Potential itinerary for twelve day trip beginning second week of September with all travel by train:
CDG gare to Annecy, then Lyon, then Dijon, then Colmar, then Reims with train connections to CDG the morning of our flight home. We always travel by train because we love them and I refuse to drive in Europe. Please comment on any of this and especially on our choice of destinations. If you have a substitute destination in this rough area, please feel free to make that suggestion and tell me why. Train travel is roughly 2 1/2 hours between these places (5 3/4 between CDG and Annecy).
James Bird
Atlanta GA
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
34495 posts
I'm looking at your twelve days and I don't see any rural France, per the headline. I guess the smallest is your first stop, but no way I'd call Lyon (France's 2nd largest city), Dijon, Colmar or Reims at all rural.
Am I missing something?
Posted by
OP
Atlanta GA
5 posts
Okay, rural is a poor use of terms. I meant not Paris. Got rid of rural. I'm open to suggestions.
Posted by
11793 posts
We did not like Colmar at all. I would substitute Strasbourg or Riquewehr for it.
Posted by
Olympia, WA, USA
236 posts
I liked Colmar. In particular the Unter Linden museum.