View from Musée d’Orsay, Paris It would be our second time traveling Europe By Train, this time in spring to avoid the heat and crowds. We arrived in Rome early April. Like falling off a bicycle, I resumed my love affair with the Eternal City. http://dianarchambers.blogspot.com/2016/04/europe-by-train-these-roman-streets.html After a glorious week, we left Rome’s mammoth Termini railway … Read more
On our return to Paris, we changed trains at Avignon, the station as modern and vast as Arles is old-fashioned and cozy. We passed villages and farmland, rural France at its most timeless. Arriving at the Gare de Lyon, we couldn’t resist a cocktail at the ravishing Train Bleu. The next day, as part of … Read more
From Zurich, our TGV—Train Grande Vitesse—is smooth and speedy, and by mid-afternoon we have arrived at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. Soon we are standing on rue Chateau d’Eau, outside the courtyard of what will be our home for three weeks. Three flights up the polished oak stairway and we enter what was once probably … Read more