Paris Day Trips

There is a particular quality of light in Rouen on a grey October morning — the light that Claude Monet painted thirty times from the window of a linen draper’s... Read more...

REIMS

Forty-five minutes from Paris by TGV and yet entirely removed from its orbit, Reims occupies a position in French history and French culture that no other provincial city can claim.... Read more...

Versailles

By Jeff Barnes | Vintage Voyagers France Less than forty minutes from Paris by RER train, Versailles occupies a singular place in the French imagination—and in the imagination of anyone... Read more...

AUVERS sur OISE

By Jeff Barnes | Vintage Voyagers France There are places in France associated with great artists, and then there is Auvers-sur-Oise — a village so thoroughly, so irreversibly woven into... Read more...

Barbizon

By Jeff Barnes | Vintage Voyagers France There is a small village at the edge of the Forêt de Fontainebleau, barely an hour south of Paris by train or car,... Read more...

Giverny

By Jeff Barnes | Vintage Voyagers France There is a distinction, rarely made clearly enough, between artists who paint the world and artists who construct it. Claude Monet was, in... Read more...

Strasbourg

By Jeff Barnes | Vintage Voyagers France Strasbourg sits on the far eastern edge of France, pressed against the Rhine and the German border, and it feels from the first... Read more...

CHARTRES

By Jeff Barnes | Vintage Voyagers France The city fans outward and downward from its hilltop cathedral, its streets forming a living archaeology of medieval, Renaissance, and classical French architecture.... Read more...

Amiens

By Jeff Barnes | Vintage Voyagers France There are cities in France that reward you immediately, and cities that reward you slowly and more deeply. Amiens belongs firmly in the... Read more...

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Paris Day Trips