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Rail Europe offer a huge 75% discount on selected fares.

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WE SEEM to have been very popular just lately. No idea why. Three invitations at least. Well, one was more in the nature of an appointment card, so perhaps that doesn't count. Let's get this one out of the way first.

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Written by Faith Warn

The May edition of French Property News features an article on creating rustic interiors with all mod cons for holiday lets, using two French Connections owners and their houses as inspiring examples.

Read more: French connections in French Property News magazine

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Written by Faith Warn

If you love peaceful countryside and scenic views, enjoy walking and boating, appreciate good food and wine, then the Dordogne will delight.

Read more: Discovering the Dordogne, France’s pastoral idyll

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Written by Chris Hedges

Marlene has been teaching English in the French School System for several years. It has been challenging and interesting, and she has had contact with many hundreds of young French and foreign children from the surrounding villages and towns.

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Written by Chris Hedges

I have been living in France for more years than I would like to admit, and I have often wondered why. Obviously there was something that I had to learn, because the purpose of Life, so I am told, is to improve myself or to be “improved”. This week I have understood one of the lessons that I am supposed to have learned during my sojourn here.

Read more: A lesson in trimming hedges and building walls the French way