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Alsace Wine Harvest Festival

Wine Festival in Alsace

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Travel in style in France

As a special summer promotion Rail Europe is offering up to 80% off First Class train travel in France this summer – includes TGVs which is often the fastest between Paris and destinations in southern France including Nice, Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse and Bordeaux. Book by 24 August 2012!

Take the train from Paris to Nice,

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Currant Festival

At  Loison-sur-Créquoise (62 Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais) there is an annual summer (red)curant festival + Fete de la Groseille 21-22 July 2012

This looks to be a bit of a village fête centred around the humble currant  – you can watch them press the currants and try a refreshing glass of the juice – buy redcurrants

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European Museums Night

Saturday 18 May 2013 is the date for the 2012 Nuit Européenne des Musées

Although a Europe-wide event, France plays a major role with more than 1300 Museums/ Galleries open to the public for the night (hours vary between 19h00 and midnight) including:

Vauban’s Citadelle in Besancon (25Doubs, Franche-Comté)

Maritime Museum in la Rochelle (17

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European Heritage Open Days in France 2011

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Along with the rest of Europe, France will be holding its Journées Europeénnes de Patrimoine (European Heritage Days) 17-18 September 2011. The weekend provides endless opportunities to discover and explore a wealth of France’s cultural and sometimes industrial treasures – history, archictecture, arts and crafts, museums and galleries – wherever you are that weekend look

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Driving in France

Recent news (Oct 2010) suggests that some  fuel prices in France remain better than UK, even allowing for the slightly weaker exchange rate than was available in the summer

Using a real exchange rate on a pre-paid currency card of £1=€1.12 (e.g. after commission etc) current best prices are roughly as follows:-

Diesel (Gazole) €1.12/litre

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Worth a detour - Eguisheim

Alsace is peppered with quaint, picturesque villages and vine-clad hillsides that the choice is overwhelming. Just follow the Alsace Wine Route (Route des Vins d’Alsace) and the views and landscapes are beautiful.

Near Colmar (68 Haut-Rhin, Alsace) lies the small village of Eguisheim, which claims to be the birthplace of Alsace wine – “berceau des vins

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Le weekend in ... Strasbourg

Strasbourg (67 Bas-Rhin, Alsace) is a major European city – on France’s eastern border with Germany and the Rhine, home of the European Court of Human Rights and one of the two seats of the European Parliament (the other being in Brussels, Belgium).

Somehow you do not expect to find anything more than a stuffy, bureaucratic

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European Heritage Days in France 2010

Throughout the EU the countries of the Council of Europe hold annual open days to 17/18 September 2011

The weekend provides endless opportunities to discover and explore a wealth of France’s cultural and sometimes industrial treasures – history, archictecture, arts and crafts, museums and galleries – wherever you are that weekend look out for the

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Wine, Cheese and Classic Cars

The Degustha Festival in Mulhouse brings together classic cars, wine and cheese for a celebration of some of the good things in life!

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