France on wheels Discover Provence and Corsica with motorbike

NATIONALE 7 ROAD FROM PARIS TILL PROVENCE

Duration: 8 days

Scheduled:
2010-09-05 to 2010-09-12

Hotel :
HOTEL LE SIX (6ème arrondissement) - PARIS
HOTEL RESTAURANT TROISGROS – ROANNE (3*** Michelin)
MAISON PIC – VALENCE (3*** Michelin)
LES BORIES 4**** - GORDES
LA BASTIDE DE GORDES 5***** - GORDES
LA MIRANDE 4**** - AVIGNON

Day 1: Saturday: Arrival in Paris

Your tour guide welcome you at Roissy CDG airport then transfer by deluxe minibus toward your hotel. Leisure time for some rest.
08.00 pm: Departure for the right Seine river bank for a dinner in Philippe Faure-Brac property.
11.00 pm: Return transfer to your hotel (passing by the Champs Elysées) and overnight

Day 2: Sunday: PARIS FUNNY CITY TOUR

Buffet breakfast in your hotel.
You vehicles « so Frenchy » will wait for you in front of your hotel. 2 persons per car + your English speaking driver…..
Lunch and afternoon free for personal sightseeing or shopping, going to a Museum, etc.
Come back to your hotel then departure by foot toward Montparnasse Avenue for a dinner in one Paris institution, Brasserie La Coupole.

Day 3: Monday: PARIS / ROANNE

Buffet breakfast in your hotel. Bikes and cars will be delivered right in front of your hotel
Departure for the South! (Your luggage will be carried in a separate truck)
You will cross Paris, and from « Porte d’Italie » you will follow the Road N7 toward Sancerre. Tasting in a selected cellar then lunch in the old town. Then, we’ll be back on the road to La Grange (village) and Pouilly sur Loire. We will find again the N7 that becomes A77 during some miles and again the N7 to reach Moulins. Proceed to Roanne.

Day 4 : Tuesday : ROANNE / VALENCE

After your breakfast, around 09.00 am, departure for the Beaujolais wine road.
Then, we will reach Château de Bagnols for your lunch.
afternoon, proceed on lovely twisting roads to reach N7 at La Poterie. There, we will cross the Monts du Lyonnais to La Madeleine before reaching Condrieu, located on the right bank of Rhone River: Superb vineyards known as one of the best white wine in Côtes du Rhône.
Tasting in a private property.
You will arrive later, always on N7, in Valece town.

Day 5: Wednesday: VALENCE / GORDES (Vaucluse)

After your breakfast, departure south on the N7 to Loriol on Drôme river then Montélimar. A stop in Arnaud Soubeyran place will show you its local preserves, the nougat, Montélimar speciality, with a tasting.
Then road to Donzère, Pierrelatte and arrival in Mondragon.
Lunch in a restaurant, known for his truffle cooking.
Afternoon trip till Orange and the great appellation Châteauneuf du Pape (stop for tasting)
The road will bring you to Carpentras, Venasque and Gordes.

Day 6: Thursday: GORDES / LE MONT VENTOUX / GORDES

Full breakfast in your hotel. An impressive day and superb roads are scheduled today: Stop in Vaison La Romaine then Mont Ventoux climb. Lunch on the road at l’Hostellerie de Crillon le Brave 4****.Stop in Sault village, a region of lavender, with a tasting at another old and famous “Nougat” factory. Visit at Sénanque Abbey then return to Gordes and your hotel.

Day 7: Friday: GORDES / FORCALQUIER / AVIGNON

Full breakfast in your hotel. Today will be an epicurean feast for you! Departure for Roussillon, Apt, Forcalquier (with famouse Pastis tasting). Provencal lunch in lovely Couvent des Minimes. Return to AVIGNON and vehicles drop off. Accommodation at La Mirande, 4**** charming Hotel located in one 13th Century Palace. Farewell gastronomic dinner that could be organise as a cooking session with the Chef. Overnight in the hotel

Day 8: Saturday: AVIGNON – END OF STAY AND RETURN

Full breakfast in your hotel then transfer to the TGV station (or Marseille Marignane airport in option).

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