Paris to Grasse

I am not having a lot of luck searching for information about how to get from Paris to Grasse. Can it be done reasonably without driving? We would like to see the perfume sites and the %26quot;Old Town%26quot; area. Any thoughts?

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I%26#39;m not sure if you are planning this as a side trip on a visit to Paris. If so, I%26#39;m not sure that it is worth the time and trouble.

Grasse is in the hills above Nice. You would need to take a train or fly to Nice, either of which would take you most of a day when you factor in airport transfers, check-in times etc. The fastest trains take almost 6 hours from the center of Paris. From Nice you would either have to travel by bus or rent a car. It%26#39;s about a one hour drive from Nice.

Grasse is a pleasant enough town, with an intersting chapel decorated by Matisse, but not somewhere I would go that far out of my way to visit.

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There is a hourly train service (I hink from Cannes) to Grasse again - the line has been rebuilt. Use the www.voyages-sncf.com or www.ter-sncf.fr for details

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The line has indeed been re-built, just above our friends%26#39; home. Makes getting to Grasse much easier.

Frankly, there are many more places of interest in the area than Grasse. The old town is quite limited in size, although there%26#39;s a fine folk museum and a very interesting perfume museum. The perfumeries are very touristy, however.

In the same region you could visit the old town of Mougins, Biot (a glass-blowing town with an excellent art-glass museum), the hillside town of St-Paul-de-Vence, and many other interesting places.

You might think about reading the rather bizarre novel %26quot;Perfume,%26quot; which is set partly in Grasse in the Middle Ages.

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Thanks for the quick replies. that%26#39;s what we love about this forum. It looks like maybe we had better rethink this idea.

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Thank you both for the info! I type duly corrected.

When was the rail link to Grasse re-established? Interestingly enough the %26quot;official%26quot; SNCF route map has not been up-dated to include the rebuilt line, and even finding timetables takes a bit of fiddling on www.voyages-sncf.com. You need to select the SECOND GRASSE (06) link in the drop-down list. The first link is obviously out of date since it does not recognize the rebuilt line as existing.

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The line went into service sometime last year, I think; our friends watched its daily progressed from their property below. We%26#39;re planning on checking it out in October to go down to Cannes and then Antibes and not have to try to find a parking place, which often seems impossible.