Time: May
Play: free travel, petty bourgeoisie, photography, humanities
The author went to these places
Paris
Provence
Andalusia
Louvre
Triumphal Arch
Champs Elysees
Palais de Versailles
Notre Dame de Paris
Seine River
Musee d'Orsay
Eiffel Tower
Mount Saint Michel
Ancient castle in Loire Valley
Annecy.
palace
Eze
Cannes
Sheng Jia Tang
Cathedral
Bullring
great mosque
Hotel Vivienne
Hotel Moderne
Old port
Trocadero
Anacapri
Hotel Abanico
The Paris Opera House
Nice
Broken Bridge
Sacred Heart Cathedral
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Published on August 21, 2013 19:55
In September last year, the British freedom tour was successfully completed, and they were eager to try it on the European continent.
The Chinese mainland is very large in the continent. It is a long time to travel, and it is too long. People are tired and the scenery and customs will be greatly discounted. Originally, I wanted to choose France, Italy and Greece as the classic European itinerary first. However, after reading many travel notes, Spain is very colorful and bordering France. I referred to the article in www.eueu.com, which is published in www.eueu.com. France and Spain will travel together first. Because I know little about wine, I won't go to Bordeaux, which is famous in France; I don't know much about the history of Catholicism. I don't go to San Diego, Paris, Renne in the west, tours in the East, Lyon in the East, Alps Mountain in the south, Provence in the south, the blue coast in the East, Barcelona in the south, Granada, Ronda, acros, defrontera, Sevilla in Andalusia clockwise, Cordoba, Madrid and nearby historic sites in the north, 17 days in Spain - 5 / 19, 6 / 23. It's a bit tangled at the fixed time. I went early for fear that it would be rainy in spring in France. The temperature of Bolang peak would be too low, and it would be hot again later. Thinking that I had seen lavender in Xinjiang, I gave up the hot French lavender in late June and early July, and made a compromise in the middle of the day. That's right. In Sevilla, Cordoba also has a high temperature of 37 degrees. Maybe it should be early in early May.
There are a lot of travel materials about France and Spain on the Internet. I have benefited a lot from the preparation. I have come back to make a summary and exchange, which is only for the reference of tourists who will go there---
D1 Shanghai Paris
D2 Paris, Louvre, citrus garden, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees
D3 Paris palace of Versailles, Notre Dame
D4 Paris Seine / Aussie Museum / Eiffel Tower
D5 Paris – Renne Saint Michel Hill Church
D6 Renne – tours ancient castle in Loire Valley
D7 to Blois
D8 Tours - Lyon old town
D9 Lyon – Annecy "the clearest Lake in Europe"
D10 Annecy – Chamonix Annecy Alpes snow mountain
D11 old church palace of Annecy – Lyon – avigon
D12 avigon, D12 avigon, Provence
D13 avigon – Arles – avigon: ancient Roman and medieval towns
D14 avigon – Marseille blue coast
D15 Marseille – nice blue coast
D16 nice – Eze, the most beautiful mountain village / pocket kingdom of Monaco – nice
D17 Nice – Cannes, Grasees – Nice movie auspicious / perfume City
D18 Nice—Marseille – Carcassone 古城墙
D19 carcassone – Narbonne – Barcelona
D20 Barcelona Cathedral, art palace
D21 Barcelona Granada bater house, Mira building
D22 Granada ancient halal Palace
D23 Granada – Ronda D23 Granada -- Ronda's oldest bullring / Cliff town
D24 circle the arch of white village
D25 Arcos de Frontera – jerrez de frontena – sevialla, capital of Andalusia
D26 Sevilla Cathedral / ancient palace
D27 Sevilla – Cordoba Mosque
D28 Cordoba – Madrid – Toledo 古都
D29 Toledo – Madrid – Salamanca's oldest university town
D30 Salamanca – Avila, an ancient Roman city
D31 Avila – sagovia - Avila Roman cistern
D32 Avila – Madrid Prado and other museums
D33 Madrid Palace
D34 Royal Villa Madrid Aranjuez
D35Madrid – Shanghai
1) Visa
Schengen visa requires a hotel reservation, B international air ticket booking, as we do in the UK. Hotel booking at www.booking.com, choose a score of 7 or above, traffic safety as the key element. Air tickets choose Ctrip (choose not to issue tickets immediately). In Ping'an www.pingan.com, buy the necessary C travel insurance, 268 yuan / person, covering the whole process, and then according to the netizen's suggestions, add 1-2 days (the same price) to meet the possible requirements of Schengen visa. D financial proof, repeated the materials prepared when going to the UK for visa, the deposit certificate of 60000 yuan each, the six-month running account of the pension, the house property certificate / Retirement Certificate / marriage certificate / household register and its translation, the statement of some funds
