Nowadays there are a myriad of cheap flights on budget airlines between the UK and France – and new routes seem to open every year. For example, Bergerac airport, almost unknown three or four years ago, now has direct connections with nine different UK airports. And still Angouleme airport has just opened, not far to the north! It is difficult to keep track of which airlines fly to which destinations, and there is no single effective site for buying tickets [...]
Archive for August, 2008
If you are holidaying in the northern part of the Dordogne you should not miss a trip to Brantome – it really is an idyllic village. A river runs right through the town leading to its being known locally a the Venice of Perigord. Behind the village is a cliff covered in trees, at the bottom of which is the very large and very beautiful Abbey of Brantome. The Benedictine Abbey dates back to 769 and was founded by Charlemagne. [...]
Where does the south of France begin? For most of this site I have taken it to include the regions of Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenees and Provence / Cote d’Azur. But a little further up the Atlantic Coast, in Poitou-Charentes, the coast has its own sunny micro-climate, and has more of a ‘south of France’ feel than places further north. So I have no problem in considering La Rochelle, the major town in the region, as ‘gateway to the south-west of [...]
Travelling around France you will occasionally find yourself in a lost corner that has not yet been taken over by renovating expats and is miles from the nearest sign of life. These corners are ever harder to find, especially in the more popular tourist centres of the country, but are a particular treat because they hark back to how France ‘is supposed to be’ and how visitors will still perhaps imagine it. It is these small discoveries that are as [...]
