Paris Alumnae/i Network

On this walk, we'll start off from the RER B station in Antony through the Bois de Verrières, to Bièvres, then Jouy en Josas. If we feel up to it and depending on the weather, we can continue on to Versailles or Viroflay as we'll be walking near a train line for the last part.

Our train, named PEPE, direction St-Remy, leaves Chatelet at 10h11 and arrives in Antony at 10h 31. We'll meet either in front of the 3rd train car to the last on the platform at Chatelet or in front of the Antony RER station on the Place René Cassin (take the exit near the middle of the train in Antony).

To come back to Paris, trains run from Bièvres or Jouy to Versailles and from there to Montparnasse every half an hour.If we walk just to Bièvres, the hike will be about 12 kms long, to Jouy en Josas, about 16 kms, so 3 to 4 or 5 hours long.

Bring a picnic lunch as usual, and don't buy a ticket in advance.

Théâtre les Gémeaux
Sceaux (92330)- RER B

Perhaps it’s time to see the classics again? « The Scottish Play » by Shakespeare needs no introduction. PAN has pre-purchased a limited number of tickets at 17€ each. Dinner possible at the theatre beforehand.

La Piscine Museum, Roubaix

Roubaix, a suburb of Lille, is known for its museum of art and industry, la Piscine, opened in 2001 in the former municipal swimming pool, itself housed in an exceptional art-deco building. The museum has organised, for the first time in France, an exhibition honouring the artistic talents of the Bloomsbury Group,* a gathering of British intellectuals in the early 20th century who expressed their at times contradictory convictions with passion and vision. Our guided visit, in English, will last an hour, but the museum is open to us until 6 pm.

12€ for PAN members, 15€ for non-members.
Possible lunch, dinner and Saturday-to-Sunday hotel arrangements.
Car drivers attend for free.

*Including Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry.

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