Paris to the French Riviera

France resists being rushed, and this nine-day journey from Paris down to the Côte d'Azur is built around that truth. The itinerary traces a single, logical arc through the country — three days in Paris learning to read the city at street level, a pivot south to medieval Avignon and its famous broken bridge over the Rhône, and then a final stretch on the sun-bleached waterfront of Nice. It is the kind of route that rewards adult travelers who want to go deeper than the obvious and actually absorb a place before moving on to the next one.