Enjoy the elegance and sophistication of France and indulge in Spain's sun kissed days and passion filled nights.
A Busabout Pass for the West Loop will take you to the best of France and Spain. Cycle through ancient vineyards and salsa dance the night away! Start from any city on the loop and travel at your own pace - stay as long as you like at each stop .... then when you've finished exploring, jump on the next bus and move on to the next destination.
Pacing it - 4 weeks +
Racing it - 15 days
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What can be said about the sexy, sophisticated City of Lights that hasn’t been said before? Quite simply, this is one of the world’s great metropolises, a trend-setter, market-leader and cultural capital for over a thousand years and still going strong.
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One of the planet’s most underrated capitals, Bern is a fabulous find. With the genteel, old soul of a Renaissance man and the heart of a high-flying 21st-century gal, the city is at once medieval and modern.
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Tiny Lauterbrunnen, with its attractive main street cluttered with Swiss chalet architecture, is friendly and down-to-earth.
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Naughty Nice is one of the highlights of the French Riviera. Sun seekers sip cocktails on parasoled lounges lining its pebbled shores, kids splash in the azure seas and rollerbladers cruise the promenade des Anglais, but Nice is more than just a place for fun in the sun.
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Avignon is synonymous in France today with the annual performing arts festival held here each summer but there’s plenty to see in this bustling walled city year-round, including some interesting museums and the massive fortress of the medieval popes, the Palais des Papes.
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Perhaps Spain’s most un-Spanish city, stylish Barcelona is a forward-thinking place, always on the cutting edge of art, design, and cuisine.
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The birthplace of paella, the home of the Holy Grail and the host of the 2007 America’s Cup, Valencia is a friendly, if slightly chaotic city.
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Spain’s capital is a vibrant place, the hub of the country’s government and commerce, and an exciting city bubbling over with creativity. Madrid may not have the effortless elegance of European capitals like Paris or Rome, but it has a raw energy that is infectious.
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The Basque Country’s most stylish city, San Sebastián (Donostia in Basque) has the air of an upscale resort, complete with an idyllic location on the shell-shaped Bahía de la Concha.
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The city long known as La Belle Au Bois Dormant (Sleeping Beauty) is well and truly awake after years of slumber.
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Lively Tours has the cosmopolitan, bourgeois air of a miniature Paris, with wide 18th-century avenues, formal public gardens, café-lined boulevards and a thriving university with 25,000 students. The French spoken in Tours is said to be the purest in France.
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