A 9 day trip to Paris and Versailles using public transport only.

February 6, 2007 12 Weeks until our trip and counting! It's cold and snowy in Chicago, so I'm dreaming and planning for our springtime trip to Gassin and Paris. A little background.. Gassin is known as one of the prettiest villages in France …

We flew into Paris and staid in a nice hotel outside of town, the cab fare added up and along with the traffic it was not worth the money we saved on the room. So just get a hotel in town. We got in late, which was another mistake cuz it was …

We flew to Paris connecting in Milan via Alitalia. For your future info, Alitalia is famous in Europe for losing the luggage, and of course they lost ours. So after spending a few hours in the airport hoping for our bad to show up, we went …

View all photos in travel journal at http://www.krane.net/France/. It was a fabulous trip where we met charming friendly people of France. One month trip includes the Paris area for two weeks and then the south of France for two weeks.

We are getting excited from now planning about our trip :) We still have about 2 yrs to go before we start but I read somewhere that people have planned for 5 years. We are not yet sure about the budget but I think $100 per person per day should …