[ April 10, 2010 to April 18, 2010. ] From 10 – 18 April 2010 the départment of the Somme (80, Picardie) celebrates its annual Festival des Oiseaux etde la Nature – Bird and Nature Festival.
Whilst the Somme is usually connected with sombre moments of our history, it is nevertheless an area of considerable natural beauty – from the many “étangs” or lakes inland,
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Corsica is considered to be one of the most beautiful of the Mediterranean islands, and whilst you can fly direct there is also the option of taking the ferry across from the south of France or Italian ports – and get a 10 hour mini-cruise into the bargain.
Moby are introducing a new service from Toulon
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Ryanair links Poitiers with Barcelona, Beauvais with
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Anther option for getting across the Channel launches on 15 March 2010 when LD Lines links Ramsgate in Kent with Ostend in Belgium.
LD Lines’ tourist fares on the Ramsgate – Ostend service will be available for cars and passengers, cars and caravans, motorhomes, motorcycles and for added on board passenger comfort facilities include cabins and
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P&O Ferries has announced that it is to discontinue its Portsmouth to Bilbao route from after 27 September 2010.
The Spanish terminal is at Santurtzi about 10 miles from the city on the edge of the Basque country. For francophiles the advantage is that Bilbao is less than 2 hours from the French border and
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[ January 23, 2010 to March 3, 2010. ] Dunkerque (62 Pas de Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais) manages to brighten up the miserable nothern French winter with its annual Carnival from 23 January to 6 March 2010
The most famous, the nosiest, the most mental, but also the oldest, is the Dunkerque Carnival. For weeks on end, groups called fisherbands take the measure of each other, confront
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