Regions
Alsace
Guardian and Observer Readers' Travel Awards 2012: who made your holiday?
The GuardianThe Guardian - Feb 17, 2012
Value £250 A six-night, self-guided, easy-pedalling cycling holiday for two, courtesy of Inntravel, exploring the villages and vineyards of Alsace. Includes breakfast each day, three dinners, luggage transfers, and return Dover-Calais car crossing with ...
Dordogne
Welcome Back To Earth
Wall Street Journal - Feb 17, 2012
One is archaeological: A researcher discovers trepanned Neolithic skulls in the deep caves of the Dordogne, where the cave paintings come from. The other is modern, describing the history of the Plain of Jars and the skull-mountains of Cambodia under ...
Provence
Bistro Provence to host olive oil dinner
Ultimate Katy - Feb 22, 2012
by Dana Rasmussen | February 22, 2012 11:23 am French restaurant Bistro Provence, 13616 Memorial Drive, is hosting an olive oil-themed, four-course dinner at 7 pm March 6. Four imported olive oils from Provence, France, will be the feature of the ...
French Alps
Eurostar Ski Train to the French Alps!
eYugoslavia.com - Feb 22, 2012
Direct Eurostar services from Waterloo or Ashford provide an outstanding journey to the French towns of Moutiers, Aime la Plagne and Bourg St Maurice. Eurostar ski trains and accommodation at the resorts are readily bookable through the online ...
Midi Pyrenees
Cote D Azur
A Weekend on the Côte d'Azur
Whitman Pioneer (blog) - Feb 7, 2012
For our first full weekend in France, IAU organized a trip to the Côte d'Azur for all of us on the program. Between Saturday morning and Sunday evening, we visited Nice, Cap d'Ail, Monte Carlo, Monaco, and St. Paul de Vence.
Normandy
Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy
Gamers Hell - Feb 17, 2012
Battlefront.com today released a couple of gameplay movies from strong>Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy - Commonwealth Forces, a new module that includes all new, meticulously researched and historically accurate UK, Canadian and Polish units and ...
Auvergne
Alstom to supply five more Regiolis regional trains to Pays de la Loire region
Breaking Travel News - Feb 19, 2012
To date, 171 Coradia Polyvalent trainsets in total have been ordered by the regions of Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Haute-Normandie, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrénées, Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Brittany
Brittany Woods Selected as 'Smash: Make a Musical' Site
Patch.com - Feb 21, 2012
Fifty drama students and teachers at Brittany Woods Middle School in University City aim to find out. Brittany Woods was one of 20 schools nationwide to be selected as one of NBC's Smash: Make a Musical schools. Between now and the first week of May, ...
Umbria
Whatever happened to 'Umbria Village'?
Newsworks.org - Feb 22, 2012
By NewsWorks Staff "When did Umbria Village change their name to The Station at Manayunk apartments? I thought this was the Ivy Ridge Station. Seems a little deceptive." "Petrucci Residential has a development under construction in Bucks County called ...
Tuscany
St. Giles The Tuscany Is Sooo Done With W, Now It's Ready For A Makeover
HotelChatterHotelChatter - Feb 22, 2012
In 2010, The Court and The Tuscany were dropped from W Hotels like hot pancakes and left to meander off on their own. Now, The Tuscany is wiping the slate clean once and for all with its new multi-million dollar renovation project, set to be completed ...
Sicily
Calabria
30 Migrants landed near Reggio Calabria
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - Feb 20, 2012
(AGI) Reggio Calabria - Approximately thirty young male migrants coming from different countries have landed on Portigliola beach in the southern Italy's province of Reggio Calabria. Migrants have been gathered by Italian law enforcement agencies are ...
Apennines
Bad weather in Italy: snowfalls in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna from today
AVIONEWS - Feb 20, 2012
At the rains that have interested different regions yesterday in fact will follow snowfalls on Apennines side of Tuscany and Emilia and until valley levels on central-western Emilia. The Italian Civil Defense Department, on the basis of available ...
