At this time of year, there are always a lot of blogs discussing this area as people are on vacation or new students write blogs for family, etc. Some of them have good info about travel, restaurants, hotels, etc.
A few current ones :
http://fromrighthere.wordpress.com/
http://ipreferparis.typepad.com/i_prefe ... motte.html
http://melindakays.blogspot.com
http://joshkoosmann-montpellier.blogspot.com/
http://trektofrance.blogspot.com
http://diaryoafrenchhousewife.blogspot.com
Peter