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Posted: July 28th, 2010 under Lower Normandy.
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Timed for the beginning of the school holidays in the UK, P&O Ferries have come up with a special offer. Take the ferry over with your car and family and you can download vouchers before you go to get special rates at various amusement parks and sites near Calais.
...Posted: July 26th, 2010 under France Travel.
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I’m doing a poster for my homework, it’s going to be a huge map of France and I want to annotate it with pictures and a few lines about different interesting monuments across the country. The problem is, a lot of them are in Paris and I don’t want to centre the whole thing around one city. So I need well-known sights from other places as well. Here’s what I got so far:
- Eiffel Tower
- Normandy Beaches
- Disneyland
- Mont St. Michel
Can you think of anything else I can include?
I’ve also thought of:
- Cannes Film Festival
- The Alps
- Côte d’Azur (French Riviera)
- Le Tour de France
- Palace of Versailles
Lonely Planet Brittany & NormandyRugged cliffs and golden beaches, bustling fishing ports and sleepy inland villages, Gothic cathedrals and ancient standing stones - Brittany and Norm... Read More >
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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So me and my buds (We are gonna be 16, except for my pal who is gonna be 19 in 2011) Now we are going to go to france in 2011 and without parents just me and my two friends 16/ and 18 year old and we’re flying there unaccomponied but my friend is flying with us who is 19 and is gonna be with us at all times. NOW when we get there we have a place to stay! Saint Germaine on Saint Germaine street. Walking distance to notre dame. I have been there with my family in ’08 and I remember a fair ammount of. Now we are going to hang out with a bunch of pen pals I have met over the internet. About 6 of them :3 and I am wondering……. Can a tourist from the states be allowed to drink and smoke at 16 accomponied by a 19 year old? I heard in france it is diferent. So basically we’re going there for about a month and are gonna have a blast with my pen pals and are gonna go to resturants and drink, hang out in the Notre Dame park and smoke with them (I know for a fact that they all smoke because they have photos of them on the site with a cigarette sticking out of their mouths.) And we are not going just for drinking/smoking we are doing it to experiance the great scenery of Paris(Maybe Normandy if we can afford it!) and we still have along time ’till then but basically.. Do you think $1500 american dollars will get us anywhere (Per person.) and we’re gonna all three split a room at the Hotel. Now do you think we could do this? Or should we make our budget bigger? We are willing to get it bigger. We plan to be working mowing lawns, working for my friend who roofs houses and makes extensions etc… Now you think 2 years will get us enough money? We plan to work 6 days a week and 7 hours a day.
The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944In the weeks after D-Day, the level of artillery action in Normandy was unprecedented. In what was a relatively small area, both sides bombarded each ... Read More >
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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travelling to france in august. would like advice on taking tube to dover from heathrow. how easy is that? how expensive? then we plan on spending a night in dover… are there any decent places i could take three kids for a night? we then plan on taking the ferry the next day into calais and renting a car… does anyone know of a car rental place that’s reliable??? or is the train/bus a regular reliable/cheaper thing…? then taking the car, train or bus into normandy… do i have to book the ferry in advance? i can’t see that, with so many crossings a day… or, do i need to book a car rental in advance? etc…
if you can help with any or all of these questions i’d greatly appreciate it…
GUIDE TO THE BEACHES AND BATTLEFIELDS OF NORMANDYA Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy provides both an accessible background to the momentous events of 6 June 1944 as well as a complet... Read More >
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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I will be traveling to France in July. I will be spending most of the time in Paris and a few days in Normandy. What weapons can I legally carry to protect myself?
Or maybe a better question….
What weapons can’t I legally carry?
I would prefer answers from people who live or have lived in Paris and/or France.
Thank you.
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy CampaignAn hour-by-hour re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through new and highly detailed computer-generated maps, explanatory texts, ... Read More >
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Normandy (The Most Beautiful Villages Series)Normandy is a vast region of open country and woodland, stretching from the limestone plateau of the Pays de Caux in the northeast to Mont-St-Michel a... Read More >
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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and yes, for vacation
Michelin Normandie (Normandy), France Map No. 231An annually updated road map of Normandie (Normandy), covering the main and secondary road networks across the region. Scale: 1/200,000 - 1cm=2km Legend/Key in two languages (French, English)
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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Im going to Normandy, France at the end of the month to see the landing beaches, cemetry, bunkers etc. What are the best bits to go and see, like are there any bunkers worth visiting, underground tunnels, towns etc?
Home & Dry in Normandy: A Memoir of Eternal Optimism in Rural FranceWho hasn’t dreamed of chucking it all and moving to rural France? George and Donella East did just that—and got a good deal more than they bargain... Read More >
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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I need it for my French project but can’t find it anywhere on the web!
Please help!
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Normandy FAQ.
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*** For recipe updates subscribe here and for a few of my musings on food and life visit my website at *** My mum used to make this for me all the time as a kid – probably because its was the best way to disguise vegetables. This is a classic provencal style dish and is the perfect accompaniment to fish for a healthy meal……
Simple French Cooking: The very best of a classic cuisine made easy, with 200 delicious and authentic dishes shown step by step in more than 800 photographsFrance has a culinary tradition that is the most renowned in the world--from the sun-drenched specialities of Provence, through the lusty, full-bodied dishes of Burgundy at the country's heart, to the classic seafoods found along the Atlantic coast.
Posted: July 20th, 2010 under French Cuisine.
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The sun shone on the little village of Fromelles, 10 miles west of Lille, just as it had done 94 years ago. But instead of the carnage of World War I, today all was peaceful as Prince Charles, the Australian governor general, Quentin Bryce and the French veterans' minister, Hubert Falco, opened the first new World War I Cemetery to be built in 50 years.
Posted: July 19th, 2010 under France Travel.
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