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you’ve seen the Louvre. The next best one is Loire, Chantilly, Fontainebleau or Giverny. If
Musee d’Orsay to see the great impressionists you feel a bit more adventurous and can in-
in this revamped old train station. This will vest in a longer day trip, London is 2.5 hours
take a couple hours allowing for a good meal/ away by train and Brussels is an hour and a
café time. Afterwards you could fit in some half. You can drive to Normandy. I wouldn’t
shopping or perhaps tour the Catacombs, fas- plan on going south, as that would require a
cinating underground ossuaries. They are a plane trip and an overnight. Let’s focus on
bit far from the rest of the city and the tour Paris and environs and save the south of
can trigger claustrophobia, but it only takes France for your next adventure.
about 45 minutes to check out the millions of Plan to spend a day in Montmartre, a
bones. charming village-like district just inside the
Let’s say that the last trip you took in- Paris city limits. To add to your experience
cluded the Palace of Versailles, so on this trip there, watch two movies before your visit -
let’s get out of the city to nearby Champagne, “Amelie” and “Moulin Rouge.” Skip that fa-

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