Chapter 486: Leave calmly
Less than five thousand including tax. Xueluo is not a particularly entangled and cautious person, looking at the right time and price, he booked a joint flight between Air France and China Eastern Airlines. Go to Beijing for a transfer, stay for nine hours, and the luggage is not hung directly. Return to Beijing for a transfer, stay for two hours, luggage hangs straight, one piece of baggage, weight 23kg. These should be verified and clarified.
Excess baggage will be charged separately. Another thing to note about flights. Snow fell on Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and after entering security, I bought a larger bottle of jam, sealed it and took it on the plane. When flying back to Beijing for a connecting flight, Beijing Airport has a strange need to go through customs and border control and then re-enter the airport for security check. This bottle of jam will probably not be brought in.
Finally, the security personnel checked the documents and Xueluo's passport and onward ticket before letting Xueluo take him on the plane. If Xueluo is a criminal, the documents and the ticket can be forged, and how can you be sure that Xueluo did not do anything during the period when she left the airport and entered the airport?
Can you still bring it in? The answer is yes, no. It was so dangerous, I almost bought a bottle of champagne when the snow fell. The route was designated by the French Tourism Development Agency, and the snow fell and the winter was simply adjusted. Due to the different thinking habits, Xueluo is not used to recording the itinerary in the chronological order of DAY1, DAY2, and DAY3.
Xueluo will write a travel diary according to the logic of knowing the information before you travel, usually giving a rough route first, sorted by attractions along the way, so that you can choose which attractions you are interested in staying for a few more days, which attractions take less time or delete them directly. Two years ago, I went to France from London to Paris on the Eurostar through the Undersea Tunnel across the English Channel.
After a few days in Paris, drive to the Château de la Château and then return to Charles de Gaulle Airport for your flight to the Czech Republic. This time, the snow fell and the winter weather went around to the northwest, and the attractions were Fontainebleau on the outskirts of Paris, the castle complex, Nantes, Mont Saint-Michel, the World War II landing beach near Caen and the American cemetery, Étreta, Rouen, and the town.
Finally return to Paris. It crosses four regions of France, Île-de-France, the Loire region, Brittany, and Normandy (Upper and Lower Normandy merged into one district in 2016). Repeating the same as two years ago, Paris and the region, I went to France twice and couldn't get to the purple sea and the warm beaches of Nice.
Maybe there will be a third time. The arrival of the French hotel means that you have already decided on your route, and you have a good idea of where you will stay every day. This is a more troublesome job, and it will take some time to consider the location and price, as well as compare the decoration style. There will also be people who only book the hotel for the first two days.
When you arrive at the local area and book a hotel according to the itinerary, this method will be more worrying on the way, but it is more flexible. Xueluo and Dongqingmei only spent 1,200 to book a 24-square-meter room in a hotel in the center of Paris, and the price of this room at the hotel front desk is 340 euros, and the price on website B is more than 2,000.
I enjoyed it very happily. Safety doesn't need to be said that everyone knows that Paris is not as safe as most cities in China, but as long as you don't show off your wealth and be a little cautious, there is no big problem. In the suburbs outside of Paris, the people are simple and the security is much better. However, you still need to be cautious when it falls when entering a certain attraction for a routine check.
When Mr. Police saw the cash in Xueluo's bag, he kindly reminded Xueluo to be careful of theft. Insurance for international travel covers a lot of things, which is very important in the event of an accident while traveling abroad, and the Schengen visa must also provide insurance for the corresponding amount of insurance. The details of the insurance provided by the major insurance companies are listed together.
You can compare the benefits and amounts of different products and choose the one that suits you best. Xueluo focuses more on personal accidents, theft and medical treatment. Once these three things are damaged, it is not small, so Xueluo will choose the insurance with a relatively high compensation amount for these three items. The last time the communication snow fell was an orange phone card bought locally in France.
Most countries in Europe can be used, 1 G of traffic, how much money forgot, just remember that the cost performance is very high, the signal is good, the speed is fast, and then the signal is also very good to the Czech town. This time it was a "vodafone calling card from 34 countries in Europe" purchased in advance on Ctrip, the price was cheap, and the signal was not as good as orange, but after the 4G package was used up.
