Nikola Benin
I see many people undertake day trips to the Loire Valley and Normandy, but Picardy often gets overlooked. And I thought it might be interesting to share a lovely and less visited town in this wonderful region: Laon. A 90-minute trainride brings you there and right next door to the station you get onto the POMA monorail that whisks you to the walled medieval upper city. A lovely town full of inviting terraces and shops and with a whopping gothic cathedral with five (!) specta..

