We will be in France in March. After we see Paris, we have 5 days left to see more of France. Any ideas ?

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Elenetta del suo Adri

Besides Paris I would suggest the beautiful city of Bordeaux - you can get there on a TGV which is a fast train, it takes about three hours from Paris. If you're looking for a hotel in Paris you can go to Scoobit.com, the hotel search engine at http://www.scoobit.com and to this page dedicated to Paris hotels in particular http://www.scoobit.com/hotel-paris.php I stayed at the first hotel on the right. It was a clean, well located and nicely staffed hotel. It's a safe site and there are no booking fees.

Riomaggiore is one of the five villages of the Cinque Terre located on the Ligurian coast of Italy. You can easily reach (Cinque Terre and) Riomaggiore by train from Genova or La Spezia. La Spezia is the closer anyway, about 8 minutes by train. The time-length validity of your ticket starts from validation by stamping them in the dedicated machines ("obliteratrici") at the stations and lasts for six hours so you can visit the other villages too. For a hotel in Riomaggiore go to the same website and fill the form with city name (Riomaggiore) I sayed at the second hotel in the right. Charming town and lovely hotel. There's an Internet Cafe located near the train station.

Lord Percy Fawcette-Smythe.

Come to Normandy, it is the place to eat sea food, butter, cheese and drink cider and Calvados about 2 hours from Paris by train to Caen. See the Suisse Nornmandie by hiring a velo rail, ( bicycle holding 5 people that runs on a disused line) through breath taking country side. Eat at the many restaurants dotted around the countryside, it is an eating experience. Go to the West coast to St Malo to see the Rance or visit Mount St. Michel. Most hotels in Paris offer escorted day trips there.

Rillifane

Let's see now. You already have Paris, Tuscany, the Cinqueterra, and Rome to see. How many months will you be in Europe?

Seriously, unless you are going to be spend a couple of months in Europe there is simply no reason to exhaust yourself by running from one tourist destination to another. I know that you've probably seen all those Rick Steve's travel shows where he does a ten cities in two weeks but remember, for all his popularity, he's a guy who runs tour buses. (And please note that if there's any tourist who hasn't heard about the Cinqueterra they must be deaf, dumb and blind....Its vastly overrated)

Paris and Rome are worth at least 5-7 days each. If you travel from one to the other by train then perhaps stops in Aix en Provence or Nice, and Genoa or Florence might be something you could fit in between them.

Just consider that every stop you add to your itinerary is another train station or airport you waste time in, another train/plane ride, another hotel you have to find, and another couple of hours packing and unpacking. Sure you can see 14 cities in 14 days but then you will have spent half your time on the logistics of travel instead of enjoying your travel.

david464014

Take an up-to-date map with you, or, preferably, have a look at one before you go. Rome might not be in France any more.

chip2001

How about a spot of history - visit the Normandy beaches where the D-Day landings took place. There are plenty of relics from the war and museums.
It'll take you about 4-5 hours to drive there from Paris. France is a BIG country!

Edit- sorry if I'm misunderstanding you, but Rome and Tuscany are in Italy not France!

richard2robinson

I would recommend Bordeaux - you can get there on a TGV (fast train - takes 3 hours). Bordeaux has a uniform style of architecture I've seen hardly anywhere else in Europe, and very beautiful. Then the countryside around there is beautiful too - small towns like Bergerac and Perigueux, the Dordogne valley. Or Cahors, which has a more mediterranean feel (perhaps after Tuscany you won't need this).

If you don't want to go so far, how about a town in the Loire valley, like Tours or Angers (about one hour by train from Paris). They both have museums, galleries, and yes, (sigh) shops.

La Rochelle in France is really lovely - it's a small seaside town, with some nice shopping, loads of gorgeous restaurants and a suprising amount of good bars! So either way if you're after a quiet holiday, or a bit of both, this is a good place to go for a few days!
Tips for Paris - try to speak as much French as you can - take a phrase book if needed :)

Veronica Alicia

If you want to see Rome, you really need to devote at least a week.
We had just a one day taster of Rome and the Vatican City off a Med cruise. There is so much to see that we left feeling dissatisfied having just seen the tip of the iceberg. Save it for a real holiday not a brief visit.
After your time in the Capital, why not take a contrasting break and visit, as suggested, the Battlefields and cemeteries or just "crash out" in the West Coast area of Finistere/Bretagne? One of our favourite areas was around Pont Aven with maybe a trip to Port Manech for some sea and sand.

You can visit the Loire Valley Castels ( http://www.chateauxtourisme.com/isla/en/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loire_Valley ), it's not far form Paris and then you can go to Normandy.

Or

You can go to Lyon (http://www.en.lyon-france.com/), it takes 2 hours by TGV and then you can go to Marseilles (it takes another 2 hours froms Lyon by Tgv).

charlessmith702210@sbcglobal.net

I know a fair amount about Paris....

Best places to visit....

The Louvre museum
The Luxembourg Garden
The Tulleries Garden
Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower), which has a cafe
Place de la Bastille
Go to several shops along the "Champs-Elysees"
Champs de Mars
The Ferris Wheel at the Place de la Bastille
Arc de Triomphe
Montparnasse Train Station
Montparnasse Tower
Gare de Lyon Train Station
The shops along the Gare de Lyon
Montmartre, which includes the Sacre-Coeur cathedral

You can also get a boat ride to go along the Seine river.

Normandie-Caen-Etretat (stayed there for 3 months and loved it!). Provance and Nice are also options...

Mont st michael not as cool as people make it out to be...in my opinion

ali

MAKE SURE YOU GO TO MONACO ITS A MUST ITS BETTER THAN NICE AND CANNES THE PLACE IS AMAZING AND MAKE SURE YOU GET HOTEL DE PARIS ITS THE BEST HOTEL THERE AND ITS THE ONLY PLACE THAT YOUR NOT ALLOWED TO GO TO SOME OF THE MALLS IF YOUR WEARING CASUAL OR JEANS YOU MUST BE WEARING HIGH CLASS AND TAXI'S NOT ALLOWED ONLY LIMOS HOPE I HELPED

Kath

shopping shopping and more shopping! It;s Europe!

unles ur a guy, then idk

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