Introducing your Partner to France, Episode 399
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Are you introducing your partner to France? Perhaps you're bringing your children to France for the first time. This is an episode you'll hear lots of tips on how to make sure things go so well that they'll want to come back.
My guest on today's episode, Megan McKay, has visited France 3 times but this was her partner's first time in France.
Megan wondered what if he doesn't like France as much as I do? He was willing to try it, but sometimes things can go wrong. She wanted to make sure they did things they'd both find rewarding.
Accomodations Recommendations
B&B Recommendation: Le Champ des Oliviers. The host gave them great recommendations for local dining as well.
Paris hotel recommendation: Belloy Saint Germain
Table of Contents for this Episode
- [00:00:41] Today on the podcast
- [00:01:05] Podcast support
- [00:01:25] The France bootcamp
- [00:01:44] On vacation for the next 3 weeks
- [00:03:10] Main interview
- [00:03:39] Megan’s first time in France
- [00:04:37] Champs-Élysées
- [00:05:20] Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
- [00:06:11] Deyrolle
- [00:08:05] How long was the whole trip?
- [00:08:14] Train to Marseille
- [00:08:32] The village of Oppède (zip code 84580)
- [00:09:13] How was the train trip?
- [00:10:17] Getting to the B&B with a stop in Lourmarin
- [00:11:15] Did he like French food?
- [00:12:11] Not everything can be arranged through a website
- [00:13:14] Most places have someone who speaks English
- [00:14:39] A year in Provence in two days
- [00:15:50] When did they visit France?
- [00:16:31] Gordes
- [00:17:00] Lacoste
- [00:17:57] Fell in love with Rosé
- [00:19:13] Grocery Stores and markets
- [00:19:42] Small villages don’t have a lot of grocery stores
- [00:20:29] Cucuron
- [00:22:00] The road to La Ciotat
- [00:22:51] Le Castellet
- [00:23:28] La Ciotat
- [00:24:08] Harder to park in La Ciotat
- [00:24:50] 14 Degree Cave
- [00:25:40] Connect with people even though you don’t know the language
- [00:27:17] Is he going to want to come back?
- [00:27:41] Food is a good culture-connector
- [00:29:03] Caught out when parking
- [00:30:26] La Route de Cretes
- [00:30:50] Gas Stations and Foreign Cards
- [00:31:41] Back to Paris
- [00:32:30] Taking the train back to the airport
- [00:33:46] Say Bonjour
- [00:34:25] Flying in and out of Paris
- [00:35:26] Traveling light
- [00:35:38] Familiarize yourself with the GPS
- [00:36:56] Researching area before your travel
- [00:37:29] Rosé and Cognac: New Favorites
- [00:38:00] French language
- [00:39:00] Ready to come back?
- [00:40:05] Thank you, patrons
- [00:40:37] New patrons
- [00:41:13] Preparing to visit France?
- [00:42:18] Self-guided tours
- [00:42:36] Great review of the self-guided tours
- [00:43:24] Why the VoiceMap tours are great
- [00:43:57] Travel question of the week
- [00:49:44] Show notes
- [00:50:13] Next week on the podcast
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| 0:00.0 | The This is |
| 0:20.0 | This is join us in France episode 399 3. 4.5. 4.9. |
| 0:23.0 | Bonshu, I'm Annie Sergeant, and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:30.0 | Every day life in France. |
| 0:32.0 | Great places to visit in France, French culture, history, gastronomy, and news related to travel to France. |
| 0:41.0 | Today I bring you a trip report with Megan McKay about the things she did to introduce |
| 0:48.2 | her partner to France. She's a francophile but this was his first visit to France, and she wanted to make sure it wouldn't be the last. |
| 0:59.0 | What was her strategy and did it work? |
| 1:03.0 | She's going to tell us. |
| 1:05.2 | This podcast is supported by donors and listeners who buy my tours and services |
| 1:09.7 | including my itinerary consult service and my GPS self-guided tours of Paris on the |
| 1:17.0 | voice map app and you can browse all of that at my boutique join us in France.com |
| 1:23.2 | slash boutique. |
| 1:25.9 | If you're interested in the France boot camp, May 21st until May 27th, |
| 1:31.5 | 2023, be sure to sign up for the newsletter at join us in France.com for a slash |
| 1:38.0 | newsletter. More news about that in September. I'm going to be on vacation for the next three weeks but I've |
| 1:48.3 | arranged everything so that a new episode of the podcast continues to be released every Sunday at 6 PM France Time. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm not sure that you need to know this but I would like to explain it anyway. |
| 2:02.0 | I record Trip reports several weeks before you hear them |
| 2:06.9 | But the intro and outro are recorded two or three days before they are released That way I can thank new patrons and donors and |
| 2:15.2 | discuss travel questions that are time sensitive. But since I'm going to be on vacation, |
| 2:20.3 | there won't be an outro for episodes 400, 401 and 402. |
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