Off to Normandy and Paris

We're leaving tomorrow so it's time to put up some links and try to get organized at the last minute. Here is our brief itinerary, and you can check back for day-by-day details:
Penny and Mitch in France – May 7 to May 17, 2008

May 7, Continental # 138, leaving Newark at 8:05 p.m.,

May May 8 -Arriving Charles DeGaulle at 9:40 a.m. – confirmation number A5DNLS (P), A5CK6X (M)
Pick up rental car from Auto Europe at airport – voucher # 2754852-1, desk in each terminal tel: 33 148623875
Drive to Honfleur (2 and a half hour/ 135 miles) with a stop in Giverny (Monet’s Garden)
May 8 & 9 (Thurs, Friday) Stay at La Fraichette, Chemin de Cremanville, La Riviere Saint Sauveur, Honfleur 14600, France, 02 31 89 37 36– Thus, May 8, Friday, May 9 82.60/night includes breakfast.
Honfleur – scenic port town, lots of restaurants, escaped WWII bombing,

Rouen – day trip from Honfleur – one hour Rick Steves to see historical sights – cathedral, cobbled old town, Joan of Arc, Wm the Conqueror

Sat, May 10 – brief stop at Saturday market in Honfleur (9-12:30)
Drive between Honfluer and Bayeux (65 mi.) with at stop at WWII museum in Caen (RS raves about, allow 2.5 hrs, expensive 17E

May 10, 11, 12 Le Mas Normand, 8, Impasse de la Riviere, Ver su Mer. 02 31 21 97 75. www.ohotes.com/lemasnormand

D Day beaches tour a la Rick Steves (p.242)
Bayeux tapestry and self-guided walk (brochure, town map & D-Day tour brochure) from TI on a small bridge 2 blocks n. of cathedral)
Mont St. Michel – RS self-guided tour

May 13 – Drive back to Charles De Gaulle and drop off car – take RER B toward Robinson.Saint-Remy Chevreuses, front of train, get off at St. Michel/Nortre-Dame-Cluny station, take Blvd Saint Germain exit, walk in direction of traffic, 3rd rt. To
Hotel College de France, 7 rue Thenard, 75005 Paris (33 (0) 1 43 26 78 36)– reservations for May 13, 14, 15, 16

In Paris
Latin Quarter walk
Walk from Opera Garnier, or just from the Jardin des Tuileries, Orangerie Museum tour, Petit Palais
Day trip to Versailles – RER C5 train at St. Michel –5E/rd trip – 30 minutes, any train whose name starts with V goes to Versailles, get off last stop Versailles RG, exit turnstiles (insert ticket), turn rt out of station, left a 1st blvd, walk 10 minutes – allow 2 hrs palace, 2 gardens, 2 for transit (7.5E palace, gardens free, no cards
Montmartre walk
Festival Jazz a Saint Germain des Pres (photocopies) and walk neighborhood – Fri, May 16 many free events.