From Mont Blanc to Montblanc
It took under six hours for me to drive the 600 km from my son’s ski chalet in the Alps by Mont Blanc to my home by the Mediterranean in the village of Montblanc today, that included two stops and a long phone call.
France is a big country, but there are so many different regions and changes of lifestyle and scenery that it is a pleasure traveling along some of the best roads in the world.
Each of the twenty regions offers something completely different to all the others and each department in each region, all ninety five of them, have a unique character.
Although Paris is the capital, no other city thinks it is second to Paris, each city has a fierce pride and independent character and “knows” it is simply the best town in France with an assured certainty. Perhaps they are all correct in their thinking, each place in France has a character as individual as the hundreds of different cheeses or wines you can taste, who is to say which is the best.
