Holiday rentals website French Connections has unveiled its new range of properties for the 2008-09 ski and snowboarding holiday season. The selection of chalets and apartments give holidaymakers an authentic taste of France. For example, book a long ski weekends or midweek breaks at a farmhouse in authentically French St Gervais Mont Blanc, new for 2008-09. La Vieille Ferme is an authentic 1860 Savoyard farmhouse, now restored and modernised by Read More ...
Mirror.co.uk have teamed up with PV-holidays.com and Brittany Ferries to giveaway a two-week family driving holiday to Brittany and Vendée in France. The winners will spend one week at Pierre & Vacances’ Port-Bourgenay self catering holiday village in the Vendée region of France. Located 9km south of Les Sables d’Olonne, this 90-hectare village has a nine-hole golf course, an aquatic centre with three swimming pools, a central lake and a Read More ...
Over the weekend of 6 and 7 September, 2008, Europe’s largest annual flea market at La Braderie will be taking place at La Braderie, Lille. It takes place every year over the first weekend of September. La Braderie dates back to medieval times. The city’s streets come alive as over a million people from all over Europe flock to Lille to join the marathon bargain hunt. Over the weekend, the Read More ...
Going to Gascony this summer? You might be interested in this new book by Martin Calder. Martin Calder’s A Summer in Gascony evokes the spirit, sights, smells and sounds of this still relatively unknown and unspoiled ‘other South of France’. It is a perfect read for summer. Calder, a senior lecturer in French at the University of Bristol, has a PhD in eighteenth-century French literature. He is a true Francophile Read More ...
