General

Club Med – Opio-en-Provence

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Opio is the perfect way to spend a family week in Provence. Imagine a place where the parents can improve their hobbies while kids are taken care of with full days of fun-filled activities. Imagine great food, moments of pure pleasure, a week without a thing to worry about. Imagine that you are in a Provencal village, where activities and food, shows and drinks are included. Concentrate on your enjoyment, leave the rest to Club Med.

For a family, the newly opened village in the Nice back country is the best way to enjoy Provence.

Plus, if you order now, the addtional people are 50% off the regular price!

Make a poster of your best photos

[img_assist|nid=3902|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=250|height=249]Photos are meant to be seen, and upon returning from your vacation, you're bound to have a few pictures printed, others tossed in that good old shoebox, and all soon forgotten.

Arranging Tours

My sister and I will visit for the first time June 7 – June 10. We would
like to take a half-day tour of Paris, would like to visit Versailles, and
would like to take a night cruise on the Seine. We need some good advice on
this for first-time visitors, and we would need the information delivered
during the tour to be in English. Please advise.

Family

I have set this site to hear from any of the Giovannetti Family from Corsica, France: Cleveland, Ohio: Florida: New York: or Puerto Rico.  I know members of my family have been adopted out and my mother who knew some information is deceased.  Please help.

Email Confirmation

Hi, my husband and I have booked the Versailles tour online, but haven't received any email confirmation yet. We have the reference number and the receipt. Do we show the receipt when the bus comes to pick us up at the hotel? Will the tour agency call us to confirm? What time exactly will the bus pick us up?

Thanks

Sylvia

Visit Provence in the off-season

[img_assist|nid=3127|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=250|height=182]Travellers to France always ask when is the best time to visit Provence.

Frankly, Provence is charming year-round, but the best time to visit is when traffic is low and the sun is still au Rendez-Vous

How to take the Paris metro

[img_assist|nid=3123|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=250|height=166]The Paris Metro is probably the quickest way around Paris. Above ground, you are never far from a station. However, if not taken seriously, the Metro can be a strange and confusing world, if it's your first time on it.

How to Get Cash when in Europe

[img_assist|nid=1467|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=250|height=166]The simple rule in foreign exchange is this: The more often you exchange currency, the more money you lose. Evertime you get money from a bank, the hotel, the ATM, or off your credit card, you will be subject to a retail rate of exchange and a fee.

How to Get the Best Exchange Rate

[img_assist|nid=3119|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=133|height=200]When traveling, it is important to know how to get the best exchange rate for your hard-earned dollars, or yens, or pounds. Depending on where you travel, currency exchange rates can either help you get great bargains or make your trip surprisingly expensive.

Nicolas Sarkozy

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Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant father, Pál Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa, and a French mother Andrée Mallah.

Pál Sárközy was born in 1928 in Budapest into a family belonging to the lower nobility of Hungary. The family possessed lands and a small castle in the village of Alattyán, near Szolnok, 92 km east of Budapest. Pál Sárközy's father and grandfather held elective offices in the town of Szolnok. Although the Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa family was Protestant, Pál Sárközy's mother, Katalin Tóth de Csáford, grandmother of Nicolas Sarkozy, was from a Catholic aristocratic family.