The Independent (2 Aug 08) has another of its “50 Best…” series, this time on Railway Journeys – and includes 2 French ones.
Clermont Ferrand-Beziers
The less well-used of the two lines from Clermont Ferrand through the Massif Central (the other goes to Nimes), this switchback route traverses some of the wildest country in France. Near
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Anthony Peregrine in the Times (27 July 2008) embarks on a cheesey tour of France and this would be a great way to have a themed trip – maybe getting you into corners of France which might otherwise be missed. Furthermore there is increasing pressure both from EU bureaucrats, big commercial dairies and undiscerning
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[ May 31, 2008; June 1, 2008; ] The village of Pailherols (15 Cantal, Auvergne) will be celebrating the local Cantal cheese 31 May and 1 June 2008 with a cheese market, where local producers will offer samples of this semi-hard cheese made from the Salers cows which graze on the mountain meadows and pastures of the region. Just to confuse, the cheese
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Regular readers will be aware the the Lot Valley in the South West of France features frequently in these pages – in many ways the essence of “deepest France”, it is less crowded than the Dordogne to the north and yet offers a wide variety of landscapes, pretty villages, great cuisine – and is
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[ July 11, 2008; ]
The Tour de France 2008 (21 stages, 3500 km) Stage 7 is on 11 July 2008 and starts from Brioude (43 Haut-Loire, Auvergne) and runs 150km ) to Aurillac (15 Cantal, Auvergne)
For more on the Tour de France 2008 see www.letour.fr/
For details of coverage on ITV see
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