Auxerre, France

Auxerre has a picturesque old town on a hell on the west bank of the River Yonne, with winding streets and squares below belfries and half-tembered houses. The best view of the town is from the Pont Paul Bert, where there has been a bridge of one kind or another since the Romans cam to town. If you arrive by train at the gare SNCF on rue Paul-Doumer, you will most likely cross the river into town using the bridge. From Auxerre you can visit the Chablis vineyards in northern Burgundy and it is also a good place to hire a canal boat at the pleasure port.