Walks near Paris: Riverside Nostalgia
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Walks near Paris: Riverside Nostalgia

Walks near Paris An Evocative Riverside  Walk The Marne for the Parisians is a mythical river, evoking lazy Sunday afternoons, boat trips, riverbank parties and men in jaunty hats straight out of a painting by Renoir. But above all, the Marne evokes the presence of the legendary guinguettes, small drinking places that serve local white…

Hiking Rural France on a Day Trip from Paris
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Hiking Rural France on a Day Trip from Paris

Hiking trails near Paris  Discover Hiking Rural France It never fails to amaze me how profonde – how deeply, relentlessly rural – France can be as little as one hour away from Paris. Today’s walk – which features some pretty and prosperous farms, some new, some hundreds of years old – could serve as a…

Bonjour La Tristesse of the Parisian Banlieue
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Bonjour La Tristesse of the Parisian Banlieue

Hiking near Paris The Parisian Banlieue – a term covering anything from just outside of the city limits to villages and small towns a one-hour railway journey away – has a bad  reputation, not all of it undeserved. But for every town over which a pallor of tristesse – actually, the bitterness of exile –…