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Flanders and the Belgian border just a few kilometres away from the vibrant city of Lille and adjacent Tourcoing and Roubaix. Traditionally heavily industrialised, the region now flourishes from its position midway between Paris, London and Brussels.

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Official Tourist Office site: www.cdt-nord.fr/

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Probably the département most visited by Brits, because it is home to 3 of the main cross-channel ferry ports and the Eurostar and Eurostar Channel Tunnel terminals, Too many of us just hurtle through without stopping to enjoy the treasures of the area.

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Official Tourist Office website at www.uk.pas-de-calais.com/

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Home to Cognac and Pineau des Charentes. (together with the neighbouring departement of Charente) the departement includes numerous attractions including the ports and resorts of La Rochelle and Royan, roman Saintes, Rochefort, and the offshore islands of Île d’Aix, Île de Ré and Île d’Oléron.

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Official Tourist Office website for 17 Charente-Maritime

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A département of Picardie, named after the river Oise, there are 3 major towns – Beauvais (the prefecture), Senlis and Compiegne – straddling the main routes north out of Paris towards Belgium.
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Oise official Tourist Office site

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The département of Cantal is an area which is not exactly “just off the autoroute”. Consequently it remains quiet and unspoilt. The main towns are Aurillac and St Flour.

Life in Cantal is played out against a stunning landscape of immense power and beauty. Home to natural riches as varied as the dramatic gorges of the Lot and Truyère, the ancient woodland of La Châtaigneraie, the wild moorland of the Aubrac and the boundless emerald green pastures of Salers.

But above all Cantal is a land dominated by mountains.

Cows and cheese play an important part in the local economy with Saler and Cantal joined by St Nectaire, Fourme d’Ambert, Bleu d’Auvergne.This is an area full of rich simple food based on the best local ingredients. A wide variety of locally cured and produced charcuterie: hams, fritons, pates, terrines and sausages. Game from the hills and woodland with seasonal hare and rabbit, quail, venison and wild boar. Rustic breads and pastries, nuts, oils, jams and honeys. Famous Gentian liqueur, eaux de vie distilled from plums, raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants and chestnuts

For more info on the Cantal département see www.cantaltourisme.fr

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Confusingly the Loire département is not where you think it might be – in the better known part of the valley with its Chateaux. It is near the source of France’s longest river in the Massif Central, and is rather by-passed by the major north-south autoroutes.

The main towns of the region include St Etienne, Montbrison and Roanne which is home to one of France’s best restaurants at Maison Troigros! Another example of how France can surprise you with some of the finest cuisine is a somewhat provincial town.

The departement is also home to the wines of the Cote Roannaise AC – surprisingly rich red wines based on the Gamay grape.

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Official Tourist office for Loire département (in French)
Official Tourist office for Roanne

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Paris is a term which applies to a region, a départment and a city. The region is properly known as Paris – Ile de France, whilst the city and département are one and the same thing.
The city dominates the whole country – until recently all the major train and autoroutes started and finished in Paris.

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Calvados is a département of Normandie centred on the city of Caen. About 10 miles north is the ferry port of Caen-Ouistreham at the mouth of the Orne river with regular crossings to Portsmouth with Brittany Ferries.
Normandy is famed for its milk and dairy produce – cream, butter and cheeses – and for its apple-based cider and Calvados apple brandy.
The sandy coast line is also the site of the Normandy Landings in 1944 and there are numerous museums, war cemeteries and other visitor attractions in the area.
Other significant towns include Bayeux and Lisieux.

Calvados Tourist office site.

Caen Tourist Office – Caen prides itself as the City of William the Counqueror!

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In the northern Loire, bordering on Normandy, the Sarthe département is named after the river Sarthe – capital town being Le Mans, worth visiting for more than just its famous 24-hour motor race every June.

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Sarthe Official Tourist Office

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