Getting Away to the Vercors
August 10th 2013 Paris was having a heat wave, and my sons, their families and most of my friends were away for the summer holidays, so I got an urge to “get away” from the French capital for the first week of August. At first, and despite the inevitable crowds, I thought I wanted to go to the ocean –to the area around Royan or La Rochelle--—but I wasn’t able to find anything reasonably-priced at the las
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