Visiting France - Suggestions for holidays, trains, itineraries, day-trips, and sightseeing from someone who has lived and traveled extensively in France
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Google Maps is available for France. Google has free maps of France inside Google Maps. These include road and street maps of major and minor cities, towns, and rural areas of France. Check out Google maps of France here:
Every major guidebook company from Lonely Planet to Let’s Go makes at least one Paris guidebook.
Most guidebook companies also make a book on France as a whole, as the country’s territory and diversity of places to visit make for enough material for a full guidebook.
If you’re only planning on visiting Paris, getting a specific guidebook for the city is a good idea. For example, Lonely Planet’s book on Paris gives good in-depth coverage of Paris and the surrounding areas.
If you’ll be visiting lots of places in France, getting a larger guidebook like The Rough Guide to France is a good idea. If you’re handy with scissors, you can cut out the chapters you need and leave the rest of the guidebook at home to save room as you pack your bags.
Once you know what size France or Paris guidebook you need, shop around for an guidebook that fits your travel style. If you’re backpacking, Lonely Planet, Let’s Go, and the Rough Guide are some of the best guidebooks.
If you’re going upscale, look into guides like the Hg2 Paris (A Hedonist’s Guide to Paris) or the LUXE guide to Paris that offer more high-end suggestions for hotels, restaurants, and shopping.
If you love sightseeing, consider picking up the Eyewitness Travel Guide to Paris. With photos and illustrations on every page, the Eyewitness Paris guidebook is great for explaining the details of Paris’ many historic buildings and landmarks.
On a budget? A lot of the best deals on Paris guidebooks can be found on websites where travelers that have just returned from Paris are selling their books. If you’re lucky you can get a copy with good notes and suggestions written in!
One last tip on finding the best Paris guidebooks: check the date the guidebook was published. If it is more than a year old, don’t buy it. Things change so quickly in Paris that an old guidebook will be of little use to you today.
TGV trains from Lyon to Marseille are the most convenient way to get from the French food capital to its second largest city. Going from the heart of one city to the heart of the other, transport time from Lyon to Marseille is minimized.
TGV trains run regularly from Lyon Saint Exupery train station to Marseille St Charles train station.
The train from Lyon to Marseille takes 1h30m-1h45m each way, and there are 8 TGV trains from Lyon to Marseille a day.
