@Gefn We have enjoyed our driving trips through Normandy, the Alsace and Provence (all on different visits). We had our 12 y/o niece with us in Provence, so we incorporated a lot of educational, historical things like Glanum, the coliseum at Nimes, etc. On the other trips, we've look for WWI and WWII sites. Not far from Verdun, we found the tiny village where my grandfather was mustard-gassed on Nov. 10, 1918. On our last trip to France, we visited the little 13th century churches where some of my ancestors were baptized and also visited a Nazi concentration camp in a scenic mountain setting (who knew?).