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French tourists in Brazil plane row face bleak Christmas

French tourists in Brazil plane row face bleak Christmas

There seems to be little hope that three French citizens detained earlier this month by Brazilian authorities for causing a disturbance on a ’plane, will be home in time for Christmas. On Monday their families had hoped to have a private audience (...)

23 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Spend a night at the French hamster hotel

Spend a night at the French hamster hotel

Ever fancied spending the night living like a hamster? What a question. Now you can at the French "hamster villa". Here’s a story that might have passed you by: the opening recently of a so-called "hamster villa" in the French city of (...)

24 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

A slice of life in France - Toulouse "la Ville Rose"

Toulouse is surely one of those French cities that has a touch of magic to it. Just the mention of its name brings, for many, romantic images to mind. Famous for its terracotta brick buildings, which give the city its most common nickname*, "la (...)

28 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

A slice of life in France - Big cats pacing in Seine and Marne

While Disneyland Paris is the largest and probably best known theme park in the département of Seine-et-Marne in the Ile de France region surrounding the capital, it’s not the only one competing for visitors. Just a few kilometres away is Le Parc (...)

15 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Stockholm shines - even in the rain

Stockholm’s long summer days with warm and pleasant temperatures certainly provided more than a welcome break from the heatwave that hit much of continental Europe this year. There are, of course, those short winter days, where the average (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

British tourist discovers the true meaning of "hôtel de ville"

Oh all right then, it’s still summer, and even though the French are gradually returning from their holidays, it remains nevertheless pretty much the silly season as far as news is concerned. And the latest daft tale comes to you courtesy of a (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

A slice of French life - Saint Amand-Montrond in Cher

A recent headline in the daily French regional newspaper Le Berry républicain read something along the lines of "Bumper harvest, happy farming" ("Moisson copieuse, agriculture heureuse". Somehow it sounds better in French doesn’t (...)

8 Sep. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

It’s official, Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport is the world’s worst

To anyone who regularly (or even infrequently) has the displeasure of passing through Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, France’s major airport, the findings by the independent Canadian-based website sleepingairports.net that it ranks as the worst in the (...)

3 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

French town seeks elephant ban from beach

On the northwestern coast of France in the department of Manche there’s a small town called Granville - population around 13,000. It dates back to the 12th century and is of course steeped in history, much of it military and religious, plus it has (...)

20 Aug. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Why Moroccan girls like travel to Israel???

Why Moroccan girls like travel to Israel???

A report by the Center for Statistics’’Israeli’’, Morocco issued a list of Arab tourists to the’’Israel’’at each of the years 2006 and 2007 and 2008, and doubled the number of Moroccan tourists some of the (...)

11 Aug. 2009 | | moroccanbeauty

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur - it’s all in a name

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - it's all in a name

France could soon be bidding farewell to the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA for short). Only the name though, rather than the actual geographical area. The region, located in the south of the country (as the name suggests) is one (...)

4 Aug. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Rude, arrogant, mean and moaning. Who? The French on holiday

Rude, arrogant, mean and moaning. Who? The French on holiday

Guess which nationality figures yet again amongst the most unwelcome when on holiday abroad - the French For the third consecutive year they rate poorly in a survey of hoteliers carried out on behalf of the Internet travel agency Expedia.fr Overall (...)

15 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

A slice of French life seen through the "back door" - Joigny

A slice of French life seen through the "back door" - Joigny

Many French have been on the move this past weekend - quite literally so. It was start of the summer holidays: the period when the capital’s major railway stations are usually chock-a-block with travellers, the airports witness a surge in those (...)

7 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

People-watching and eavesdropping in France

This past weekend has been another long one in France as Friday was May 8 - Victory in Europe day or the date back in 1945 when the Allies formally accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender to mark the end of war here in Europe. It’s a (...)

11 May. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

The snowy baths in Budapest

Szabadsag Bridge

The baths of Budapest are wellknown around the world. Want to be wealthy ? here are the baths of Budapest The Gellért bath The Gellért hotel was built around a hot water thermal source. Gellért bath are really the top in thermal and medical baths, hot (...)

23 Mar. 2009 | 1 comment | Torvald

The basic issues of Organ Transplant Tourism

Organ transplant tourism is not a fad nor a fashion, but a serious 21st century problem for health service providers and governments. In this article I try to identify the basic ethical and political issues. “The core of the debate is how best to (...)

1 Sep. 2008 | 1 comment | lawlang

Naughty tourism

I could use a more explicit three-letter word in the post title but I fear the software censors employed by our federal government will again block this web site from its bureaucratic readers. On this topic, I was quite taken by this passage : (...)

22 fév. 2008 | | Marginal Revolution

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