Ship festival on the Med
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Ship festival on the Med ………Continue reading Maritime Festival at Sete Montpellier (34 Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon) celebrates Christmas with a winter festival (Hivernales) including a Christmas Market from 3 -31 December 2011. With a large market of 160 stands, a hutted villages, skating rink, barrel organ (orgue de barbarie), huge teddy bear, balloon sculptures, music and mulled wines….. For more info see Montpellier Tourist Office Montpellier is ………Continue reading Montpellier at Christmas 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 ………Continue reading More UK to France routes for 2010 Although a rather small Languedoc village, Aniane has a world-wide reputation as the home of Mas de Daumas-Gassac where owner Aimé Guibert challenged the traditional winse bureaucracy by making top quality wines outside the very restrictive Appellattion Controllée system – and then the locals saw off an attempt by a large multinational to buy up ………Continue reading Wine Festival in Aniane, Herault Air France has introduced a new route from London’s City Airport to Nantes at the mouth of the Loire, ideally situated to explore Brittany, the Loire Valley and the Vendée – see www.airfrance.co.uk Meanwhile budget airline Easyjet starts flights from London Luton to Montpellier in southern France from 7 July 2009 – well-positioned for the ………Continue reading New air routes to Nantes and Montpellier If you are looking for a delightful way of exploring deepest France then cycling has to be an attractive and cheap option. Throughout France there is a network of “Green Routes” (voies vertes) which can offer tranquil, flat(tish) pathways and minor roads which are ideal for walking and cycling etc and give you an opportunity ………Continue reading Cycling the Green Routes in France If you are a fan of Muscat wines then Perpignan (66 Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon) should be your destination from 31 January – 2 February 2009 with the Rencontres Mediterraneenes du Muscat (Mediterranean Muscat’s Convention). Open to the public, the event offers culinary and wine-tasting workshops and the opportunity to taste a range of Muscat wines ………Continue reading Muscat Festival in Perpignan A quick taster of the 2009 France Show at London’s Earls Court – an encouragingly good turnout of visitors, although it seemd that there were fewer stands than previous years. The French property section seemed busy – lots of interest despite the euro and credit crunch!! Definitely worth a visit if you get the chance ………Continue reading France Show 2009 Each July the French get very excited about 180 or more professional cyclists who cover 3,500km over three weeks racing around France, including staggering climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees. Tour de France 2009 With lots of razzamataz, commercial sponsorship, scandal and sporting achievement, it is a spectacle well worth seeing – especially as ………Continue reading Cycling's Tour de France 2009 Each July the French get very excited about 180 or more professional cyclists who cover 3,500km over three weeks racing around France, including staggering climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees. Tour de France 2009 With lots of razzamataz, commercial sponsorship, scandal and sporting achievement, it is a spectacle well worth seeing – especially as ………Continue reading Cycling’s Tour de France 2009 |
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