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French Metric Weights and Measures and their equivalents |
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Metric Weights and Measures and Conversions
Units legally used in business in France
How to convert the metric system of weights and measures into their Imperial equivalents and vice versa
In general, weights & measures in France and the Continent are metric.
Credit for originating the metric system [...]
Your dream home in France? |
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A property in France can be a good investment
Whether your dream is a farm or cottage in the Dordogne, a South of France villa or a beachfront property in Provence, the question of buying or renting is always the first question to be considered. Taking down the “For Sale” sign is easy, but buying [...]
Qucihe Lorraine is a typical Northern France dish |
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Food in Northern France: a brief gastronomical tour!
Le Nord; Picardy; Champagne; Alsace and Lorraine
Dunkerque; Calais; Boulogne; Le Touquet; Lille; Arras; Amiens; Beauvais; Chantilly; Compiegne; Epernay; Reims; Chalons-en-Champagne; Troyes; Nancy; Strasbourg; Verdun; Colmar; Riquewihr.
Food in Northern France is both hearty and full of solid flavours – eating and drinking to satisfy the hungriest gourmet!
On the coast [...]
Tags: Alsace, Ardennes, boudin, brie de meaux, Carbonnade, champagene, Champagne, Choucroute garnie, Food in France, Le Nord, Lorraine, northern france, Picardy, Porc aux deux pommes, quiche lorraine, Reims, riesling, saucisse de Strasbourg, Truite Ardennaise
Perigord black truffles make a great omolette! |
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Food in Southwest France: a brief gastronomical tour!
Poitou and Aquitaine; Perigord, Quercy and Gascony; the Pyrenees.
Bordeaux; Toulouse; Poitiers; La Rochelle; Rochefort; Cognac; St Emilion; Pauillac; Perigueux; Sarlat; Lascaux II; Bergerac; Rocamadour; Cahors; Condom; Moissac; Albi; Biarritz; Lourdes; Bayonne; Pau.
Food in Southwest France sometimes appears to be the poorer cousin of grape-juice. Yes, it’s Bordeaux (and [...]
Tags: agen prunes, Aquitaine, armagnac, basque, Bordeaux, bordelaise, cassoulet, catalan, Cognac, foie gras, Gascony, Homard Persille, l'ouillade, Medoc, Perigord, Poitou, Pomerol, PyreneesFood in Southwest France, Quercy, quercy noix, Saint-Emilion, sauterne, touron, truffles
Escargots de Bourgogne, with garlic and butter |
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Food in Central France: a brief gastronomical tour!
Burgundy and the Rhone Valley, the Jura and the Massif Centrale.
Dijon; Nuit st Georges; Beaune; Cluny; Chablis; Santenay; Auxerre; Fontenay; Vezelay; Nevers; Autun; Macon; Arbois; Besancon; Ornans; Ronchamp; Limoges; Aubusson; Moulins; Vichy; Clermont-Ferrand; Le Puy-en-Velay; Conques; Lyon; Bourg-en-Bresse; Perouges; Montelimar; Grenoble; Chambery; Aix-les-Bains; Annecy; Evian-les-Bains; Lac Leman.
Food in [...]
Tags: Aloxe-Corton, Andouilettes a la Lyonnaise, Auvergne, Beaune, Boeuf Bourguignon, boudin, Bourgogne, Bresse, Burgundy, Chambolle-Musigny, Charolais, Chassagne-Montrachet, Clafoutis, coq au vin, Côte d'Or, Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits, dijon, Dijonnaise, Dombes, escargots, Falette, Forez, Gevrey-Chambertin, Jura, lamb, Lyon, Massif Centrale, Meursault, Nuits-St Georges, Oeufs en meurette, Pommard, Rhone Valley, Roquefort, Rosette de Lyon, Santenay, Savoy, Vosne-Romanee, Vougeot
Food in France |
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France is the home of gastronomy, read on for the proof…
Food in France! Surely a topic upon which an unending stream of tomes have been written, especially by the French. However, although the finest restaurants in France scale heights that few others even attempt, some of us might say that many second and third tier [...]
Fruits de Mer, a favourite in Brittany |
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Food in Western France: a brief gastronomical tour!
Normandy; Brittany; the Loire Valley.
Rouen; Caen; Bayeux; Cherbourg; Mont-St-Michel; St Malo; Rennes; Nantes; Angers; Tours; Saumur; Vouvray; Amboise; Le Mans; Chartres; Orleans.
Food in Western France will get you eating and drinking with a vengeance! With such a long coastline, it’s to be expected that seafood and shellfish [...]
Tags: belon oysters, Brittany, Calfedpotfe, camembert, crepes, crepes suzette, galettes, Loire, loire valley, Mont St Michel, Muscadet, Normandy, Pouilly-fume, rilettes, salt meadow, Sancerre, vouvray, western france
Bouillabaisse from the Restaurant du Port, Le Grau du Roi, Marseille |
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Food in the South of France: a brief gastronomical tour!
Languedoc-Roussillon; Provence; Cote d’Azur
Perpignan; Carcassonne; Beziers; Montpellier; Nimes; Chateauneuf-du-Pape; Avignon; Arles; Aix-en-Provence; Marseille; Cassis; Toulon; St Tropez; Frejus; St Raphael; Grasse; Cannes; Antibes; St-Paul-de-Vence; Cap Ferrat; Nice; Menton; Monaco.
Food in the South of France is above all the product of its environment. Permeated by mediterranean influences, [...]
Tags: Bandol, Bouillabaisse, Bourride, Brandade de morue, Camargue lamb, Cote d'Azur, Daube de boeuf a la provencale, Estandon, gastronomical tour, Languedoc-Roussillon, Pissaladiere, Pistou, Provencale, Provence, Ratatouille, South of France, tarte au citron
Useful facts for travel to France |
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Useful facts to help you plan your visit to France
Festivals
Public Holidays
Visas
Health
Language
Time
Electricity
Weights & Measures
Money, Banks etc.
Emergencies
Telephone, fax
Post
Museums and monuments
Festivals
Festivals, both traditional and modern (eg Avignon Theatre Festival in July) are not so plentiful as in Spain, but worth looking out for:
Festivals search on the French Tourist Office website, not great but…(new window):
French Public Holidays [...]
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Chateau Chambourd in the Loire |
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Tour Routes in France
Virtually all multi-country Europe tours pass through or originate in Paris, but few see much more of France. It is possible to do a pretty extensive tour of France but even so some fairly important areas will be missing or only covered briefly. Regional tours are popular and give you more of [...]
Tags: Aix-en-Provence, Amboise, Angers, annecy, Arles, Avignon, Azey-le-Rideau, Bayeux, Beaune, Biarritz, Blois, Bordeaux, Brive La Gaillarde, Caen, Camargue, Cannes, Carcassonne, Chambord, Chamonix, Chartres, Chateaubriant, Chateauneuf du Pape, Chaumont, Chenonceau), Cheverny, Clos Luce, Cognac, Colmar, dijon, Epernay, Gevrey-Chambertin, Giverny, Grenoble, Lascaux, Limoges, Lourdes, Luberon, Metz, Monaco, Mont St Michel, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Normandy Beaches, Nuits-St Georges, Paris, Reims, Riquewihr, Rouen, Saumur, St Emilion, St Malo, St Paul de Vence, Stes Maries-de-la-Mer, Strasbourg, Tour routes in France, Tours, travel to France, Usse, Verdun, Versailles, Vezelay, Villandry
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