B&B Valence Sud
51 avenue des Aureats Valence, Rhône-Alpes, France
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Driving through the Rhone Valley
And we're back! Internet was pretty much non existent though the french countryside; so sorry for the late blog posts. At any rate; we decided in order to see the wine regions of France you have to drive, so yep, we rented a car! Freedom from bus, train, and metro schedules is amazing. Our first stop out of Provence was Orange, the gateway to the …
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Somewhere in France - Jour 5
... rouler sur des petites routes sinueuses au beau millieu des Alpes durant la NUIT, ce n'est PAS agréable), nous arrivâmes à Tournon-sur-Rhône qui est enfin une "vraie" ville. Nous y trouvons donc notre hôtel et y prenons un repas bien mérité avant d'aller nous effondrer dans la chambre.
PS : Nous avons appris comment composer un numéro de téléphone français durant le repas grâce à la serveuse qui devait nous trouver un peu étranges.
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Valence
Valence's historic old town is built on a river bank, so many of the streets are actually stairs up and down the side of a hill. Far more peaceful than Lyon, it was nice to just wander about the park and the old town and have some green time and some ...
Today, we had to wear jumpers!
... through said hole 12,000 years ago! Having climbed down 120m we were treated to a light and (loud) sound show in the caves that the children found terrifying! We found it completely unnecessary. It is a constant 11 degrees down there - hence the need for jumpers! Fortunately we got a lift back up that took nearly a minute - didn't realise how many stairs we'd gone down! (Back into the 30+ degrees - phew!)
Back to the tourist route through the ...
Going down, Bourgogne and back on the rivers
... unscathed. Even the dog has kept out of trouble this week and is finally learning to stay on the boat when we are in locks. He doesn’t like the thunderstorms though. Couldn’t find him one evening when we were moored in Mâcon and a huge storm kicked off – I was worried he had taken off. Found him eventually curled up like a walnut whip under the table. He also likes to stand in the shower tray to get cool when he can’t get off the boat to lie in the river ...


