The Berry is 155 miles from Paris and two and a half hours by train...

Travel by car, train or plane
BY CAR
From Paris, 3 hours :
  A10 > Nantes / Bordeaux

  at Orléans, A71 > Vierzon / Clermont-Ferrand

  at Vierzon, A20 > Châteauroux (free motorway)

  exit junction 12 > La Châtre


From Clermont-Ferrand, 2hours :

  A71 > Paris / Orléans / Montluçon

  exit junction 10 > Montluçon / Guéret

  take the N145, then D943 > La Châtre

BY TRAIN

  Châteauroux station

  Connection : Bus Nº15 > Châteauroux / Montluçon

BY PLANE

  Limoges airport (car hire available)

  A20 (free motorway) > Chateauroux / Paris > Exit
junction 17 direction Montluçon

Whenever you ask a countryman the way, he will usually reply “keep going straight ahead -straight ahead”. This is simply a jest, or a kind of play on words, indicating that one should walk on one’s feet - for there is not a single straight path in the whole of the Black Valley. The numerous gullies of the Indre, the Vauvre, the Couarde, the Gourdon and of hundreds of other tiny streams (...) compel you to make a thousand detours. The Miller of Angibault.