I realize itinerary gets discussed here a lot, but I have been struggling with this question:
We are traveling to France and The Netherlands (into Paris and out of Amsterdam) in September. Right now we have 6 days planned in Paris. It is our first trip to France and to The Netherlands. We are looking at a day at Versailles and a day in Giverny, so really 4 days in Paris. Figuring Day One (Thursday) will be a bearings day -- doing the Hop on Hop off tour, and doing some hop off stuff, does the 4 days seem like too much? We have talked about doing another side trip, maybe down to the Loire Valley and actually staying the night down there, before heading up to Amsterdam. Or does other routing make sense? We had discussed possibly a stop in Belgium, but I'm not certain that I'm all that interested.
We'd also like to do that all by train, though we have talked about renting a car.
I look forward to thoughts on this topic.