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Excerpt from Travel and Exploration, Vol. 3: An Illustrated Monthly of Travel, Exploration, Adventure and Sport; January to June 1910
The Riviera, as all the world knows, is a delightful place, and the pleasures of a stay on this beautiful coast can be greatly increased by the use of a motor car. The best way of getting to the Riviera to begin with is to motor there and very many of the English and Americans who seek health and pleasure on the cote d'azur during the winter months never think nowadays of doing the journey by train. Instead of shutting themselves into over-heated railway-carriages, they get into their cars at Boulogne, Dieppe, Cherbourg, or Paris, as the case may be, roll luxuriously across the fair land of France, and step out at the door of hotel or villa in Cannes, Nice or Mentone. The formalities attending the introduction of a motor car into France are now so simplified by the new system of the triptych, that not even ladies travelling alone need fear tiresome complications with the custom-house authorities. If the committee of the various automobile clubs now sitting can succeed in introducing uniform regulations to apply to all the countries of Europe, motor touring on the Continent will become easy indeed.
One of the most interesting ways from Paris to the Riviera is to take the road to Orleans and Bourges (a delightful place with much interesting architecture), on to Montlucon, and to that attractive town Clermont Ferrand. Beyond clermont-ferrand the road leads into the romantic country around Le Puy, the starting - point of Robert Louis Stevenson on his celebrated journey through the Cevennes. From Le Puy it is easy to make a detour to visit the Gorge of the Tarn, now accessible to motor cars since the new road is Open through the whole length of the Gorge. From Le Puy and Pradelles it is practically one continuous down-hill run to Nimes and Arles; whence, avoiding the detestable pavement which leads into Marseilles, the tourist takes the road to aix-en-provence, and so by Brignoles to Frejus and Nice. A variant of this route is to go by Montargis, Cosne, and Nevers.
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