News Archive: quirky and amusing

03, 2011 March:

Sealed French mansion reopens after 100 years

A 19th century chateau owned by an eccentric French millionaire has been reopened after a century sealed in a timewarp, allowing a unique glimpse into the life and tastes of French homeowners past.

20, 2010 September:

Comedian offers guide to Parisian rudeness

The theatre bosses said it would never work: a lone Frenchman on stage before a crowd of paying Parisians, trying to make them laugh for an hour at their own bad manners -- in English...

19, 2009 November:

Holiday as a hamster

It's a unique concept according to its creators, a hotel in the French town of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster - for 99 euros a night, you can eat hamster grain, run in a giant wheel and sleep in hay stacks in what is called the "Hamster Villa..."

13, 2009 November:

French ‘named and shamed'

They are known for their Gallic froideur and now France's reputation as the most unwelcoming country in Europe has been confirmed - our friends across the Channel have been named and shamed as the most hostile natives on the continent in a poll of 3,000 British tourists...

27, 2009 August:

Elephant in the room

A French town has banned circus elephants from bathing at its beaches over concerns the animals' excrement could pollute the water and pose a health hazard to other swimmers...

24, 2009 August:

Lonely, lonely night

A British tourist spent a lonely night locked in a village hall in eastern France after mistaking the building for a hotel, the local mayor said yesterday...

20, 2009 July:

Cannes bans nudes

Authorities in Cannes have banned naturists from a public beach after the southern French town's yacht club complained the naked bathers had begun to get out of hand...

10, 2009 July:

World's tightest tourists

New Zealand tourists are among the fiscally tightest travellers in the world, a survey of 4500 hotels suggests...

21, 2009 April:

Bournemouth Riviera

The UK summer is synonymous with a good old fashioned British seaside holiday - but now the resorts of Bournemouth and Poole are moving with the times and will accept the Euro as payment in a bid to attract our continental cousins and increase the number of tourists this summer...

Japanese clean up Paris streets

Japanese expatriates took to the streets of Paris armed with brooms to clean up the city for the tens of thousands of Japanese tourists who visit each year...

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