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Summer of 2025 my travels took me to France where I, along with some good friends, took an incredible road trip around the country (which I call my personal Tour de France). After spending a few wonderful days exploring Marseille and Aix-en-Provence (as I shared in my last post), we decided to take a scenic …
Welcome back to my progression of blog posts about my epic ‘Tour de France’ roadtrip of summer ’25. If this is your first time to Catching Katie, I have a whole series of posts about this epic trip, starting in Dijon, followed by Annecy, Lyon and a bunch of adorable small towns in the French …
After spending several days in the seaside town of Antibes, which is located in southern, Mediterrean France and exploring the darling towns of Menton, Eze and Villefranche-sur-Mer it was time for us to be on the move again. Our itinerary had us working our way up through some of Provence’s most culturally rich and naturally stunning …
After having explored Dijon/Beaune, Annecy and Lyon, the next portion of our 2025 Tour de France brought my friends Lindsey, Jed and I to the southern Mediterranean part of France. We stayed in Antibes for several days, making that our home base. However, we wanted to explore more of the French Riviera and so decided …
After exploring the charm of Annecy, the grandeur of Chamonix, and the quiet beauty of Dijon, we headed off for our next city on our Tour de France- Lyon. We only had one day planned in Lyon, France so we had to maximize our time. And what better way to get acquainted with a city …
For our second leg of our 2025 Tour de France, we packed up the car in Dijon and headed south to Annecy, a place that somehow feels both wildly Alpine (hello beautiful mountains!) and effortlessly French. Instead of staying in the city itself, we booked a cozy Airbnb tiny house in Talloires, a lakeside village …
First of all, I’m so excited to be spending several weeks this summer in France, my favorite country in the world! As a French teacher, there are so many parts of France that I’ve learned about or even taught that I have never seen but have wanted to for years. And then timing worked out …