A Dream Trip to France Becomes a Reality, Episode 424
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
My guest on today's trip report is Nicole Morin Scribner. She was born in Quebec and moved to the United States when she was 6. She always dreamed about visiting France and made her dream trip to France a reality in the summer of 2022.
Discussed in this Episode
- Check out the town of Blere
- Biking in the Loire Valley
- One-way bike rentals with OuiBike
- Stop at train crossings
- Don't speed at all or you'll get a ticket
- Eat at French meal times
Table of Contents for this Episode
- [00:00:16] Intro
- [00:00:39] Today on the podcast
- [00:01:31] Podcast supporters
- [00:02:23] Newsletter
- [00:02:54] Dream to Reality
- [00:03:56] Finding your roots in France
- [00:05:17] Tracing the ancestors
- [00:07:20] Visiting the ancestors’ house
- [00:08:10] Bringing the aunts along[00:08:10] Bringing the elderly aunts along
- [00:09:17] Immigrating to Canada
- [00:10:17] The French Canadian Podcast
- [00:11:11] What else did they do on the trip?
- [00:11:44] Biking
- [00:12:13] When was the trip?
- [00:12:23] Car rental
- [00:13:17] Chambord
- [00:13:58] Renting a bike
- [00:15:28] Car rental places are not open on weekends generally
- [00:16:08] OuiBike is national bike rental company
- [00:17:14] Parisian French and Canadian French
- [00:18:32] Returning to France
- [00:19:52] Biking around Loire Valley
- [00:22:02] Check restaurant schedules
- [00:22:50] Be careful at train crossings
- [00:23:58] Follow the speed limits
- [00:25:27] Eat at meal times
- [00:26:30] Getting the train
- [00:27:24] Trains sell out fast in France, especially around holidays
- [00:28:34] Seeing the Eiffel Tower
- [00:31:48] Visiting the museums
- [00:34:34] Getting around Paris
- [00:35:45] e-bikes
- [00:36:10] What she didn’t like about Paris
- [00:36:16] Big ads over buildings in Paris
- [00:37:49] Where are the people in the villages?
- [00:38:44] What else did she enjoy?
- [00:39:42] Book recommendation
- [00:42:31] Outro
- [00:42:58] New patrons
- [00:43:07] Preparing a trip to France?
- [00:44:02] Self-guided tours
- [00:44:43] Expect strikes in early 2023 and how to deal with them
- [00:48:43] Personal update
- [00:50:39] If you love this podcast share the new trailer on your own timeline!
- [00:51:52] Next week on the podcast
- [00:52:21] Copyright
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The This is, join us in France, episode 424. |
| 0:17.0 | 424. |
| 0:21.0 | 424. |
| 0:22.0 | 424. Bonsie Sergeant. 24. 4thoson vandicatra. |
| 0:23.0 | Bonjou, I'm Annie Sergeant, and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:29.0 | Everyday life in France, great places to visit in France, French culture, history, gastronomy and news related to travel to France. |
| 0:39.0 | Today I bring you a trip report with Nicole Morin Scribner who lives in Maine and has French |
| 0:46.8 | Canadian relatives. Because of her origins Nicole has been dreaming about |
| 0:52.0 | visiting France, well, forever. |
| 0:55.0 | And you know when you dream about doing something forever, |
| 0:58.5 | sometimes you're disappointed? |
| 1:01.4 | Not Nicole, she made it work. She retraced the steps of her ancestors and had a fantastic time. |
| 1:09.6 | For the magazine part of the episode after the interview I'll give you an update on French |
| 1:15.2 | politics and why you can expect strikes until possibly June. |
| 1:20.9 | I don't know that's me reading the tea leaves, but better warn you that things are happening. |
| 1:27.2 | And I will also update you on where I'm going. This podcast is supported by donors and listeners who buy my tours and services |
| 1:35.2 | including my itinerary consult service and my GPS self-guided tours of Paris on the Voicmap app and you can browse all of that at my |
| 1:45.9 | boutique join us in France.com for a slash boutique or on the voice map app |
| 1:51.8 | somebody took my mauma Monmatra tour this week and left this review. |
| 1:56.4 | I don't know who this was, obviously, because this is a review through the app. |
| 2:00.3 | Nothing come close to this gives you interesting facts that would otherwise be missed and provides you with the right amount of information, by far the most entertaining walking tour I've experienced. |
| 2:15.0 | Well, that's really flattering, thank you. |
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