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French Connections has been featuring in the French travel and property press once again

Read more: Latest Press Coverage for French Connections

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Written by Michael Thomas

Lourdes in SW France has 5 million visitors per year from the sick, the devout & the just plain curious.

Read more: Lourdes - the largest pilgrimage site in the world. Photo Friday 28 May 2010

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Written by Faith Warn

Travellers to France can get a healthy 10% more spending power for their holiday money over last summer, as the currency settled yesterday at 1.2 euros to the pound, making a euro just about 85 pence

Read more: Exchange rate reaches 1.2 euros to the pound

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Written by Faith Warn

Moving scenes in the Channel today as a flotilla of small ships sails from Ramsgate to Dunkerque, marking the 70th anniversary of the World War II evacuation from Northern France.

Read more: Remembering French-British co-operation at Dunkerque

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WEDNESDAY MORNING, market in St Pons de Thomières, a dozen miles or so upstream at the head of the valley. It's an up-and-down town with few flat open spaces. Usually they're devoted to car parking, but on Wednesdays the market traders take over, so parking is even more murderous. One of the main arteries between Low and High Languedoc passes through the middle of St Pons, so there's a steady flow of juggernauts to add an extra refined twist to the torture of finding somewhere to park.

Read more: Christopher Campbell-Howes goes to market . . .

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Written by Faith Warn

'Oh look, there’s a little town called Betton on the map, close to this road and beside a river. Maybe that’s a good place for our picnic lunch.' It was one of my better map-reading suggestions.

Read more: St Martin's church and the River Ille at Betton in Brittany. Photo Friday 21 May 2010