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		<title>Roseraie du val de marne</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything about flowers not only you found in Holland or Dutch, but you could found it France as well. If you like rose, a flower that often use as representation of love, visit roserai du val de marne.
Roserai du val de marne is located in Rue Albert Watel, you could reach the place by using [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/rosa2.jpg"><img src="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/rosa2-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="rosa2" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-55" /></a>Everything about flowers not only you found in Holland or Dutch, but you could found it France as well. If you like rose, a flower that often use as representation of love, visit roserai du val de marne.</p>
<p>Roserai du val de marne is located in Rue Albert Watel, you could reach the place by using metro and jump down in Porte d&#8217;Italie then continue the journey by using bus no. 184 or 186 (or 286 on holiday).<br />
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Almost the same in Holland, the best season watching these flowers is in June, on summer seasons. During this month almost all roses rose, in all colors and shape, from ancient, modern, and botanic type of roses, you could found in here.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/rosar.jpg"><img src="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/rosar-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="rosar" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-54" /></a>Morning is the perfect time visiting this place, why? because the area is quite wide considering this is the first largest roses garden ever open in the world. Jules Gravereaux is the man behind this garden, firstly open in 1894, he develop the garden just as hobby, later in 1910, he have collected 8000 roses plant from different kind of types.<br />
Its just too bad, right now only 3300 type of roses could be watch and preserve. </p>
<p>The garden open from mid May until mid September, from 10 a.m until 8 p.m. each day. In June, they will gave you music concert in the middle of the garden to entertain you. Ticket sold for 3 Euro for each adult who want enter the garden, and 1.5 euro for age between 5 &#8211; 15 years old, elderly, and groups more than 15 persons.</p>
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		<title>Marseille visit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marseille in the south of France is the country&#8217;s second largest city after Paris. Right on the Mediterranean coast it is one of France&#8217;s great historic cities.
An ancient city in the Bouches-du-Rhone &#8216;departement&#8217; of Provence, Marseille is the largest French seaport and one of France&#8217;s great historic cities. It was functioning as a port even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/marseille.jpg"><img src="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/marseille-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="marseille" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44" /></a>Marseille in the south of France is the country&#8217;s second largest city after Paris. Right on the Mediterranean coast it is one of France&#8217;s great historic cities.<br />
An ancient city in the Bouches-du-Rhone &#8216;departement&#8217; of Provence, Marseille is the largest French seaport and one of France&#8217;s great historic cities. It was functioning as a port even before Julius Casar conquered the Gauls.<br />
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Settled by the Ligurians the town was taken by the Phoenicians around 600BC, the Greeks in 540BC and the Romans two thousand years ago. As a result of such long settlement, Marseille is rich in history. The bustling atmosphere of Marseilles also reflects its great port, fishing fleets and specialism in seafood. The city’s one-time reputation for gangsters and crime was depicted in French and American films, the best-known of which to English-speakers is ‘The French Connection’ starring Gene Hackman.<br />
But time has moved on and Marseille is now better known for its museums and galleries, as a port of call for Mediterranean cruise ships, for its football team, Olympic Marseille &#8211; and for its seafood.</p>
<p>Marseille is heaven for seafood fans. As well as the many fresh fish dishes you can choose between various versions of the traditional fish soup, bouillabaisse. Bouillabaisse du Ravi and Bouillabaisse du Pecheur are variations commonly served in the city’s restaurants. Ravi (‘delighted’) features six different fish while the Bouillabaisse du Pecher (‘fisherman’) has three.<br />
‘Moules marinier’, another staple seafood dish of Provence, combines mussels with Provencal herbs and finely diced onion. Eat in the Vieux Port (the old port) looking out over the Mediterranean and you’ll see the bustling harbour at work. Alternatively, go into the quieter streets of the Quai de Rive Neuve. The dry local white wines suit fish and seafood very well but many people choose a rose wine – ‘pink’ somehow seems right in the heat of the Provencal summer.</p>
<p>Many holiday makers combine a visit to Marseille with visits to other towns on the Mediterranean coast. St-Tropez, Cannes, Cassis, Sainte-Maxime, Frejus, Antibes, Nice, Cap Ferrat and Monte Carlo all have distinct characters and charm. With their beaches and glamour they will definitely appeal to the committed hedonist.</p>
<p>Inland, the towns of Aix-en-Provence, Arles and Avignon will appeal to culture vultures. In particular you may want to visit the summer theatre festival in Avignon and the exhibition in Arles of Roman antiquities. The latter is on until mid-September 2010 and features a bust of Caesar and many artefacts excavated from the river bed of the Rhone.</p>
<p>In Marseille, some major sights to see are the 5th century Abbaye de St-Victor, the Old Port, the Romanesque Basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, the former prison of the Chateau d’If, the famous street known as La Canebiere, the historical ruins in the Jardin des Vestiges, the old town square Estienne d&#8217;Orves and the 17th century building La Vieille Charite, now an exhibition centre. Museums not to miss are the Musee d&#8217;Histoire de Marseille, Musee de la Marine, Musee des Docks Romains (a Roman warehouse), the art Museum (Musee Grobet-Labadie) and the Musee d&#8217;Histoire Naturelle.</p>
