{"id":5427,"date":"2022-08-05T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:24:50","slug":"european-vacation-day-1-the-drive-from-paris-to-port-en-bessin-huppain-on-the-normandy-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-1-the-drive-from-paris-to-port-en-bessin-huppain-on-the-normandy-coast.html","title":{"rendered":"European Vacation Day 1: The Drive from Paris to Port en Bessin-Huppain on the Normandy Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A crazy trip out of the city, trying to figure out the car and the roads all at once. Good thing there wasn’t heavy traffic to complicate things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

17 July 2022: We made it to France!! We got the rental car and are on our way to the Normandy coast!! I’m only on Wifi for now…we are at a rest stop now just outside Paris after a chaotic trip out of the city. Tim’s doing a great job navigating…and Jacob’s 5+ years of French is being put to good use!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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A small Opal SUV. It fit our suitcases…the first car they offered us, some sort of Citroen, did not. The agents were very friendly and accommodating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dave behind the wheel near the Aire Du Sud De Morainvilliers<\/a><\/strong> rest stop….where we first learned that our American Express card wasn’t going to work much at all, and USAA had put a block on our card.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17 July 2022: We made it to France!! We got the rental car and are on our way to the Normandy coast!! I’m only on Wifi for now…we are at a rest stop now just outside Paris after a chaotic trip out of the city. 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