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Normandy is a former Duchy situated in northern France occupying the lower Seine area [ upper or Haute-Normandie ] and the region to the west [ lower or Basse-Normandie ] as far as the Cotentin Peninsula.


Car Rental - see the special page car rental

Holiday Home / Cottage / Apartment

  Interhome -  holiday rentals
All properties are checked on a regular basis. All homes can be booked on-line. Properties are shown by destination.
 -  Normandy
Cottages4you is the leading UK provider of self-catered holidays.
  Euro Relais / Grand Relais   - holiday cottages

See page Holiday Homes for more holiday rentals.

Hostel

  Féderation d'Unie des Auberges de Jeunesse
  IYHF - International Youth Hostel Federation
  Hostels.com -  Youth hostels in France

Hotel Room in Normandy

  Bookings UK  - Hotels in France -  an easy way to select and book hotel rooms
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels. Bookings UK is a dedicated hotel and accommodation reservation website.
  Exclusive Hotels - 
 
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

[  more hotels -  special page ]

Travel Agent / Tour Operator

  Into France  - Holiday in France
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Travel Guide

  Amazon UK

Transport / How do I get to Normandy

  Le Havre Airport

  Deauville St Gacien Airport
 -  Air France, the third biggest worldwide airline
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).

  Airline Tickets /  Bargain Flights

 

 
Direct service Calais, Paris, Lille, Avignon

  SNCF -  French Railways -  train travel planner

 -  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.
  Brittany Ferries
Ferry routes have been carefully chosen to take you much closer to holiday France. There's a wide choice of sailings from Plymouth, Poole and Portsmouth, travelling to Caen, Cherbourg, St Malo, Roscoff or Santander - all have easy access to the major road networks in France & Spain.

 -  Express Coach to Rennes

  Portail Bison Futé
Pour connaître toute l'information routière (bouchons, accidents, travaux, météo routière et prévisions à 24 heures) en permanence : cliquer sur Fance entiere. Pour une information régionale plus détaillée, cliquer sur l'une des zones.
  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.

  Normandy Tourist Board -  official site
Hotels & Lodging,  Interactive map,  Sport and Leisure,  Gastronomy, Calendar of events,  Places to see:  Museums, Churches & Abbeys, Chateaux,  D-Day Sites,  Technical visits, Tours, Parks and gardens, Sites and Monuments and much more ....

  Lower Normandy -  with Regional Capital City Caen
Departements in Basse-Normandie: Calvados [ 14 ], Manche [ 50 ] en Orne [ 61 ]
Cities: Avranches, Cherbourg, Deauville, Eayeux, Granville, Honfleur, Lisieux, Montagne-au-Perche, Ouistreham, Saint-Lô,  Valagnes, Vire
  Upper Normandy
Departements: Eure [ 27 ] and Seine-Maritime [ 76 ]

  Calvados -  office du tourisme du calvados
Patrimoine,  gastronomie de tradition et camping en basse Normandie
  L'Eure -  Comité Départemental du Tourisme de l'Eure
  Manche
  Orne
  Seine Maritime -  Seine-Maritime Tourism
Auffay,  Bolbec, Caudebec-en-Caux,  Clères, Dieppe,  Duclair,  Forges-les-Eaux,  Gournay-en-Bray,  Lillebonne,  Rouen,  Elbeuf, Le Havre, la Région de Caudebec-en-Caux, Le Tréport,  Les 3 Vallées,  Pays de Bray,  Oissel

  Bayeux -  Bessin & D-Day / Landing Beaches /  Historical Trails / slide show and more
  Caen -  Tourist Office
Caen is the launch platform of your journey in Normandy...But, before to go further let you surprise by the magnificient architecture of Caen, from its Castle built by William the conqueror to its both abbayes, via its Marina, the 5 museums, ... Caen, a city to discover !
  Deauville -  For a long time, it was said to be the 21st arrondissement of Paris
Deauville, a beach of elegance and sophisticated life style within easy reach of Paris. Its large hotels, luxury shops, golf courses, thalassotherapy centre, the celebrated Planches and well preserved historic buildings made it world famous.
Here you will find all the information necessary for a successful stay in Deauville: lodging, restaurants, activities, practical information, and a complete schedule of events throughout the year. You can also make a virtual visit of our resort in the photo gallery and discover Deauville's storefronts. Happy surfing !
  Honfleur -  Tourist Office
The maritime city of Honfleur got her fame from her seamen. They were full of that spirit of adventure that made them set forth to explore the seven seas. And these great navigators will indeed defy the elements to sail as far as Brazil, Newfoundland or Canada. In 1608 in Honfleur, Samuel de Champlain will set up a whole campaign that will lead to the foundation of Quebec. Every year, many festivals and events keep the maritime tradition of Honfleur alive
Nobody like Eugène Boudin will grasp with more acuteness the ever-changing light of the estuary skies. Impressionnism is born. Honfleur becomes the place to be for many artists. Courbet, Monet, Turner will make Honfleur the inspired place she still is. Be it classical or contemporary, painting is a credit to Honfleur and her many art galeries.
  Le Havre -  TO  - Places to visit / seaside resort / accommodation and more
Le Havre, a great Normandy city, stands facing the sea with impressive skies, the charm of a vast beach just 500 meters from the city center and a forest making this destination particularly attractive as a holiday and sailing resort. Le Havre is France's leading port and hosts sixty or so liners each year, re-establishing its maritime traditions.
  Mont Saint Michel -  History / Lodging / Places to visit / Times of the tides / Main Events
Situated in the middle of a bay, the Mont Saint-Michel welcomes nearly three and a half million people every year this includes visitors, pilgrims and tourists. At the entrance of this medieval town is the ancient Burgher's Guardroom now the Tourist Office. After going through the Boulevard Gate and then the King's Gate fortified with its portcullis, you will find the « Grande Rue » or main street wih its museums, shops and houses dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. The parish church consecrated to St. Pierre, the patron saint of fisherme-
  Rouen Tourisme
Normandy's capital stretches proudly along the banks of the Seine, Flaubert immortalised the town in Madame Bovary ; Victor Hugo called it town of a hundred bells pealing out in the air. Rouen epitomises all of the region's warm temperament
  St Valery en Caux -  seaside resort
  Trouville sur Mer - 

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 ].

  Viafrance -  all events in France
Furthermore regional information and intersting links within the French regions