Highlights of France

Across 13 days, your route runs from Paris into the Loire Valley, where vineyards pattern the land. In Carcassonne, you pass between narrow streets and fortified walls, hear voices brush against the stone and the medieval city seems to answer in faint echoes. Between Beaune and Bordeaux, patterned rooftops and stone courtyards give way to 18th-century façades and the hum of city streets. Further south, on the French Riviera and in Monaco, the Mediterranean breeze slips along elegant boulevards, private yachts dot the water and sleek cars flash along the coast. In Normandy, you’ll see the shore where Allied soldiers first reached France, sand and sea carrying the weight of WWII history.