Dear Susan,
Thank you so much for these two websites. I am trying to keep a list of lace
places to see, and Cogne is a new one. The Le Puy website is new to me,
although I have been there. It is a lovely website with lots to see. I saw it
in 2007, and I can attest that at that time the
Of course the best way to travel to Le Puy is not by train or car, but by
foot with a scallop shell slung around your neck :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_St._James#Medieval_route
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No, no, you *leave *from Le Puy for Compostella, having been first blessed
in the cathedral, and taking with you a stick, a cape and your pilgrim's
pass - and you gather the scallop shell from the beach at Compostela and
bring it back to prove you've been there!
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Nice - Lyon is four and a half hours if you get a direct train, five if you
change at Marseille, Aix or Avignon.
The days of the absolute punctuality of French trains are in the past; my
son had to spend a night in the youth hostel in Nice this year, because all
the trains that accepted bikes had
Arlene's question was:
Anything possible to see as a day trip via train/bus that a
not-so-brave traveler who does not speak French could possibly get to?
I am afraid that my true feeling about this is that the answer is no,
especially now that Susan has told us that Lyon is 4 1/2 hours
Hi Arlene and everyone,
Let's imagine you were on a trip and you ended up in Nice, France,
and you have an extra day before you leave. Is there anything lace related
in that city?
Le Puy is a beautiful place, with a fine exhibition hall, next year (June
to December) the theme is 'The finest
Arlene's question is a difficult one, requiring not only a knowledge of
lace tourism, but also of French train routes. I have only visited the lace
areas around Le Puy, including Retournac and Brioude in a car, something I
wrote about in the Bulletin several years ago. In a car, it was
