France

Arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport and continuing to Bordeaux by train sounds complicated when you first look at a map of Paris. In reality, it is quite manageable—as long as you understand one particularly important Parisian quirk before you begin….

There was a time when traveling in France meant carrying a Michelin map, a phrasebook, a stack of paper train tickets, printed hotel confirmations and probably a little scrap of paper containing the address of wherever you were sleeping that night….