2010 Tour de France will gather the world's attention to France. As a romantic, Paris attracted the most attention. In addition to familiar busy, Paris, and some neighboring small town with quiet romantic features more exciting life.
A Giverny (Giverny) enjoy the flowers and flickering
location: Paris northwest at about 80 km
This beautiful town to the extreme, as impressionist painter Claude Monet (ClaudeMonet) the former home gardens and is famous for.
town little. A long narrow lane, some art gallery, restaurant and a hotel, is it all. Bob and friends to the car rental with GPS positioning, even among former residence to which the road passed was completely not feel this is the Giverny (Giverny). Point to another larger town passers inquire after, I discovered that just passing the remote areas is Giverny.
from the town of Vernon to Giverny, along the French countryside and the summer flowers are in bloom no less in the destination Monet beautiful garden. Bob and friends along the sidewalks in the beauty, wonder and not knowing are in Giverny. Time here seems to be static. Yau Yat's idyllic life is still maintained when Monet year life scenarios, like an Impressionist landscape are everywhere.
transport: by train from Paris Shenglasaier (Saint1Lazare) station to Vernon (Vernon) about 45 minutes, then from Vernon take bus to Giverny is about 15 minutes.
B Barbizon (Barbizon) canvas pastoral
location: Paris suburbs about 50 kilometers
Barbizon next to the Fontainebleau forest. Riding a bicycle out from Fontainebleau, is a sight of the edge of the fertile, picturesque. The Barbizon school was born here proud of the whole of France. Painting 30-40 years active in the 19th century, one of the best there is Rousseau, Miller, etc..
Today Barbizon is a small town famous for the art world. Is still a piece of less than 200 meters on the streets, many retain traces of the old house the year has become a gallery. Artists then populated GANNE hotels now has become a municipal museum. After the middle of the 19th century, many young artists boarding at this hotel, they can not afford even the poor have to pay room and board costs, they in the walls, furniture painting as bonded.
Bob a group of people find the most interesting one is the painting on a variety of containers in the cupboard and the food. Because the artist is said to be hungry, eat something in the cabinet, it vividly with the brush" up" on the moment actually hidden from the landlord!
C Senlis (Senlis) feel the medieval city
location: Paris, 50 kilometers north
Senlis (Senlis) is worth a separate place to go. There is extremely quiet, simple, best for backpackers, where the last day of half-day visit. Not many residents of the town, quiet was unbelievable. It was so quiet walk in front of the eyes always looked beautiful, but when I look back, find the road traveled has another point of view of beauty.
every street there are like quietly tell the story of history. Walking in the alley, Bob felt walking in the time stream. Town people love sunflowers, their wooden doors are always decorated with a big sunflower to be dried, so that you face in this town, this Guxiang, these were years of falling off the walls everywhere, feeling not decay and decline.
in the Notre Dame Cathedral to watch the wedding, but also pieces of a good thing. The old Gothic building, close to Western-style wedding feel and hear the words pastor and hear everyone in the choir, on Bob, though only a voice, but it can feel a sacred and well-being. I thought, maybe, I will have such a happy day for it.
transport: from Chantilly (Chantlly) Take a bus station Senlis (Senlis) bus, arrive at the station about 20 minutes Sang Leith.
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