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Getting to France

Welcome to our pages about travelling to France.
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We've got advice, information and reader's experiences of transport to France, whether you are driving, flying or travelling by rail.

Also try:

• Flight Guide
• Ferry Guide
• Getting Around France
• Guide to the Regions of France

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French driving conditions

We want to know about your experiences of getting about in France. Do you have advice and tips for other tourists? Anecdotes, articles and feedback are all welcome.

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Maps and Guides for French regions

Loads to choose from - order now online
maps & guides

There are maps and guides to France catering for most kinds of traveller and covering most regions - don't go on holiday without one!
books for travelling in France...

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Southampton gains French route to Dijon

Eastern AirwaysEastern Airways will launch a new summer service from Southampton International Airport to Dijon in Eastern France from Monday 6 June 2011. more...

Ski Transfers Languedoc Roussillon

Aerobus - getting you safely to and from the slopes! Aerobus Transfers from Carcassonne, Perpignan and Toulouse Aerobus Haute Vallee offer transfers to and from the Pyrenees ski slopes in Languedoc Roussillon. Whether you need to travel from your gite, B&B or hotel, let Aerobus get you safely from A to B. ski transfer details...

Bargain flights to All French Airports

…or an opportunity to see France from a different perspective French roadThe airline industry is in turmoil. With everyone cutting back on luxuries, in what appears to be a recession, small airlines are dropping like flies. This means that Ryanair, Flybe, Easyjet, and all the other big airlines which fly to France, are... more about your travel options...

Travel to the Ski Resorts of France

Your options for getting to French mountain resorts
Snow train
The Snow Train
Read on to find out about your options for the following modes of transport:

1. Plane – Guide to the airports
2. Train – The ski train and others
3. Automobile – Driving there via the channel tunnel and ferry, or hiring once in resort.

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Driving in France – An Introduction

What to expect and how to stay legal. Stock ImageDriving in France can be a great pleasure (endless quiet country roads) or sheer madness (ringroads & rush-hours in any big city). Although the French have had a notoriously...

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Offsetting Your Carbon Emissions

An easy way to reduce greenhouse gasses. Climate Care The recent media coverage of climate change means that more and more travellers are deciding to 'offset their carbon emissions'. This is quick, easy and costs very little. Here's how it works... what's going on with the weather...

Drinking & Driving in France

Beware of the change in attitudes! Savoie + fire The relaxed attitude to drinking and driving in France has surprised and sometimes delighted many foreign visitors. Tales such as the account in ‘A Year in Provence’, where policemen were helping drunk partygoers into their cars at the end of a village meal were not rare.

But things have swiftly changed, since the French government pledged to lower the terrifyingly high number of deaths on French roads...

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Removals to France

Choosing a removals company to transport posessions to your home in France. removals lorry Moving your possessions to France was once the preserve of a few specialist international removals firms. Not any more. There are over 20 firms listed in the FrenchEntrée.com Directory alone. ... more...

Speed Traps in France

A guide to the speed cameras in France speed cameras, FranceThe French Government has introduced a comprehensive program of automatic radars to be installed all over the country...

French speed cameras...

Did You Know?

ChrysanthemumsToussaint ('All Saints'), on 1st November is when most of France visit graveyards to pay homage to those who have departed this world, and festoon the graves with chrysanthemums.Did you know?... that of all the holiday periods in France, the most dangerous to be driving on the roads is over the Toussaint period, when the most accidents and deaths on the roads have been recorded.

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Travel to France from £44 - Eurotunnel

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