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Planes, Trains, and Metros. Here is a pdf showing a map of the Paris subway system and RER train system. You might want to go over it a little bit if you want to visit Paris or find your way to and from train stations in Paris. I have added some directions below on how to find your way from the Montparnasse Train station to get back to Charles de Gaulle airport. On your way back by train from Dol, you will undoubtably be coming into Montparnasse in Paris, so this info will be useful. Planes: There's a website called www.kayak.com that you can use to search for flight tickets. It'll search virtually all the other travel sites for plane tickets and show you the results for any or all of them. It's pretty useful and you can use it to find the lowest ticket pretty easily. The airport code for Paris is CDG. Trains: You'll need to get from Paris to Dol de Bretagne. One great way is to take the train, known as the TGV. If you go to http://www.raileurope.com/us/index.htm you'll see a section where you can search for train schedules right at the top of the page. In the From box put Paris. In the To box, put Dol (just "Dol", not "Dol de Bretagne"). Select the dates and things just like you would when looking for plane tickets online, and it'll search and present you with train iteneraries the same way that airline websites do. So, all in all searching for train tickets should be as intuitive as buying plane tickets online. If you don't want to use the Rail Europe site beause you don't want your tickets shipped to you, you can use the French SNCF site. Click here for a guide on how to use that site. The train takes about three hours from Paris to Dol de Bretagne.   Metro: Here is a pdf showing a map of the Paris subway system and RER train system. You might want to go over it a little bit if you want to visit Paris or find your way to and from train stations in Paris. Once you have a train that you're going to take, you need to find the train station relative to CDG. The main station in Paris that goes to Dol is Montparnasse. This station is to the southeast of CDG. There are a couple of ways to get to and from Monparnasse. One way is to take the RER-B line and then the metro to Montparnasse. In the picture below I've circled the train station and the one stop on the metro you will use. I drew arrows and highlighted in yellow the lines you will take if you're going from Montparnasse to CDG (you follow the reverse direction when coming from the airport to Montparnasse). So, you can see it's pretty easy to get from Montparnasse to CDG, and vice-versa. From CDG to Montparnasse, take the RER-B in the direction of Robinson or St Remy les-Chevreuse (they both stop where you want so take the first one that shows up). Then, in the RER, get out at the stop Denfert Rochereau. From here, you will take the metro line 4 (that's ligne 4 in French) towards Porte  de Clignancourt. Next you have only three short stops on the metro until you get out at Montparnasse. Coming from Montparnasse to CDG is as easy. Take ligne 4 in the direction of Porte d'Orleans. Get out at Denfert Rochereau. From there take the RER-B in the direction of Charles de Gaulle only. Do not take the train going in the direction of Mitry Claye. That's all pretty simple. Note that I've been saying take the metro/RER "in the direction of...". That's because the way the metro works in Paris is that they have lines that go in directions that correpond to the end of the line in each direction (each line goes in two directions). You don't say "I want to go East" or "I want to take line 4 North". You have to say "I want to take this line in the direction of that end-of-the-line stop." So, in order to know which direction you're traveling, you need to use the map and check which stops are the last ones for your line. You then simply take the train heading in that direction if the stop you want is on the way. Here's an example. Let's say I'm walking around in Paris and I get lost. Luckily, that's nearly impossible because like New York, Paris is easy to find your way around in if you have a street map. I was wandering around the Champs-Elysees and forgot where the metro I came in on is, but now I see that I'm at a place called the Louvre. That's good. Maybe I should go in and see the Mona Lisa real quick before I bother stressing about where I am.  ... Ok, that's was anticlimactic, but hey everyone should see it, and I saw it, ok great. Granted it was hard ot see over the croud and it was stored inside a glass box. But the Venus de Milo is there, and that was much better anyway. That's great - but oh wait I digress. Yes, I'm lost but I know I'm at the Louvre. According to the map, there a metro station right next to the museum. So, I go in and find that I have only ligne 1 to choose from. I have two directions I can choose to go in: Chateau de Vincennes or La Defense. Where do I want to go. Well, let's say I need to take the RER-B back to CDG. Looking on the map I see that at Chatelet les Halles nearby I can get on the RER-B and head to CDG. Well, Chatelet is on the 1 line and it connects with Chatelet les Halles. Chatelet is in between me at the Louvre and the end of the line at Chateau de Vincennes. Ok, I should then take line 1 in the direction of Chateau les Vincennes and get off at Chatelet, then walk a little ways in the metro station to transfer to the RER-B at Chatelet les Halles. Suddenly I'm not lost anymore. Groovey. So the key mechanic I showed you was: find where your metro station is. Find the end-of-the-line stops. Find the stop you want to get off on. It is invariably in between you and one of the two end of the line stops. Take the direction towards the end of the line stop for which the stop you want is on the way. Pretty simple in fact. Not only will you not get lost, but you won't have to worry about needing to stop and ask people for directions. You can get by without talking to anyone in Paris if you want, except the guy selling subway tokens at the guichet. But even then you can just walk up with a map and point to where you want to go.