Nice Tours and Trips

I would have liked it to be a few days longer. We drove through some beautiful places I would have loved to stop at. The last day was a bit rushed.

Well organised, beautiful scenery, terrific tour guide and driver, Eva and Kasper made the trip interesting and kept us safe on the roads. Accommodation was always a surprise with a real mix but always comfortable and clean with great breakfast. Dinners provided were good and overly generous. I can highly recommend Back Road Touring.

The tour was everything my wife and I hoped it would be. The diversity of the areas we saw gave us a great overall view of France. The small towns of the countryside to the city of Paris, what a great experience. My favorite was touring the D-Day areas. It is so moving to know what happened there, and the courage shown by so many. They truly earned the name, "The Greatest Generation", they saved the world.

The tour took us to the highlights of the French Riviera and managed to stay almost exclusively on” back roads” - only possible because of the type of tour- ie a small group in a small bus. The scenery was beautiful and the guide, Nathalie, was excellent. The hotels were a bit mixed: loved the Graveson hotel, out of town but a beautiful country hotel with a great restaurant and the Medieval Hotel in Avignon was in a brilliant location.

Great tour - TD Nathalie was very professional, informative and helpful; small group was terrific which meant we saw things we would not have seen otherwise; couple of hotels needed to better positioned and cooler but otherwise good

Taking the tram to do some of our sightseeing. Walking tour of the open markets, tasting some of the food. Monaco - visiting the Cathedral (tomb of Grace Kelly), riding on the F1 road, seeing some hi performance cars. On to Grasse to make our own perfume. Then Cannes - nice ferry ride to St. Honorate Island and our wine tasting- history of the monks. Saw the Red carpet laid out, no celebrites (too early). Villa de Ephurssi Rohschild - Beautiful and the gardens- the views, lunch was delicious (quiche). We used the tram tickets Collette provided and took the tram to Port Lympia and walked around, had dinner in Garibaldi at Panama restaurant (very good). We saw a celebrity "Zeus the billionaire" in our hotel lobby. Our last day St. Paul de Vence - a little old town high up on a hill, lots of art, resting place of Charles de Gaulle. Our coach driver Andrea was excellent in his driving and parking skills. Our tour manager, Cristina was great, energetic and fun.