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Travel Links
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Before requesting a link, you should have a link to ProvenceBeyond.
Links verified 8/4/2008, updated 5/7/2008.
Air Travel
Auto Travel
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Allostop - to get automobilists and passangers together (French, English)
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Autoroutes - ASFA - Association des Sociétés Française d'Autoroutes. Has an excellent Route Planning feature, giving times and costs. ("Itineraries et Peages") (French, English)
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Autoroutes - ESCOTA - Shows the traffic flow on all the autoroutes of France. Shows congestions, traffic jams, accidents and other problems. [We use this all the time.]
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Bauer Car Rental France - Special online rates for car hire in France. Book online for hundreds of locations. (English)
- Drivers
Les Chauffeurs de Provence - a network of 65 drivers dispatched throughout the Southeast of France, to drive your vehicle or a rental vehicle. (French, English)
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FlyPark - Specialists in Airport Car Parking - Save up to 50%on airport car parking
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Motorhoming France - For anyone who visits or plans to visit France in a motorhome. Includes: a comprehensive French Aires & Campsites database, Travel Articles, Motorhome Tours, Tourism information, News, Letters, Adverts, Forum. (French, English)
Bus
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Alpes-Maritimes: Sillages - Bus company serving the area of Antibes, Cannes, Grasse, Biot, Mouans-Sartoux, Sophia Antipolis, Valbonnes.
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Alpes-Maritimes: TAM - Transport Alpes Maritimes - with PDF downloads of schedules for each bus line.
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Avignon - Direct to the Bien Voyager page, with an overview of the lines.
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Carpentras - Marseille - via Pernes, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Cavaillon, Aix-en-Provence.
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Carpentras Bus Lines - click on "Transports".
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Skovgaard Europe - Minibus Limousine Transport in Provence, based near Avignon. Included Minibus Sharing.
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Vaucluse Bus Lines Transvaucluse - Get PDF schedules of bus lines in the Vaucluse, including routes to other towns such as Nime and Marseille.
Bus Urban (City) Lines
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence - Trans'Bus 04 - urban buses: Digne-les-Bains, Manosque.
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Alpes-Maritimes - Trans'Bus 06 - urban buses: Cagnes-sur-Mer, Cannes, Grasse, Menton, Nice, Sophia-Antipolis.
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Bouche-de-Rhone - Trans'Bus 13 - urban buses: Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Aubagne, La Ciotat, Gardanne, Istres, Marseille, Martigues, Vitrolles.
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Haute-Alpes - Trans'Bus 05 - urban buses: Gap, Briançon.
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TER PACA - Trains Express Regional - PACA region. Bus and Train Schedules and information (French, English). TER (Trains Express Régionaux) is a network of trains and buses to serve the regions of France - more local that the country-wide TGV and express trains. A good source for regional routes and schedules is the Guide Régional des Transports, published by the SNCF and available free at train stations.
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Var - Trans'Bus 83 - urban buses: Draguignan, Fréjus, Toulon.
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Vaucluse: Trans'Bus 84 - Urban bus transportation for Avignon, Bollène, Carpentras, Orange.
Other Travel Links
Rail Travel
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Chemins de Fer de Provence (Train de Pignes) - Official schedules, prices, information (French, English, Italian)
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RailEurope (Eurorail) - "your european rail experts"
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SNCF - The official French Railway web (French, English, others...)
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SNCF (English) - the official French Railways site (English)
On the SNCF website, click on "Information Schedule and Booking", then type in your departure and arrival towns, your travel date, and click "Search".
For Provence regional travel, on the SNCF website, click on "TER" or "Regions", then select the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur part of the map. After that, specify your departure town (Nice), your Arival town (Bandol, for example), put in a day and a time, and click "Search".
(English)
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Subway Navigator (Métros) - Subway Navigator (Métros) - "Take a ride on the world's subways"
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TER PACA - Trains Express Regional - PACA region. Bus and Train Schedules and information (French, English)
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Train de Pignes - le site du GECP, Groupe d'étude des Chemins de fer de Provence (French)
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Train de Pignes Beyond - Beyond page (English)
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Train des Merveilles TER - the Nice-Breil-Tende train on the official TER web (French)
- Trains
FACS-UNECTO: Chemins de Fer Touristiques et Secondaires - sites about all the smaller trains in France, including the Train des Pignes (French)
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Trains Francias Links - a personal web with good train links (French)
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Trains Vapeur (Steam Trains) Limousin - in Limousin - Périgord: South-Central France (French)
Sea Travel
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Croisieres en Mediterranée - Cruise booking center for cruises in Mediterranean: Spain,Italy, Greece, Turkey, Marocco... Partner of more than 20 cruise lines: Celebrity Cruises, Costa, Windstar, MSC
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EnhanceFrance - A website covering just about everything to do with visiting France; includes a complete guide of every ferry from Britain to France. (English)
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FerryBound.co.uk - cheap ferry tickets to and from many destinations in the UK and Europe. (English)
Tours
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Adventure Tours - Motorcycle Tour Rental - Travel Bulgaria. A very complete web, with a large variety of motorcycle tours, including self-guided. (English, German)
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Hidden Provence - Journeys to Hidden Provence and Paris. Trips personally led by Steve Hoegerman (director of the Santa Barbara French Festival), who has extensively explored the corners of Provence and Paris.
- Cycling, Hiking Tours
see Beyond's Sports Links - Beyond page
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French Riviera Tour Guides - a team of professional tour-guides, having at least 15 years of experience, offering private tours from Saint Tropez to the Italian Riviera (French, English)
- Luberon
The Luberon Experience - A week of day-tours for small groups, staying in a small and beautiful B&B hotel in the picturesque hillside village of Bonnieux.
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Ventoux Decouverts - Tours with a local driver: Discovering the Ventoux and Provence in its most intimate and secret area by taking remote and not well known routes aboard a comfortable and air-conditionned minibus (French, English)
Travel Guidbooks
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Le Curieux - a bilingual, French/English guide to Monaco and the French Riviera for Families. It contains information about what is available for and what can be done with children from 0-18 years. (French, English)
Travel Maps
Weather
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