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French Confection: Rent a farm cottage somewhere in Normandy, Brittany or the Loire, then spend the next week exploring towns and villages harking back to William the Conqueror. That was the plan, but it was never quite clear from the concertina-style Michelin map exactly which part of France we were supposed to be in. Somehow it didn't seem to matter very much... a calvados with those crêpes, peut-etre?
French without Fears: Fancy setting up some bucolic retreat in Mediterranean France? Well, anyone can live the dream for a few weeks. Half an hour from our rented cottage in rural Languedoc, fromages des terroirs heralds a table groaning with cheeses in door-stopper wheels or melt-in-the-mouth wedges of soft Beaufort, Roquefort or a host of regional varieties: the morning market in the venerable town of Pézenas has been staged every Saturday for six hundred years.
London: Love It or Leave It Had a good weekend? Yeah, went to Paris / Prague / Pisa! Or was that Barcelona, Berlin or Bratislava? One of London's attractions is the ease of reaching almost anywhere else. The rise and rise of no-frills carriers like easyJet and Ryanair has brought dozens of European cities within reach for affordable weekends away. Here are some tips.
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