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Originally Posted by BethRags
Ooh, that's a tough one. I love to fly, but driving is so interesting. So the drive from Cz to France is only 3 hours longer than the drive from where I live in NorCal to Los Angeles. If you drive, the thing to do would be to do overnight at least one night. A straight 13 hour drive is not only tiring, but you'd miss a lot of good stuff to take notice of. But I guess you be driving pretty much through Germany only. Where in France is your target?
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If we decide to drive the whole way, which I'm leaning against, we would definitely stop for a night somewhere in between. I hate to say it, but I'm not that eager to see more of Germany than what quickly passes by, likely on a high-speed autobahn. We've been throughout Germany a number of times. It does have many lovely places, but I'm hyperfocused on France.
My original idea was to just explore parts of Normandy and Bretagne. Then Hubby wanted to also head down the western coast a bit as far as Bordeaux. Then he suddenly got both of us interested in maybe Alsace. We've been to Alsace and it's wonderful. We've never been to Normandy, Bretagne or Bordeaux areas. The problem is that the latter three regions are in very different parts of France. Alsace is on the eastern border, not even that far from Basel, Switzerland. So that's the conundrum.
Rather than do an extreme amount of driving, I want to explore flying to maybe Basel, Switzerland, round trip, and rent a car there. For both of us, with luggage fees, that would be about $250 total (combined), plus maybe some tax and other fees. That non-stop flight only takes 90 mins from Prague.