	October 2007

Boletus Edulis list

Cèpes season

Edited by Roger Macdonald, the Guild of Travel Writers'
only listed expert on villa holidays

In this issue: News & Features | New Villa | Villa club


	Welcome The more you know about what is happening in France, the better your holiday. Each month we bring you a selection of news, views and attractive events from across the Channel. Plan your next trip to make the most of those occasions when the French are en fête. And take advantage of our VIlla Club reductions for your 2007 and 2008 holidays.	Autumn vines

News & Features

Too good to be true

Simone Capony list The concept of a world without bad news – as remote as the planets visited by the Starship Enterprise – was a reality for Simone Capony, the oldest woman in France, who died in Cannes last month, aged 113 years and 186 days.
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Time shift adultery

Alibila list “I shall be working late” was once voted in France as the sentence between husband and wife least likely to be true. A controversial new French Web based service, recognising the temptations outside married life, has opened to help would-be adulterers escape the scrutiny of their spouses.
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King Rat

Ratatouille list

Back in 2005, film critics on a night or two out in Paris might have wondered why the big names at Pixar, the American computer animation studio, were whizzing around the city on motorcycles, parking them brazenly in front of some of the French capital’s most famous restaurants, eating inside with their own design team, and picking up the colossal tab.
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Not so fine wine

AOC list The French consumer association, UFC-Que Choisir, which was founded in 1951, six years before its UK equivalent ‘Which’, is taking on the local wine industry, one of the toughest vested interests across the Channel.
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Breaking the banque

Fillon list

It is rare for the prime minister of a European Union member to admit to severe financial difficulties, still less to ‘near bankruptcy’. But the French Prime Minister François Fillon did just that last month, and with the tacit approval of the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Traducteurs pirates

Harry list A group of French school children in Salon-de-Provence, frustrated by the delay between the release of the latest Harry Potter book in English and the version in French, which is scheduled to appear on 26 October, decided to translate it themselves.
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NEW PROPERTY FOR 2008


	Shops Châteauneuf-sur-Charente 100m Main towns Angoulême 25km, Cognac 26km Airports Bordeaux 113km, La Rochelle 135km, Poitiers 138km Swimming pool Private, security cover and alarm, fenced-off, heated, roman steps, size 10x5m		Chemin des Quais, Ref CT21, Charente, Southwest Sleeps 12 - 6 bedrooms - 3 bathrooms This handsome manor house restored to a high standard is located on the edge of the Charente River and the village of Châteauneuf-sur-Charente. Dominique says: An impressive property full of French-style charm and furnished with taste. A great place for children (many activities on site) in an ideal location with a pretty village close at hand. 2 WEEK PRICES from * £3,360 in April to £6,100 in August Find out more >>


	* PRICES quoted above are for two weeks and include one return short Channel crossing with P&O Ferries, SeaFrance, SpeedFerries or Eurotunnel (longer Channel routes also available - supplements apply according to crossing). One, three and four week prices and villa only prices are available on the website.





	You could save up to 12.5% in 2007 If you* have travelled with us since 2004 you are entitled to the following financial benefits: A reduction of 5% on your 2007 booking Plus another 2.5% if your first 2007 booking does not include the period between 30 June and 1 September 2007 A 5% reduction will apply as well to a second booking taken in any one season * You qualify if you were a member of a party, not necessarily the person who booked Reductions apply to the villa portion only of the holiday Reductions do not apply to bookings made via Travel Agents *Similar reductions will apply to 2008 bookings*

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