To get a visa to Germany and France, Shanghai opened a new French German joint visa center this year, www.frdevisa.com. On the Internet, you can choose your embassy's Consular area, register, fill in a form and make an appointment to get a visa
German French joint visa center: 8 / F, Longyu International Business Plaza, 329 Hengfeng Road, Zhabei District, Shanghai
According to the appointment date, we will get off Hanzhong Road Station of Metro Line 1 and see the first building at the exit. Due to the photo after the recent six months, so in the center took a visa photo (35 yuan bar). The visa center is spacious. The staff carefully checked the hotel reservation, schedule and relevant documents. The original one received the passport, and the copy of other documents. OK, I went to pay. 60 euro / person visa fee, converted into RMB, plus the service charge of the center (238 yuan / person), 1450 yuan for two people.
Send sign, check the website, you can track - did not call, did not ask for an interview - we two old two days out of the sign
Reminder: the application will be accepted within 90 days of the departure date. One day earlier, the system won't accept it. The starting date of the visa is not much. It's only 2-3 days. Our itinerary is to leave on May 19, and the French start on May 17... This is different from the British.
2) Air tickets
Ctrip's ticket is only reserved for about 10 days. When the visa arrives, it has expired. Buy it on the official website of Air France at www.airfrance.com, ￥ 6981 / person, Air France flies to Paris from Shanghai, KLM transfers from Madrid to Amsterdam and returns to Shanghai. Because of the night train from Barcelona to Granada, the price of sleeper is not lower than that of the plane, and the seats are hard for more than ten hours. Most people in the online travel notes stay at night, saving one day and hotel fees. You can visit Granada at more than 8 a.m. We old people have time but no physical strength. Since the price of sleeping berth is not lower than that of plane, we chose Spain's Spring Airlines, veuling Airlines www.veuling.com. We fly at 4:55pm and arrive at 6:20pm. Search more than 90 days in advance, see 69.99 euro / person - only 4 left, just shot. But 10 days later, there was another 49.99 euro / person ticket - I wonder if it was veuling's sales strategy or a group refund?
3) Train ticket
With the experience of traveling by train in Britain, it is natural to choose it as Inter City mobility. Eurorail has its agent www.europerail.cn in China, and its network company www.railurope.cn, which is headquartered in Hong Kong. The former is characterized by an office in Shanghai, RMB settlement, express tickets at home, but each person has to pay 4 Euro handling fee for each ticket. The latter charges 4 euro per train and 10 euro for three trains.... I chose the latter. Railway passes are only sold to foreigners outside Europe, so Chinese passengers have to buy them through these two websites. French railway pass is just for promotion. If you calculate the price difference between it and point-to-point, you can buy it for 7 days / month. 235 euro per person. The rest are from point to point. The French railway is very humanized. There are concessions for two people traveling together, and there are also concessions for the elderly, but they are limited to first-class cars. But rail passes in Spain don't pay. Eurorail early buy more concessions, but there is a big discount will not be refunded not signed restrictions. Ticket options: print at home, or pick up at the station, or express ticket (another 7 Euro). Because the through ticket has to be delivered by express, the price of Paris to Renne, Renne to Lyon is very favorable, and Narbonne to Barcelona has no discount, so they bought it together. It's very convenient to buy on the official website. Just follow the instructions. Of course, you need a visa or MasterCard credit card. Later, I learned from the netizens in www.eueu.com and directly tried to buy it on the official website of France railway. For en.voyages.sncf.com, the service charge of 4 euro was also free. For ticket collecting country, I chose France. After payment, there will be a confirmation form. When you go to the ticket counter of any railway station in France, you can take the ticket with the confirmation form and the credit card used for payment at that time. If you choose China, the website will immediately transfer you to the above China agent. The disadvantage is that if you want to refund the ticket in case of change, you can only refund it in France, which is very easy to pass the deadline.
