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You are here: Home » Travel » Archive » November 2007
November 2007
Archive: November 2007
French prison for hotel conversion
AP. Nov 30, 2007
As part of its programme to sell off unused state property, France's
finance ministry has put on sale the medieval Sainte-Anne prison in the
centre of the southern town of Avignon, one of the country's most
popular tourist destinations. The only condition is that all or part
must be turned into a top-class hotel with at least 110 rooms.Asking
price is around four million euros (5.9 million dollars).
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French Hotels in Bad Shape
Australia News. Nov. 29, 2007
One in four French hotels are in a state of disrepair and 24 per cent
of customers complain of rude or incompetent service, according to
France’s Committee for Modernisation of the French Hotel Trade. The
committee blamed falling profit margins, changing customer habits,
badly-paid staff and conservative management for the poor state of the
country's 18,000 officially-classified hotels, and called for their
urgent overhaul.
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Strasbourg at Christmas
Sunday Times. November 25, 2007
Yesterday, Strasbourg unwrapped its Christmas market, the biggest in
France, and a seasonal attack of trinketry visited by et 1.6 million
people last year. For food and coziness, Strasbourg remains the most
warmly civilised city in France.
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A gastronomic river cruise in France
UK Times. November 24, 2007
Hedonists revel in a threee-day river cruise, gorged with old-school
French meals such as lobes of foie gras under puff pastry hats, creamy
lobster velouté, and chicken with morel mushrooms, but the 20 Brit and
50 French guests don’t mix, tour in separate buses, and eat at separate
tables.
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Air France Opens Huge Conract to Airbus and Boeing
Bloomberg. Nov. 23, 2007
Pitting France and America’s biggest aircraft manufacturers against
each other, the Air France-KLM Group will ask Airbus and The Boeing Co.
to submit competing tenders to build about 100 long-range aircraft with
a list price of about $20 billion. Air France will look at Airbus' A350
XWB and the competing 787 Dreamliner from Boeing. Bidding will begin
next year, with the contract awarded by 2009.
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Eurostar reaches out to Americans
IHT. Nov. 23, 2007
Rail Europe, which sells tickets in the United States for Eurostar's
high-speed train service between Paris and London, has a new
advertising campaign that it hopes will excite Americans enough about
Europe that they put aside any concerns about the dollar-euro exchange
rate. Eurostar's new service, which began last Wednesday, shaves 20
minutes off the travel time between Paris and London, to 2 hours and 15
minutes. To promote the service, Rail Europe has put up a Web site, www.getalittleparis.com.
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France train services near normal
BBC. Nov. 23, 2007
Travel networks in France are returning to normal following major
disruption caused by a nine-day strike. High-speed TGV services from
Paris are running as usual. In the capital, metro services were being
restored, though few lines were back to 100% operation.
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Verbier ski resorts open with early snowfall
FastTrackSki. November 23, 2007
Last week the France ski resort of Verbier opened for weekend skiing -
and following further November snowfall it is now due to open many runs
for seven-day skiing ahead of schedule. Among the areas open for
snow-sport fans on snowboarding holidays and ski breaks are Lac des
Vaux, Attelas and La Chaux.
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Obese passenger wins case against Air France
Forbes. Nov. 22, 207
A Frenchman who weighs 375 pounds has won a court case against Air
France after it made him buy a second seat on a flight from New Delhi
to Paris. Jean-Jacques Jauffret, a 43-year-old screen-writer, said he
was deeply humiliated when airline staff measured his girth with
wrapping tape in front of other passengers at New Delhi airport. Air
France was ordered to pay 8,000 euros in damages and to reimburse the
cost of his second seat.
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Air France KLM profit tops expectations
YahooNews. Nov. 22, 2007
Air France KLM, the world's biggest airline by revenues, posted a
stronger-than-expected 28 percent jump in quarterly profit on Nov 22,
2007, lifting its shares by as much as 9.5 percent. Profits were
powered by strong demand, especially on longer routes, and by fuel
surcharges and hedging which buffered the airline from surging oil
prices.
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Flickr Offers Thousands of France Photos
Flickr.com. Nov. 21, 2007
Photo sharing site Flickr has unveiled a service which lets you browse
millions of geo-tagged photos by place name and maps. Now you can find
photos based on entire countries or individual place names. Click the
link below to find photos taken in France.
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Rail Sabotage Is Reported in France
Reuters. Nov. 21, 2007
Saboteurs staged a co-ordinated attack on France's high-speed rail
network early on Nov. 21, causing nationwide delays to services already
hit by an eight-day transport strike, the SNCF state railways said. A
senior SNCF executive blamed militant strikers for the damage and said
police were hunting those responsible.
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Property in France: Gascony's special draw
UK Telegraph. Nov, 17, 2007
A better life for the children, with a slower pace, is what draws the
English to the Gers in Gascony, a languid region of France just north
of the Pyrenees. A British couple revels in running two gites. "It is
kinder and nicer here in France. There is quite a collection of English
people here, my kind of age, opening hotels and being very creative."
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London’s St Pancras Station Reopens for French Trains
New York Times. Nov. 15, 2007
Eurostar train travellers between France and Britain will now arrive
and depart from London’s St. Pancras station, following a three-year,
$1.7 billion government-and-privately financed restoration. Eurostar’s
new schedules post the time for nonstop trains from London to Paris at
two hours and 15 minutes, and to Brussels at one hour and 51 minutes.
The London-to-Paris round-trip fare ranges from $122 to $1,180.
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Air France sues Ryanair for 'slanderous accusations'
Forbes. Nov. 15, 2007
Air France has filed a law suit against Ryanair, the Irish low-cost
airline, for damages following Ryanair’s launching proceedings with the
European Commission denouncing alleged price-fixing collusion between
Air France and two other European airlines.
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Air France Inceases Fuel Surcharge
Cheapflights. Nov. 14, 2007
Air France will increase the fuel surcharge on all flights booked from
today (November 14, 2007). The airline has said that its surcharge will
increase by €2 per flight on routes to short and medium haul
destinations, while €10 will be added to each segment of long haul
routes.
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