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Camping & Caravanning

  Eurocampings -  ACSI International Camping Guide  - Provence Alps / Cote d'Azur
A complete summary of all the camp sites in France which are inspected by ACSI. Using this objective and topical information you can get a good idea, including a visual impression, of your likely holiday destination.
The detailed information per camp site displays all the amenities available at a particular camp site. To supplement this, views of the particular site are included.

Car Rental Nice

  Holiday Autos  -  
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.
  Sixt -
Pick-Up Station / Return Station: Nice Airport and all over France.

Holiday Homes

 -  Provence
Cottages4you is the leading UK provider of self-catered holidays in France
  Bridge Travel -  short breaks in Cannes and Nice




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Travel Guides Nice / French Riviera

  Travel Guides French Riviera [ Amazon ]
  Nice (Europe Popout Maps)
Nice is best visited with a PopOut Map
The pocket-sized travel essential that pops open in a single motion to reveal five different maps. The Nice PopOut has maps for the region, Greater and Central Nice, Nice Old Town and neighbouring Villefranche-sur-Mer. Incredibly detailed maps show museums, places of interest, historic sites, hotels, shopping, markets, bookshops, parks, theatres and more.
Map of Nice (July 25, 2002); Publisher: Compass Maps; Language: English; ISBN: 1841393614.
  Provence and the Cote D'Azur - Lonely Planet Regional Guide
Nicola Williams, Fran Parnell, Lisa Steer-Guerard
From the golden Riviera to the snow-kissed Alps--this is a practical guide to southern France. Whether you want to dip into the region's cultural treasures and its sky-blue seas, follow in the footsteps of Matisse, or simply eat your way around, this guide will prove indispensable.
*42 detailed maps; *special food & wine section with recipes from the region's top chefs; *festival listings and how to get tickets for Cannes, Avignon and the Monaco Grand Prix; *accommodation for every budget: camping, chambres d'hote, wine chateaux, century-old mills; *essential information for outdoor pursuits, from selling France's highest cliffs to riding the most spectacular canyon in Europe.
Paperback 368 pages (April 2005);  Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications;  Language: English;  ISBN: 1740598709.

Transport / How do I get to Nice

  Airport of Nice  - Cote d'Azur Airport [ NCE ]

 
With more than 35 daily scheduled flights out of the UK, serving 9 Airports (Manchester, Heathrow, Gatwick, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Southampton, London City Airport and Bristol).
 
Book cheap flights to Nice at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online
 
Online travel service backed by British Airways, KLM and Aer Lingus.
 -  the one stop flights shop

  Airline Tickets /  Bargain Flights -  special page

 
  SNCF -  French Railways -  train travel planner
  Chemin de Fer de Provence

 -  Dover - Calais / Portsmouth to Cherbourg / Portsmouth to Le Havre
P&O Ferries is one of the most well known and trusted brands. Wherever you are travelling to, on holiday or on business, P&O Ferries offers a wide range of routes

 

  Mappy -  guide routier - French route planner
  Fédération Françiase de la Randonneé Pédestre -  maps


Links

  Travel Insurance -  travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 -  Learn French
You will be surprised at how quickly you can learn French with Linguaphone. Spend just a small amount of time each day listening to the allTalk course and you will learn French to a conversational level in approximately 4 months.

  City of Nice  
The Promenade des Anglais offers a delightful walk. In the Old Town the architecture dates back to the 15th Century and for art lovers the Musée des Beaux Arts and the Musée Matisse are a must. For spectacular views of the Baie des Anges and the port take the lift to the top of the Château.

  Tourist Bureau Nice


Cuisine  - French Cooking

  French Food and Cook -  authentic French cuisine
Menus and recipes, Tips and Tools,  Table setting, Practice your French [ recipes in French ]
  Meilleur du Chef [ french & english ]
Hors-d'Œuvres, Starters,  Fish, Meat,  Vegetables, Desserts,  Other dishes, Bases, Sauces,  Extras, Diet Dishes
  Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette  Bertholle and Simone Beck
684 pages; Black and White Sketches, no Photography 
Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2001

History  - French History

In ancient times France was part of the Celtic territory known as Gaul or Gallia. Its present name is derived from the Latin Francia, meaning "country of the Franks," a Germanic people who conquered the area during the 5th century, at the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It became a separate country in the 9th century ......

  French history timeline

Music & Culture

  Discover France  - French Music
The earliest French influence on Western music is found in the plainsong of the Christian Church. It is believed that Gregorian chant as it is known today is an 8th- or 9th-century Gallican interpretation of Roman chant, but it is difficult to distinguish the Gallican ornamentation from its Roman basis. It has been suggested that the basic idea of the trope (an interpolation in a preexistent chant) is Gallican and that the surviving body of medieval tropes and sequences had a French influence ........ 
  Chanter -  French Music Database
Toute la chanson francophone - Aznavour à Zebda, des centaines d'artistes et de concerts, achat de CD, sources de MP3.
Artists, Concerts,  Charts, Shopping,  MP3/MIDI Files, Radio, Lyrics & Music,  Forum, and more

Web Portal / French Search Engine / Directory

  Discover France -  webring France
Explore French arts & culture, cuisine, history, language, literature, monuments, museums, shopping, sightseeing, wines, etc. Dozens of topics, chapters on Paris, 21 provinces, overseas territories, former French colonies
  Google.fr -  French Search Engine
  Pages Jaunes -  French Yellow Pages
  Viafrance -  all events in France
Furthermore regional information and intersting links within the French regions.
  Voila -  this search engine is very popular among French native speakers [ 2004 ].

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