Looking for travel information for Giverny?
September 24th, 2007 | 
Author: One of the surprising things that I’m finding as I gradually roll out our Whole Earth Guide is that it’s surprisingly difficult to assemble the information for some places that you’d expect to be easy to find travel information about.
Our latest addition is Giverny where Monet lived. That one wasn’t too bad in that the people now running the house have quite a reasonable website but even there the directions are pretty wooly given that, as they say, the majority of people getting there are American who generally need slightly better directions as they don’t travel abroad terribly often. Having said that, the number of escorted tours leaving from Paris might well refect that the Americans are largely using those rather than going to the village under their own steam.
However, I’ve found that it’s quite rare to find a site combining information about the place with information as to how to get to it. Very surprisingly a wonderful place like Cordoba has virtually no tourist information on it at all.
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Providing travel information for Giverny is what I have been doing for 11 years now on giverny.org website.
I do think that giverny.org gives most of the information needed to organise, come and get the best of Giverny area.
The majority of people getting here are not American but French and English.
Offering maps on the internet has been a concern in the past as most maps are copyrighted. Online Maps are now so efficient that this no longer an issue to get a direction to come. The french railway company SNCF also gives all their timetables as well as bus shuttles.
Using an organised day trip tour is still the best option if you only have half a day for it, but I agree that staying a full day and spending a night in Giverny area is of course a better option to feel the place and its magical morning mist.
Sharing this day by day feeling is the objective of givernews.com blog.
I’m afraid most travel places do not have this quality of dayly news.
Greetings from Giverny.
Alain.