Introduction: Pezenas and Paris 2022

Our last trip was to Mexico City in January 2020 https://herewegoagain-cdmx4.blogspot.com/2020/01/in-mexico-city-again.html  Then everything stopped for the pandemic, which is still on-going. We hoped to visit France, Mexico City (again), and the Christmas Markets in Germany in 2020; then maybe Croatia and Italy and Mexico City and France in 2021. Instead, all plans were put on hold. We got vaccinated as soon as possible, and boosted, too. We took every precaution, including mask-wearing, social distancing, avoiding indoor dining/events. And it worked. We stayed uninfected! But the pandemic seems never ending so I (nagged, threatened, enlisted peer pressure) convinced the husband to bite the bullet and go with me to Pezenas and Paris in May 2022.  

We left on Sunday, May 8, because husband wanted to see Stevie Nicks at the New Orleans JazzFest (on May 7).Then he decided a few days beforehand, due to the large crowds, against attending. Our nephew (a gifted guitarist) enjoyed the fest in our stead. 

8 May to 23 May, 2022

6 nights in Pezenas

8 nights in Paris

Air: Delta connecting in Atlanta to CDG, 

Comfort + going, Premium Select coming home

Travel from CDG to Montpellier St. Roch via train

Back to Paris Gare de Lyon via train

Car rental with Europcar

Apartments rented on AirB&B

Guidebooks:

Michelin Green Guide to the Languedoc-Roussillon

Blue Guide Paris

Maps:

Michelin # 526 Languedoc-Roussillon

Streetwise Paris

Agenda:

Explore Pezenas, see the nearby countryside, Montpellier, Narbonne

Explore less popular sites in Paris, especially recently reopened ones

Eat really well

And it went pretty much according to plan!

Day	Date	See	Sleep
Monday	5/9/22	Sunday 5/8 depart 1130am, arrive ATL 2pm, depart ATL 430pm, arrive CDG 6:10am; Train to Montpellier 827a-1p; rent car; drive to Pezenas, check into apartment. Explore Pezenas Dinner:	Pezenas rue Joseph Cambon
Tuesday	5/10	Pezenas, Chateau Abbaye de Cassan (2-7pm), Caux, Roujon, drive by Chateau de Margon Dinner:	Pezenas
Wed.	5/11	Villages de l’Herault: Fort de Valros, Nezignan L’Eveque, Florensac, Pomerols, Castelnau-de-Guers 830pm Dinner: Restaurant De Lauzun (1*, Route de Nizas, 830pm)	Pezenas
Thursday	5/12	Beziers, Minerve Dinner:	Pezenas
Friday	5/13	Abbaye at Valmagne, Montpellier: Musee Fabre Dinner:	Pezenas
Saturday	5/14	Cirque de Moureze, Olargues, Roquebrun Dinner:	Pezenas

 

Paris

Day	Date	See	Sleep
Sunday Depart	5/15/22 918am	Return car in Montpellier, Train to Gare de Lyon 918a-1246p, check into Paris apartment, Fallafels, La Samaritaine look-see, and Au Bougnat	Paris rue Nicolo
Monday	5/16	Mid-morning repast: La Fontaine de Belleville (7am-2am daily) Metro to Pyrenees for Belleville Walk (Blue Guide) Atelier des Lumieres (Cezanne, Kadinsky, 10a-6p, reserve 4pm?) Drinks/Dinner in the 11th	Paris
Tuesday	5/17	MINES Mineralogy Museum (10-1210; 130-6) (5 minutes walk to) Lunch: Les Papilles (12-2, 1230) Rue Mouffetard, College des Bernadins (750 rue de Poissy ND exhibit, 10-2130, 1h30m  tour, reserve for 330?), Institut du Monde Arabe (walk by building, 10-6), Patisserie Tourbillon (90 rue Saint-Louis en L’Ile, 230-7pm)   Drinks/Dinner: Au Bougnat	Paris
Wed.	5/18	Musee Carnavalet (10am-6pm, reserve special exhibits only) Lunch: Le Sergent Recruter (Ile St. Louis 1*, 1pm) *??*Hotel de Lauzun (17 quai d’Anjou, Ile St. Louis, 8a-8p) Closed to public per email; Walk by and check. Maison de Victor Hugo (Place des Vogues 10a-6p) or Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature (11am-6pm) or Musee des Archives Nationales-Hotel de Soubise (10am-530p) Fluctuart on the Seine (near Pont des Invalides, open til 2am)	Paris
Thursday	5/19	Villa La Roche (Corbusier, 10am-6pm), Albert Khan Museum & Garden (11am-7pm, reserve for 12?), Statue of Liberty In the 16th: Maison de Balsac (10am-6pm), Musee du Vin (10am-6pm), Passy Cemetery (8am-6pm), Musee d’Art Moderne (10a-10p), pass by Palais Galliera and replica Lady Liberty’s torch Dinner: Josephine Chez Dumonet 8pm	Paris
Friday	5/20	Lunch: Le Pre Catelan (Bois de Boulogne, 3*, 1230 pvd) In the 16th: Maison de Balsac (10am-6pm), Musee du Vin (10am-6pm), Passy Cemetery (8am-6pm), Musee d’Art Moderne (10a-10p), pass by Palais Galliera and replica Lady Liberty’s torch Dinner: Le Scheffer or Aux Cocottes or La Causerie 8pm?	Paris
Saturday	5/21	Hotel de la Marine (1030-7pm, reserve for 1030?) Eglise St. Roch (24 St.-Roch @ r Honore) Lunch: Le Grand Vefour (reserve for 1pm ) Walk in Jardin Palais Royal (maybe Blue Guide walk) Dinner: Le Scheffer or Aux Cocottes or La Causerie 8pm?	Paris
Sunday Covid19 test today	5/22	Do: Whatever we missed Brunch: Le Salon des Manufacturers @ Palais Royal 2pm pvd Do: Whatever we missed, plus packing Dinner: L’Abreuvoir (15th, M Bir Hakeim, big terrace, daily 8-2am, 730p?)	Paris
Monday Depart	5/23 9:10a	CDG depart 910am; arrive ATL 1235, depart ATL 330, arrive MSY 402pm	Home