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Villefrance-sur-Mer

Description

Villefranche-sur-Mer is a small beach resort and residential town (popn 30,000) on the French Riviera. The deep water harbour is home to Mediterranean cruise boats, whose tenders routinely disgorge several thousand passengers on organised trips to nearby Eze Village and Monaco. It sports excellent restaurants and a coarse sandy beach much favoured over Nice's stony bay. Convenient harbour car parking attracts visitors from Monaco and along the Riviera. The Citadelle st Elme dates back to antiquity and the town offers easy access to the millionaires peninsula of St Jean Cap Ferrat.

Macon

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Macon is a city with a population of 36000 in very south of Burgundy, France.

Access

By car: From A6 coming from Paris or Lyon, get off at Macon Nord or Macon Sud.

Dieppe

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Auxerre

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Auxerre is an historical city in the French region of Burgundy (Bourgogne), located at the heart of one of the country's largest wine-producing areas.

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Bastia

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Bastia is a city on the French island of Corsica.

Access

From Bastia Airport, a bus runs almost every hour for €8 – timetable at the tourist information desk at the airport.

Ales

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Alès is a small town in Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

Although known as the capital of the Cevennes, you may have a hard time getting to Alès, partly because it's off the well-trod tourist track, and partly because everyone will assume you want to go to nearby, and bigger, Arles.

Bayonne

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Bayonne is in Aquitaine, France.

Access

By plane

Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne International Airport is about 4km from the town centre. [www.biarritz.aeroport.fr/ Website]. Tel: 33 (0)5 59 43 83 83. Regular bus service for Euro 1.20 single fare.

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Chartres

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Angouleme

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Angoulême is the capital of the Charente department. It lies about 135km north of Bordeaux in south west France.

Access

• By plane

Budget airline Ryanair flies from London Stansted to Angoulême-Brie Champniers airport, about 15km northeast of the town. The airport is also known as Angoulême Cognac.

Grasse

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Grasse is the home of the perfume industry that is built on the side of a hill inland from the coast of the French Riviera.