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You are here: Home » Travel » Archive » December 2007
December 2007
Archive: December 2007
Tours offer glimpse of “Black Paris”
CanadianPress. Dec. 26, 2007
Black Paris Tours offers a glimpse of the mutual love affair between
black Americans and the City of Light. The trek highlights the history
of such figures as Alexandre Dumas, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and
Josephine Baker, and zigzags through offbeat areas like the Parc
Monceau, where poet Langston Hughes once lived.
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Travel Corsica, Napoleon's homeland
USA Today. Dec. 22, 2007
Corsica is a slice of France a five-hour ferry ride south of Nice. It
remains an oasis on today's overdeveloped, cookie-cutter tourist
landscape, free of fast-food franchises. The 115-mile-long island
offers almost every terrain: dozens of white sand and rocky beaches,
slopes blanketed with scrubby maquis bushes that hid World War II
resistance fighters, evergreen forests where wild pigs snuffle, hiking
trails that take the hardy over rocky peaks, the city of Ajaccio, where
Napoleon was born.
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Air France tests cell services in Europe
AP. Dec. 20, 2007
Air France has become the first airline to offer international
passengers e-mail and text-messaging service that's based on standard
cell phone technology. The catch: It's only available on a single
Airbus A318 aircraft in the Air France fleet.
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French Ski Resorts Look Higher
UKTimes. Dec. 16, 2007
It has been a sensational start to winter in the Alps. The first big
snows hit Austria in early November, and they have been followed by a
succession of blizzards in France – culminating in the storms of last
weekend. But due to climate change ski-property buyers and builders are
moving higher in the search for reliable snow.
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Air France proposes share swap for Alitalia
Reuters. Dec. 17, 2007
Air France-KLM's bid for loss-making Alitalia includes a share swap and
a capital hike of 750 million euros ($1.09 billion), with up to 1,700
job cuts, Air France's Chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta was quoted as
saying. Italian newspapers reported on Sunday that Spinetta, speaking
to Italian reporters in Paris, said the deal would allow the Rome
government -- which is selling its 49.9 percent stake in Alitalia -- to
take a minority stake in the new group.
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Next-Gen Travel Sites Help Find Better Deals
Wired. Dec. 16, 2007
Savvy travelers now have a new alternative to popular discount websites
Travelocity and Expedia when searching for the best airfare deals. New
airfare mash-up sites Yahoo FareChase, Farecast, SideStep, and Kayak
can helpsave hundreds of dollars.
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The end of French sleeping-car trains
UK Times. December 10, 2007
A great railway era ended when France's legendary Train Bleu pulled
into the station at the end of its final journey from Paris to the
Riviera on Dec. 9, 2007. After 135 years, the French railways have
taken their last wagons-lits -- sleeping-cars -- out of service. With
high speed trains and air travel, there were no longer enough customers
willing to pay between 251 and 395 euros for a night in bed aboard the
elegant blue carriages of the Wagons-Lits.
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The Creepy-Crawlies of Provence
UK Telegraph. Dec. 4, 2007
Provence in the south of France may be idyllic, but one British
housewife discovers that daily life in a country home can be a
relentless struggle against oversized insects and predatory reptiles,
including scorpions, spiders, wasps, and centipedes.
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