Eurorail's refund fee is charged at 5 – 15%. Try to set the schedule later.
There is no discount for Spanish railway tickets on the European Railway website. Must be directly on the west rail at www.renfe.com
Buy it, but you must choose the Spanish version. There is no discount for the English version. You'd better pay with a chip credit card, or you'll often get stuck. Use Google to translate western languages and compare them in pairs. The subordinate website is searched, which introduces how to buy tickets on the west rail http://www.haiwaiyou.com/haiwaiyoublog/?p=705 Choose the most popular ticket in turiska. There is a big discount on high-speed rail fares. For example, for the high-speed rail from Cordoba to madid, the total ticket is 62.8 euro, but the discount is 24.85 euro. Of course, the former can be refunded, while the latter can not be refunded or signed. Tickets are printed at home (print @ home), A4 paper train tickets.
And try to arrange round-trip tickets, and save some money 10% off. We're from Madrid to tolendo, Madrid to Avila, Avila to Salamanca. Originally, Madrid passed by Avila and then went to Salamanca, but it was not a round-trip ticket, so we opened the section to buy a round-trip ticket. It's just that when we get to Avila station, we'll take a new seat on the same train.
Spain's trains, like China's, already have seat numbers when tickets are issued. In France, seats are allocated only by high-speed rail or tourist bus, so we use through tickets to book seats on eurorail in advance, and then buy tickets like train tickets, only the cost is the reservation fee. Generally, intercity trains are not used.
The French and Spanish railways are in good condition, punctual, quiet, few people and not crowded. Compared with France, the car is newer.
4) Long distance bus, tickets on the spot, lots of flights, nice.
Nice -- Eze, Monaco – nice suburban bus 112 to Eze, Monaco 100 to nice
http://www.lignesdazur.com/index.asp
Nice Cannes by train -- grapes -- nice suburban bus 600 to grapes, 500 to nice
http://www.cg06.fr
Circular arch boundary bus http://www.movelia.es
Border arch - jerrez de frontena bus
--- Sevilla Train
5) Hotel
They all stayed in the hotels reserved by booking.com. The online reviews were quite objective. The principle was still one safe, two convenient, three economical, 2-3 stars. The score was above 7.0. If there was a special promotion, the 4 stars would be upgraded.
The hotel is as follows for reference---
Paris, hotel Vivienne area 2, near line 8 and 9
Renne, La Victoria, near the railway station, on foot
Tours, hotel modern, near the railway station, on foot
Lyon, hotel elysse station 2, Metro, Downtown
Annecy, hotel dunord, near the railway station, on foot
Avignon, pop Hostal, the old city center is near the railway station. It's on foot
Marseille, newhotel Vieux Port 2 subway station, next to the old port, safe and convenient
Nice, Trocadero, near the railway station, on foot
Carcassone, Hotel Central, not far from the station
Barcelona, Casa Dover B & B has convenient transportation and 10 minutes walk from the subway station
Granada, next to Anacapri Cathedral, downtown, get off the airport bus, walk
Ronda, Hotel Colon
Arcos de Frontera, Hotel Los Olivos
Sevilla, hotel the old hotel in the old street of abanico
4 execonqistrador, Cordoba
Toledo, Hotel Santan Isabebel
Salamanca, roommate Hotel
(originally planned for hosteria Casa Vallejo, there is something wrong with the circuit. There is no electrician to repair it on Saturday. The landlady introduces the hotel nearby.)
