Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet's France's Best Trips, your passport to up-to-date advice on uniquely encountering France by car. Featuring 38 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can get lost among the snowcapped Alps or taste your way around Champagne's hallowed vineyards, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to France, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's France's Best Trips: Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - 93 easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Driving Problem Buster, Detours, and Link Your Trip Covers Paris, Normandy, Brittany, Breton Coast, Lyon, Nice, Cannes, St-Tropez, Chamonix, Marseille, Biarritz, St-Malo, Loire Valley, Auvergne, Provence, Alps, Lille and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's France's Best Trips is perfect for exploring France via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Planning a French trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's France guide, our most comprehensive guide to France, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. Looking for a guide focused on Paris? Check out Lonely Planet's Paris guide for a comprehensive look at all the city has to offer, or Pocket Paris, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capa
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City to city, coast to coast, this grand tour visits some of Franceās most unmissable sights. Thereās some epic driving involved, but this is one trip you wonāt forget in a hurry.
This is the big one ā an epic trek that travels all the way from the chilly waters of the English Channel to the gleaming blue Mediterranean. Along the way, youāll stop off at some of Franceās most iconic sights: the chĆ¢teau of Versailles, the abbey of Mont St-Michel, the summit of Mont Blanc and the beaches of the French Riviera. Allez-y!
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For that essentially Parisian experience, itās hard to beat Montmartre ā the neighbourhood of cobbled lanes and cafe-lined squares beloved by writers and painters since the 19th century. This was once a notoriously ramshackle part of Paris, full of bordellos, brothels, dance halls and bars, as well as the cityās first can-can clubs. Though its hedonistic heyday has long since passed, Montmartre still retains a villagey charm, despite the throngs of tourists.
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Lamarck-Caulaincourt), which details the areaās bohemian past. Itās inside Montmartreās oldest building, a 17th-century manor house once occupied by Renoir and Utrillo.
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The Drive Ā» Drive From the centre of Paris, follow the A13 west from Porte dāAuteuil and take the exit marked āVersailles ChĆ¢teauā. Versailles is 28km southwest of the city.
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17 Alpine Adventure
Chamonix features on our Alps trip, so itās easy to launch a cross-mountain adventure from there.
23 Riviera Crossing
Combine this journey with our jaunt down the French Riviera, which begins in Cannes.
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2 Versailles
Louis XIV transformed his fatherās hunting lodge into the ChĆ¢teau de Versailles(