Downgrade to 2G unmetered. In addition, Xiaoyue also brought a roaming treasure, the signal is lower than Vodafone's calling card, but it can support multi-person connection, and there is no limit to traffic. Note: The PIN code written on the phone card package needs to be entered every time you turn on and off, don't lose that. The car rental is a self-driving car by Budget International Car Rental Company.
(BudgetRentACarSystem, Inc). Budget is a multinational car rental company whose parent company is AvisBudgetGroup, Inc. Today, Budget has nearly 6,000 locations in more than 120 countries. In France, there is a large network of more than 120 stores.
Airports, train stations and some city stations in major cities. France car rental on the official website to choose the payment on the line, and the difficulty of registering a QQ number is about the same, not to mention the snow falling. It is recommended to go to Ctrip's car rental platform, which simply teaches how to complete the car rental process for rookies in detail.
The various insurance terms are also very clearly explained. I think that in order to save money, Xueluo went to the British website of an American car rental company to rent a car, there was no Chinese service, what "vehicle collision insurance", "vehicle theft insurance" and "basic third-party liability insurance" English words were dazzling. In addition to these three basic insurances, Xueluo strongly recommends that you pay more for full insurance.
However, all insurance does not require any damage without compensation, and the rules of each company are different in different places, so you should be specific. This time, Xueluo and Dong Qingmei rubbed the back of the car on a line, and after rubbing, Xueluo and the two calmly agreed that "the true value of the all-risk purchase" and continued to set off. Roadside assistance Xueluo has never been bought, this really depends on the character, if it is in Iceland in the cold winter.
Then let's buy it. Just outside Gate 2 of Charles de Gaulle Airport is a neat row of car rental companies, making it easy to find Budget. Therefore, the airport has always been the best place to rent and return cars, and the difficulty of picking up and returning cars is much lower than that in urban areas. Budget is at the same counter as Avis. Xueluo and Dongqingmei rented a Renault automatic transmission of Talisman.
The size is not small, and the trunk can fit a 28-inch and a 30-inch suitcase. But given the overall situation in Europe, if you will be driving to the city, especially Paris, it is advisable to choose a small car. Self-driving in France, driving in France is the same as in China, the left drive, the route follows googlemaps, there is nothing particularly difficult.
It should be noted that: 1. There are many roundabouts in France, and the roundabout is generally not controlled by traffic lights, which requires the driver's own judgment. The rule is: when you come to the line before entering the roundabout, if there is already a car in the roundabout, you must wait until it is gone before entering the roundabout. 2. The French drive very fast and will follow the car very closely.
Believe that the snow falls, and if you are a newbie, you will definitely be scared. 3. Turn and go straight, and vehicles give way to pedestrians. These simple rules that snow falls and winter falls have in their own country but are often overlooked, and which are strictly followed in France. 4. Most French people drive extremely politely and patiently, and they are hardly heard honking their horns (except in Paris).
Even once Xueluo and Dong Qingmei blocked all the cars behind them for several minutes because of some unexpected small situation, the vehicles behind them had been waiting silently, but a female driver got out of the car and asked Xue Luo and Dong Qingmei if they needed help. The issue of highway tolls is worth mentioning. There are several types of highway tolls.
Manual, credit card, cash, automatic deduction (similar to domestic ETC). Newer payment machines, chip cards can be inserted, but there are some old credit card payment machines on French highways that cannot read bank cards outside the European Union, Xueluo and Dong Qingmei were stuck at the toll booth twice because of this problem, and finally had to press the call bell to talk to the staff of the service system.
She tells Yukiluo and Dongqingmei that they can put cash in the mailbox, but because they can't get change, Xueluo and Dongqingmei pay some more. Therefore, it is better to go through the channel of manual service and cash delivery. Looking at the logo, the bank card is the credit card channel, the euro or coin is the cash channel, and nothing is the manual channel.
Some stations pay for the next stop after picking up the card, and some stations pay directly without taking the card. The official travelogue of France France has begun, and none of the attractions mentioned below will provide information such as the detailed location, opening hours, and ticket prices of the attractions. Snowfall thinks you shouldn't extract this important information from anyone's travelogue.
