Bonjour! My partner and I are planning a trip to France for three weeks in late November to early December. We will arrive at CDG and we will be flying out of Nice. We have the first week planned in Paris, then three nights in Lyon and we have the last five or so days in Nice planned. We plan on traveling by train/public transportation.
We have five or six days in between Lyon and Nice in which we would like to go to Arles(because of Van Gogh) and Aix en Provence(because of Cezanne), but we’re having trouble figuring out how best to do this. Stay in one and visit the other for the day? It appears that it takes two hours by train between the two, so maybe we should stay in one a night or two and then stay in the other a night or two? Or is there a better place to stay in the area from which we could do day trips?
I know a lot of readers here have a lot knowledge about these areas, but we have never been to the south of France- so we’re hoping you all can hep us out. Merci bien!