Activity holidays in France.....

..........just got easier with the forthcoming launch - on April 12th of the Cote D'Azur Card for 2014. 

If you are planning on taking a family holiday in France this year why not also take advantage of the new actvities card which is being launched in the next couple of weeks.

If your loved one/family and friends and your good self are interested in taking in the best of what the Cote D'Azur has to offer check out what you might want to do over the course of a few or even six days - and see how you might be able to max out the use of this card.....

110 activities - €39 for 3 days - €54 for 6 days and less for kids.......

With spacebetween in the Mercantour now offering flexible activity holidays which allow you to enjoy their comfortable accommodation in Berthemont les Bains - plus choose to add on transport and food - and then select what you want to do - this card is another great bonus.

Your hosts spacebetween currently checkin' out how they might be able to have some cards available for their guests too - so zero hassle!!!

Some availability for the Easter and summer term half term, and summer school holidays.

The site isn't currently in English but you can check out the attraction sites which often are - and see what super savings you could be making.

spacebetween - berthemont les bains - just an hour north of Nice.

Tel - 00 33 4 93 03 48 57



Photo - Timandra Harkness - journalist - on the Via Ferrata at La Colmiane - one of the venues for the card

Spring has sprung - come take a walking break in France!!

The uncertainty of the French elections, plus the rather late dawning realisation that France may be affected by the global economic crisis, seem to be stopping the French from booking accommodation or walking holidays in France.


The British however, perhaps gee'd up by the excitement of the prospect of an extra Bank Holiday in early June, which falls the very week of school half term, seem to be very keen to move. Apparently a large number of holiday makers have transposed their summer holidays to the mega early Easter (early April - a month away!) and early June, rather than hanging on in there until July and August, when no doubt in the lure of the Olympics will keep them at home - here's hoping that Londoners in particular will be glued to a TV screen rather than taking their chances out on the roads - I imagine it will be bedlam!!




We happy chappies in France will be avoiding all that and are looking forward to welcoming the early escapees from the old country. To this end we've added some extra dates for our spring short breaks - trying to squeeze in holidays between the few expensive days for flights, plus if you must come and do via ferrata (yes that is me Liz on the VF!) you would be welcome to book just accommodation only here in Berthemont. The short break holiday packages - there's a handful of them appeal to families, couples and single travellers and include special interests, such as wolf watching, and for, later in the year, the Merveilles Valley and ogling the fantastic array of botany we have in the Alpes-Maritimes.

We had the very cold snap but are now back to enjoying blue skies and temperatures of up to 20 degrees (it's been foggy on the coast recently - yay!!). Long may it continue - the fair weather may have put paid to our winter walking and snowshoeing holiday season but one door shuts and another one opens....after the pizzazz of the Carnaval and the Lemon Festival which end shortly - March is usually a quiet month here in the Alpes-Maritimes - although there is often a good time to be had for Saint Patrick's Day.....thanks to the numerous ex-pats from the Emerald Isle and the French alike. This year it is on Saturday March 17 - also notably the day of the Wales/France match in the rugby Six Nations....so it could be a hot sort of evening!!!

Denis le cheval devient Denis la vache!!!

Hi - everyone's favourite Mr Denis - now has expanded his "herd" with two cows - no not for riding - well certainly not yet - currently "settling" in Sainte Agnes.....moooooooooo........my boys!!!