By Car: Try to avoid Paris inner ring road the pereferique, that really jams up with traffic, take the wider ring road N86 or N104; this is not always well marked so take a good atlas with you. Dropping straight down to Melun can be a very good way to get direct to the Canon area of Fontainebleau. Sundays coming into Paris after 4 in the afternoon gets very bad, so if you have a ferry aim to be heading through Paris by 3pm. Always head back north in the early morning via Melun, very bad traffic heading into Paris.

You need a car for Fontainebleau, but if you don't have one, you can get there by train and then walk to a lot of climbing areas. Take the Train from (London St. Pancras) to Paris Gare du Nord. Then you have to get the Metro which is a single journey ticket to Gare de Lyon. From there you can catch a train to Fontainebleau (usually every half an hour). The Station is to the NE of town in the Avon district. From here you are best hiring a taxi to get to the campsite at Musardiere, just outside Milly la Foret. From this campsite you can walk to a lot of climbing areas. Just down from the station 400m at Avon is a shop Champion, if you need food before going to the campsite, since there isn't a shop there, and the village is 3km away.

If you need a good bookshop in Fontainebleau, and one that sells our guidebook, try Reelbooks; 9, rue de Ferrare, 77300 Fontainebleau. Tel : 01 64 22 85 85 Fax : 01 64 22 69 69 opening hours : tues - sat 11.00 - 19.00

Our Fontainebleau Magique book is usually available in Milly-La-Fôret at the book shop, directly next to the big market house in the village centre.

ACCOMODATION:

Apart from campsites, there is a nice gite with B&B (Le Clos du Tertre) where the owner speaks very good English, climbs and sells crash pads etc, and is nicely situated at Chailly-en-Bierre (SE of Forest). Contact:

Stéphane Dagincourt 0033 164 24 37 80

leclosdutertre@wanadoo.fr

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