Day Trips
Provins Day Trip from Paris: A Medieval UNESCO Treasure
In 1200, Provins was the second city of France, bigger than Lyon, outranked only by Paris. Then the great medieval trade fairs…
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The best day trips from Paris – Versailles, Giverny, Mont Saint-Michel, Champagne, the Loire Valley and more, with how to get there and what to see.
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Auvers-sur-Oise Day Trip: Walking in Van Gogh’s Footsteps
In seventy days, Vincent Van Gogh painted seventy-six canvases here and then shot himself in a wheatfield. That arithmetic is the whole…
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Bruges Day Trip from Paris: A Chocolate-Lover’s Escape
Here is the thing nobody tells you: you can eat breakfast in Paris and be standing in a perfectly preserved 15th-century Belgian…
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Fontainebleau Day Trip from Paris: Palace, Forest & Village
Most people who take a fontainebleau day trip from paris come back faintly annoyed that nobody sent them sooner. Here is the…
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Loire Valley Castles Day Trip from Paris: Which Chateaux to Visit
More than 300 châteaux line 280km of the Loire River, and you will see, at most, two of them in a day.…
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Champagne Day Trip from Paris: Vineyards, Tastings & Tours
Forty-five minutes east of Paris, the wine in your glass comes from grapes grown within sight of where you are standing. That…
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Day Trip to Mont Saint-Michel from Paris: How to Make It Work
Here is the thing nobody tells you upfront: Mont Saint-Michel sits 360 kilometres west of Paris, and there is no train that…
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Day Trip to Giverny from Paris: Visiting Monet’s Garden
The pond you walk around at Giverny is the one Monet painted some 250 times. Stand on the green Japanese bridge in…
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Best Day Trips from Paris: Complete Guide to Nearby Escapes
Spend a week in Paris and you start to notice the trains. Every half hour, another one slides out of Gare Saint-Lazare…