what are some cool french places to visit that aren't that tourist trap shithole
>>2887508Is this an AI generated map? Cannes is not fucking located there, and even if it was, why the fuck highlight Cannes? Why not Marseille, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulous, Nantes? All that space and they only show 4 cities, one of which is not even in the top 10 largest? Seriously? What were they thinking?
>>2887508Lyon ObviouslyNiceCaen if you like WW2Rouen if you go to Caen and also like Cider and soft cow cheese.Lille but avoid the suburbsClermont-FerrandOrleansReimsStrasbourg and Metz.There's literally unlimited non-overtouristed towns in France all with their own unique regional character, probably the most underrated country on this board. Just go to any train station in Paris and head out to the first place that looks cool.
>>2887508Lyon and Marseille obviously. The south also has some nice smaller cities like Montpellier, Avignon or Toulon. Also go somewhere in Brittany, always worth a visit.
For natural beauty, Dordogne and the area around MarseilleFor a cosy downtown, LilleFor a feisty mediterean city, MontpellierFor the beach, I'd go to the atlantic coast, below bordeaux. The mediteranean is kinda meh.
>>2887508You already answered the question in the thread name>>2887525Every coastline and border is wrong it's weird
>>2887508>what are some cool french places to visit >that aren't that tourist trap shitholeliterally everything outside of Parismaybe avoid the Côte d’Azur / French Riviera, Atlantic coast, well generally every coast south of Paris, from June to AugustNormandie, Bretagne and Hauts-de-France are surprisingly empty during summer (except very few popular points)and of course all the central regions are fine as wellsome parts near (German) population centers, like Alsace, will still be busybut even in high season it's not overtouristed like ParisRhone-Alpes is criminally underrated in Summerkayaking Loire Valley is also awesome if you like being active and /out/
>>2887525Zoomers use chatGPT instead of Google searchI'm not even jocking.
>>2887508Not gonna answer if you can't even be bothered to find a correct image, fuck you.
Come to Aubenas, Ardèche and smoke weed with me. We have nice rivers and goat cheese too.
>>2887869Okay I'm going. Prepare lube.
>>2887830Nice and Cannes are pretty great if you want to chill. Monacco is also a pretty sweet day trip. I grabbed a bottle of wine and some snacks from a grocery store and sat my ass down by the round about outside the Casino Montecarlo and watched the most ridiculous super cars coming in and out all afternoon. Then hiked up to the fortress and fondled some cannons. Would do again.
>>2887918>Nice and Cannes are pretty great if you want to chillyeah, there's a reason why the french riviera is consistently in the most desirable / visited places in Europe in the last 100ydidn't want to discredit itjust wouldn't go there during peak summer (June, July, August)way too busyand you'll pay double for your accommodation (or don't find anything decent in the first place)you can partly get around this by camping, which feels far less crowded, but there's still a peak season surcharge and it still will be comparatively fullif you don't care about the beach / going swimming, I'd go in March/April/Octoberotherwise go in early September or late August, usually still warm enough, but a lot less peoplepeak season typically ends mid August and crowds gradually slow after (French school begins like 1st September, Italian schools late August to early September and Germany ones usually somewhere in August)
Traveling to France in 2 months.Already have the most popular landmarks planned out, I love french animation but I don't know if there's anything related to that I could see.
>>2889053You could try the cinema museums.Also not France, but close enough, Brussels has a comics museums
>>2889139>cinema museums.Thank you. Looked it up as is and already got some locations that look really good.
South and southwest>Dordogne, Bordeaux, Pyrenees, Albi, Carcasonne, Avignon, Nîmes, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, Camargue/Aigues-Mortes
>>2889226Carcasonne is tourist trap btw but still fun
>>2887525marsielles itself is a god damn shithole lolnice is gorgeous though, skip monaco go to nice fucking monaco was a gigantic waste of time if you're not a wealth chasing richfag who wants to take pics of gaudy generic supercars and the f1 corner. i hated how steep it was. i will come back to you one day nice, this was one of my favorite pics i took that trip. the 4 hour layover i spent there made me a francophile imagine 1990s-2000s venice beach if it didnt have a bunch of homeless schizos
>>2889318>25% African No thanks
>>2889318>marsielles itself is a god damn shithole lolMarseille has soul and probably has more to do than Nice which is just a beach town
Any insight on the diagnale du vide? Interested in starting in Southwest France and following that line eastwards, maybe deviating off to Avignon. I am not interested in major tourist destinations as much as nice drives, walks, and scenic countryside
>>2889391Look into the Occitanie Rail Pass. €10/day
>>2889348>soulit felt like jamaica queens or east new york, just trade some of the black people for nafris all loitering with nothing better to do. it felt more like poverty tourism, only place i saw on my trip that had still burn marks of burnt down cars and a fucking 2002 seat with a missing radio...gf was chudding out harder than i could it felt like planet of the apes like you could tell a more advanced civilization lived here 50 years ago from the architecture but the current residents just fucked it all up i mean look man you're welcome to go and check it out and prove me wrong but i knew something was up when it was the only stop on the cruise i was on that people actually were coming back early from old town was okay but i basically walked from the port through old town -> palais longchamp before taking a cab to musee de moto (a highlight of the trip, wish i spoke french, pic rel was outside of it)
>>2889462i live in nyc and spend a ton of time in the hood...last time i saw a car radio stolen like this was 2005 in the south bronxa fucking radio out of this thing is no more than $20 on your local classifieds and yes the window was broken for it and the harness cut off
>>2889464i felt like what would happen if you took a french person and dropped him off at 74th street and 37th ave in little india of queens when he was expecting sex and the city or "friends" from nyc
