Paris - Day Trips
When you can't take the city pace, escape to the peace of Monet's lily ponds at Giverny or seek seaside sophistication at Deauville.
The neat palace and gardens of Versailles are just a 40-minute journey on the RER commuter train, but Parisians prefer the gentler pleasures of Meudon, on the way to Versailles, with its forest and view over the whole of Paris, or royal Fontainebleau. Follow the Impressionist trail to the quirky village of Auvers-sur-Oise in Paris Ile-de-France. See the lilies in bloom at Monet's Garden in Giverny or take a boat trip and dance beside the river at Nogent-sur-Marne's guinguettes (dances). Seaside Trouville and its smarter neighbour Deauville are two hours away. If the children have been good, take them to Disneyland Paris.
