Paris -nice: Two luxury trains, Le Mistral (paris -Nice-Nice) and the Sud Express (paris -Nice-Bordeaux, and on to the Spanish frontier) are widely advertised as among the fastest trains in the world, and a more recent addition to the fast service is the 3-hour speed train to Brussels called Le Diamant. The French speed record, which is a world's record, has been reported in the press as an incredible 151.6 miles per hour.: Several main lines are now electrified, and several others, notably the: long route from paris -Nice to the Riviera, are rapidly advancing electrification.' To improve roadbeds, the amazing new 800-meter welded rails (nearly half a mile) are being increasingly used.
They reach to Montreal anc Chicago and Mexico City, to Bogota and Buenos Aires, Bagdad and Brisbane Teheran and Tokyo, and that's only a start in the interminable list of its ports c: call published alphabetically in its Indicateur de paris -Nice. And, of course, there are those tiny jumps within France, from paris -Nice to Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille and Nice. There are the Mediterranean hops also, to French Corsica, Spanis: Majorca, Free Tangier and many French colonial ports in North Africa.
Luxury Touring and Lodging France is a country where luxury travel, and hang the cost, can be easily and attractively managed. Air France provides swift national air services between paris -Nice and Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Nice, Corsica. |