Family & Kids Travel

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Proud of its agricultural products and biodiversity of the region, Washington State, located on the northwestern coast of the United States on the Pacific Ocean, is launching a new trend in tourism: tourism, agriculture processor. Tours from 2 to 3 days were established for visitors to discover the state differently.

Circuit Beyond Twilight to discover the Olympic Peninsula beyond places that served as scenery in the film Twilight (Port Angeles, Sequim). It takes visitors to taste the best cuisine of the northwest American Alder Wood Bistro has the Bella Italia and made famous by the movie Twilight at Port Angeles. A Sequim, is a true lavender festival awaits visitors with extensive and a multitude of scented products made from lavender to discover. Visitors can also explore the many vineyards of the region and taste some quality wines.

Family-friendly Farm Stay: 19 farms offer farm adventure during which visitors learn about life at the farm and enjoying a healthy and organic food. The aim is to show the lifestyle and working farm eco-responsible.

Cheese making class for all: nestled in the hills to the east of the Cascade Mountains chain, Alpine Lakes Cheese organizes courses from April to October to learn to make cheese, Recipe Booklet and cheese tasting are offered to apprentice cheesemakers. Rate: $ 75 per person.

Horseback wine tours: Cherry Wood Bed Breakfast and Barn, producer of apples, pears, cherries and grapes, offers travelers a circuit on horseback through the vineyards of Cherry Wood. Participants have the opportunity to spend the night in a teepee. Guided tour, rent a horse, picnic and wine tasting are included in a formula to 160 dollars per day per person (minimum 2 persons). Read the rest of this entry »

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Second edition of VIP Sales… Iodinated Privees 2010: 240 spa stays in Britain has discounted prices on 1 and 2 October in 23 agencies Galeries Lafayette Voyages.Thalasso Britain, an association of 13 spa centers, launches the second edition of Sales Privees iodine, always in partnership with Galeries Lafayette Travel. Building on the success of the first edition, the device will be this year extended to the whole network of travel agencies Galleries Lafayette or 23 outlets throughout France. The opportunity to benefit from thalassotherapy break has great rates and take the time to look after yourself in an area with a rich heritage.

Iodine sales private pratiqueDate: October 1 and 2 2010Lieu: Galeries Lafayette Travel Agency, Ground Floor, Shop Man Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, 40 bd Haussmann’s Paris.Ainsi Lille, Lyon-Bron, Lyon Part-Dieu Nantes, Nice, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Strasbourg, Annecy, Avignon, Bordeaux, Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Limoges, Marseille, Metz, Montpellier, Paris Archives, Pau, Reims and Toulouse Capitole.Vente flash 180 weeks to -50% from 492 euros (6 days, 6 nights, 4 treatments per day, half board) 60 short stays at -30% as from 198.80 EUR (2 days, 2 nights, 3 treatments per day , breakfast included) Validity of sejoursDu October 1 to March 31, 2011 (except during school and outside of the dates of closure of the centers of thalassotherapy) 12 centers participantsLes Spa Thermes Marins de St. Malole Royal Thalasso Barriere La BauleLe CrouestyLe Miramar Thalassa Sea Spa&Quiberon Thalassa Sea&Spa Spa&Thalasso DinardCarnac ResortLes Thermes Marins de Perros-GuirecThalassotherapie RoscoffThalasso DouarnenezLe Relais Thalasso BenodetLe Relais Thalasso La Baule Le Castel Clara Belle-Ile-en-MerThalasso Daniel Jouvance Read the rest of this entry »

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It’s 21 to 22 October 2010 at Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert-Gorges de l’Herault, newly accredits Great Site Great Site of France, which will take place the twelfth annual Great Dating Sites on the theme of ecomobility.

Welcoming 27 million visitors each year, larger sites are designed to organize and promote a sustainable and responsible tourism in their territories.

In keeping with the priorities of the Grenelle environment, especially those related to sustainable mobility, their managers seek to promote forms of public discovery minimizing the use of private cars.

The objective is to reduce the nuisance of car and accommodations she assumed in natural areas (landscape impacts, noise, nuisance or smell… ), but also help reduce air pollution in leisure travel.

The decline in parking lots, the establishment, in high season, shuttle access to the core sites, promoting cycling for their discovery is a first response. Should we not go further and suggest a better connection between different modes of travel from the cities or near cities to natural sites enabling visitors and tourists close to completely move a car?

These actions aim to educate the public practice of sustainable mobility and has a softer discovery of the riches of land they are visiting.

The Great sites have in common classes of sites to be under the law of 2 May 1930 on "Protection of natural monuments and sites of artistic, historical, legendary or picturesque," a significant part of their territory. The implementation of this legislation is the responsibility of the state and is part of the missions of the Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development. It is the foundation that justifies state involvement in national policy for protection and enhancement of these sites.

Sublime or picturesque, grand or intimate, subjugating or soothing, each Great site liberates "spirit" of its own. Painters, poets, writers were able to approach and pass: Cezanne for Mont Sainte Victoire, Victor Hugo and Michelet to the Pointe du Raz… Read the rest of this entry »

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After the announcements made by various countries including the United States about the risk of terrorist attacks on European soil, the comparison site for flights Skyscanner.fr has been a dramatic drop in U.S. Searches for flights to France from last week (-42%) *. France is not the only affected country, Sweden with a drop of 47% and Germany 42%. The British authorities who relays the words of their cousins overseas Atlantic, a decline of 42% of searches in the United Kingdom to France could also be observed. (40% for research in the United Kingdom to Germany). Mickael Paris, France with Skyscanner Officer stated: Nothing surprising is that travelers are more reluctant to move to countries identified as potential targets of al- Qaeda right after these announcements. However I do not think this situation can be spread in time because in the area where we live people need to travel be it for business. In a previous study that we conducted, we find that the destinations affected by terrorism in general covered very quickly from such a situation on the tourist map. * Sunday, Oct. 3 compared to Sunday, September 26 Read the rest of this entry »