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P&O are offering a £29 return fare from Dover to Calais for off peak sailings.

I’d heard that the Medieval town of Josselin in Morbihan, Brittany, was worth seeing but that's a definite understatement!

I gave up long ago trying to penetrate to the heart of the French breakfast. At one time it seemed to me that if you crossed the Rubicon, burned your boats and came to live in France full-time, then you might as well go the whole hog with the French experience. Total immersion in French life would of course include breakfast.

The market town of Cluny in Burgundy has the remains of a once great abbey. However, even in its broken-down state the abbey is still immensely impressive and well worth a tour

Troyes (pronounced Twah), a lovely town in the heart of the Champagne region. In this slightly autumnal looking picture a local cafe lies quiet before it opens.

April has to be one of my favourite months in the Bourgogne. It is when the “beautiful days” start in earnest, when the Nightingales return and when the colsa is flowering. It is when I do things that many people will regard as being rather strange, such as sitting outside at four thirty in the morning, with a tray of tea, listening to a dozen Nightingales singing their predawn territorial chorus from across the river in front of my house.

Flybe has become the first UK airline to offer Volcanic Ash Insurance to its customers.

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