I’m doing a poster for my homework, it’s going to be a huge map of France and I want to annotate it with pictures and a few lines about different interesting monuments across the country. The problem is, a lot of them are in Paris and I don’t want to centre the whole thing around one city. So I need well-known sights from other places as well. Here’s what I got so far:
- Eiffel Tower
- Normandy Beaches
- Disneyland
- Mont St. Michel

Can you think of anything else I can include?
I’ve also thought of:
- Cannes Film Festival
- The Alps
- Côte d’Azur (French Riviera)
- Le Tour de France
- Palace of Versailles

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So me and my buds (We are gonna be 16, except for my pal who is gonna be 19 in 2011) Now we are going to go to france in 2011 and without parents just me and my two friends 16/ and 18 year old and we’re flying there unaccomponied but my friend is flying with us who is 19 and is gonna be with us at all times. NOW when we get there we have a place to stay! Saint Germaine on Saint Germaine street. Walking distance to notre dame. I have been there with my family in ’08 and I remember a fair ammount of. Now we are going to hang out with a bunch of pen pals I have met over the internet. About 6 of them :3 and I am wondering……. Can a tourist from the states be allowed to drink and smoke at 16 accomponied by a 19 year old? I heard in france it is diferent. So basically we’re going there for about a month and are gonna have a blast with my pen pals and are gonna go to resturants and drink, hang out in the Notre Dame park and smoke with them (I know for a fact that they all smoke because they have photos of them on the site with a cigarette sticking out of their mouths.) And we are not going just for drinking/smoking we are doing it to experiance the great scenery of Paris(Maybe Normandy if we can afford it!) and we still have along time ’till then but basically.. Do you think $1500 american dollars will get us anywhere (Per person.) and we’re gonna all three split a room at the Hotel. Now do you think we could do this? Or should we make our budget bigger? We are willing to get it bigger. We plan to be working mowing lawns, working for my friend who roofs houses and makes extensions etc… Now you think 2 years will get us enough money? We plan to work 6 days a week and 7 hours a day.

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travelling to france in august. would like advice on taking tube to dover from heathrow. how easy is that? how expensive? then we plan on spending a night in dover… are there any decent places i could take three kids for a night? we then plan on taking the ferry the next day into calais and renting a car… does anyone know of a car rental place that’s reliable??? or is the train/bus a regular reliable/cheaper thing…? then taking the car, train or bus into normandy… do i have to book the ferry in advance? i can’t see that, with so many crossings a day… or, do i need to book a car rental in advance? etc…

if you can help with any or all of these questions i’d greatly appreciate it…

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I will be traveling to France in July. I will be spending most of the time in Paris and a few days in Normandy. What weapons can I legally carry to protect myself?
Or maybe a better question….
What weapons can’t I legally carry?

I would prefer answers from people who live or have lived in Paris and/or France.
Thank you.

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