It's best to look for it on major domestic travel websites, such as Cellular's Strategy Community. This is because the information provided by individuals who write their own travelogues may not be completely accurate compared to websites. Of course, the most important reason is that Xueluo is too lazy to write. When you check in for a rental car at the airport.
The black Renault Talisman was parked in the open-air parking lot in front of the Budget counter, waiting for the snow to fall and the winter to shine. Find it, put away your luggage, adjust the rearview mirror and seat position, set up your mobile phone to export the route, and the self-drive in northwest France will officially start. Although this is the second time driving in France, there are still some slight nervousness when I first get started.
However, the tension caused by the strangeness soon faded, and Xue Luo drove the male hormone Tallisman, carrying the beautiful woman all the way south around the evening rush hour in downtown Paris to the world-famous Fontainebleau. French Fontainebleau, meaning beautiful spring water. Xu Zhimo once translated it as "Fontaine Boluo".
Later, the translated name "Fontainebleau", which was well known by Xueluo and Dong Qingmei and desecrated by various real estate developers, was Zhu Ziqing's genius. The world-famous one is located here. You can search for a lot of ins and outs, and you don't have to copy and paste the snow when it falls.
Let's use my own understanding to briefly describe what Xueluo knows. Most of the content does not have a specific year, and Xueluo is too lazy to search, and the content is not necessarily accurate, especially about the architectural style. It was built more than 800 years ago by order of Louis VI.
Successive kings have remodeled it to their liking. But the one who left the heaviest mark on it was King François I, and the audience and friends should pay attention, Xueluo will mention him several times in the following travelogue, the big-nosed king of the French Renaissance. During the reign of François I.
The Renaissance was in full swing in Europe, and after he came into contact with the Renaissance art style, he became obsessed with it. At that time, he invited a large number of artists from Italy to design, build, remodel, enlarge and decorate French palaces, one of them.
Immersed in the Renaissance, François I apparently did not like its medieval style and remodeled it. After this tossing, some of the gorgeous appearances that are now seen in the snow and the winter sunshine beauties, the most representative of which is the "François I Gallery".
Later, these artists who began to serve the court were collectively known as the "Fontainebleau School", and in this school there was a very famous but no longer traceable representative painting called "Portrait of the Duchess of Villars", which was slightly indecent.
(But compared to Courbet's "The Source of the World" in the Musée d'Orsay, it is still much more elegant, mysterious smile), now in the collection. François I Gallery, let's continue. Later, there was a French general, Napoleon, who was known to everyone in the Dragon Kingdom.
He took control of the military and political power of France, overthrew the republic, proclaimed himself emperor and became emperor, and turned it into his own palace, and lived here with Empress Josephine (this Josephine is also a wonder, Snow Fall and Winter Sunny are in the painting "Napoleon's Coronation" in Paris), and redecorated it to their liking.
The most characteristic of Napoleon is that he changed the bedroom of the former French emperor into the "throne room", and the place where the bed was placed was replaced with an ornate chair. Later, Napoleon was defeated and forced to abdicate, and it was here that the abdication was signed, and the room where the abdication was signed was called the "abdication hall". With a generation of heroes withdrawing from the world political stage this time.
The history of the French court also gradually came to an end. Come to the throne hall and let the snow fall and the winter sunshine to see how luxurious the king of France is. The old gentleman in the picture is a staff member in the picture, he saw Xueluo miss visiting a beautiful room, and he was anxious to remind Xueluo, but he couldn't speak English, so he smiled and took Xueluo's hand while speaking French.
Carried the snow all the way through. The town is not large, it can be said that it is not prosperous, and the temperament is calm and calm, subtle and elegant, and it is difficult to see that it was once the place where the leaders of France often stayed. Xueluo and Dongqingmei stayed in the hotel next door. There is generally no parking space in hotels in town.
I had to park in the public parking lot a few minutes' walk away, and it was free from 7 p.m. to 9 a.m. Xueluo and Dong Qingmei went to park a few minutes to seven o'clock, and several cars lined up at the entrance of the parking lot.