<p>High-speed trains (TGVs) run frequently between Paris and Marseille and take just three hours. The local airport, Marignane, serves destinations around Europe and in Africa.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Because the sun appears less often here than in the south, some people think of Nord-Pas de Calais as a gloomy region. They have clearly never paid it a visit: it&#8217;s probably one of the jolliest regions in France, and always ready to celebrate. Parades, carnivals, fairs and fanfares – good habits endure in this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Nord-Pas-de-Calais.jpg"><img src="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Nord-Pas-de-Calais-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Nord Pas-de-Calais" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-41" /></a>Because the sun appears less often here than in the south, some people think of Nord-Pas de Calais as a gloomy region. They have clearly never paid it a visit: it&#8217;s probably one of the jolliest regions in France, and always ready to celebrate. Parades, carnivals, fairs and fanfares – good habits endure in this land of memory, bristling with belfries. To get the right feel for the region&#8217;s spirit, you need to join the crowd during the great collective celebrations, and share their meals based on seafood – the famous moules-frites, the traditional waterzoï (a court-bouillon of fish and chicken) – washed down with some of the local beer. It&#8217;s a lively region where tradition is part of daily life – a region open to the major capitals cities of Europe such a short distance away! <span id="more-40"></span></p>
<p>The Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France is the most northerly region in the country, and it borders Belgium. This is the place to enjoy beaches and countryside, fine cuisine and unique shopping, local markets and unique architecture. This is a major port, and those traveling by ferry from the U.K. land here.</p>
<p>To visit France&#8217;’s northernmost region is to discover a universe where sea and earth are intimately linked. In the past ten years, Nord-Pas de Calais has been transformed by the Channel Tunnel––a project accomplished in May 1994 but contemplated by Napoleon two centuries earlier. Another asset is the TGV train service from Paris to Lille, the region’s capital, a non-stop 150-mile trip that takes 59 minutes in railway cars whose comfort equals that of a first-class airliners, minus the airport delays and weather turbulence.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think that the Côte d&#8217;Azur was one long private beach where you had to wrestle with naked Germans for the right to lay your towel out on three square inches of pebbles. The sea, I imagined, was warm fish soup topped with a layer of sun oil. The only places to eat [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Côte-dAzur.jpg"><img src="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Côte-dAzur-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Côte d&#039;Azur" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-23" /></a>I used to think that the Côte d&#8217;Azur was one long private beach where you had to wrestle with naked Germans for the right to lay your towel out on three square inches of pebbles. The sea, I imagined, was warm fish soup topped with a layer of sun oil. The only places to eat were snooty restaurants, where you couldn&#8217;t get served anyway, and the pervading smells were Ferrari fumes and fake lavender essence. Of course I was absolutely right; in July and August, some of it is exactly like that.<span id="more-22"></span></p>
<p>However, I have since learnt that if you go in spring or autumn, and avoid the snobbish tourist traps, the same coast can be sublimely peaceful. The food will be superb and reasonably-priced and the sea so clean that the fish need sunglasses.<br />
One of these havens is just minutes outside my least-favourite resort in France &#8211; St Tropez. The harbour was probably cute in 1960 when it was discovered by the jetset. These days it&#8217;s a place where the mega-rich park boats the size of Kosovo and a drink in one of the quayside cafés costs almost as much as the yachts. </p>
<p>I once had lunch at a trendy St Tropez restaurant and the waitress spent all her time fawning over a bunch of people decorated with more gold than the chateau at Versailles. That&#8217;s fine in theory, but when she&#8217;s cooing at their family photos while holding your meal in her hands, you&#8217;re entitled to get impatient.<br />
If you dare ask if she would like to ease the strain on her biceps by delivering the rapidly cooling food, she will look at you as if you&#8217;ve just ordered a chip buttie. You don&#8217;t belong. Which is obvious anyway, because all of your party still possess their original noses.</p>
<p>However, just 15km south of here is a resort that can make you forget that &#8216;Saint Trop&#8217; even exists. Visit outside July and August and Gigaro is one of the most peaceful hideaways on this stretch of coast. At first sight, it might not seem particularly promising. A narrow strip of sandy beach flanked by villas and nondescript hotels, it&#8217;s not particularly pretty. But the sea looks so pure that you&#8217;d love to drink it.<br />
And in one corner of the bay is the start of a coastal path that winds for 10km through fragrant pine forests. If you don&#8217;t fancy a long hike, you can stop at one of the rocky coves that might just turn out to be your private beach. I love to snorkel here and regularly stalk octopuses and squid among the islets offshore. Underwater, there&#8217;s not a sound. St Trop&#8217;s jet skis are an ocean away.</p>
<p>Best of all, the hotels and restaurants are as lovely as the scenery. At the end of Gigaro beach is a little sign for a chambre d&#8217;hôte called Le Refuge (00 33 4 9454 2897). You bump up a worn-out driveway to an anonymous modern villa. Inside, the rooms look almost monkishly basic and I once saw a young couple turn their noses up and leave because &#8216;the bathtub was too small&#8217;. But put me on one of Le Refuge&#8217;s balconies overlooking tree-tops and the Med and I could stay there sipping rosé for a month. Doubles with breakfast cost from €70. </p>
<p>The two beachside restaurants in Gigaro specialise in welcoming strangers rather than scaring them away. Unlike in St Tropez, where you eat out to show off your bling and your plastic surgery, here people chat and relish the fresh seafood. </p>
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		<title>Chateaux of the Loire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 04:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Loire is France&#8217;s longest river, and one of its most untamed. But it&#8217;s not its landscape that draws most tourists to the lower Loire, but the fine chateaux and palaces along its banks.
