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New flights from Poitiers to Barcelona

Ryanair links Poitiers with Barcelona, Beauvais with

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More UK to France routes for 2010

Ryanair is introducing new flights to France next summer (2010) from Leeds/Bradford to Limoges, Montpellier, Nantes and Carcassonne! There are already flights from Yorkshire Avignon, Bergerac,Chambery, La Rochelle, Nice, Paris and Toulouse.
This comes at the same time as Ryanair has also announced the cancelling of many flights from Stansted over this winter.
So, much will depend

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Amiens, Chocolate and Australians

I have in the past been somewhat dismissive of the city of Amiens (80 Somme, Picardie) largely because an enforced winter stay in the city when my car broke down, and also because I have a loathing of the concrete monstrosity that is the Tour Perret – because it is ugly and also because it

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LD Lines drop Dieppe service

LD Lines has dropped its Dover-Dieppe ferry service from the end of June 2009.
Reportedly due to insufficient traffic, the ship used , the “Cote D’Albatre” will continue to run on the newer Dover-Boulogne service. But it is a shame that there is again less choice for crossing the channel – the Dieppe route at 4+

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Amiens Water Market

[ June 21, 2009; ] Amiens (80 Somme, Picardie) holds an annual “Marche sur l’eau” as part of its annual Festival – on 21 June 2009.
There are nearly 300 hectares of gardens right in the centre of the Amiens agglomeration criss-crossed by over 65 kilometres of waterways: Hortillonnages (canals in the local Picard language). This complex network of canals, ponds

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Amiens Cathedral in Colour

[ June 15, 2009 to September 19, 2009. ] The Somme evokes images of World War I and battlefields, but it has much mroe to offer. The magnificent Gothic cathedral is well-worth seeing, although to my mind the Tour Perret is any ugly concrete monstrosity which detracts from the splendour of the nearby Cathedral.
Capital of the Picardy region, Amiens will surprise you with its

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