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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Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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Where in France is this? I know it’s in northern France…probably in the Breton or Normandy region. The windows have a blue color that the formula for it has been lost. They still haven’t been able to recreate the color blue of this stained glass window. Any information on this place or the blue color? I think it was similar to a cornflower blue.
I don’t have a picture. It’s a description of a place. We learned about in in French Culture and History while I studied abroad but I can’t find it in my notes.

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Posted: March 20th, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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My son graduates next year and I want to take him to France in the summer or fall of next year. He wants to go to Paris and he also wants to visit Normandy Beach also. I need to know where to start looking for info. We live in Rome,Ga. We would fly from Atlanta. I am trying to find out about how much the trip would cost and if it would be better to get flight and motel in same package. Help.

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Posted: February 17th, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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An elderly friend of mine wants to know about an american parashutist that landed on the spire of a church and was spared by the Germans during the war. Does anyone have any information on this or a link i could find out for him Many thanks – need to know the name of the church and his name if possible.

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Posted: January 28th, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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I’ll be traveling to Normandy, France this May and have a couple of questions that will help me plan my trip. I plan to arrive by train from Paris. Here are my questions:
1) I’d really like to see the D-Day beaches once I get to Nomrnady. Can I do this all on bike or do I need a rental car (or a group tour). I’m a pretty experienced biker and can cover a good amount of ground in one day.
2) After Normandy, I’d love to hit Brussels for a day or two. Is there a way to reach Brussels from Normandy by either train or bus. I can’t find any information online.
Thanks for the help

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Posted: January 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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I don’t know it so I can’t give you any first-hand information. But I can give you some links. Désertines is not technically located in present-day Normandy but so close to it that it may have been part of the former historic Duchy/Province of Normandy.
It has a population of 542 people, a 9th century church was mentioned in early writings. There is a christianized menhir (neolithic standing stone) in front of the 19th century church. It is located in the département of the Mayenne near the southern border of the Lower Normandy region (départements of Manche and Orne) and really close to the département of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany:http://www.tourisme-mayenne.com/decouvri…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayenne (if you understand French, you can go to the original French article which is more detailed.)http://www.ornetourisme.com/index_en.asp (area north east of Désertines)http://www.manchetourisme.com/medianet-u… (area north/north west of Désertines)http://www.bretagne35.com/index_uk.asp?L… (area west of Désertines)http://www.communes.com/pays-de-la-loire…
Désertines is in a rural area. You should ask your question on the French portal so local people may answer you:http://fr.answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=Aq…http://fr.answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=Am…

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Posted: January 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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