Give them a Gift, a
River Cruise for a Special Occasion!

Avalon Waterways
Rooms With a View

Shipping Services

DHL France

FEDEX France

UPS France

Shopping

Major stores of all kinds [all stores may not be in all Regions]

• BHV (Bazar de l’Hotel de Ville) Hardware/Home Improvement

• Bricolage France (like Home Depot & Lowe’s) home improvement

• Carrefour super and hypermarché  stores (similar to our Target & Walmart super stores, but more) is the largest retailer in Europe  and consists of the following stores:  Carrefour, Champion, Contact GB, Dia, Di per di, Docks Market, Ed, 8 à Huit,   GS, Promocash, Prodirest, Proxi, Shopi  Marche M Plus, Norte, Ooshop, Puntocash

• Castorama (like our Home Depot & Lowe’s) home improvement

• Darty for major appliances, computer & software, cameras, telephones,  televisions

• FNAC search, click on Region, town and category choice. Fnac has stores all over France

• France Loisirs for cds, dvds, music and more

• Galeries Lafayette Department Store (the capital of fashion)

• Habitat inexpensive furniture and furnishings for your home

• IKEA reasonably priced furniture & other home furnishings

• Laserland dvd equipment

• Le Bon Marche Department Store

• Le Printemps the trendy place Department Store

• Monoprix department & grocery store chain that includes: BHV, Galeries Lafayette, Inno, Nouvelle Galeries & Prisunic

• Sport 2000  France (brand names for sports)

• Twinner / Groupe S.E.D mountain & skiing specialists

• Virgin on line catalog of the cds,dvds, music & more megastores

Spas/Thermales

Sports Activities/Sporting Events

Official government site for Youth Sports

Sports Events in 2003

Telephone Usage and Information

Telephone Codes for France

• ACR's Calling Code Directory For France

Telephone Usage

• Useful information for using the telephones in Paris and France. This site has other useful information regarding phone related services.

• U.S. site on French postal and telephone information

White and Yellow Pages France

• White Pages France [English, French]

• Yellow Pages France [English, French]

Time Internationally [City to city] click the X in the middle of the two city drop down boxes to get the times.

The International Clock from La Poste

Tours/Travel Agencies/Sight Seeing & Related Information

Sight Seeing

Tours

Travel Agencies

Travel Insurance

• International Travel Insurance

Transportation Services & Facilities

Auto Rentals

• Official French Auto Rental Sites

Bus

• Bus companies and auto rentals

• Busing around Europe

Train Information & Schedules

• A train station is called a Gare, select your train information from the following:  SNCF gare locator,  SNCF Paris,  the TGV (fast trains), the RER [regional trains], and the Eurostar

• France Rail Passes

• Eurail Pass, Euro Ticket and Europass

• Regional Train Schedules

Transportation Information

• Link to Transportation Sources and More Information

Useful Information [Credit Card/Phone/Postal/Travel,Etc]

General

• A - Z practical information

• Credit card information for France

• Information on the Euro currency

• Link to more useful information

• Official French postal site

• Useful Tips for Traveling in France

• Useful and practical information links for traveling in France

• Useful Information for the Traveler in France

• Worldwide currency converter site

White and Yellow Pages France

• White Pages France

• Yellow Pages France

Your Rights in France

• Your RIGHTS in France

Weather

France Regional Weather Info

Weather Information  by City or Town [click on links]  

What to Wear

Complete how to pack light for your trip, with practical advice to boot!

Words/Phrases

French/English Cooking Basics and Words/Phrases

French/English French Words and Phrase Link Words/Phrases

French/English Days, Months &  Time Words/Phrases

French/English Food Store Words/Phrases [there's 3 pages]

French/English Restaurant Words/Phrases

French/English Vegetable Words/Phrases

Link to more culinary words & phrases in the gourmet section

Youth/Students

Student Information

• Link to Schools and Universities

• The Student in France

Youth & Family Activities

• Summer camps and family holidays in France

Youth Hostels

• FUAJ hostels click on map of France by Department

• GAF hostels with click on map of the Regions

Youth Organizations

• Scouts of France with links to scouting sites and the national organization.

Zip Code Directory for the Region of Lorraine

The Region Denotes the Zip Information

• Postal Codes in France, enter the town name in the 'Commune' box and hit rechercher. Example:  If the town is Aix-en-Provence, just enter Aix, it will bring up all the towns with Aix in them.  The same with Saint, or Ville [there's 587 Ville....something]

• From Uniserve Just fill in town and hit submit for zip info

• Infobel's zip code person/request form

• Business/Company search L'Annuaire de la Poste

La Poste's French/English Postal Dictionary

• La Poste English/French or French/English postal information dictionary

Hotel de La Cite
Carcassonne

All Hotels Midi-Pyrenees
 

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