What a great place to move to, seriously, it was wonderful. You know French, so you’re good to go, I understood the French being unimpressed with visitors not showing even the respect to learn polite phrases while visiting them in their country. Making an effort to show respect goes a heck of a long way when traveling I have found.
I have been from Calais to Archachon, through the Pyranees and back across to Nice into Italia. I have stayed with a friend in Le Chesnay Versailles, and we drove all over France.
One of the biggest stand outs for me was Nimes, which was a Roman outpost, and the unlikely location for possibly the Worlds best preserved Roman Coliseum and Aqueduct system. It’s a photo opportunity and of hisorical significance if you’re into that kind of thing?
Not that I would have brought it up, but it has been already, well sort of, it’s not uncommon to find people walking dogs inside shopping centres, your wife will no doubt tell you, when you do see "stuff" you normally wouldn’t see. I was more than a little surprised in Cannes shopping centre with wall to wall marble and a stream of "stuff" just left on the floor.
Oh and the food, it’s simply exquisite! The family I stayed with thought I was such a nice guy to get baguettes in the morning, but I was actually getting myself chausson aux pommes, and demolished them on the way back with the bread.
Electricity is not such a problem as others have said, using a transformer to half the voltage will pretty much double your amperage, so you aught to have pretty decent Wattage using a good transformer like the one suggested.
@tony1954
Truth is France or Seattle, there are toilets everywhere if that is how you travel.
Just be sure to have a couple of Euro coins though when you’re out in Paris. Peeing in a four way cubicle (okay it absolutely wasn’t a cubicle) in the middle of the street took some gumption the first time.. But after the stage fright, it was all down stream from that.
Have fun
areed622 Bon Voyage
