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1 €uro is worth about £0.89

Nantes (44 Loire-Atlantique. Pays de la Loire) holds its annual Nantes Jazz Festival (Nuit du Jazz) 23 November 2024 For more on the Nantes Jazz Festival see www.nuitdujazz.com/ Nantes -…

On the weekend of 14 - 15 October 2023 the vineyards of the Graves wine area of Bordeaux open their doors to the public Journées portes ouvertes for the Graves Wine Weekend. From la Brède to Langon (33 Gironde, Nouvelle…

La Rochelle Jazz Festival (Jazz entre les deux Tours) in October 9 - 13 October 2024 (translated as Jazz between the 2 Towers, the 2 towers being the 2 towers…

Black Saturday - Every summer the major routes into and out of Paris get very congested as many Parisians head to the countyside, mountains or coast AND almost as many…

Occitanie is the new name for the new Region of Languedoc-Roussillon - Midi-Pyrenees

A Basque Soup Festival Championnat international de garbure or La Garburade is held in Oloron Sainte Marie(64 Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Nouvelle Aquitaine) 7 September 2024 Basque Soup Festival Known as Garbure this…

Grand Est is to be the new name for the new region (2016) of Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine which includes the départements of Ardennes, Aube, Bas-Rhin, Haute-Marne, Haut-Rhin, Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Vosges.…

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  • Post last modified:June 11, 2016

B&B Chateau near Saumur: In the heart of the Loire Valley between Saumur and Bourgeuil (49 Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire) you can stay at the B&B Chateau de la…

The Champagne wine village of Ay (51 Marne, Grand Est) holds an bi-annual celebration of its wines with its King Henri IV Festival in July (2 - 3 July 2022),and…

With the reorganisation of the French regions on 1 January 2016, the regions were given self-explanantory names, reflecting the merging of 2 or more original regions. So when Nord-Pas-de-Calais and…

The Site Le Corbusier (Le Corbusier architecture) is an international site of Modern Architecture at Firminy (43 Loire, ARA) and is being considered for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage…

Route de Champagne en Fete 20-21 July 2024 With your champagne-glass ‘passport’ in hand, take the Champagne tasting route in the Côte de Bars Champagne sector near Bar-sur-Aube (10 Aube,…

According to the Guardian (10 May 2016) there will no longer be the romantic (but uncomfortable) couchette sleeper compartments on overnight long-distance trains from Paris after July 2016 - except…