Paris & Surroundings

One can spend a lifetime exploring Paris and the greater Paris called Ile de France. While most of the articles in this section focus on sights, tastes, history, shops, art and life in the capital, we also make frequent trips to Versailles, Fontainebleau, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Barbizon, Chantilly, Auvers-sur-Oise, the Chevreuse Valley and other notable places in the surrounding region.

Music video: She Walked Along the River (The T-Shirt Song)

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France Revisited is thrilled to announce the release of our first travel music video, She Walked Along the River (The T-Shirt Song). The song (Rated-R)...

Sometimes, when nature calls…

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Sometimes, when the weather’s nice and I feel nature calling, I’ll take the RER out of the city, not too far, a half-hour ride west from the center of Paris. Actually, it isn't nature calling but a friend of mine who lives out there.

“An Hour From Paris” (I saw a red squirrel there)

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A review of An Hour from Paris by Annabel Simms, a guide to daytrips from Paris within an hour of the city.

Pizza Envy: A Tale of Two Hoods

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It’s too much to expect Paris to have great pizza, too, yet decent single-serving, thin-crust pizza can be found in many residential neighborhoods in...

Following in Annabel Simms’ footsteps (I saw a magpie there)

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Annabel Simms’ “An Hour from Paris” is an eye-opening guide to lesser known towns and villages within an easy train ride for daytrips from Paris....
Sainte Chapelle, Chateau de Vincennes, GLK

Royal Chapel of Vincennes Reopens After 9 years

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Far less known than the Sainte Chapelle in Paris is France's other great Sainte Chapelle of France, the royal chapel at the Chateau de Vincennes, which reopened on May 13, 2009, after nine years of restoration.

Mother and Son, Together and Apart, at the Pinacotheque de Paris

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"It makes no sense to compare," Marc Restellini, director of the Pinacothèque de Paris in Paris told me when I asked him why Maurice...

Elephants and Paradise: 10 Hours in Amiens

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Amiens is unlikely to appear in the top 10 of any objective lists of daytrips from Paris, but who ever said that a traveler...

Doctor Rabbit and Monsieur Lapin

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This restaurant, which I quite liked and often recommended, closed in 2011, but you can still enjoy this review from 2008. Like any good doctor, veterinarian Dr. Jean-Francois...

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