Estival Gites

04/08/2014

**News splash** Tuesday is gonna be a hot one so take an hour road trip from here and dip into this little beauty AQUALAND, Avenue des Isles d'Amérique, 34300 Cap d'Agde, France...

PARC AQUATIQUE

18/06/2014

How do you like your eggs in the morning?

TWO towns in Dordogne are counting on their chickens to cut household waste. The Syndicat Départemetal des Déchets (SMD3) has offered residents in Saint-Astier and Neuvic the chance to own pairs of the feathered composters to reduce levels of organic waste, the newspaper Sud Ouest has reported. The…

12/05/2014

Worldwide Festival will be celebrating its ninth summer edition in Sète. From 30 June to 6 July, Gilles Peterson and team will be invading the île singulière and its unique venues for another unforgettable week.

Freshly Cut presents Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival

14/04/2014

Would you like to work for A Place in the Sun?

12/01/2014

Great blog of a Frenchman hitch-hiking his way around the World (English translation available)

En octobre 2007, l'envie me pris de parcourir les terres et mers du globe en me lançant le défi de n'avancer qu'à l'aide du stop...

08/01/2014

Did you know that French singer/songwriter Charles Trenet was born in nearby Narbonne? Neica loves this song, hope you do too.

Una de las canciones más bonitas jamás escrita. Se dice que existen más de 400 versiones, siendo quizá más conocida por su traducción inglesa "Beyond the sea...

06/01/2014

Where ever you think it goes, you're wrong.

29/12/2013

Marseillan Noilly Prat are only an hour away from Estival Gites. Check out their cocktails recipes to get you through the New Year...

Discover the unique taste of the South of France with Noilly Prat® based on a recipe created in 1813, and learn how to enjoy one of the finest French vermouths in the world in both classic and contemporary cocktails.

23/12/2013

Christmas around the World...

22/12/2013

`Does the bird in a cage sing sweetly as the bird who is free?' Eric Cantona

No creatures on earth travel quite like birds do. They soar the skies, then land in new places. They see the world from a different perspective, one to which...

21/12/2013

Lanquedoc unexplained....La Curiosité de Lauriole

Located near Lauriole, west of Minerve and north-east of Carcassonne, the stretch of road is considered by scientists as a curiosity and cannot be explained. When you place a solid or liquid on the hill, it goes up instead of down.

Whether it's a car, a ball, a bottle, all tests are inexplicable ... Several hypotheses have therefore made their appearances, and three more coherent are as follows:
- An optical illusion
- An unknown magnetic effect
- A gravitational anomaly

La route qui monte mais... qui descend.

18/12/2013

After 10 days of shooting in the streets of the city, Toulouse bar La Couleur de la Culotte has made their own version the Pharrell Williams video...happy viewing!

Cover du clip de Pharrell Williams "Happy" Après 10 jours de tournage dans les rues de la ville, le bar toulousain "La Couleur de la Culotte" a réalisé sa pr...