Flights Booked, Car Leased...
We’re ready! Got our flights booked and leased a car for the time we’re there.
(Full post)Welcome to the World of French Bureaucracy
We realized a couple days ago that we have to have visas to stay in France as long as we want to stay. France is part of the “Shengen” area - so named for the Shengen Treaty that covers this stuff - which includes almost all European countries. A traveler can stay only 90 days in the “Shengen” area in...
(Full post)Found a Place to Stay
We have a place to stay on our France sojourn! At the suggestion of our friends, we joined the Anglophone organization in the area we want to stay in, and put an advertisement in their newsletter. A fellow who has a house in Montigny-sur-Loing, about fifteen minutes south of Fontainbleau, responded. He has a three-bedroom house, fully furnished, in this small village....
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