Avila, Palacio de Las Velada
Madrid, Quatro Puerta del Sol 4, near the sun gate, 10 minutes walk from the subway station
Taxis in small and medium-sized cities in Spain are not expensive, ranging from 5 to 8 euro. The hotel can book a car for customers. The service was very good. There is a distance between the railway station and the city, and the scenic spots are in the city, so it is more convenient to choose hotels in the center of the old city.
The buildings are not new, but they are clean and tidy. Staying in these hotels is also a wonderful travel experience.
The price in Spain is lower than that in France.
6) Scenic spot tickets
It's said that the Louvre, Versailles and other popular scenic spots line up to buy tickets. If you have a service point at the Paris airport, you can buy Paris Museum Pass. 1, 2, 4, 7 days. We bought two-day, 39 euro per person in three days in Paris. It should be used continuously for two days.
Granada's number of visitors to the palace is under control. In case of confusion, book www.ticketmaster.es online, choose English version, Granada, family and others, buy the general ticket of the palace, print the ticket at the bank self-service office in Spain, and charge a reservation fee of 3 Euro.
Originally, I wanted to visit the most luxurious Paris Opera House in the world through the evening concert or opera. Unfortunately, I was too late. The opera website www.operaparis.fr issued tickets half a year earlier. I was in Paris for four nights. I only had a concert on May 22, but the low price tickets were gone. The remaining 75 euro per person was a little expensive, so I went to visit it alone in the afternoon. 9 euro per person, it's worth it.
Originally, I wanted to see Flamenco in Sevilla. It was a hot day and the theater was not big. I was afraid it would be too busy. The old man and the old woman gave up. There are special performances in hotels.
Bullfight, we didn't put it into the necessary program at the beginning. After setting the whole course, let's review the schedule of Madrid. It's not nervous. You might as well watch the bullfight that has been popular for several centuries. Check www.ticketmaster.es on the Internet -- there is only one bullfight on Sunday night in June, and give up.
7) Safety
Before going there, there was a lot of bad news. The thieves targeted the Chinese and stole or robbed them. We have to be more careful.
I met the thief twice, but I didn't make it: just arrived in Paris, it was raining, and when boissy bus got off the bus, he was walking with a backpack and a trolley case to find a hotel. Fortunately, the pulling head of the backpack was tied with a rope, and the thief didn't untie it for a while. I just turned back to greet my wife and found that I had drunk; When Barcelona got on the subway, the thief cut in the line and his wife stopped him when he tried to zip his bag. The thieves, who were still women, seemed to be immigrants from the former colonies.
When you go out, you only need to bring a copy of your passport and not much cash for subway tickets（ There are a lot of tickets for Spanish scenic spots in cash.) Don't go where there are few people at night.
Embassies in foreign countries have also enhanced their services by sending SMS to remind them of prevention and emergency contact.
But along the way, there were a lot of good people, very warm and friendly.
8) Communications
Two people travel, it is inevitable to go before and after, two people, such as the British tourism, before the opening of international roaming. Take your mobile phone with you, and you'll feel more secure. WiFi is very common in developed countries, and hotels are basically free of charge. My son's iPod was also brought with him for contact and Internet access.
France and Spain are rich in tourism resources, but the connotation and magnificence of churches are better in Spain. Maybe there was a great revolution in France during the social transformation, and Spain was less turbulent. But the French are very good at marketing, such as nice beach, sandy beach, and wine shops, but people enjoy it.
Like going to England, I read a book to understand the history of France and reread the history of Europe. Learn about history so that you won't be confused when you visit. As for travel around the world - France and travel around the world - Spain, the self-help travel books are not too heavy to carry along.
Although I only learned a few basic greetings, I did some homework and had very warm and friendly people along the way. These two countries with high production of world cultural and natural heritage are not difficult to visit and are worth visiting!
Avignon's broken bridge
Mount Saint Michel Cathedral
The morning of Sacred Heart Cathedral
Windows of Notre Dame
The Royal prayer stand in savilla Cathedral
Paintings in the Louvre
Chenonceaux castle in the Loire Valley
Ronda on the cliff
Lake Annecy adjacent to Switzerland
Peaceful Sevilla
