Annabel Simms

An Hour From Paris book cover

A fantastic idea and looks terrific.

Bill Bryson



Ground-breaking work.

The Sunday Times


A kind of Ile de France Profonde.

The Independent



A tremendously useful new guidebook.

Paris Notes (USA)


A classic.

Galignani's bookshop, Paris

An insider’s guide to the pleasures
of exploring 20 little-known places
an hour or less from Paris by train:

  • discovering half-hidden châteaux, museums and writers’ country houses
  • walking, boating and dancing by the river
  • exploring old towns and country footpaths
  • eating in family-run restaurants with 1950s decor and prices to match

Click on the map below to see where you can go and how long it will take by train.

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of the fully updated edition
of An Hour From Paris

First edition

240 pp with 3 colour and 27 b/w maps and 17 colour and 23 b/w illustrations.

116 by 197mm portrait including historical background, practical information and glossary.

Paperback ISBN 1-873429-69-X £12.95

October 2002, reprinted 2003

Second edition

256 pp 140 by 215 mm

Paperback ISBN 1 873429 49 5/978 1 873429 49 5

£12.99

September 2008

Published by Pallas Athene (Publishers) Ltd
42 Spencer Rise, London NW5 1AP
www.pallasathene.co.uk
Day trips from Paris by train

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