just to see how I feel about it. My husband is a home body and will be ever so grateful to get home, with certainty. I've always longed to go places and stay long enough to get past that sort of honeymoon period a week or two visit brings, which is all I can manage for at least another two years. I wonder if I shall feel the same about extended visits to places after I make my first long visit to Paris? I look forward to finding out.
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« Reply #61 on Jul 18, 2010, 7:52am »
I spent a full month in Aix-en-Provence once, with a week prior in Paris and a week after in Nice, and could have easily stayed forever. I didn't get homesick at all. In fact, I felt quite "at home" there. Even my daughter (who was 10 at the time) said during the last week, "What would happen if we just didn't get on the plane to go home?" Unfortunately, we were out of money and there was that pesky earning-a-living thing to get back to. Phooey!
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Re: Still Getting Around
« Reply #62 on Jul 18, 2010, 8:02am »
keylimejet: Aix-en-Provence is on my list too, it should be so lovely. You spent a full month ?? Wauw - I may consider a combined Aix-and-Paris trip next year. Or Aix-and-Samos........
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Re: Still Getting Around
« Reply #63 on Jul 18, 2010, 8:14am »
We did it Avignon, Aix, then Paris. The southern part of the trip was tres relaxing which was perfect, and needed, as our first full day in Paris was 9/11/01.

I've never spent more than 2 weeks..and rarely 2 full week..any where on vacation! That pesky USA vacation "non-policy" and work ethic, ex. even if you are entitled to several weeks vac few employers here will "let" you take more than 2 at a time!
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Re: Still Getting Around
« Reply #64 on Jul 18, 2010, 9:59am »
We have over a year to wait until we go back to Paris. We did entertain a trip to Brisbane Australia to see relatives but by the looks of things Paris wins. The only thing we have to decide is two weeks or three. If we go for three, you may well read about a siege in a Paris apartment when the Police try to get an elderly Canadian couple to go home.
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Re: Still Getting Around
« Reply #65 on Jul 18, 2010, 12:41pm »
Gitte - I loved Aix. We rented a tiny studio apartment (it turned out to be such a dump, but that was part of the adventure! ) and I took French lessons 5 mornings a week - not that I remember much now. I loved Aix - I would live there in a heartbeat. Aix/Samos sounds like a great combination! I so loved your photos and trip reports of Samos and when I finally get to take my long-dreamed-about trip to Greece someday, I'll have lots of questions for you!

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Re: Still Getting Around
« Reply #66 on Jul 18, 2010, 1:04pm »
Gertie- I think you will love your month in Paris. I have spent a month in Paris with my daughters a few years ago, as well as many one and two week trips; we are tentatively looking to spend a month or six weeks in Paris next summer and I am already excited about it.

I found that you do pick up the rhythm of the neighborhood, find your shops, your park and so on, but also that you do have the luxury of changing your plans or sleeping late if you feel like it without feeling there is something you will miss doing on your list.

I make a master list of things I want to do/see beforehand, ask my children what they want to do and add it all together. Major outings get put on the calendar; the rest we get to when we feel like it. I check the list every few days to make sure we are on track, but I leave lots of time for wandering and stumbling as it is almost always were the most fun is to be had. Traveling with children, there is also lots of time planned for parks and ice cream.

The other added benefit is that should you come back to your neighborhood after your month's stay, it is still your neighborhood. You know how things work and where everything is. I am in Paris at the moment (more to come later) on a much shorter trip and staying in my neighborhood, the 3rd, and it is an absolute pleasure. I am home. I hope you will feel that way too.
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Re: Still Getting Around
« Reply #67 on Jul 18, 2010, 2:38pm »
I'm with Geordy. Never enough time off. We are planning to take the TGV from CDG to Avignon for three days and then back to Paris for a week Unfornately, we will do this during Thanksgiving week so I can have few extra days off.
As others have said there are lots of places I'd love to visit. With such a limited amount of vacation time I can't bring myself to give up Paris. That's why I've been trying these little side trips so I can sill have my Paris fix.

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