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Cannes film festival for the opening day news and all the details of the celebrity action in Cannes.Yes even the Cannes film festival is on twitter now allowing Cannes film festival twitters to find out which celebrity is arriving at Nice airport, where they are eating and what they are doing throughout the 64th festival.The official Cannes film festival twitter allows a uniquely detailed insight into the world’s biggest and most famous film festival which starts today.This year it is Robert de Niro who presides over the jury which includes Jude...

Wednesday, May 11, 2011


Taste a wine fit for your holiday villa table at the Provence wine festival, which takes place in June.The fete de la Vigne et du Vin takes place on the weekend following Ascension Thursday (4 and 5 June 2011) in the Vaucluse, Var, Bouche-du-Rhone, Gard, Champagne, Aude, Herault and Roussillon areas.For a full program of events, many in towns and villages where we have Provence holiday villas such as Apt, Bonnieux, Oppede, Sauzet, Valreas and others which are household names in the world of wine, such as Chateauneuf du Pape. Have a look at the fete de...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011


French Alps ski chalet and luxury ski apartment prices 2012 are expected to be online in May or June.Following our second successful ski season with Chamonix, Les Deux Alpes and Courchevel proving particularly popular with our clients we expect to be offering most of the same ski chalets and apartments again next year and no doubt some additional new ones.The ski chalet and apartment prices for 2012 are being prepared at the moment and we hope to be able to put them on the Villas Worldwide website some time soon, probably late May...

Tuesday, April 26, 2011


The world’s biggest strawberry tart – a Dordogne villa holiday treat at the Vergt strawberry festival, last weekend in May.Vergt is a small village located just to the south east of Perigueux in the heart of the Dordogne strawberry growing region. As the delicious strawberry crop ripens the village celebrates the occasion with the annual Vergt fete des frais.This is a beautiful area of rolling verdant hills, heavily wooded yet interspersed with strawberry fields which form a large part of the local economy. Indeed the owner of one of our...

Sunday, April 24, 2011


Grasse celebrates forty one years of Rose festivals. Grasse Rose festival takes place between the 13th and 16 May, 2011, from 10.00 and 20.00.There are numerous exhibition stands all around the town in particular the garden by the Fragonard museum and the place de Cours Honore-Cresp where the general public can visit (for an entrance fee of 5€ or 3€ for children) and can admire and even purchase beautiful rose bushes many of which are unique to Grasse. The Expo rose entrance ticket includes access to the main marquee, the Musee...

Saturday, April 23, 2011


Corsica, the rally of 10,000 bends, event number 54 of its history takes place next month. The Tour de Corse starts on the 11th and finishes on the 14th of May 2011.Anyone who has driven around Corsica will have some feeling for the drivers taking part in this demanding event. Corsica is an absolutely beautiful island in the Mediterranean but the road system is probably one of the most serpentine anywhere, with numerous mountain gorges and steep coastal cliffs. You have to concentrate at the best of times, what it must be like to drive in the...

Thursday, April 21, 2011


La Fete de la Morue, Binic, Brittany takes place for the fourteenth consecutive year between 2nd and 5th June 2011.The cod festival in Binic has its origins back in the early twentieth century when the fisherman were away at sea for many months fishing for cod. When they returned the whole town would celebrate.This year Binic is expecting between 40 and 50,000 visitors who can admire the 50 old fishing boats, or greements as they are known in French, as they sail majestically around the coast.There is a museum by the post and this being Brittany there...

Wednesday, April 20, 2011



Museum night in France, known in French as La Nuit des Musees allows you to visit museums and art galleries free of charge until the early hours.Organized by the French ministry of culture as part of a Europe wide initiative France opens the doors of all its museums for a night along with some additional gems which don’t normally open to the public. La Nuit des Mussee is on the 14 May 2011.This will be the seventh consecutive year that France has participated in the free museum night initiative and it is getting rather good at it. Not only do...

Monday, April 18, 2011


Serre Chevalier ski pass and piste details 2011. The ski lifts open from 11 December to 25 April 2011. Prices for the Serre Chevalier ski area.              Adult            Child            Senior               12 to 64yrs   6 to 11yrs     65 to 74yrs6 days    ...

Sunday, March 20, 2011



The Musee de Louvre is perhaps the world’s most famous art gallery, an iconic building housing 35,000 works of art including the Mona Lisa.Located in the heart of Paris the Louvre is a beautiful old building which has taken on a modernist twist since the addition of the controversial glass pyramid which transformed ease of access to the museum.The building itself is a sight in itself and inside there are so many amazing paintings and sculptures it is impossible to take it all in during one visit. The Musee de Louvre is one of those must see art...

Saturday, March 19, 2011


Borie village, Gorde, outdoor Provence museum is a beautiful site with an unusually large number of Bories.Bories are found throughout the region and essentially dry stone shelters which are built almost entirely of stone in an ingenious fashion. They are typical of the region in a similar way to the beautiful stone barns of the Yorkshire dales. In the bright sunshine of the south of France the white limestone of the Bories is very pretty and their aspect wonderfully ancient.The Pierre Viala or village des Bories as it is known has been preserved as a...

Saturday, March 05, 2011


Spring music festival in Saint Tropez begins the regions cultural season with the opening concert on the 9th April 2011.The opening concert by Claude Kahn the pianist is followed by an homage to Franz Litz with pianist Celimene Daudet and violinist Guillaume Latour on Sunday the 11th April. Further concerts will be announced in due course as this, the third Printemps Musical St Tropez runs through Spring.The venue for the 9th April weekend is the salle Jean Despas and prices are 20€, students 15€. For further information call +33 (0)4 94 97 70 43 or...

Thursday, March 03, 2011



Chaumont International Garden Festival 2011 takes place in Chaumont-sur-Loire in France from 22 April until 16 October.For the 20th festival international des jardins the theme will be gardens of the future or the art of happy biodiversity.Set in the grounds of the splendid Chaumont castle which enjoys beautiful views over the river Loire the contemporary garden design festival showcases the best of garden design and is famous throughout the world.The chateau itself is quite a sight and its history fascinating having been occupied by none other than...

Wednesday, March 02, 2011


Saint Gervais ski pass and ski area details 2011. Here are prices for the Domaine Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc ski pass and details of the ski areas included.                            Adult               Senior               Child...

Tuesday, March 01, 2011


 
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