Auvers-sur-Oise

Revisiting Europe By Train #2

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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

Europe By Train: Paris #5: Auvers-Sur-Oise: Vincent’s Final Resting Place

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One Sunday we took the train to Auvers-sur-Oise, a light-filled riverside village that drew many artists, including Cézanne, Pissarro–and Van Gogh.  Vincent had moved to Auvers from Saint-Rémy to be closer to his brother, Theo, in nearby Paris. Here he spent the last seventy days of his life and painted seventy works of art.  Outside … Read more