Nantes (17 to 20 December 2022)

On the banks of the Loire River, 50km inland from the Atlantic Coast, Nantes was once the seat of power of the Dukes of Brittany.  From here they ruled their lands and feuded with France…

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Arcachon (13 to 17 December 2022)

Until the 1850s, Arcachon was little more than a clearing in the Landes Forest on the shores of the Bassin d’Arcachon, a shallow bay where harvesters collected oysters with rakes and hand held dredges. But…

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Bordeaux (9 to 13 December 2022)

“Take Versailles, add Antwerp and you have Bordeaux”.  Victor Hugo. After Paris, Bordeaux has the highest number of registered historical monuments of anywhere in France.  It’s the world’s largest urban World Heritage site.  In 2007, UNESCO…

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Lourdes (8/9 December 2022)

The market town of Lourdes in the foothills of the French Pyrenees has a population of just 15,000.  But it receives over six million visitors a year, has its own international airport, and more hotel…

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Alsace (7 to 12 May 2022)

France’s oldest wine route is a 170km stretch from Marlenheim east of Strasbourg south to Thann, through the foothills of the Vosges Mountains and along the Rhine plain. Along the way are dozens of picture…

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