Daytrips France: 48 One Day Adventures by Rail, Bus or Car Includes Paris Walking Tours

This is the kind of travel book that you hope to stumble across! A few years ago,I spent 3 weeks in Paris following the "Mega-guides", but falling in love with smaller finds not grand enough for the mega-crowds. This book not only lists my favorite finds, it has a tantalizing list of ones yet to discover. It speaks eloquently of soaking in the ambiance of an overlooked public square or visiting a tiny musuem of an obscure writer. Of course, all of the big attractions are included as well. Written with an understated voice, this is the book I will be taking with me to Paris next month!

Daytrips France (4th edition) was the best thing we had with us on our trip to Paris. My husband's uncle gave it to us when we took our daughter to Paris for high school graduation - he had been there before and knew it would be a help. It outlined daytrips marvelously and there was no way we could get lost using this book.