Perhaps the most relaxed way of travelling to France for your holiday is by train. Rail buff Ant recently posted details of the best routes to France on the parenting website Mumsnet, and kindly agreed to me reproducing his findings here. For full information on train travel to and in France, the best resource is the [...] [...more]
Mention the words “mobile home” to some people and a look of horror will appear on their face: “there’s no way I’m going to stay in a mobile home,” they say. Well Katy Holland does a great job of arguing the merits of a mobile home versus villa in The Independent’s travel column. She identifies four points [...] [...more]
Do you think of France as a brilliant beach destination? I don’t think many people do, and yet the country has a diverse coastline which makes it one of Europe’s top three ‘Blue Flag’ beach destinations. The west coast is especially good for brilliant coaches with small secret coves, golden sands at the edge of rolling [...] [...more]
Our early booking sale finishes on 31 January, which means an end to savings of more than £200 on some siblu holidays. I have listed below three of the best family holiday deals I can find on 12-night breaks. All are available until the end of this month and can be booked at www.siblu.com or [...] [...more]
From personal experience, I know just how hard it can be to use a foreign language abroad, especially if your first efforts draw blank looks from the people you are speaking to. So, our new French Language Classes for children are a brilliant way to bolster their confidence to use the French they’ve learned at school, [...] [...more]
Here is an exclusive heads up for you – we are relaunching our EuroVoucher for bookings made in January so siblu customers can fix the value of their holiday spending money at 1.25€ to £1. Our EuroVoucher is commission and charge free so every penny you change goes to your holiday money, rather than to the [...] [...more]
The year’s best articles about France were announced at a recent industry bash for travel companies. Entries were submitted in two categories, for newspapers and magazines, and voted for by a panel of travel editors. The winner of the Newspaper category was freelance journalist Ian Belcher, for his fantastic piece ‘Living high on the hog in the Languedoc’ [...] [...more]
Johnny Depp, Cindy Crawford, Elton John, David Beckham and Le Montourey all made an appearance in the Daily Mail’s property section last week. These A-list celebrities were named as famous owners of multi-million pound mansions in the wonderful region of Cote d’Azur, while Le Montourey was featured as one solution for those of us who want [...] [...more]
Although siblu is best known in the UK for our holidays, we actually have more than 5,300 families who own holiday homes at our parcs in France. For many, the temptation is to have their own holiday home where they can enjoy a lazy lifestyle in the sun, without having to pay the earth. In [...] [...more]
I was fascinated to find out that Brittany Ferries has been conducting a brilliant project to try and improve the safety of whales and dolphins in the Bay of Biscay, the stretch of water off the west coast of France and northern coast of Spain. [...more]
A selection of photos from our flickr account
