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Centre is one of those regions of France that you don't hear a lot about and, for the most part, is probably a place that you've passed through but not really considered stopping in. It consists of the Departments of Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher and Loiret.

Stretching from the outskirts of Paris to the Loire Valley it's a relatively homogenous region. The main problem that it has is that in tourist terms it can be lumped in with outer Paris or the outskirts of the L ...

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Montpellier isn't a touristy city as such and usually considered more as a jumping off point for other places.

As is typical with towns in the area there's a delightful medieval quarter. The Place ...more

The castle of Josselin in Moribhan is one of the main attractions in Britanny.

Set within elegant gardens, the castle dating from the 11th century dominates the medieval town beside it and, surpris...more

Giverny is a small village that would have remained naught but a sleepy little village in Normandy had Claude Monet not been looking out of the window of a train in 1883 and fell in love with it.

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Our selection in Berne : The charming german-speaking city of Bern

Of all the Swiss cities Bern is perhaps the most charming. Crammed onto a steep-sided peninsula in a crook of the fast-flowing River Aare, its quiet, cobbled lanes, lined with sandstone arcaded buildings straddling the pavement, have changed barely at all in over five hundred years but for the adorn...more

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