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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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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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Garden Rendezvous throughout France

[ May 29, 2008; May 30, 2008; June 1, 2008; ]

An opportunity to visit France’s rich heritage of Gardens is offered for the weekend of 29 May – 1 June 2008 with the “Rendezvous des Jardins” (meetings with gardens).

Sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, more than 2000 private and public parks and gardens across France will be open to the public.

On the Culture Ministry’s

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Nights of Fire at Chantilly

[ June 12, 2008; June 13, 2008; June 14, 2008; ] The Chateau of Chantilly (60 Oise, Picardie) hosts an International Firework Festival in the grounds 12-14 June 2008.
With at least 11 displays of pyrotechnic spectacles designed by some of the top firework display designers in the world – there are strict rules as in any serious competition – some elements against prescribed music, some silent,

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Days of roses at the Royal Abbey of Chaalis

[ June 6, 2008; June 7, 2008; June 8, 2008; ] We tend to think of the Rose as a quintessentially English flower, but the French have their moments. Avignon (84 Vaucluse, Provence) celebrates the rose with its Altera Rosa Festival in May, whilst in the north the Royal Abbey of Chaalis near Senlis (60 Oise, Picardie) throws its own Rose festival in June

Chaalis Abbey was

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