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	<title>South of France</title>
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	<description>South of France places to visit, attractions and highlights</description>
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		<title>Beaches of southern France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[France has over 3000 kilometres of coastline, and a great deal of it is accessible. In the south of France the main areas of coast include:

the French Riviera / Cote d&#8217;Azur section that runs from Marseille to the Italian border
the Languedoc coast, also on the Mediterranean, that runs from the border with Spain around to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/beaches-of-south-france/</link>
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		<title>Is this a tourist attraction?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a couple of travel websites, and one of the challenges of operating a tourist site is deciding whether something is a tourist attraction or not, and how &#8216;honestly&#8217; to paint a picture of a town or attraction.
Of course, everyone tries to be honest, but it&#8217;s not always to give a balanced picture. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/is-this-a-tourist-attraction/</link>
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		<title>Marseille harbour photo</title>
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This photo of Marseille harbour is very beautiful despite having little colour, and a background view that is hard to see clearly. The Marseille it portrays is not especially realistic - very few of the ships in Marseille harbour are decked with rigging - but that hardly matters.
The question is, would it make you want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/marseille-harbour-photo/</link>
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		<title>Toulouse, an unmissable treat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite cities in the south of France is Toulouse. The city centre is small enough and calm enough to be manageable, but big enough to always have something new to discover.
It always seems to be a modern active city, while keeping one eye carefully on the past and the important architectural heritage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/toulouse-an-unmissable-treat/</link>
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		<title>Matisse Chapel at Vence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The south of France - especially the south-east of France - attracted many artists during the decades between 1890 and 1960, several of whom later became household names with paintings and artworks valued at millions of dollars. This we all know.
In a village a few kilometres inland from Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French riviera is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/matisse-chapel-at-vence/</link>
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		<title>La Grande-Motte</title>
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I&#8217;m not always a big enthusiast for the beaches of Languedoc-Roussillon. Most of the Languedoc resorts arose in the 1960s and 1970s when the mosquitoes were cleared away from the region to make way for tourists under the so-called &#8216;Mission Racine&#8217;. A fair number of them are dated, crowded, have too much building and development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/la-grande-motte/</link>
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		<title>Nimes or Arles - which to visit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to explore the Camargue region of south-western Provence and two important towns that fall just outside its eastern boundary - Nimes and Arles.
If you look up these two towns in your guidebook you wil be struck by the similarities. Both are broadly the same size, both have attractive old centres, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/nimes-or-arles-which-to-visit/</link>
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		<title>Keep looking up</title>
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Photo taken in Aigues-Mortes centre
In many of the towns you visit in the south of France you will find yourself in open squares lined with trees and narrow streets of medieval houses, and very pretty they are too. The distractions at ground level will keep you occupied, and it is easy to forget to spend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/keep-looking-up/</link>
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		<title>Popes palace in Avignon</title>
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This impressive series of buildings was built in the 14th century, after Rome became too violent for Pope Clement V and he, along with successive popes, set up home in Avignon instead. The Pope&#8217;s palace in Avignon continued to be home to the popes until 1377, and following a later split in the Catholic church [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/popes-palace-in-avignon/</link>
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		<title>Too much rain</title>
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May 2008, and a few days of exceptionally heavy rain led to a great deal of flooding and damage in the Dordogne and surrounding areas. The picture shows the road, with the tops of fence posts just visible.
Luckily the poor weather tends to pass quickly, but this type of flooding can occur at any time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.south-of-france.com/too-much-rain/</link>
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