Castle building on the Loire started in the Middle Ages with keeps like that at Blois, but it was in the Renaissance [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Chateaux-of-the-Loire.jpg"><img src="http://www.appietto.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Chateaux-of-the-Loire-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="Chateaux of the Loire" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20" /></a>The Loire is France&#8217;s longest river, and one of its most untamed. But it&#8217;s not its landscape that draws most tourists to the lower Loire, but the fine chateaux and palaces along its banks.<br />
Castle building on the Loire started in the Middle Ages with keeps like that at Blois, but it was in the Renaissance that the mania for fine chateaux really began. French kings sponsored huge building programmes at Amboise and Chambord, while rich nobles built palaces like Azay-le-Rideaux, Chaumont and Chenonceaux.<br />
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<p>Architecturally, these chateaux mingle the outlines of the traditional Gothic castle – often with spire-topped turrets – with the Renaissance style that French artists had learned from Italy.<br />
Blois castle was begun in the thirteenth century, but the entire building was transformed first by Louis XII, who moved the court here in 1498, and then by François I. It&#8217;s interesting to see the way French Renaissance style developed – while Louis&#8217; wing is exuberant and asymmetrical, François preferred a distinctly more formal and balanced effect. But the magnificent spiral staircase &#8211; possibly designed by Leonardo da Vinci – adds a touch of the fantastic.</p>
<p>Amboise was rebuilt by Charles VIII, who began the flamboyant Gothic chapel of Saint Hubert in 1491, together with the Logis du Roi. But only a couple of years later, he hired two Italian architects to give it a Renaissance feel. Leonardo da Vinci lived here as a guest of François I; and the chateau has the earliest Italian-style garden ever laid out in France. It&#8217;s the epitome of gracious living.</p>
<p>Louis XIV thought Chambord was too small for a king – but it has 50 staircases and over 400 rooms. Yet François I only intended it as a hunting lodge, set in a deer park. The corner towers still suggest a feudal castle, yet it&#8217;s in fine Renaissance style. Perhaps its finest feature is the open staircase which has two spirals passing each other. Even though you can see someone coming down the other staircase, you will pass them without ever meeting them.</p>
<p>Chenonceau, though a &#8216;Loire chateau&#8217;, is actually built across the river Cher on a bridge, known as the &#8216;Pont de Diane&#8217; after Diane de Poitiers who lived here for many years. Diane was mistress of Henri II, who eventually gave her ownership of the castle – but she was stripped of it after Henri&#8217;s death by his vengeful widow, Catherine de Medicis. While most of the castle is graceful Renaissance work by Diane&#8217;s favourite architect, Philibert Delorme, the original fifteenth century donjon has been kept.</p>
<p>Chaumont is the chateau that Diane de Poitiers moved to after she was evicted from Chenonceau. She must have been heart-broken; instead of her elegant gallery, she inherited what is still clearly a medieval fortress, with its huge squat round towers. Yet it was built not long before the other chateaux of the region, in the 1460s, and not completed till 1510 – when the Renaissance style was already in fashion.</p>
<p>Among all these fine buildings, though, Azay-le-Rideau is everyone&#8217;s idea of what a Loire chateau should look like. It&#8217;s surrounded by water – in fact the river Indre, not the Loire – which reflects the dainty Renaissance turreted building. Alas, Gilles Berthelot who built the castle was forced to run for cover when the king accused him of embezzlement – and took over the castle.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll need your own transport to visit most of these sites – only Amboise stands in the middle of its town. But the countryside along the Loire is a delight in itself – with charming villages and even the chance to stay in some of the smaller chateaux.</p>
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