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A Few More Small French Towns You Should Visit

Matt Long

Cruising through France with Uniworld Boutique River Cruises was a great experience for many reasons, not the least of which was the opportunity to visit some smaller French towns I hadn’t seen before. That’s one of the many advantages to river cruising as I outlined in my review of Uniworld, the ability to visit some harder-to-reach towns that you probably wouldn’t experience otherwise. While they may not all have the glitz …
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