Is Paris on your list of cities to visit?  From now until July 31, 2006, you can enter to win the Tour de France Sweepstakes.  You don’t have to be a die-hard cycling enthusiast to enter.   Personally, my knowledge of the Tour de France is limited to watching Lance Armstrong stand on the podium to collect his annual trophy.  So, even if you aren’t planning a 30 mile ride before your trip to Starbucks this weekend, go ahead and enter.  It’s Paris!

Sponsored by Air France, Rail Europe and Maison de la France, the sweepstakes award prizes at each stage of the race. The following are awarded at the final stage:

Grand Prize: Trip for Two to France

• airfare for two to France
• two nights in a 3 star hotel in Paris
• breakfasts and dinners provided each day
• VIP seating in the Champs-Elysees during the 2007 Tour de France race
• two 1st class 4-day France Railpasses

2nd prize:  Trip for two to Paris

• Two Air France roundtrip tickets to Paris
• 3 nights in a 3 stars hotel in Paris near Champs Elysees
• breakfasts provided each day

See the France, Let’s Tour Again website for more details.

Kraft Foods is sponsoring a contest (enter by Jan. 31, 2007) where the grand prize is a “Golf and Spa Girls Getaway” for 4.   The winner and three of her girlfriends will enjoy the following grand prize:

• A golf and girl’s spa weekend for 4 at a world class spa resort in Rancho Mirage, CA.
• 4 day/3 night hotel stay (2 rooms, double occupancy)
• 4 days rental car
• tickets to the 2007 Kraft Nabisco Championship LPGA Tournament at the Mission
• Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, CA
• entrance to the Kraft Hospitality tent for the event
• one hour massage for 4
• $500 spending cash 
• a chance to meet Annika Sorenstam (subject to availability)
• Airfare for winner and guests (if winner resides more than 200 miles from the event)

I don’t enter many contests, but I’m going to give this one a try!  Hard to know which resort it is, because there are so many, but it could be a resort like Rancho Las Palmas. Even if you don’t play golf, this sounds like a fun weekend. You have to sign up on Kraft’s website in order to enter the contest.  If you don’t mind giving out your name and address to Kraft, you can enter the contest every day by just giving your email address.  Of course, I would love to win, but if it can’t be me - it should be a Girlaway.com reader!

Are you a fan of the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown?  Then you may be interested in Fodor’s new travel book called, Fodor’s Guide to the Da Vinci Code: On the Trail of the Bestselling Novel. Here’s what the editors at Barnes and Noble have to say about Fodor’s new book:

Responding to the impact of Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller The Da Vinci Code, the travel gurus at Fodor’s have constructed this 256-page illustrated book to aid fans who are interested in retracing the places and events of this riveting thriller. Fodor’s Guide to The Da Vinci Code provides historical background, maps, floor plans, and travel info about relevant sites in Paris, Rome, London, and Scotland. Appropriately, there is also a travel section with Fodor’s recommendations on where to go, stay, and eat in the cities featured in the novel.

To promote their new book, Fodor’s has teamed up with Expedia to offer the “Expedia Da Vinci Code Experience” Sweepstakes which includes a trip for two to Paris for 6 days & 5 nights, the Da Vinci tour, dinner at the Eiffel Tower, a Seine River cruise, and a Loire Valley castle tour.  The deadline for submitting entries is May 31, 2006.