By Car in Burgundy

Although bus lines do service smaller towns and scenic byways, traveling through Burgundy by car allows you to explore its meandering country roads at leisure. A6 is the main route through the region; it heads southeast from Paris through Burgundy, past Sens, Auxerre, Chablis, Avallon, Saulieu, and Beaune, continuing on to Mâcon, Lyon, and the south. A38 links A6 to Dijon, 290 km (180 mi) from Paris; the trip takes around three hours, depending on traffic. A31 heads down from Dijon to Beaune, a distance of 45 km (27 mi). N74 is the slower, more scenic route of the two, but if it's scenery you want, D122 is the Route des Grands Crus, which reads like a wine list as it meanders through every wine town and village and the thick of the grape-growing fields. The uncluttered A5 links Paris to Troyes, where the A31 segues south to Dijon.