We have 5-6 days between leaving Paris and getting to Interlaken. We had hoped to go to the Dordogne region, but logistics (primarily getting easily to Switzerland from there) are proving too difficult/time consuming. I am wondering where to spend 5 days where we can visit small villages, see some castles perhaps, and then easily get to Switzerland. I am wondering about Burgundy.....we are open to renting a car while in that area, but unsure where to make our base. But are there other areas of France that would work for us? I love the small villages with the taste of what I had hoped to feel in the Dordogne.
We hope to take a train from Paris to whichever area we decide on for that time, and then rent a car for the days we are there, before hopefully taking a train to Switzerland.
Any help or ideas would be much appreciated.
(This part of the trip will be in early October)
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Burgundy or Alsace (close to Basel) would work.
Another couple options:
- End your stay around Burgundy by driving to Geneva (return the car on the french side so it's cheaper) and take the train from there. Annecy is sort of on the way and it's an interesting region close to the border
- Drive west from Paris - go to the Loire, Brittany and Normandy, then back to Paris where you can catch a train (although it will be longer)