Amalfi Coast
Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel and Spa to open on the Amalfi Coast May 2012
ITCM - Feb 16, 2012
Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel and Spa opens in May 2012 suspended over the Bay of Salerno on Italy's iconic Amalfi Coast. The hotel, formerly a 17th Century monastery, will consist of 20 guest rooms and suites - all with sea views - a restaurant, ...
Antigua
Antigua To Push WTO Enforcement Of 2005 US Gambling Ruling
Tax-news.com - Feb 20, 2012
by Phillip Morton, Investors Offshore.com Antigua and Barbudan authorities have announced that they will again launch WTO proceedings against the United States and its treatment of offshore gambling operators. “Having won a landmark decision from the ...
Catalonia
Catalonia to Cut Public Wages by 3% in 2012, La Vanguardia Says
Bloomberg - Feb 18, 2012
Catalonia, Spain's largest region, will cut the wages of at least 165000 workers in the public sector by 3 percent this year to save about 180 million euros ($237 million), La Vanguardia reported, citing an unnamed official. The regional government had ...
Costa Brava
Costa Brava casino adds new Novomatic slots
InterGameInterGame - Feb 15, 2012
The Gran Casino Costa Brava in Lloret de Mar, Spain, has further expanded its offering of Novomatic gaming equipment. Novomatic equipment has proved highly popular with the guests of the casino. Since the opening of the property in 2009, the flagship ...
Costa Del Sol
Costa del Sol sets sights on big spenders
Euro Weekly News - Feb 16, 2012
THE Costa del Sol could soon shed its reputation as a cheap package holiday destination. The local tourism board has launched a plan to market the coast as a luxury brand. This is because this market has bucked global trends by showing steady growth ...
Costa Blanca
Last call for walkers of the Costa Blanca to unite!
Rundtownnews.co.uk - Feb 22, 2012
IF YOU can walk just 5km come and would like to enjoy beautiful views of the lake as well as seeing all the almond trees in blossom, then please join Paul Cunningham Nurses' Charity Challenge Walk this coming Sunday, 26th February.
Costa Verde
Bankers: Here's Why You Should Pack Up Now And Move To Rio
Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Feb 15, 2012
The two funds, which together already command approximately $38 billion assets, are heading to the Costa Verde in search of new investors. Herbst-Bayliss writes that the domestic pool of private capital has thinned out as skittish clients remain on the ...
Basque Country
Basque Country's Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino wins Copa BBVA Colsanitas
EITB - Feb 20, 2012
AP The Basque tennis player won her first WTA title by defeating Alexandra Panova of Russia 6-2, 7-5 on Sunday. Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino of Spain won her first WTA title by defeating Alexandra Panova of Russia 6-2, 7-5 on Sunday in the final of the ...
Andalusia
25th annual rodeo this week
Andalusia Star-News - Feb 21, 2012
The Civitan Club will present its 25th annual Andalusia Civitan Rodeo at the Covington Center Arena this Thurs., Fri., and Sat., Feb. 23-25. events such as saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding, team roping, barrel racing, calf roping, ...
Alicante
Alicante set for Primark opening in March
Euro Weekly News - Feb 17, 2012
PRIMARK is set to open a shop in Alicante in March. It will be located in the Gran Via Centre. This will be the Irish fashion chain's second shop in the Province and will create 178 jobs. The first store that opened in the Province was in the L'Aljub ...
Rhine Valley
Countries outside 'magic circle' never stood a chance
Financial Times - Feb 16, 2012
That's what a truck or van driver could achieve in a day's intensive driving from the Rhine valley, if the regulations allowed it. Take a similar distance from Lisbon and you get as far as Bordeaux. You wouldn't make it to Barcelona.
Ruhr
POWELL v. STATE
Leagle.com - Feb 15, 2012
On the morning of January 5, 2009, Deborah Ruhr, Coast Inn and Suites' (the Hotel) manager, discovered that her office at the Hotel had been burglarized. After an investigation conducted by the Waveland City Police Department, Danny Powell Sr. was ...
Black Forest
Multinational forces bury their tracks along the snow-covered 'Black Forest ...
