Where to see in South of France in Four Days in June?

Question

My husband and I are staying in Paris for a few days at the end of June for a conference and we have 4 extra days to see other cities in France ( or perhaps north of Italy).... This is our last trip before our baby is born, so we'd like to go to some special places... Any recommendations? Thanks...

Answer 1

Masielle, Lyon, and Nice. Before you leave Paris, see Mont St. Michael. It is beautiful.

Answer 2

I will also recommend you to go to LYON,

it's 2 hours from Paris by TGV (train).

Visit the old roman vestiges at Fouvière Hill and go around Fourvière Basilique, to have the best overview on Lyon City.

Then go down to St Jean Cathedral, visit the old town, from you can reach Bellecour place (one of the biggest places in Europe), walk until Terreaux Place and Opera, or take a Velo'v (cheap bicycle rent).Then spend an afternoon at Parc de la Tête d'or (a kind of little "Central Park") with a zoo.

You should also walk along Rhone river, they just have rebuilt nice riverside.

http://www.a-taste-of-france.com/lyon-fr...

20 miles away from Lyon you can discover Perouges, a medieval village.

http://www.a-taste-of-france.com./peroug...

More in the South I'll suggest you to see the "Pont du Gard" closed to Nimes.

Some others cities in Province are nice to see :

Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées), Carcassonne, Montpellier (Languedoc), Dijon (Burgundy), Strasbourg (Alsace).

or go down to the Côte d'Azur (Riviera), I mean Nice, Cannes and Monaco

Check on

http://www.a-taste-of-france.com/france....

and look for the cities classified by region

Or do a google search with all these names

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Anyway you're right, France is not restricted to Paris

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BON VOYAGE.

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Answer 3

You deffinately need to check out Lyon. It's quite like Paris culturally speaking, but it's smaller and therefore cosier. Moreover it is surrounded by beautiful scenery and hills; absolutely the place to be around this time of year. Have a good one!

Answer 4

Unless you're already very familiar with Paris I'm not sure that there is much reason to go to the trouble of traveling to another city when you will already be in one of the most fascinating cities on Earth.

Consider that with just four days you will be spending the better part of one of them checking out of your hotel, getting to the airport or train station, traveling to wherever you decide to go, getting to your new hotel, checking in  and getting settled. And if your return home is booked from Paris then you will have to repeat at least part of the process getting back to Paris to depart and return home.

Unless your purpose in traveling in making a score card in which you mark off places where you have been simply to say you have been there this process makes no sense. If one of the parties is pregnant it makes even less sense.

Even if you have spent so much time in Paris that you have seen absolutely everything there is to see (I've been visiting there for 35 years and haven't yet accomplished that) then you should consider making day trips from Paris to nearby places like Versailles, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, or Reims.

Answer 5

The Hotel Mimosa, overlooking Cannes-has a marble balcony where you can have le petite dejeuner, un cafe avec croissants, while looking out over the sunkissed mediterranean. Its up a hill above the town, maybe Juan le pin.

Answer 6

Okay I may not look like an expert on the South of France but I spent three weeks around there and I especially like the little towns between Cannes - Nice - Menton. esp.

Villerfranche Sur Mer, Beaulieu, St. Jean Cap Farrat.

http://www.beyond.fr/map/map2q15.html

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http://www.beyond.fr/map/index.html