2nd or 3rd Day: Train from Padova to Milan to Como, Check in to hotel, walk around insanely busy Como ped area, nap
2nd or 3rd Night: Met by Anna and Paolo, apertif at modern bar by lake, fantastic 4 course Dinner at top of crazy hilltop road
4th Day: Late start;
Walk around Como, lunch with Anna, her mom, kids, and Paolo at their apt4th Night: Nap, eat sleep early
5th Day: Visit Bellagio with all other tourists, drink thick chocolate
5th Night: Eat at Hemmingway restaurant, joined by Paolo. Turned in.
6th Day: Leave Como for Milan and take trains on wrong day and kick all the correct passengers out of their seats, then train from Milan to Paris where we realized we were wrong and played musical chairs for 4 hours. Arrive in Paris, take Metro, check in to hotel, Walk around Marais
6th Night: Eat at Le Bastoche watch CNN and Eurosport
7th Day: Visit Notre Dame during mass, buy a votive for Cecily, walk around Marais, take nap
7th Night: Eat at "long bench" (translates) and walk into scarry west of Pompidou, then back to hotel for CNN, again, same stories...
8th Day: TGV to LeMans, pick up rental car, drive to who knows where... just nortwest.
8th Night: Check in to hotel at S Michel and eat in hotel
9th Day: Drive from Mt S Michel, get lost, ogle at scale of nuclear plant on Loire, check into Hotel in Chinon
9th Night: after not knowing how to knock at one restaurant, dinner at GREAT little other restaurant, drank REALLY good wine, fear of mugging in dimly lit Chinon by rag tag group of moped riders (hahah)
10th Day: Explore Chinon castle ruins where Joan of Arc proclaimed french heir to throne and long walk of stairs , lunch seated next to a 1-eyed dog and fat man drinking perrier and wiskey apertif and whole bottle of rosé wine.
10th Night: Dinner at 30something and sleep in Chinon again
11th Day: Driving nad getting lost, drive past Chateaux Ussé, visit Chateaux Assey Le Riddeau
11th Night: dinner and bed in a 2 star Hotel in Chenenceau
12th Day: Chateaux Chenenceau, Driving low on gas, Chateaux Chambord
12th Night: dinner and bed at Hotel Chateaux Chambord, drink young wine from bad plastic cups in room while wathing american tv all with french dubs.
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