TV’s Korin Nolan and Sasha Parker are adding a dash of pizzazz to holidays at La Carabasse in August, with free French cooking lessons for holidaymakers. The girls, who are set to release a lifestyle cookery book and TV show called ‘How to Cook in High Heels’, will exclusively share some of their French themed recipes [...] [...more]
Our Domaine de Litteau holiday parc in Calvados, Normandy, has been given the green light for extensive improvements following the award of €1,5million from regional development councils in France. The money will accelerate an ambitious development plan for the parc, which will include a five-fold increase in holiday home pitches, to more than 500. [...more]
French music star Christophe Mae performed his hit Ca Fait Mal at siblu’s Les Charmettes holiday parc as part of the Violon Sur Les Sables preparations recently. Christophe performed his song with an 18-piece symphony orchestra, as part of rehearsals for the classical music concert, which takes place each year on the beach at Royan. The Equinoxe bar [...] [...more]
It isn’t just the UK that’s been hit by snow recently. Take a look at the Flickr pictures on the right, or follow this link, and you’ll be able to see Domaine de Litteau, our wonderful Normandy holiday parc, under six inches of snow. [...more]
A claim often heard around Charente Maritime, and peddled by the siblu team, is that the region has its own micro-climate which brings as much sunshine as the sunny south. Well, France’s weather service recently reported on the phenomenen and confirmed that the region really does have its own micro-climate. By measuring the hours of sunshine across [...] [...more]
Today is the last day to enter our search for Mum of the Year. Since launching this campaign with Netmums we have had more than 1,000 entries. Throughout the campaign we have been asking mums about the amount of voluntary work they do to help families and friends. The results are fascintating. On average, mums give up [...] [...more]
I recently discovered that the number of people travelling with siblu and booking ferries through us was lower in 2008 than in 2007. This is surprising, because booking a ferry though siblu is actually the cheapest way to pay for your ferry crossing. The drop in ferry bookings could mean a couple of things: our customers are [...] [...more]
Thanks for your feedback on our advert designs. Your comments led to the first ever discussion about siblu on Flickr. Okay it was small, but very exciting for me. In time, we are hoping to build a community where people will converse about all things France, swap ideas, ask questions… Our blog, Flickr, they’re our first [...] [...more]
Siblu had the pleasure of hob-knobbing with the great and good of the travel industry last night at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph’s Travel Awards. Italy again picked up the prize for best European country and Eurostar was named favourite cross-channel operator, much to the horror of our ferry friends who pointed out that Eurostar goes [...] [...more]
Konnichi wa! Here’s a great idea if you want to learn basic French before your next siblu holidays. I first read about One Minute Language lessons on the excellent website This French Life. One Minute Language lessons are basically short podcasts that you can download or listen to on your computer, that give you phrases and [...] [...more]
A selection of photos from our flickr account
