It Rained All Week!
... except for one late afternoon when we arrived in Provins , Île -de- France, at 4pm on 1st October 2024. By 5pm it was one of my favourite towns. A town with ramparts, the architecture was old, almost Tudor-like but colourful, with some interesting ancient buildings to wander around. Arriving so late in the day, there was too little time to explore inside these monuments but we wandered around much of the town. We parked, free, for a couple of hours in the lower part of Provins, which was pleasantly busy with many shops and restaurants. The roads are mostly flat cobble-stones and single file - but the system seems to work well. We walked up the hill towards the ramparts to a quieter part of town where there was a quiet square, La Place du Châtel, plus more restaurants and public places to visit (see below). According to a leaflet about Provins, it is a "wonderful medieval city" with year-round special weekends. If you're thinking of visiting, we saw a hotel that we