The 2010 show will take place from 8th to 10th January at London Earls Court 2 and promises to be another great day out!

P&O Ferries will be at stand L45, where they will be offering some amazing deals on all our routes and a great range of prizes, exclusively for visitors to the France Show. Top prizes include a 7-night holiday for a family of five at a Eurocamp or Keycamp holiday park, a 10 day mobile home holiday in Camping La Plage, courtesy of Venue Holidays for 2 adults and 4 children, and three prizes of gift voucher worth up to £100 to spend on board with P&O Ferries (offer excludes alcohol).

Register for your free ticket here, but don’t delay this offer is only available until 1st December.

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An Hour from Paris is a small classic:  written with passion, perfectionism and amusement, a guide that will make you see a Paris – and a France – you would never have suspected.  Now fully updated with extra walks.

A strength is that it focuses on relatively unknown places that you can reach by a local train ride from the centre of the capital – probably just as unknown to many Parisians.

Parisians’ Paris is a guide that will help you experience Paris like a true Parisian.

Bill Gillham has been visiting Paris for decades, immersing himself in a particular quartier of Paris, discovering its little shops and bistrots, its markets, parks, and local entertainments, all the little quirks and particularities of its day to day life.  In this guide, he takes you to seventeen of his favourite areas of Paris – some central, some suburban, mostly just off the beaten track – and shows you how to discover the real city.  Neglected, or completely ignored by ordinary guidebooks, these quartiers all have a purely individual, Parisian character.

To enter this free prize draw, all you need to do tell us to sign up to our newsletter here.

Ends Midnight 8th November.

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The winners will spend one week at Pierre & Vacances’ Port-Bourgenay self catering holiday village in the Vendée region of France. Located 9km south of Les Sables d’Olonne, this 90-hectare village has a nine-hole golf course, an aquatic centre with three swimming pools, a central lake and a beach accessible on foot.

The second week will be at Pierre & Vacances’ Port du Crouesty holiday village, which boasts a Thalassotherapy spa treatment centre, is in close proximity to the port, has a 18-hole Rhuys-Kerver golf course and a beach where you can go sailing and or take part in some watersports..

The prize also includes standard travel insurance and a return ferry crossing for one car and four passengers with Brittany Ferries.

For more information click here. Competition closes 6pm, 22 August 2008.

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Going to Gascony this summer? You might be interested in this new book by Martin Calder.

Martin Calder’s A Summer in Gascony evokes the spirit, sights, smells and sounds of this still relatively unknown and unspoiled ‘other South of France’. It is a perfect read for summer. Calder, a senior lecturer in French at the University of Bristol, has a PhD in eighteenth-century French literature. He is a true Francophile who has come to know the people of Gascony and understands their way of life.It is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance with blond-haired Anja and and a lifelong love affair with Gascony, with its village festivals, dusty roads and sun-baked wine country, which endures to this day.

In the tiny hamlet of Péguilhan, Martin Calder is introduced to the Gascon way of life: working in the fields, shepherding and slaughtering sheep, feeding the cattle, harvesting the wheat, watering the crops. He discovers a unique people, fiercely proud of their independent heritage.
As an Englishman, he finds himself more welcome than he expected. Old affinities exist between England and Gascony: they fought for years against a common foe – the French! – and Gascony exported huge quantities of wine to slake the thirst of mediaeval Englishmen.

Told with charm and gentle humour, A Summer in Gascony is full of colourful characters: the charismatic and convivial Jacques-Henri, the hardworking farmer whose family take Martin into their home; Anja, the German student who steals Martin’s heart: the yoga-practising Germans; Pattes, the mischievous stray dog; Madame ‘Parle-Beaucoup’, the town gossip and Monsieur Fustignac, whose pride in his Gascon heritage is unforgettable.

But the real star of the book is Gascony itself, with its strong spirit of independence and the simple pleasures it provides.

“This engaging recollection of an unforgettable summer… replete with regional culinary delights, smells, sights and sounds of Gascony, is a sensory feast. Highly recommended.”
Michelle Dixon, French Magazine Book Club

“A charming and nostalgic account, written in an accessible and down-to-earth style, this book offers an insider’s perspective of Gascony. I felt entirely satisfied with this read and keen to sample Gascony’s rural pleasures for myself.”
Becci Sargent, French Magazine Book Club

“A Summer in Gascony accurately describes what it is like to live in this wonderful part of France. Characters like Jacques-Henri and Madame Parle-Beaucoup can be encountered in many of the small villages and hamlets scattered across Gascony – proud, warm-hearted people who welcome visitors into their hearts and homes. Martin’s experiences and vivid descriptions allow his readers to travel, eat and drink their way through a summer in Gascony from the comfort of an armchair.”
Nick and Karen Kitchener, Domaine do Lauroux Winery

To enter the competition all you need is to sign up for our destination france newsletter. Competition closes midnight 8 August 2008.

If you can’t wait to see if you win, you can purchase the book by clicking on the link below:

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