Tag: garden

Chantilly

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Chantilly is about 25 minutes north of Paris via train. You can also take the train RER D but it takes an hour.  I took the regular train. Chantilly has a beautiful chateau. The main town center, where the train stops, isn’t far from the castle and that is only one of the main draws […]

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Giverny

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Giverny is like a religious experience. Visiting the home of Claude Monet and his famous water lily gardens is like stepping into a painting. Monet settled in Giverny in 1883 and created a huge garden. Ten years later he acquired more land and built a small pond near a brook. He filled the pond with […]

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