DVIDS - Feb 17, 2012
Two Georgian soldiers from the 23rd Light Infantry Battalion keep a watchful eye on the surrounding area after a car bomb detonates at the gates of the unit's forward operating base at a mission rehearsal exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness ...
Canary Islands
John Fairfax, 74, in 1969 first to row solo across Atlantic Ocean
Los Angeles TimesChicago Sun-Times - Feb 21, 2012
3, 1969, file photo, John Fairfax stands beside his 22-foot rowing boat, Britannia, at King George V Dock in London, prior to sailing to the Canary Islands from where he planned to row across the Atlantic to Miami. Fairfax, the first known person to ...
Maldives
Maldives president name commission to investigate his rise to power, violence
AFPWashington Post - Feb 22, 2012
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The president of the Maldives has appointed a commission to investigate his rise to power and street violence that followed in the Indian Ocean archipelago two weeks ago, an official said Wednesday. The Maldives envoy to Sri Lanka ...
Dolomites
Dolomites by Helicopter
New York Times (blog)New York Times (blog) - Feb 16, 2012
For his latest project, Barbieri, (whose work appeared in the magazine in 2007), photographed the Dolomites, a mountain range in northeastern Italy composed mostly of stratified calcium magnesium carbonate, which gives the range its distinctive ...
Balkan
Serbia to set up first shelter for gays, lesbians facing violence in Balkan ...
Washington Post - Feb 22, 2012
BELGRADE, Serbia — Authorities have announced plans to set up Serbia's first shelter to protect gays and lesbians from harassment in this conservative Balkan country. Dusica Davidovic, an official in the southern city of Nis, about 120 miles (200 ...
Jura Mountains
Cheese of the week: Comte
Evansville Courier & Press - Feb 15, 2012
Comte, (pronounced con-Tay) also called Gruyere du Comte, is an ancient cheese that has been made in the Jura mountains since the time of Charlemagne. Today the Swiss/French border divides the Jura, and Comte cheese and Gruyere cheese are very similar, ...
Andes Mountains
High-altitude wines gain color, flavor
Bellingham Herald - Feb 20, 2012
By FRED TASKER - McClatchy Newspapers Ernesto "Nesti" Bajda's idea is this: Halfway up the Andes Mountains the ozone layer is thinner and the sun is more intense, so the grape skins grow thicker, making darker, more flavorful wines.
Patagonia
Patagonia Gold encouraged by Cap-Oeste metallurgy test
Proactive Investors UKProactive Investors UK - Feb 21, 2012
Patagonia Gold ( LON:PGD) today reported good recovery levels for both gold and silver from preliminary metallurgical testing at its core Cap-Oeste project in Argentina. The tests, which were part of the development of the Santa Cruz province-based ...
Caucasus
South Caucasus nations fear Iran-Israel war
WKNO FMGlobalPost - Feb 18, 2012
The threat of an Iran war looms large for the often overlooked nations of the South Caucasus. (AFP/Getty Images) TBILISI, Georgia — After two apparent assassination attempts against Israeli diplomats in the South Caucasus, many fear this fractured and ...
Himalaya
Rana leads as Sidhu pulls out of Desert Storm
Hindustan TimesHindustan Times - Feb 22, 2012
Rana, a seven-time winner of the Raid de Himalaya, holds an 8min.33sec. lead over Lt. Col. Subodh Verma following the first three special st ages that comprised the first leg that took the competitors from Sardarshahar in Rajasthan to Bikaner.
Australian Outback
Azaria Chamberlain's Disappearance Revisited: Once Again, Australian Court ...
Kansas City StarHuffington Post - Feb 18, 2012
With those panicked words, the mystery of Azaria Chamberlain's disappearance in the Australian Outback in 1980 became the most notorious, divisive and baffling legal drama in the country's history. Had a wild dog really taken the baby?
Scottish Highlands
High Atlas
Morocco: Leadership in the High Atlas Mountains
New Zealand Herald - Jan 26, 2012
Photo / Supplied The red-rock desert of Morocco's High Atlas Mountains is searingly hot. I find myself under a juniper tree, asking questions of a stump and a boulder. I'm alone, and I'm asking these questions aloud. But I'm not mad.