Brittany Ferries is offering 10% off all holidays booked by 18 January 2010.
The choice includes Brittany, Normandy, Western Loire and Aquitaine; Hotels, gites, villas. cottages, apartments, camping etc.
For more info see Brittany
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France need not be too expensive this year despite the poor exchange rate against the euro, especially if you take advantage of early booking discounts on most of the cross-channel ferry operators.
For example Brittany Ferries on the western Channel offers early booking offers which can save up to 25% on selected cottages right through the
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In the midst of all the doom and gloom a raw December and poor economic prospects comes the news that the pound has sunk to a record low against the €uro. The best tourist rate I can find (12 December 2008) is £1 = €1.0898 , (rates from the Post Office for online orders for
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I can understand the attraction of fishing, but have never dabbled, always arguing that I do not have enough time to indulge in an activity which is so quintissentially time-consuming. Like all the best leisure pursuits, I suspect fishing enables you to escape into another world which is virtually timeless and far removed from the
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Conveniently situated a kilometre or so off the main RN10 route (heading for Bordeaux, Aquitaine and the Basque country) near Limalonges (79 Deux Sevres, Poitou-Charentes) is an English run Chambres d’Hote run by Josie and Dave Duffield.
Situated in the heart of Poitou Charentes (roughly mid-way between Poitiers and Angouleme) bordering the Charente and Vienne departments,
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France always seems to be a little schizophrenic about new technology – rather backward and bureaucratic in some areas, yet at the cutting edge in others. France invented and rolled out Minitel nationally many years ago which was a pre-cursor to the web and an impressive technology, but sadly overtaken by the personal computer and
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