Train des Pignes
Apr 18th, 2015, 06:38 AM
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You can do as many hikers do walk between stations - I did a few-mile walk between Annot and some other station - lots of hiking trails - easy that go along the rail line. For more details on the Chemins de Fer de Provence - a k a Train de Pignes or Pine Trees - check these sources: www.budgeteuropetravel.com - in their free online European Planning & Rail Guide's French Riviera section and www.ricksteves.com and the official site:
http://tourisme.trainprovence.com/?lang=en
https://www.google.com/search?q=chem...=1600&bih=1075
Note that this is NOT again a luxurious tourist train though there may be special tourist trains in high season - but ordinary trains are local trains and IME tracks can be rather rough - on one jaunt the diesel fumes were blowing in the windows - but a really neat train and gives you a completely different view of the remote interior of an older less developed less glitzy Provence than you see along the Cote d'Azur.
http://tourisme.trainprovence.com/?lang=en
https://www.google.com/search?q=chem...=1600&bih=1075
Note that this is NOT again a luxurious tourist train though there may be special tourist trains in high season - but ordinary trains are local trains and IME tracks can be rather rough - on one jaunt the diesel fumes were blowing in the windows - but a really neat train and gives you a completely different view of the remote interior of an older less developed less glitzy Provence than you see along the Cote d'Azur.
Apr 18th, 2015, 02:20 PM
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And these are flat-fare trains I think - no discounts for advance purchase just buy a ticket before the train - buy a retour ticket or round-trip ticket to save hassle of buying one on the way back - some of those stations may not be staffed at times but should have automatic ticketing machines.
Apr 19th, 2015, 07:15 AM
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https://www.google.com/search?q=Entr...=1600&bih=1075
Entrevaux is probably the most unique of the towns the train goes thru - a good destination - Annot is nice too - do both perhaps - when I went to Annot one August few tourists were there and dogs were sleeping in the streets - a real quiet town!
Entrevaux is probably the most unique of the towns the train goes thru - a good destination - Annot is nice too - do both perhaps - when I went to Annot one August few tourists were there and dogs were sleeping in the streets - a real quiet town!
