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BRITTANY and the Loire valley are the major winners after two airlines announced their summer timetables. Next year Flybe is to begin flights from Manchester to Brest and Rennes, Belfast will also have a link to Rennes. Other new Flybe connections are Exeter to Rennes, as well as Avignon and... Read more →
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The Motorail service that allows travellers to take their cars to the south of France has opened for summer 2007 bookings. The train service leaves Calais in the evening and provides passengers with couchette accommodation, whilst their cars are loaded up on special carriages. The Motorail runs on two routes,... Read more →
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Life in France as a disabled person is, at least, difficult. Access, services, employment and independence are all things that are taken for granted in everyday life but for the disabled they are almost exclusively denied. Banks that have no disabled access, lack of disabled parking spaces, few shopping trolleys... Read more →
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THE Highways Agency has put into place Operation Stack and closed junctions 11 to 12 on the M20 for Dover. Strike action in Calais means good vehicles heading for France have been parked up and diversions put in place, it is hoped the restrictions will be lifted by midnight. UPDATE... Read more →
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AIR France is to begin a low-cost service next summer that will be based out of Paris Orly and fly to Spain, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. It will be possible to book flights through the Transavia website, which the airline owns with its partner KLM, and one-way tickets will... Read more →
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ANOTHER quick trip around the internet pointing out interesting news stories covering street cleaners, how the woman who received a partial face transplant is doing a year on and the benefits of red wine. Oh, to be a collector of garbage in Paris (NPR) Report from Paris on the surprisingly... Read more →
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TWO quick pieces of air travel news, the first of which is that easyJet will begin three flights a week between Bristol and Bordeaux in June, later increasing to daily. And Phil Voice writes about how changes to the 'long stay' parking option used by many Brits at Bergerac Airport,... Read more →
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YOU wouldn't have thought that France would need to campaign to ensure quality food is available in its towns and villages. But I noticed a news article recently highlighting the work of the French branch of the Slow Food movement, and the group has a video of the piece on... Read more →
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ALWAYS keen to point out some interesting reads, I thought I would send you over to a handful of sites from our friends across the Atlantic. The world of blogging is a little more advanced in the US and Canada than elsewhere and this is reflected in the number of... Read more →
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LOW cost airline bmibaby is to operate four flights a week between Birmingham and the new mp2 terminal at Marseille Provence airport. The new service begins on May 25 with one-way tickets starting from £19.99, inclusive of taxes and charges. Related article: Marseille opens low cost terminal Read more →
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